• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

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

    • cynar@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

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

        • Rusty@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          I think all of them were con-men. Just read about Joseph Smith and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, people who created two modern religions. The former had dozens criminal charges including banking fraud and treason and the latter was forging bank checks.