(August 19, 2015 at 9:04 am)abaris Wrote: Didn't he claim afterwards that it was something of an undercover rapture that was so sneaky that nobody noticed? Kind of a sexual foreplay to the real deal.
At least that's how I remember it.
He may have. I didn't really catch much of his defense for why it failed.
But if he did, he stole that maneuver from Harold Camping.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
