I don't think it's right to involuntarily send someone to a psychiatric ward because he believed that he was chosen by ChatGPT to be the pope.

For the same reason I don't think we should send the pope to a psychiatric ward because he believes that he was chosen for that role by an invisible man in the sky.

At least there's no doubt that ChatGPT exists lol. People should be allowed to be as whacky as they like so long as it's legal.

And who knows, he is getting some attention now so his probability of becoming pope actually went up a tiny bit lol.

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noduerme an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This deserves some kind of Vonnegut award.

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> he believes that he was chosen for that role by an invisible man in the sky.

One thing is clear, you should not be sent to the HN gulag simply because you don't understand what you're talking about. Me and others realize you don't know how the pope is chosen, but damn if I'm not willing to die for your right to state something that is utterly wrong.

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card_zero 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You mean the pope doesn't believe he was chosen by God, just by cardinals and other primates?

	▲	embedding-shape 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I hope so, considering he seems to have all mental facilities intact. I hope he believes he was elected by the cardinals, which is what happened in reality. I think they usually say the Holy Spirt guides the process or similar, rather than God directly selecting the new pope.

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DonHopkins 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you saying God is not invisible?

If God created man in his own image, then why can we see each other?

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xyzsparetimexyz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Faith and psychosis are not the same thing.

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noduerme an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Right. Faith is the word for holding an irrational set of psychotic beliefs that lots of other people hold too.

	▲	jongjong an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, the difference is literally only based on the number of people who believe the fictitious concept and how much political power their wield.

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nkrisc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What’s the difference?

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DonHopkins an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Does it require faith to rape children and protect child rapists, or is that psychosis? It certainly requires psychosis to put your faith in leaders who do that, be it the Pope or Trump.