This actually happened and may be evidence that this illness may be something bigger than we thought(lol). This person has schizophrenia
Why on earth would you believe his claim that he’s in the fbi?
Occam’s razor. Your friend got trolled on Reddit.
That’s kind of a thing there.
I don’t but alot of people who have schizophrenia think that they are being watched by the FBI, so it’s an interesting possible collusion. @shutterbug I figured most people would know that impersonating a cop is illegal. This example was blunt and aggressive
^^^ Fixed it for you.
You’re talking about a site overly populated by dumb teen males who have the same risk management skills as a coked out hooker.
I understand the part about the delusion. I’ve just never seen someone straight up say they are an FBI agent, even on Reddit. It’s just common sense that they’ll go to jail if they do that
People don’t go to jail often for pretending to ve stuff online. And people lie all the time.
A real fbi agent isn’t telling anyone what they are online to avoid being doxxed and getting their family in danger.
My kid does it all the time. He is a high schooler though, not an actual FBI agent.
People do that on reddit all the time
Basically, your friend got trolled on Reddit.
Also, I advise you to stay away from Reddit. Reddit is a weird place…
I don’t mean to be rude and it seems like you might be joking, but it sounds like you are grasping at straws. I know nothing about you but it sounds like you might kinda have the common delusion schizophrenics are “special” in some way, or that we have “special knowledge” that means we have to be monitored by the government or the FBI and you will take any tiny hint that proves that. But it’s wrong, we just have a mental illness.
I’m not joking honestly. What’s wrong with believing schizophrenics are special. They may be smarter than average people and I think that there may be an entity out there that is trying to stop them. There haven’t been that many outstanding smart people throughout history and it kinda raises my suspicion. What special knowledge do I think they have? I never said that. I don’t think that our government is trying to monitor schizophrenics but maybe some entity out there that is trying to keep us from thriving. I would rather “grasp at straws” than have nothing to hold on at all about this. When I have positive symptoms(from my honeymoon of not taking medicine) the amount of people that I see around me(that also seem to act suspicious) spiked tremendously. When I’m on medicine, people stay inside(hardly go out) and mind their own business.
@anon4362788, People can go to can for pretending to be something, but it’s usually not that blunt or direct.
@Ninjastar It’s one thing to joke around about being in the FBI. But to bluntly say that he was an agent and that he was watching her every single action kind of makes it illegal.
The people who pretend to be cops usually don’t go after people, but make create a fake, funny profile about being an agent(cop[It usually doesn’t last long])
She was “trolled”, but it was harsh, and the fact that she has SZ makes it even worse. Reddit is kind of weird, but Wallstreetbets is my favorite part. It’s useful and funny at the same time
Well that leads to an obvious conclusion.
I tend to not agree with your views but everybody has a right to believe what they want. I don’t know what you consider “smart” or “dumb” but there have been some really brilliant men and women throughout history and that’s a fact. Hell, we’re still studying Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle’s views 2000 years after they died. THAT says something for their intellect.
What is the conclusion then, and how is it obvious? Compared to the general population we have very few smart people and you said there was “some”. Maybe the reason we’re still studying ancient philosophers is that there hasn’t been anyone to take their place. Wasn’t there only 10 of them? Not to mention, we’ve only had very few really smart people per century that humans have been around.
All I meant by obvious conclusion is that you do a lot better when you’re on your meds so you should be on them.
I don’t know how you are measuring
“smartness” or “intelligence”. Sure some smart people in history were cream of the crop and really stood out. I mean people like Einstein or Michaelangelo or Steve Jobs.
But if you read world history, it isn’t just a few smart people in history. There were many great thinkers, many great architects, many great lawyers, inventers etc. People who did some really great work in their time and stood out but maybe not as smart as Edison or Issac Newton.
To say there’s only a few smart people per century is generalizing and is dead wrong. Just an example from my last class was when the Enlightenment and the Renaissance was going on there were all kinds of great people like artists, people building beautiful churches, philosophers, scientists, doctors, etc. all doing great stuff that changed the world.
If you want to look specifically at schizophrenics, I think the jury is still out on whether we are smarter compared to the general population. I’ve seen credible studies on both sides of the issue.
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