McFakename Posted January 8, 2017 #51 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Welp... time to drink the Kool-Aid again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONTEATUS Posted January 12, 2017 #52 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Kool aid ? Let It Bash That Gold Tower in N.Y ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clare256 Posted January 12, 2017 #53 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambaldi Posted January 16, 2017 #54 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Yet Again? At least the old crop of lying nutjobs had the good sense to leave a few years between their failures. Today's Nibiruists seem to come up and fail with this nonsense yearly... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddonire Posted January 16, 2017 #55 Share Posted January 16, 2017 2 hours ago, rambaldi said: Yet Again? At least the old crop of lying nutjobs had the good sense to leave a few years between their failures. Today's Nibiruists seem to come up and fail with this nonsense yearly... Well, logically speaking, they have to claim it is imminent. If they claim, say 2200 CE, it simply has no impact. With so many jumping on the bandwagon, the only option is to make your own claim even more imminent and so it goes. The infamous Nancy Lieder did this and continues to do it in her echo chamber ning blog. It is notable that she has given up on specific date predictions, it's all "SOON" and other such open ended claims. Last I checked, she had 326 followers, a number which has remained static for years. Most of those are inactive. Heaven's Gate all suicided bar two who remain to this day maintaining their website and insist their brethren have ascended to whatever. Harold Camping failed dismally three times yet still has adherents. And so on. My point is that there are multiple dynamics going on. The proponents know that they can simply refresh their predictions every year in the full knowledge that there will be a body of gullible believers who are so personally invested that it would destroy them to accept that they got suckered. Sure, some followers will fall away as the truth is exposed over time. But there is a fertile market of brand new adherents to replace them. The core of committed believers will remain no matter what. Those who fall away are no loss as they are no longer a revenue stream and the noobs are a whole new revenue stream. It's cyclical. As a business owner, I know recurring revenue is extremely important. In the software arena, that means licencing, support agreements and so forth but it is all formalised and agreed and entirely voluntary and constrained by legal contract setting out what you pay and what you get. Woo merchants have no such constraints. They can afford to simply ignore the dissatisfied customers and concentrate on the next generation of the gullible. And that is what they do. It is simply competition in the market of nutty claims which has reduced the life cycle of wild claims. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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