A proposal

[Diana]

It's funny, I remember back in the day that the forum was dominated by the "instant harvest / 2012" crowd. You might as well have slapped a countdown clock in the corner... I eventually lost interest and just gave up (loooong before the "rapture" :-), it was like farting against thunder. I realised the will to believe can be so strong, that no evidence or argument to the contrary can make any difference. I still remember where I was driving when I realised late in the afternoon that it was 21 December 2012, and my mind immediately went to the forum, thinking to myself there must be quite a bit of disillusionment.

I was also curious to see if Leon Festinger's theory was right in his book When Prophecy Fails, how people will react, so a couple of days later I checked in and found Yossarin's thread, where he or she was so disillusioned, and I was just amazed to see that Leon Festinger was right. He's the psychologist who coined the term cognitive dissonance.

While some were interested in the 2012 phenomenon, I don't agree that it dominated this forum. And among the members who posted and threads which did canvass this subject, I'm sure they weren't all ridiculous as you seem to suggest. It's insulting to say what you have above, as though the members here were idiots but you knew better. And here we are in a thread arguing the merits of someone wanting to play an STS game, everyone worried that it might cause hurt, and (not so) subtle insults such as this one just whiz by.

The many intelligent and compassionate people who were here and left this forum, didn't just skulk off because they weren't raptured.