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OftenBen  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture, Stanford anthropologist says

Ok that is straight up 'stare into the void' stuff. I'm a 4chan vet, and I've seensomeshit.jpg. But that is terrifying. That's straight up encouragement of the development of alternate personalities, and I can see how this shit could lead someone to a psychotic episode/break.





bioemerl  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, honestly I think it's mostly a community of "talk big, do little". Look around for a while and it seems that people are more keen on saying "i'm trying this" than "i have this accomplished"

It's only the ones that come in crazy that keep that way.

havires  ·  3557 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sounds awfully like that "headmates" crap that Tumblr is the shitting ground of. For fear of getting sucked into the crazy click if you have nothing else better do to

* EDIT: THE TULPAS THING! Not this post. This post actually seems quite interesting.

bioemerl  ·  3552 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is, minus the "my headmates are spirits that come to me in the night" ideal.

havires  ·  3552 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah... I'll respect that until it gets in my face and I can't get it out of there.