On 26 May 2004, at 12:45 pm, David Hobby wrote:
Keith Henson wrote:
Correct, but *after* the date some of them get more into recruiting. The
JWs are an example.
I think the more common behavior is pushing back the predicted date of the apocalypse. But I guess one can only do this so many times.
"Pushing back the apocalypse for over a century!" sounds better than "wrong lots of times" :) Maybe they should use it in their literature...
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