(August 10, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 4:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So tens of thousands of people coming from all different parts of the country collaborated to fabricate this lie about seeing a moving sun, all before cell phones and the internet existed?Again, you are desperate to believe the story put out by the church. You do understand that in any fish story the fish always gets bigger, right?
Who counted the crowd, btw? Donald Trump? We know what his ability to judge a crowd size is. I doubt they sold tickets.
Good point. There are pictures of the event, but sure, unless there was a recorded head count, and everyone was simply guessing that could falsely spread too.
The original War Of the Worlds radio show caused mass panic because the producers did little to nothing to let people know it wasn't a real broadcast.
There was a made for TV drama back in the 80s, not "The Day After", but another Nuclear strike theme, where they did it as a News Program, but then they warned everyone going in to each segment that it was just a show.
The power of suggestion can lead people to believe false things even have false memories.
