Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "How about that QAnon Shaman interview?" video.

  1. I just watched that interview. I didn't have the stomach for it before. He's totally insane. He accepts all those conspiracy theories as facts. He doesn't regret what he did. He said, when asked what he learned from the experience: "I learned that I'm more powerful than I ever thought possible." So he still sees himself as being in the right. No wonder his lawyers went for the Trump-made-me-do-it excuse. Showing no remorse should land him right back in the clink. As for being a shaman, anyone who takes shamanism literally is (by any modern definition) insane. For those who don't know: Shamanism predates civilization. A shaman was part doctor, actor, dancer, psychiatrist, priest. With civilization, each of those "hats" shaman wore became a distinct occupation. And since it was pre-civilization, it's also pre-scientific method. There is no scientific basis for it. You go into a trance (induced by hallucinogens, fasting, or other means of deprivation), which causes you to hallucinate. In the hallucination, there were spirits, who gave you the answers as to how to cure this, that, or the other. The shaman would then "return" from the "spirit world," and use the cure they were taught. It's an interesting field of study, if you enjoy reading about humanity before there was civilization. But claiming it's real is even more far fetched than claiming the Christian God is real. Sounds like he stumbled across shamanism, took it literally, and went down a very deep rabbit hole.
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