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Mar 4, 2021 · For several weeks, QAnon followers have touted March 4 as the next momentous day in their calendar following on from the failure of January 20, when the conspiracy theorists thought that...
- Ewan Palmer
Mar 4, 2021 · QAnon Theorists Switch Date to March 20 After No Trump Inauguration, Call the 4th 'False Flag'. Published Mar 04, 2021 at 2:01 PM EST Updated Mar 05, 2021 at 4:12 PM EST. By Emily...
Mar 3, 2021 · QAnon followers started talking about March 4 beginning in early- to mid-January, after some were disappointed that the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol failed to bring about a series...
- The Millerites
- Crisis Point
- Making Sense of Disappointment
This dynamic played out nearly 180 years ago with the Millerites, members of a 19th-century evangelical Christian movement who were part of an earlier “Great Awakening” in U.S. religious history. A Baptist preacher, William Miller drew on biblical texts and numerology to predict the imminent second coming of Christ. Although Miller did not initiall...
Looking at how the Millerites dealt with their Great Disappointment gives an insight into how believers navigate what the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre calls “epistemological crises.” These are moments when the way someone understands the world is thrown into question by events that don’t fit expectations. Epistemological crises are not unique to ...
Whether or not movements like Millerism can move past great disappointments depends in part on the interpretive tools available within the group and the ingenuity of adherents in explaining away their own unfulfilled expectations. It is anyone’s guess whether QAnon will survive its current epistemological crisis. And if it does, there is no guarant...
- Richard Amesbury
Feb 8, 2021 · Using the same shifting of goalposts and anarchic reasoning as they have done with all their other failed predictions, QAnon now claim March 4 will be the next day that Trump will be sworn...
- Ewan Palmer
Mar 4, 2021 · But some of his fervent followers who support the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory believe he'll be coming back sooner - and will somehow be returned to power on 4 March. What is the basis of...
Mar 3, 2021 · Politics. The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts. QAnon’s prophecies failed to come true. Here’s why the conspiracy theory will persist anyway. by Sean Illing. Mar 3, 2021, 6:12 AM...
