Rapture people! Members of all end-times cults! Serious question (as they say):

When your rapture dates change because of the stars or God or Q, WHEN do you make the new date announcement? On the wrong day, the one you first predicted? Or do you give it a week? #ReinstatementDay
You could ask the 2012 people? Or other old hands like the people who believed in the 1523 Thames flooding prophecy?
Re the 1523 prophecy:

People waited for the “bosom of Thames to heave beyond the usual mark. But...the Thames, unmindful of the foolish crowds upon its banks, flowed on quietly as of yore. The obstinate river wd not lift its waters to sweep away even 1 house out of the 10,000.”
People waited for the “administration of Biden to take a break beyond the usual mark. But...Biden, unmindful of the foolish crowds expecting a new president, flowed on quietly as of yore. The obstinate administration would not leave the Oval 1 minute out of 10,000.”

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For what it’s worth, I get it from Lily, the great caretaker’s daughter, in James Joyce’s “The Dead”:

“The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.”

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And more than that: osteopaths are very VERY insistent that they be taken for MDs.
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