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I'm sure a lot of the people in that video are displaying clinical mania and paranoia. There are some genuinely damaged people there.
 (abc, Thu 30 Apr 2020, 2:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't mean it in the psychiatric sense really.
Lots of different reasons no doubt. It doesn't take an illness to end up there tho.
The more seriously ill people don't usually function well enough to mount protests.
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 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 30 Apr 2020, 2:42, , Reply)
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I do mean it in the clinical sense. Of course you don't need to be ill to join that protest, but the behaviour of some of the people in that video suggests they are not just "eccentric" or contrarians.
 (abc, Thu 30 Apr 2020, 9:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have thought for a while
that the people who need demonstrably insufficient evidence to believe an assertion should be classed as having a mental disorder.

This would of course mark most religious people as being a bit mental.
 (I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 30 Apr 2020, 9:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Religion is just a memetic disorder.
It's literally passed on via memes.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 30 Apr 2020, 9:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post That is a scary epistemological/psychological rabbit hole.
At some level we are forced to believe many things simply because we cannot test everything, nor verify exhaustively.
That gets complicated by research showing people make unconscious decisions before awareness of the decision, while maintaining that they made a conscious decision. Who is deciding this, and what constitutes the self that is, or isn't believing.
If an irrational belief has demonstrably useful effects, is it therefore rational to believe?
Questions that lead me to drink. Of course that's my belief in the construct of self...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfCTBkMgKY
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 30 Apr 2020, 17:55, , Reply)
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David Deutche's infinity book goes into this.
 (chasbo zelena Real Immodesty, Sat 2 May 2020, 12:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post Personality disorders might fit the behaviour,
as might anxiety disorders with obsessive qualities.
Living in a "bubble" with others having the same beliefs, reinforcing misinformed ideas,too.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 30 Apr 2020, 17:20, , Reply)