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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (85244)8/11/2000 12:04:59 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Cosmo, I read a book some years ago about millennial cults in America -- specifically, about cults (like the original Seventh Day Adventists) that were into predicting the exact date of the end of the world.

Each time the date was predicted, the believers would all gather at the place (usually a mountaintop), from which they expected to be "rapt" up to heaven (thus avoiding all the end-of-the-world messiness here below). And, of course, each time the end of the world failed to materialize on the date predicted.

You would think that would discourage the believers, make them doubt their leaders' predictions. Not a bit of it! The curious thing is that these failures only reinforced their belief in the imminent end of the world. (So the date was a bit off, big deal!)

Does that fit into your theory?
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