In 1954, a woman named Dorothy Martin began to claim that the world would end on December 17th. She attracted a small following and they eagerly awaited for the apocalypse. When that didn’t happen, she revealed another prophecy that it would instead happen on the 18th. Despite everyone still being there the next day, she came out with another one, this time for the 21st. Then, a final date was given to her: for Christmas Eve.
Well, the long and the short of it is that nothing happened. The group broke up and Martin spent the rest of her life at the head of various New Age cults. None of them had any idea that several of their members were actually psychologists observing them. The doctors would go on to write a book called When Prophecy Fails.
So where am I going with this?
Ever since QAnon began, the movement has given numerous dates on which events would take place that fit with their vision. So far, they’re batting with a .000 average. JFK, Jr. was supposedly going to reappear and become Trump’s new VP on October 17th last year. No JFK, Jr. and Pence would keep his job. Trump himself would be inaugurated for a second term and all of the traitors and Democrats would be arrested on January 20th. When that flopped, they moved the date for this to March 4th. It’s March 5th, Biden’s still the president, and there weren’t any mass arrests to the best of my knowledge.
What do you think? Is there a similarity between Martin’s cult and QAnon believers?
T9R