Oh yeah, the 1975 debacle was fun, I was there for that one. Watching the mental gymnastics people had to go through to manage their disappointment was interesting and provided me with an additional inoculation against belief and trust in self appointed authority figures. I already had that in spades (as every teacher who ever had to deal with me would attest) but that set it all in titanium for me.
I was wondering why that phrase rang a bell. 
They say nothing on the internet ever really goes away…
Personally, I have a hypothesis that all of the apocalyptic conspiracy nuts are the reason for the continued existence of the World. See, none shall know the day or the hour, so any day when some “prophet” says the world will end, can’t be the date the world will end. And every day is claimed by some two-bit prophet or other. So the World just keeps on chugging along, waiting for some day when nobody’s expecting it, when it can finally call it a day.
But now that you are predicting that it will end the first day that someone doesn’t predict it to end, the Berry paradox takes effect and the world can’t end.
Thanks for saving the world Chronos!
When are we going to Planet 10?
Real soon!
I thought two weeks was the standard unit of soonness.
Not on Planet 10.
@DouglasAdams, 'zat you?
Welcome back, and welcome to the board! Still playing your ironic little mind games, I see…
In physics, there is something similar to this called the Quantum Zeno effect - Wikipedia
This is why the SDMB is the greatest message board ever. On lesser MBs, the poster wouldn’t be so careful, and would call it a theory.
Well balanced, intelligent Q adherent? How nice! A new definition of the word oxymoron. Please observe that oxymoron has a moron in it, so it fits.
Reminds me of a conversation my father had with a rather dim-witted associate. “That’s an oxymoron, James.” “Who are you calling an ox-moron?”
It’s hard to get there when they downgraded Planet 9.
If you read the letter, the writer has in no way disavowed the conspiracy theory. He’s not disillusioned, it’s just that he’s realized that the Deep State plot goes even deeper than he thought, and he’s urging Trump and JFK Jr and Mike Flynn and Xi to speed up their clean out of the Deep State by arresting the traitors.
All the alleged in-fighting between the various Q-celebrities comes down to nothing more than “THEY aren’t spending the money you send to overthrow the election and arrest all the Democrats. You need to stop sending them money and send it to me if you want to to see Trump reinstated and Hillary and Obama executed.” It’s a purity contest.
And no matter how many news outlets talk about Mike Lindell being taken down by reality……I see a story every week…Mike Lindell flees stage after new reporting reveals…Lindell isn’t going anywhere, he’s just digging in deeper. He flees whatever stage he’s on every few hours to hit the crack pipe but he’s always back, more convinced than ever.
It seems like the media is so convinced that this is going to go away by itself that they keep reaching for proof where none exists. The QANON movement is way bigger than it was before Trump lost, before January 6th.
I miscalculated this, a lot of people did, mostly because they failed to recognize the way that cults feed and thrive on persecution narratives. But it should be blindingly obvious by now that this isn’t going away….it’s getting worse. And one reason it’s going to continue to get worse is that our government has utterly failed to hold the people that are fomenting this accountable and they apparently have absolutely no interest in doing so.
Or this bit of dialog from the movie Tank:
I suspect it is a spectrum from people who enjoy spreading rumours (and seeing what they can get others to believe) running to people who accept anything ridiculous as unadulterated truth. Many people on the first category are very intelligent, but well-balanced people probably do not feel the need to troll others in the first place.
Obviously there is a difference between a one-off joke and more severe trolling. But the latter is strongly associated with traits like narcissism and even psychopathy.
Timing is everything!
So…do they think JFK Jr. faked his death, or that he’s going to rise from the dead? They’re both conspiracy theories, but the latter is a whole lot more banana pants than the former.