Screenshots of people being insane on Facebook. Please censor names/pics of end users in screenshots. Please follow the rules of lemmy.world
They can't even get their crazy shit straight. Hospitallers weren't part of the Templars.
You know, when I was a kid, I'd see crazy people in asylums on TV shows like the 3 Stooges just laughing it up, having a great time. I thought "man, it must be great to be crazy, look at all the fun they're having, not a care in the world!" Now, as a 'grown up', I see mental illness everywhere, and those suffering from it like Trump supporters or flat earthers or sovereign citizens are so deeply angry and sad and lost, I almost feel bad for them. Almost.
Don’t forget all the other shitty things on display. Bad habits, anger problems, addiction, poverty, ostentatious wealth, authoritarianism…. You mentioned the 3 Stooges, and man that show was full of everything wrong. But that’s what made it funny. Everyone could see some of the same thing in their daily lives.
dock-ore
8 fucking years I spend in meh-dickle school just for this bitch to leak the whole birth certificate scam?
Well dock-ore, perhaps you needed to spend more time on Facebook then.
Sovereign Citizens practicing witchcraft is my favorite thing.
Not something I'm particularly proud of, but at one point I was looking into the sovereign dealio with a little bit more than intellectual interest. "Are these guys on to something?" "What would happen if we ALL decided to do it?" I never went as far as getting a license plate, but... Hold on. Come to think of it, it was never even CLOSE to getting a license plate because I knew that it was all bull crap. Never mind. :)
It's always ok to dream. But don't make homemade plates.
Reading this sounds like one of those "In Living Color" skits where Damon Wayans played a hotep.
I like how they call the Knights Hospitallers a secret society when they were under a Papal charter and actually colonized a few Caribbean islands at one point.
This is a sort of word salad / free association / confabulation that is typical of schizophrenia
The fallacy, among others, they're committing is called equivocation, by the way. They use a meaning of one word one minute and another the next, when it suits them to win the confrontation.
This is why debate and talking don't actually solve problems. People can and will just do stupid shit like this in bad faith to get you to acquiesce to them or stop challenging them.
People like that need ass-beatings until they're willing to conform to the dictionary's definitions of words and the rules of debate.
They don't need beatings, they need high doses of Haloperidol.
It feels like I'm reading a 4chan shitpost from someone who actually bought into all the fucking stupidity, but trimmed the part blasting the ships of relation, friend and owner.
You know how when you're a teenager, you're told you should "grow up and get a job"? Ever notice how "job" also refers to biblical texts that say at the end of your inevitable suffering, God will be with you, for he is just? Also worth noting: suffering is very close to surfing, i.e. travel via ocean, which is like a boat. Another big boat was the ark, pointing again! to the Bible. Remember when I said "grow up" earlier? That is probably because it is so close to "group", which, with the other noted connotations, ties in with biblical stories = Bible Group. Because all of these messages come together when you are a teen, obviously we are talking about children's Bible study. "Children's" can be shortened to the word "chirruns", aka "trains" so Trains Bible Study would be manufacturers instructions for freight trains, which could *also" mean "fraught trains", because ghosts.
You were worryingly good at that..
Have you ever thought about about words? Have you ever thought about how some words mean some thing, while other words mean a different thing?
Words, man.
The Venn diagram overlap of people who know how to insert footnotes and people with untreated Schizophrenia must be pretty small.
Took some googling but found the actual book the quote is from.
I am of a firm belief that what words we use do matter a lot and shapes our perception of the world but this is some outlandish shit
Edit: Link to book on drive
I believe the reason for that high rating is a form of selection bias maybe? Like if you go to IMDb you will see that live performances have a very high rating and I think is that you only gonna watch and rate if you are already fan of the band. In this case normal people are not gonna buy and read this book, only people who already agree with this nonsense.
This has to be a troll.
Please be a troll.
It's a book!
The book store near where I grew up had a section with all these types of books. When I was young, I went out of my way to check them out because I was fascinated with ufo's and conspiracies and wanted to buy one. I remember flipping through a few books and it was all pure word salad. I was like, how am I supposed to learn about all these cool supposed theories when they've all lost the ability to command the English language let alone some sort of coherent narrative thread.
I did read a few pages of a book like this once in a bookstore I worked in, had a bit more of a religious bent. We used to read each other passages of crazy for amusement. I'm sure there's plenty of conservative Christians who believe this stuff. Ever seen snake handling church?
It looks more like a sincere but mentally ill person to me. But there's no way to know.
I love these guys, and all the conspiracy or conspiracy adjacent people (as long as they're mostly harmless.)
I'm jealous of all of them. The world they live in is so much more interesting than mine.