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[–] [email protected] 83 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's almost certainly an extreme case of Pica, accumulated over an extended period of time.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Either that or he was convinced he was some kind of magical guru godman, impressing people and gaining a following with 'impossible' feats that he can perform thanks to his spiritual enlightenment.

That's as common, if not more common than preachers in America that run prosperity gospel scams, or believe that they are modern day prophets, talking directly to or for God, or both.

EDIT: Ah, schizophrenic.

https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/west-bengal-man-swallows-nails-doctors-use-magnets-during-surgery-1078182-2017-11-01

The man was suffering from schizophrenia and had swallowed the nails over a period of time.

Anyone who claims they can talk to or for God, or believes they have magical superpowers is schizophrenic in my book, but if you're able to make money doing it, well then that's fine, because it doesn't harm your ability to participate in society and thus isn't a mental disorder.

Hooray for basing mental health conditions and healthcare on how they impact your economic productivity!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can meet lots of gods on Discord if you know the cool servers.

[–] reinei 1 points 5 days ago

But all of those are so complex!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)
[–] shalafi 29 points 6 days ago

Uh, that's what Pica is, eating stuff that's not food.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, that's what people with Pica do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Obviously you commented a refutation without understanding what they said, and didn't bother to type the word in Google, but I'm curious what you thought they said. Did you think they were saying they grew nails in their stomach or something? Obviously they ate them. How else would you think they could be there?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Pica is the medical term for eating things that aren't food. Nails, rocks, dirt.

Pica seems a reasonable assumption

The alternative is that he ate them as a performance, but he must have performed a lot

Is it necessary irony that a person saying someone doesn't know what they're doing will also show a knowledge deficient?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think you didn't see what I replied to. The comment, which is now gone, implied the person above said they didn't eat it.