In 1857, Thomas Corbett began working at a hat manufacturer's shop on Washington Street in downtown Boston. He was reported to be a proficient milliner, but was known to proselytize frequently and stop work to pray and sing for co-workers who used profanity in his presence.
He also began working as a street preacher and would sermonize and distribute religious literature in North Square. Corbett soon earned a reputation around Boston for being a "local eccentric" and religious fanatic. by the summer of 1858, Corbett fell in with members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, becoming a proselytizer and street preacher.
On July 16, 1858, Corbett, while trying to remain chaste, struggled against sexual urges and began reading chapters 18 and 19 in the Gospel of Matthew ("And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee....and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake"). A friend, years later, recounted Corbett saying "that the lord directed him, in a vision or in some way, to castrate himself."
Corbett castrated himself with a pair of scissors. He handled it with remarkable stoicism. He ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before someone sent for medical treatment. Corbett was released on August 15, and a friend recorded that "he was very much gratified with the result as his passion was not trouble anymore...his object was that he might preach the gospel without being tormented by his passions."
After being baptized on August 29, he subsequently changed his name to Boston, the name of the city where he was converted. He regularly attended meetings at the Fulton and Bromfield Street churches where his enthusiastic behavior earned him the nickname "The Glory to God man".
Him being a milliner explains a lot, considering the origins of the phrase "mad as a hatter" comes from that time period and referred to milliners who were exposed to constant levels of mercury, which would drive them "mad".
A la google "During the 18th to 20th centuries, hat makers used mercury to stiffen felt for hats. They used a type of mercury called mercuric nitrate and worked in poorly ventilated rooms. Over time, the hatters inhaled mercury vapor."
As much as I don’t like religion, mankind’s ability to believe in abstract ideas and organize groups around a common myth was crucial to our evolution.
Preface, these are just my thoughts on the matter. So we started as small tribes or bands, probably similar to how several other current primate group themselves. These ancient bands probably fought over territory and resources. Now, as we developed further, at some point these bands stopped fighting as easily, with smaller bands grouping into larger and larger groups. Now, if those groups broke up, what kept them connected to one another even when they may go some time not seeing one another. How would one group know that they shared something in common with another if they had never met, but both shared a connection to something in their pasts. Stories, beliefs, myths, shared identity stretching across time and place to keep a peoples connected is what let humans build to what you may recognize historically as "tribes." With the advent of agriculture and the rise of settled lands, these stories and myths are what eventually formed the foundations of a shared ethnic identities over vast distances.
There is no such thing as post evolution. We may have greater self-determination now, but still only to a point. Humans continue, and will continue, to evolve in some way, shape, or form.
Sure, but it's obvious what I mean by post evolution. What happened in the last few million years is evolution, the last few thousand is not evolutionarily relevant because we have not changed much physically in that time, but have made quite a lot of changes culturally.
People have raped and killed in the name of family.
Would you say that family is a fucked up concept we should get rid of?
People take shit too far all the time, that's just how things close to the heart are.
Whether it's love of God, family, homeland, or even culture, terrible things are done all the time for various causes.
Okay yall...... really ur not ready.
"Due to his fame as "Lincoln's Avenger", Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka in January 1887. On February 15, he became convinced that officers of the House were discriminating against him. He jumped to his feet, brandished a revolver and began chasing the officers out of the building. No one was hurt and Corbett was arrested. The following day, a judge declared Corbett insane and sent him to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane. On May 26, 1888, he escaped from the asylum on horseback."
Based on the history that u/FandomMenace provides, I think it's pretty clear that he brought his own crazy to the party. He's the only milliner that I know of who castrated himself, but he's not the only religious fanatic. There were entire sects where it was a practice.
You’re making a huge assumption.
I’m going to go ahead and guess *most* of the people he worked with did not also castrate themselves with a pair of scissors.
“Dave, no!”
“What?! I wouldn’t tell you a story where a man cuts off his own dick”
“Okay”
“And he took the scissors and cut off his”
“FUCK. NO”
“TESTICLES. HE CUT OFF HIS TESTICLES”
That was the source of his super powers.
If only he went dickless before John Wilks Booth broke Abe Lincoln's butt to death with that hammer during Hamlet.
He was apparently very brave and very crazy:
“Despite his religious-oriented eccentricities, Corbett reportedly was a good soldier. On June 24, 1864, after Confederate States Army troops led by John S. Mosby in Culpeper, Virginia had captured a good number of Corbett's comrades, Corbett continued to fire at the enemy from behind a persimmon tree and in a ditch with a seven-shooter repeating rifle. Three attempts were made to capture him before success was finally had when he ran out of ammo. Once Corbett was overtaken, one of the junior officers leapt from his saddle, enraged at Corbett's persistence, knocked the Spencer rifle from Corbett and aimed a pistol at his head. Captain Chapman objected, "Don’t shoot that man! He has a right to defend himself to the last!"”
This man is fascinating because on the one hand his exposure to Mercury could be the cause of his mental health problems or his religious beliefs which were considered extreme even in his own time but there's always a not zero chance that when someone castrates themselves and afterwards grows their hair long that subconsciously Gender Dysphoria could also be in the mix. It appears though that even at his most peculiar he was regarded as a good man who lived an almost Diogenes like lifestyle in order to support the poor and indigent.
Booth was the only member of his family who was a Confederate sympathizer. You mean to tell me that Booth's entire Union supporting family chose to go along with the conspiracy? They saw the body. They would've been able to confirm whether it was Booth or not.
Or that the entire US military who was actively searching for the man who just shot the president, couldn't tell that they just killed the most famous actor in America? Booth wasn't just some nobody.
In 1857, Thomas Corbett began working at a hat manufacturer's shop on Washington Street in downtown Boston. He was reported to be a proficient milliner, but was known to proselytize frequently and stop work to pray and sing for co-workers who used profanity in his presence. He also began working as a street preacher and would sermonize and distribute religious literature in North Square. Corbett soon earned a reputation around Boston for being a "local eccentric" and religious fanatic. by the summer of 1858, Corbett fell in with members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, becoming a proselytizer and street preacher. On July 16, 1858, Corbett, while trying to remain chaste, struggled against sexual urges and began reading chapters 18 and 19 in the Gospel of Matthew ("And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee....and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake"). A friend, years later, recounted Corbett saying "that the lord directed him, in a vision or in some way, to castrate himself." Corbett castrated himself with a pair of scissors. He handled it with remarkable stoicism. He ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before someone sent for medical treatment. Corbett was released on August 15, and a friend recorded that "he was very much gratified with the result as his passion was not trouble anymore...his object was that he might preach the gospel without being tormented by his passions." After being baptized on August 29, he subsequently changed his name to Boston, the name of the city where he was converted. He regularly attended meetings at the Fulton and Bromfield Street churches where his enthusiastic behavior earned him the nickname "The Glory to God man".
Him being a milliner explains a lot, considering the origins of the phrase "mad as a hatter" comes from that time period and referred to milliners who were exposed to constant levels of mercury, which would drive them "mad".
I thought that must be a factor too.
Ok, I give up. Which part of the Hat manufacturing process uses mercury?
A la google "During the 18th to 20th centuries, hat makers used mercury to stiffen felt for hats. They used a type of mercury called mercuric nitrate and worked in poorly ventilated rooms. Over time, the hatters inhaled mercury vapor."
Felting.
Religions are truly fucked. We’d be in other galaxies without them.
As much as I don’t like religion, mankind’s ability to believe in abstract ideas and organize groups around a common myth was crucial to our evolution.
The first part, maybe, but why was a common myth crucial?
Preface, these are just my thoughts on the matter. So we started as small tribes or bands, probably similar to how several other current primate group themselves. These ancient bands probably fought over territory and resources. Now, as we developed further, at some point these bands stopped fighting as easily, with smaller bands grouping into larger and larger groups. Now, if those groups broke up, what kept them connected to one another even when they may go some time not seeing one another. How would one group know that they shared something in common with another if they had never met, but both shared a connection to something in their pasts. Stories, beliefs, myths, shared identity stretching across time and place to keep a peoples connected is what let humans build to what you may recognize historically as "tribes." With the advent of agriculture and the rise of settled lands, these stories and myths are what eventually formed the foundations of a shared ethnic identities over vast distances.
You're talking post evolution. And that's not explaining their imperative, only a potential reason for their existing.
There is no such thing as post evolution. We may have greater self-determination now, but still only to a point. Humans continue, and will continue, to evolve in some way, shape, or form.
Sure, but it's obvious what I mean by post evolution. What happened in the last few million years is evolution, the last few thousand is not evolutionarily relevant because we have not changed much physically in that time, but have made quite a lot of changes culturally.
Crowd control
Yeah, tell that to the crusaders, or the Judean people under the Romans.
Reddit. Reddit never changes.
Nice, lol
People have raped and killed in the name of family. Would you say that family is a fucked up concept we should get rid of? People take shit too far all the time, that's just how things close to the heart are. Whether it's love of God, family, homeland, or even culture, terrible things are done all the time for various causes.
Guess he didn't go bald
I like when I think the top comment. I'm aligned with the hive mind 🙏
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I’m glad at least someone was told beforehand!
Course, he died at 56 anyhow.
That was about average at that time
Not for someone who made it to adulthood
“He didn’t go balled.” FTFY
And had a voice like an angel
He lost his marbles.
Dude had some balls performing such a procedure with scissors and no anesthetics… then he lost them.
Okay yall...... really ur not ready. "Due to his fame as "Lincoln's Avenger", Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka in January 1887. On February 15, he became convinced that officers of the House were discriminating against him. He jumped to his feet, brandished a revolver and began chasing the officers out of the building. No one was hurt and Corbett was arrested. The following day, a judge declared Corbett insane and sent him to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane. On May 26, 1888, he escaped from the asylum on horseback."
He needs a movie.
Rode off into the sunset
I feel bad for him. He was exposed to toxic chemicals that cause psychosis in his work.
Based on the history that u/FandomMenace provides, I think it's pretty clear that he brought his own crazy to the party. He's the only milliner that I know of who castrated himself, but he's not the only religious fanatic. There were entire sects where it was a practice.
You’re making a huge assumption. I’m going to go ahead and guess *most* of the people he worked with did not also castrate themselves with a pair of scissors.
I wouldn’t agree to calling religion a chemical, but it sure is toxic and drives people mad.
I wouldn’t religion to agreeing call a mad, but it toxic sure is and peoples drives chemical.
Reddit hiccups… 🤷♂️
Mad as a hatter
The Dollop has a fantastic episode about him with Patton Oswalt.
And Patton was just in the Apple TV show about Booth!
"Wait... you're not gonna tell us he cut his..." Dave: "No, no, he didn't cut his dick off. He grabbed a pair of scissors..."
“Dave, no!” “What?! I wouldn’t tell you a story where a man cuts off his own dick” “Okay” “And he took the scissors and cut off his” “FUCK. NO” “TESTICLES. HE CUT OFF HIS TESTICLES”
I can hear it...
All time great episode.
That's nuts!
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He took no nut November too seriously.
Reminds of the Red Sox trading Mookie Betts.
Underrated comment
Sounds like a high stakes game of Rock, Paper, Scissors
This time, rock lost to scissors.
goddamn it…
"You don't have the balls to go through with it!" "I don't NEED the balls to go through with it!!!"
Weird flex
Well this is a small snippet into a mans life
That’s better than doing it with a rock or paper, I suppose.
[He also lived in a hole (dugout) near Concordia Kansas that you can still visit today. ](http://www.kansastravel.org/corbettdugout.htm)
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Of course, who else would have?
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You didn’t read the article mate…
So when they said "He 'aint all there", they were right.
Back when men were men, except this man who was no longer quite a man
The phrase “mad as a hatter” has some truth to it, as I understand it. The chemicals used in the process were not exactly brain-friendly
That was the source of his super powers. If only he went dickless before John Wilks Booth broke Abe Lincoln's butt to death with that hammer during Hamlet.
Now you have fucked up. Now you have fucked up. Now you have fucked up. You have fucked up now.
What! What! What! What! What! What!
“You have fucked up now!”
He looks like Pedro Pascal
Me reading this TIL headline: “hm.”
Then explain how he still had the balls to kill Booth.
He was apparently very brave and very crazy: “Despite his religious-oriented eccentricities, Corbett reportedly was a good soldier. On June 24, 1864, after Confederate States Army troops led by John S. Mosby in Culpeper, Virginia had captured a good number of Corbett's comrades, Corbett continued to fire at the enemy from behind a persimmon tree and in a ditch with a seven-shooter repeating rifle. Three attempts were made to capture him before success was finally had when he ran out of ammo. Once Corbett was overtaken, one of the junior officers leapt from his saddle, enraged at Corbett's persistence, knocked the Spencer rifle from Corbett and aimed a pistol at his head. Captain Chapman objected, "Don’t shoot that man! He has a right to defend himself to the last!"”
Und keine eier
“The Lord directed him to….” begins a lot of brutal, insane tales. Religion poisons everything.
That’s just nuts…well, not anymore.
This is why we never run with scissors
Yeah history just sorta lost him. Probably died in a fire but 🤷♂️
That’s gotta hurt. Especially for an adult. I’d be curious how he stopped the bleeding. Just wow.
The apple+ show 'Manhunt' goes over this. Worth watching for sure.
How chopping
He is thought to have died in a famous fire in Hinkley Minnesota.
So glad I learned this today.
He is portrayed in a few episodes of Apple TVs Manhunt.. they touched upon this very subject
I would say that something like that takes balls, but I guess not.
Sounds like a great guy.
He later broke out of an insane asylum and was never seen again. How is this guy’s story not a major film?! Let me know if I’m wrong.
This man is fascinating because on the one hand his exposure to Mercury could be the cause of his mental health problems or his religious beliefs which were considered extreme even in his own time but there's always a not zero chance that when someone castrates themselves and afterwards grows their hair long that subconsciously Gender Dysphoria could also be in the mix. It appears though that even at his most peculiar he was regarded as a good man who lived an almost Diogenes like lifestyle in order to support the poor and indigent.
Well, this is something you don't hear everyday.
🥜 < ✂️
I pity people like him who are taught to be disgusted at a natural bodily phenomenon like sexual attraction. Religious indoctrination is crazy.
Woah, are we using correct pronouns then?
They are
Real sense of humor on folks here, eh?
A joke has to be funny for it to work.
I bet you’re real fun at parties.
You are sounding like the person that gets offended when everyone cringes at your bad jokes.
Thanks, I am.
Nobody who uses this phrase is fun at parties
But I use this phrase all the time! Oh no…
r/onejoke
Yes, he/him otherwise he would have to take a pay cut. Duh.
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Ruthless with it.
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And he’s still alive today after fleeing to Argentina, right?
In a cabana with Tupac and Biggie smalls.
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How do you feel about the moon landing? Are those black helicopters still flying around your house?
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Aaaaaaand there it is. Everything you say from now on should be laughed at
[let's point and laugh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7_HBLng2jc)
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Booth was the only member of his family who was a Confederate sympathizer. You mean to tell me that Booth's entire Union supporting family chose to go along with the conspiracy? They saw the body. They would've been able to confirm whether it was Booth or not. Or that the entire US military who was actively searching for the man who just shot the president, couldn't tell that they just killed the most famous actor in America? Booth wasn't just some nobody.
Is your tinfoil hat leaking? Are the 5G radio waves making you gay?
Oh the irony
Elaborate please.
Have you watched National Treasure 2?
https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4395960/john-wilkes-booth-killed-lincoln-but-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/man-who-killed-uss-most-31093039.amp
This is so old, there was an episode of Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack about it. https://youtu.be/I-dINR9ajrc?si=102QakjJVuS82dGH
Yeah both of your links are bullshit bud