Anywho since I woke pretty early this morning and did most of what I needed to do I decided to look around for more unique things, and I found something, a website of sorts, a place called "Damn Interesting", and as I scrolled through I nodded and thought to myself, 'this deserves recognition, not only is the articles interesting, but, they actually make sense.'Now I know what you are all thinking, what does a site doing with facts that really aren't relevant anymore? Am I right? Don't say no and nod your head as if I am right.
Now the fact in the matter is that we as human beings, well most of us anyways love learning something or another, for some it's math, others the history of some video game system, and for more, unique facts that really aren't that useful in everyday life.
Now, don't get me wrong, the weird facts that we read is for fun, and that's where "Damn Interesting" comes in, the site is both fun, you get to learn something and it has it's own podcast, something I am sorely lacking but I am working to get things working.
So please look at the article below, click the link at the bottom to go to the site and help them out if you can, and please follow and comment to get more news that makes you go what am I doing with my life. -Stray.
ARTICLE #353 • WRITTEN BY ALAN BELLOWS
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Sometime in the 1940s, an improbable encounter occurred at a mental institution in Maryland. Two women, each of whom was institutionalized for believing she was the Virgin Mary, chanced upon one another and engaged in conversation. They had been chatting for several minutes when the older woman introduced herself as "Mary, Mother of God."
"Why you can't be, my dear," the other patient replied, unable to conceive of such a notion. "You must be crazy. I am the Mother of God."
"I'm afraid it's you who are mixed up," the first asserted, "I am Mary."
A hospital staff member eavesdropped as the two Virgin Marys debated their identities. After a while the women paused to quietly regard one another. Finally, the older patient seemed to arrive at a realization. "If you're Mary," she said, "I must be Anne, your mother." That seemed to settle it, and the reconciled patients embraced. In the following weeks the woman who had conceded her delusion was reported to be much more receptive to treatment, and she was soon considered well enough to be discharged from the hospital.
This clinical anecdote was retold in a 1955 issue of Harper's Magazine, and a highly-regarded social psychologist named Dr. Milton Rokeach read it with great interest. What might happen, he wondered, if a psychologist were to deliberately pair up patients who held directly conflicting identity delusions? Perhaps such psychological leverage could be used to pry at the cracks of an irrational psyche to let in the light of reason. Dr. Rokeach sought and secured a research grant to test his hypothesis, and he began canvassing sanitariums for delusional doppelgängers. Soon he found several suitable subjects: three patients, all in state care, each of whom believed himself to be Jesus Christ. And he saw that it was good.
"Why you can't be, my dear," the other patient replied, unable to conceive of such a notion. "You must be crazy. I am the Mother of God."
"I'm afraid it's you who are mixed up," the first asserted, "I am Mary."
A hospital staff member eavesdropped as the two Virgin Marys debated their identities. After a while the women paused to quietly regard one another. Finally, the older patient seemed to arrive at a realization. "If you're Mary," she said, "I must be Anne, your mother." That seemed to settle it, and the reconciled patients embraced. In the following weeks the woman who had conceded her delusion was reported to be much more receptive to treatment, and she was soon considered well enough to be discharged from the hospital.
This clinical anecdote was retold in a 1955 issue of Harper's Magazine, and a highly-regarded social psychologist named Dr. Milton Rokeach read it with great interest. What might happen, he wondered, if a psychologist were to deliberately pair up patients who held directly conflicting identity delusions? Perhaps such psychological leverage could be used to pry at the cracks of an irrational psyche to let in the light of reason. Dr. Rokeach sought and secured a research grant to test his hypothesis, and he began canvassing sanitariums for delusional doppelgängers. Soon he found several suitable subjects: three patients, all in state care, each of whom believed himself to be Jesus Christ. And he saw that it was good.
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