--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Being a big fan of the book "When Prophecy Fails," I love > days like today, when True Believers all over the world > awaken to find not the Rapture they were hoping and > praying for
So how many "days like today" have you experienced, and when was the most recent before this one? Also, just for the record, no believers awakened this morning to find that the Rapture had not occurred. They knew it before they went to bed last night. (Editorial note: Writerly flourishes tend to be a lot more effective when they don't contradict the known facts. If they do, readers quickly realize you're writing for yourself, not for them, and it lessens their investment in whatever point you wanted to make.) <snip> > This should be a familiar pattern to everyone who has > followed the ever-changing "magic numbers" necessary for > TMSP butt-bouncers to bring about world peace. First it > was one set of numbers, and they were achieved and damn! > -- no world peace. Actually, I don't believe the specified numbers were ever achieved on the sustained basis necessary to usher in world peace. The "Taste of Utopia" course in '83, for example, which did hit the prescribed numbers, lasted only three weeks. > The solution was obvious. Not enough butt-bouncers, so the > "magic number" was raised. And achieved. Not achieved, actually. > And still nothing happened, world-peace-wise. Actually, quite a few very interesting things happened world-peace-wise back when the numbers were high--the fall of the Berlin Wall, for example. Could have been just coincidence, of course, but a number of promising events took place around the world during this period that took analysts by surprise and for which they had trouble finding an explanation. The interesting thing is how hard non-TMers have worked to attempt to debunk the various studies that have been done on the positive effects of the big World Peace Assemblies. One might almost wonder if *they* were the ones wrestling with cognitive dissonance.
