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mico5bei
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Topic: Crazy world leaders and their disorders Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 00:45 |
Hitler was a speed addict...
Churchill was a drunk...
Kennedy was constantly on his death bed....
What other crazy habits and disorders can be attributed to people who have shapped world history?
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 02:23 |
Paranoia was a big one.
Stalin was always paranoid that someone was trying to kill him
to dive back further into history, the Roman appointed leader of the Jews, Herod went from a great leader to a tyrant who had most of his family killed off out of paranoia. His three remaining sons weren't very good at ruling and the entire area eventually came under direct Roman rule, which led to numerous wars and revolts
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 05:08 |
Bush and Blair - Megalomania
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 05:58 |
The obvious one is no leader of any country ever hasn't been a serial lier.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 07:44 |
John Howard loves George bush, i classify that as a disorder.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 08:10 |
Originally posted by mico5bei
Hitler was a speed addict...
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Not to mention all the XTC he took to get him through those wild and crazy " NSDAP Parteitag" raves at Nuremberg.
It's terribly dangerous and simplistic to attribute Hitler's or anybody's elses policies to an alledged mental disorder.
History is not made by great men, as the "Gang of Four' used to sing.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 08:15 |
Hitler took ecstasy? As in the form we know it today?
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 11:35 |
Some scholars believe that he was using some form of methamphetamine, but they are still debating it.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 13:59 |
Originally posted by Zagros
Bush and Blair - Megalomania |
I think megalomania could actually be a good thing. The problem is that
some who have it don't have the ability to pursue it properly.
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Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 07:42 |
well i know hes not a former world leader, shakespeare, but he had a huge affect on history. I heard on some news program that they found traces of marajuana in his pipe, can anyone confirm that? I remember also seeing an old oxford scholar veremently denying that he could have smoked the "wacky tobacy"
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Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 09:03 |
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is probably the most insane leader
today. He named himself Turkmenbashi (father of all Turkmens), and
named cities, streets, an asteroid, January, and basically everything
not nailed down after himself. He banned wearing beards, golden teeth
and opera. He also wrote the Ruhnama, a book about himself and the
history of Turkmenistan. Everybody who reads the book three times will
automatically go to heaven according to Turkmenbashi. He has razed a
large part of the capital to the ground in order to build palaces and
statues, most of which are of course dedicated to himself. Currently on
his orders an ice palace is being built in the Turkmen desert.
He has also been nominated for the nobel peace prize by some of his ministers, because of his "contributions to world history".
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Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 17:35 |
Originally posted by Mixcoatl
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is probably the most insane leader today. He named himself Turkmenbashi (father of all Turkmens), and named cities, streets, an asteroid, January, and basically everything not nailed down after himself. He banned wearing beards, golden teeth and opera. He also wrote the Ruhnama, a book about himself and the history of Turkmenistan. Everybody who reads the book three times will automatically go to heaven according to Turkmenbashi. He has razed a large part of the capital to the ground in order to build palaces and statues, most of which are of course dedicated to himself. Currently on his orders an ice palace is being built in the Turkmen desert.
He has also been nominated for the nobel peace prize by some of his ministers, because of his "contributions to world history".
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He also outlawed Ballet, so there must be a trace of sanity left somewhere.
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Posted: 09-Jun-2006 at 01:03 |
Originally posted by Mixcoatl
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan is probably the most insane leader
today. He named himself Turkmenbashi (father of all Turkmens), and
named cities, streets, an asteroid, January, and basically everything
not nailed down after himself. He banned wearing beards, golden teeth
and opera. He also wrote the Ruhnama, a book about himself and the
history of Turkmenistan. Everybody who reads the book three times will
automatically go to heaven according to Turkmenbashi. He has razed a
large part of the capital to the ground in order to build palaces and
statues, most of which are of course dedicated to himself. Currently on
his orders an ice palace is being built in the Turkmen desert.
He has also been nominated for the nobel peace prize by some of his ministers, because of his "contributions to world history".
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Wow! He would surely win the vote for most wacky leader!
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 09:16 |
Mao....Uncle Joe.... and adolf were all homocidal maniacs
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 09:26 |
Hitler was a repressed homosexual and some argue that's the reason why he murdered homosexuals because he could not accept his own homosexuality - a textbook case of "reaction formation" if you are a Freudian.
Of course homosexuality itself is NOT a disorder. Trying to repress it, however, could lead to depression and other pathological behaviours (e.g. homophobia manifested in violence and aggression).
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 09:36 |
Idi Amin, president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, was not only a psychopath but also delusional - he granted himself a number of titles, including "King of Scotland"; in 1977, after Britain broke diplomatic relations with Uganda, Amin declared he had defeated the British and conferred on himself the decoration of CBE, Conqueror of the British Empire.
There were also rumours that he's a cannibal.
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 20:49 |
Hitler had his disorders.Was on drugs towards the end of the war which could have effected his decisions.
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 21:57 |
First emperor of china, eat mercury because he thought it would make him immortal,the mercury only made him more insane and he spent his last days trying to hunt a mythical sea creature with a giant crossbow
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 22:07 |
wow.
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Posted: 22-Jun-2006 at 22:29 |
Also I forget the name of him but one of the Roman emporers enjoyed seeing people drown in his lake in his backyard.That was his form of entertainment.
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Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
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