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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smells strongly of retrofitted justification BS to me.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah. The dude that came up with the term cognitive dissonance described this process in his book When Prophesy Fails. Basically when you are in a cult and your doomsday ends up being a normal day you have a freak out of cognitive dissonance. This isn’t great because people don’t like having their strongly held beliefs shown to be invalid. So they must come up with a post hoc rationalization as to why their doomsday didn’t come true and why they are still right.