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Charles Manson, dead at age 83
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Charles Manson, dead at age 83
Quote:Charles Manson, the cult leader of the Manson family who masterminded the Tate-LaBianca killings of 1969 and one of the most reviled and fascinating figures in American pop culture, died Sunday night, CBS Los Angeles reports. He was 83. Manson had been rushed to a Bakersfield, California hospital from Corcoran State Prison earlier this month for an undisclosed medical issue.


Manson died of natural causes at Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.


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I don't even know what to add to this except it's something else to talk about beside sex scandals, religion, and Trump.

Did he have a mental illness?
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RE: Charles Manson, dead at age 83
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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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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[Image: Manson_Trump.jpg]He would have been the perfect fit in 45's administration!
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(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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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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Apparently, he was formally diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Paranoid Delusional Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and likely others.
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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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(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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(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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