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Title: Jerusalem Syndrome: the madness that grips foreigners on the streets of the holy city
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... -streets-of-the-holy-city.html
Published: Mar 27, 2016
Author: Sanchez
Post Date: 2016-03-27 21:12:06 by NeoconsNailed
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Views: 388
Comments: 5
An Irish schoolteacher who came to a Jerusalem hospital convinced she was about to give birth to the Baby Jesus when in fact she was not even pregnant. A Canadian tourist who believed he was the Biblical strongman Sampson and tried to tear stone blocks out of the Wailing Wall. An Austrian man who flew into a rage in his hotel kitchen when staff refused to prepare the the Last Supper for him. These are just a few examples of what has come to be known as the Jerusalem Syndrome: a well-documented phenomenon where foreign visitors suffer psychotic delusions that they are figures from the Bible or harbingers of the End of Days. Israel’s health ministry records around 50 cases a year where a tourist’s delusions are so strong that police or mental health professionals are forced to intervene. Many more incidents go undocumented on the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City. The city’s hospitals are expecting fresh cases as tourists flock to Jerusalem for the Easter weekend and doctors are preparing now-familiar routines of alerting foreign embassies that one their citizens believes he is John the Baptist or King Solomon........... (Just another form of subconscious Jue worship if you ask me! Also at NNT: "Adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four- year-old ‘bloody’ at free Easter Egg hunt" -- NN) 
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#1. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
The Jerusalem Syndrome is similar to the "Florence Syndrome," identified by Italian psychiatrists, who long ago noticed a tendency among tourists and visitors to that city to act in a bizarre and irrational fashion. In Florence, however, the phenomenon seems to be triggered by art works and the beauty of the city itself, rather than religion.
Wild, totally wild! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Stendhal_syndrome cf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par is_syndrome Yawl may not believe this..... nobody's obligated to..... but I SOLEMNLY SWEAR this was the very next WTF in the series as I'm mining it backwards except when new ones are added up front Easy to demonstrate by going back thru my recent posts. And no, there was no cooperating on it by Ada and me! Hey, didja know Gobekli Tepi was once the tallest building in the world? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...ings_and_structures_in_th e_world#History
Only because it was the only building in the world that we know about :-)
Yeah, ROTF -- till they find the next one further back :-) (An amazing number of such shows of animal nobility is racking up. Unfortunately, I have to file every one :-)
Cats are bossy, especially females. They love to tell dogs what to do.
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#3. To: NeoconsNailed (#2)
Hey, didja know Gobekli Tepi was once the tallest building in the world?
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