• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I’ve always wondered how many prophets, witches, and possessed people throughout history actually just had undiagnosed mental disorders.

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      Once you throw in either deliberate, or accidentally high, basically all of them. Though there are/were likely some charlatans mixed into that too.

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        I can’t decide who’s more dangerous, the zealous madman or the power hungry charlatan. But the mix of both is just… yikes.

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    And there’s the guy who got his daughters pregnant but claimed they got him drunk and raped him because they wanted to be teenage mothers.

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    There’s a really good secular movie called “The Rapture” that covers this exact scenario. It stars Mimi Rogers.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    Does anyone know the history of this meme? Or what this image is from? I’ve seen the video now but it’s too short to give any information and there’s no identifying information.