Well, that particular example was from Leon Fessinger's book, When Prophecy Fails. He is a young psych professor, was curious about these end-of-the-world cults. And this one in particular was this woman in suburbs of Chicago that was channeling some alien that told her that the world would come to an end on December 21st, of course, the Winter Solstice of 1954. So he thought, okay, well, this is very specific. I'm going to go there. He got permission to join the group and then go up there with his clipboard to take notes or whatever he used and wait for the mothership to come after which there'd be massive floods and earthquakes in the Midwest and that'd be the end of it. And of course, it didn't happen. And so he was curious to see what these people would do when they go, wow, that was a dumb idea. I'm going to go back and get my job and get my car back and stuff. They gave away their belongings and whatnot. But no, in fact, they went back and doubled down on their beliefs. So he (30/57)
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