I've been traveling, and thus haven t had the opportunity to notice this so far, but Harold Camping has formally rationalized, as predicted by cognitive dissonance/motivated reasoning theory. He's reinterpreted May 21 like a mere spiritual rapture, but still states the world will truly finish on October 21. The New You are able to Occasions includes a quotation about the way of thinking, that is textbook:
I will tell you very candidly that after May 21 came and went it had been an extremely hard time for me personally, an extremely hard time, stated Mr. Camping, 89, an old civil engineer. I had been truly wondering what's going on. I believe, I returned through all the promises God makes, all the proofs, all the signs and everything was fitting perfectly, so what happened I truly was praying and praying and praying, oh The almighty, what went down
He wasn t just praying by groing through all this following a jarring shock, it may sound like he was restrengthening the convictions he already had, as well as in that they had invested a lot. And therefore his conclusion that could 21 only agreed to be an invisible judgement day shojuld not be a surprise to us. Actually, it had been most likely probably the most apparent rationalization Camping could develop.
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