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Charles Manson, dead at age 83

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Charles Manson, dead at age 83
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Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 20, 2017 at 3:19 pm
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 20, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Looking at the Guinn biography, it seems it started off as a defense mechanism to keep the older boys from raping him in reform school. But given that he took a song about a playground slide and turned it into a race war scenario, and took quite a bit of acid, by the time he actually went to jail, it’s very likely that, in the words of tvtropes, he became the mask.

Eventually, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is hard to ignore.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 20, 2017 at 10:16 pm
This guy has something in common with Trump: Both demonstrate that stupidity is dangerous. Both are con-men who prey on stupid people and manipulate them to do their bidding. Cure stupidity and both are harmless fools.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 20, 2017 at 10:40 pm
[Image: Manson_Trump.jpg]He would have been the perfect fit in 45's administration!
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 12:21 am
(November 20, 2017 at 10:16 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: This guy has something in common with Trump: Both demonstrate that stupidity is dangerous. Both are con-men who prey on stupid people and manipulate them to do their bidding. Cure stupidity and both are harmless fools.

What a difference 50 years makes. What put one man in prison got another man the presidency.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 12:32 am
Psychopathy and narcissistic peraonality disorder would be my guess. But nothing severe enough that he couldn't understand that what he was doing was wrong and be deemed innocent.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 1:03 am
Apparently, he was formally diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Paranoid Delusional Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and likely others.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 2:15 am
I'm sure I experienced a glitch in reality like this already happened.  Was he on his deathbed before this?  I was sure he already died once.


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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 2:19 am (This post was last modified: November 21, 2017 at 2:20 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 21, 2017 at 12:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Psychopathy and narcissistic peraonality disorder would be my guess. But nothing severe enough that he couldn't understand that what he was doing was wrong and be deemed innocent.

Do they really understand that what they were doing was wrong? If a person has no conscience, what will make them intuit that this and that is wrong?
(November 21, 2017 at 2:15 am)paulpablo Wrote: I'm sure I experienced a glitch in reality like this already happened.  Was he on his deathbed before this?  I was sure he already died once.

The Mandela Effect strikes again.
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
November 21, 2017 at 4:15 am
(November 21, 2017 at 1:03 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, he was formally diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Paranoid Delusional Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and likely others.
Even just the first one is a serious mental illness. Does that make him less culpable? An interesting idea to explore.
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