Obviously it didn’t, but evidently a large portion of the Japanese people believed that it would.
Inspired by Bosda’s posting in this thread, I started to look a little more into Japanese cults. It seems the Pana Wave Laboratory has moved on for now. They are a remnant of a late-90’s movement towards doomsday predictions and cults.
Time Asia had an article about this. Including a lot of Nostradamus-based nonsense.
My question is this: What happened in August, 1999? Did everyone wake up on August 1 and say, “What a crock!”?
I have never known anyone who was really into a doomsday prediction. The only real parallel might be the Y2K hype. On Jan. 1, 2000 most people I knew were saying things like, “I never really believed in that anyway.” But again, I don’t know anyone with a 6-week supply of water in their basement.
So I guess my real GQ is what happens to doomsday believers when the day after dawns much the same as the day before?