Nothing has changed since Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter wrote about the Seekers, the doomsday cult that “readjusted” its beliefs when its prophesied date for time for the end of the world (December 21, 1954) came and went. 1/https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1350893048692166666 …
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Replying to @gorskon
People have to get ready to accept Q as a religion. It’s here to stay. However, like religions before it, it will have to learn not to make predictions because religion has no predictive power. Making failed predictions results in schisms as with “the Great Dissapointment.”
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle
You mean concrete predictions that can be falsified, don’t you? Lots of religions make predictions. They just don’t put concrete dates and events in them, so that they are not so easily falsified by events.
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