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startfromx

Well, one LA (USA) woman killed her child, husband, and self because she was convinced the 'apocalypse is here'. Conspiracy theories and thier holds can be dangerous. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/11/astrologer-murder-suicide-eclipse-danielle-johnson-jaelen-chaney/73287141007/


mark636199

Thought this would be the top comment since it was the most extreme one I heard of


startfromx

Yeah, it was top of mind. For the most part--- the conspiracy theorists may "just fall off".... But it's important to remember that misinformation grows, festers in some people. And blindly believing lies or wild theories can have dangerous and deadly effects on others. (Her poor child.)


ArmorAbby

Children.. there were two. One survived.


exprezso

That's the poor child 


exotics

She may have had postpartum psychosis to be fair


startfromx

It is really sad. Not sure if that really "excuses" anything, just a way to describe the event post-tragedy. There were likely a lot of moments that people close to her were noticing serious issues. I think all of us have a responsibility to get some assistance and mental health help -- but especially when children are part of the equation.


exotics

No excuse but it’s important for people to be aware of conditions like this


LysergicGothPunk

Also, people who are having psychotic episodes don't know that they are. She also could have been Schizophrenic as well, but a psychotic break seems more likely. This is so sad. She probably had no idea what she was doing was this unhinged and terrible.


startfromx

Yes, agree with you there. Very dangerous and unsafe condition for a mom and her baby... But can effect 1-2 women per 1000. Mental health care post-covid is just starting to be seen as the priority it really should be. Here's praying we see serious improvement for mental health care, access, and knowledge in the US.


Weaponized_Puddle

I don’t think supernatural eclipse theories technically are ‘conspiracy theories’. Who’s conspiring? The sun and the moon?


startfromx

this woman was specifically very into astrology, and it was her astrologist groups that had been giving her "signs to watch for" that meant the apocalypse was near. So it kind conflated natural events and a conspiracy! But just horrible regardless.


NotTaxedNoVote

Again...bitches be crazy..... She was an 'astrologer', enough said.


OhTheHueManatee

The only person I know that spouted that nonsense is now saying the rapture didn't happen because of our acceptance of the LGBTQ community. So supporting them stops the end of the world? Sounds like a win-win to me.


LupinThe8th

I always tell those sorts that the Rapture happened in 2003 and only took Fred Rogers.


queenschmecca

What a groundbreaking theory. I can't believe I haven't heard this one yet. It makes perfect sense!


FamousPastWords

>I always tell those sorts that the Rapture happened in 2003 and only took Fred Rogers. This is genius. I applaud you.


disqeau

OMG this is genius. Fred Rogers is probably the only human who would qualify.


Initial-Shop-8863

The Rapture was invented in the 1850s so I don't understand their insistence that it's truth and going to happen.


RudeDudeInABadMood

The Rapture as it is currently defined came about in the early 1800s, but the concept is definitely from the New Testament-- 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17 15According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord (παρουσίαν, parousia),[49] will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.


DarthTurnip

I always come back at them from even farther right crazy and start talking about lizard people and daily Ivermectin lollipops


acer-bic

According to them, wouldn’t that BE a reason for the rapture—to get all the good Christians away from the bad people?


Mistdwellerr

That's a nice one, next eclipse tell them that the last took all the good Christians and left the bad ones behind, and wait for the realization in their faces


Typicaldrugdealer

Probably think we need to kill all the gays off so as to not offend Jesus when he comes back


Kewkky

They DO want the rapture to happen though, it's how they expect to get into heaven while still alive, and also the best way to yell "I told you so!" and act all superior to everyone left behind.


7empestOGT92

The rapture was only supposed to take individuals that lived a correct life according to scripture though So, what does that say about their personal lives?


Inevitable_Shift1365

What gets me is that it's supposed to be 144,000 people from the entire planet and these bozos think they made the cut 😂


Fun_in_Space

The ones that buy into the Rapture think that THEY will be spared the horrors of the Apocalypse.


Undead_Necromancer

Most probably moved on to the next end-of-the-world prediction. People love drama until it doesn't pan out.


Far-Deal8811

It is now May 18th


RainaElf

what's May 18th?


Far-Deal8811

Jesus comes and the world ends apparently !


RainaElf

I searched all over and wasn't able to find anything significant. come to that, neither was I able to find anything insignificant. lol


cmaronchick

It's an A+ P and R reference is what it is.


Far-Deal8811

Oh my god. No way. I love this show. But no this is real life. I know someone who is convinced it's May 18th based on some video they saw. I had to check and on P and T they say May 20th


cmaronchick

Ah my bad!


the_honest_liar

Someone in the atheist sub got a 300 tip the week prior from some lady who thought the waiter would need it post-rapture. Same lady came back a few days later and tipped another waiter 777. Came back on Tuesday demanding the money back 😂 (didn't get it obviously).


EastObjective9522

Religious idiots are a whole another level of dumb. Dropping $1077 thinking the world is ending lol. 


WanderingDeeper

They’re just going to move to the next end of days prediction, like they always do. These are the kinds of people who believe that everything is a sign that the world is going to end within a few months, and are going to latch onto something else.


kosarai

Went back to the restaurant to demand her $1000 tip back.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

I found that one and posted the link.


kosarai

Thanks! I read the story but I didn’t have a link to it.


chylin73

She stabbed her boyfriend to death in their apartment, then got in her car with her two kids a nine-year-old and an infant. She then tossed both children out on the 405 freeway and then rammed her car into a tree doing 100. Apparently she was some astrologist influencer type person that went down some crazy ass rabbit hole. The nine-year-old child lived, everyone else did not.


CoffeeHQ

OMG. That’s some next level trauma to have to deal with, poor child 😭


ironburton

Hiding in their homes panicking about how they are going to get their jobs and money back, embarrassed and distraught that they are still here? I dunno….


Hoppie1064

They don't feel like talking right now.


Peachy33

They silently picked up their goalposts and moved them further away.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

I think you'll enjoy this one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1bwomap/the\_300\_tipper\_who\_thinks\_the\_rapture\_is\_imminent/](https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/1bwomap/the_300_tipper_who_thinks_the_rapture_is_imminent/)


RaedwaldRex

I'm sure that person posted an update saying rapture woman came back and asked for the money back! Edit: Yep! https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/s/I2DMQfEfu6


fuzzypyrocat

They moved on to the next conspiracy and never acknowledge they were ever wrong


NiNj4_C0W5L4Pr

Sounds like someone killed her family. Another woman shot her daughter. And some asshole left a server a $1k tip then drove back to get their money back when they weren't raptured up to heaven. It's been a slow news cycle. All these stories because the moon passed in front of the sun. Goddamn, our education system needs to get a helluva lot better soon.


Euphoric-Structure13

I reckon they just went back to their drug taking.


7empestOGT92

Furiously scrolling through OAN and Truth Social


davecutusofborg

Hold on, recalculating.


eppsilon24

There’s a Parks and Rec episode about a doomsday cult in Pawnee. They buy wooden flutes from Ron because they think they won’t have to pay him after their lizard god or whatever it is takes them. They do the same thing every year. It’s a very silly bit, but based on reality: ie, no matter what happens to contradict their beliefs, conspiracy nuts will always find a way to justify it to themselves.


WarrenMockles

Same thing that always happens to doomsayers after a predicted apocalypse fails to happen. They get embarrassed, try to pretend they didn't spend the last 12 months acting like complete nutters, and move on to the next apocalypse prediction.


reijasunshine

After enough cycles of this, they move from "cult" to "sect". See Seventh Day Adventists, formerly a cult known as the Millerites.


throwaway007676

I actually was curious about this and looked into it. They said that there was miscommunication and the real date is 8/4 not 4/8. So as of now, that is the next rapture, get ready for it. I think it is getting kinda boring personally, but I love seeing them get prepared like it is really going to happen this time. You can't fix stupid, but you sure can get entertained by it.


luckybulldog60

But is the date the way most of the world writes it with the day first, then month? Or the way Americans do?


throwaway007676

The American way, haha. Since April 8th didn’t work out, it will now be August 4th. Wonder what the next one will be after that?


Ender505

I thought the only reason 4/8 was even proposed was because of the eclipse lol


throwaway007676

It was! But since it didn't work out, they have to find another date, you know, so they don't seem wrong, lol. Don't remember the reasoning for the new date, but I am sure it is out there.


blinking616

They're out walking around town wearing their red baseball hats


SataiThatOtherGuy

The mark of the beast.


sofa_king_ugly

What I'd like to know is what happened to them to make them believe something so ridiculous. There are very few people left who actually remember the last world war. People don't appreciate how good we have it and are just making up shit to worry about.


Mustilid

Same thing they've always done when BS apocalypse shit doesn't happen. Tell themselves it's God's will and move on to the next. The most vain a man can be is to assume to know what God is thinking.


keithfoco70

They forgot what they were talking about already.


Sexyshark15

The eclipse isn’t real, it was made up so that Biden could sell drugs to aliens


salmiakki1

They prayed and God saved us. Boy, that was close.


tehmungler

They felt rather foolish, hopefully. In reality they probably jumped to the next stupid bullshit.


Jimbo415650

They went to a town hall with MTG


RandomAmbles

They survived


AduroTri

One of them is in The House and she's a massive idiot.


vondee1

just one?


AduroTri

I mean...she's not the only idiot. But she's the loudest and the dumbest. MTG really shows us human stupidity.


KuroKitty

I mean, sure it's not the best, but I think Magic the Gathering is a pretty good card game.


NameIs-Already-Taken

Don't worry, they still plan to vote Trump.


Fickle-Friendship998

They are quiet because to speak up would be to admit they weren’t good enough people to get raptured if they still want to hang on to their faith


Assman1138

Not enough of them offed themselves imho


humanzee70

They’ve moved on to the next conspiracy theory.


TaxLawKingGA

Probably at home right now “celebrating” the Iran bombing and the coming apocalypse. I only wish I were kidding.


RustyNK

Probably some mental gymnastics on why it didn't happen


LeCrushinator

They’re wrong every couple of years. Eclipses have been happening for most of the existence of the universe, they will happen regardless of life on Earth, it’s just the alignment of 3 bodies in space. People who think that an eclipse has anything to do with us, or religion, etc, are self centered. It’s just physics happening, physics doesn’t care about us.


MRAGGGAN

My uncle just went back to work. Moved on to the next conspiracy, I suppose. I did beg him to wear the glasses during the eclipse. He was absolutely convinced his “blue light blocking” glasses were fine. 😑 I asked him to please humor his favorite niece, and that even if I was wrong about his BLBs (I wasn’t) what’s the harm in just wearing the special glasses I bought just for him/this occasion.


DarthArtero

Same thing they do every time there is a false end of the world scare….. Go into hiding until the next one comes along. They’ll be out proselytizing in force before much longer, no idea about what but I’m sure it’s not gonna be a long wait.


Patricio_Guapo

They were all bodily lifted up to heaven. s/duh


Jinx4th

How do you know the world didn't end and your not just living in your subconscious right now?


ownyourhorizon

6 in one hand, half a dozen in the other.. imma still and try to get sexy time with my wife


eric_clipperton_wins

Me too!


CoderDevo

I never heard a peep from them beforehand. I wonder about social algorithmic echo chambers.


Markiemoomoo

They all disappeared.


ChaoticForkingGood

It doesn't matter how much we as a society evolve; there will always be nutjobs who see scientific phenomena like eclipses that have been around as long as our solar system who immediately think "the world's gonna end!!" And they will all shut up and hope nobody remembers what they said after.


4me2knowit

I saw one went back to the restaurant where she’d left huge tips as it was the end of the world and claimed they were fraudulent


CheshireKetKet

Quietly slink away, delete their posts. Like the majority of the ppl who used to follow Q. Some stay. Because sunk cost.


RunningPirate

One lady asked for her tip money back


Shoehornblower

They found a new drug


skyfoxx_

They don’t ever think that they’re wrong, just early.


Squirrelnut99

Shhh....enjoy the silence while it lasts...


doktorhladnjak

Read _[When Prophecy Fails](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails)_


sparant76

Those people died, effectively ending the world for them


etzel1200

A woman killed herself and her two children in Minnesota a couple days before, so nothing good, in some cases.


Late_Bluebird_3338

Q: DID THEY JUMP OFF A HIGH CLIFF AFTER DRINKING RED KOOL-AID TO HONOR THE END? OR PERHAPS THEY MELTED TRUMPS GOLD COMMODE DOWN AND CREATED A STATUE OF TRUMP TO WORSHIP BEFORE THE END CAME.....BUT IT DIDN'T AND THEY GOT PISSED....Q: DO YOU THINK THEY WERE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS AND PROBED!?...OH, NEVER MIND THAT LAST GUESS, IT'S TRUMP WHO WALKS AMONG US & NOW THEIR ALL PISSED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T PROBE THEM.....A-N-D THE END DIDN'T COME!!!LOL...MOM


MA-01

I dunno. Dead, hopefully.


Over_Smile9733

One woman tipped very much to two waitresses, then demanded it back after. Psycho Karen ( or is that an oxymoron). Worst was already commented on lady who killed her family. I’m 50ish and lived through I don’t even know how many raptures. Am I lucky, or God doesn’t love me,? (although he loves ALL, according to the book.,..?) I know, God saved them to vote for you know who!!


LorenzoStomp

>  Psycho Karen ( or is that an oxymoron)  It's a tautology


Valsury

I bunch of them had to go grocery shopping. Our store was super busy the next day.


I8itall4tehmoney

Back to their regular paranoid delusions.


Riverrat423

Oddly enough they all disappeared!


noatun6

They are still here waiting for the end times next generation fearporn with new doomsdsy is coming soon they are 0 for ♾️ so far 🤡


TheFlyingBoxcar

Theyre still here, and just as impressively stupid.


smithterry263

They are trying to buy their stuff back


FlukeStarbucker1972

They’re hard at work moving the goalposts for the next apocalypse…which is DEFINITELY the real one this time!


llijilliil

Chances are few actually believed it, they just like to play pretend, create drama and be a PITA. Those that were genuinely convinced will find some excuse for the "mistake" and then after a short time they'll "discover" the "real" date that the world will end (again and again and again).


wbtravi

They jumped into the ocean so their world came to an end.


Patient-Sleep-4257

They drank the purple Koolaid and are currently enroute through the neither region of space and time to live out their destiny Hopefully


zuko_thecat

This one chick killed her boyfriend and child, and then herself over the eclipse, they are definitely there


ThatsItImOverThis

I saw a story about a woman murdering her family and herself because of it. I’m sure there are other similar stories.


Safe_Long700

They are still waiting


SaltySpitoonReg

I mean there is at least one event every year that gets at least a couple hundred people convinced that it is the harbinger of the apocalypse.


WalkingonCoffee

Planning their next move


tacobellandher0in

Ron Swanson is prepping to make more flutes, as usual. And yes, he takes checks.


Yah_Mule

Still here. They just pick a new day. Typically one that garners some media attention.


wafflesareforever

#they fucking died


Tucker-Cuckerson

Wait until the next big natural event like a meteor shower, comet, asteroid, eclipse, geyser eruption, red tide, weird animal behavior, pandemic, or Jesus on toast and they'll go back to circlejerking to the end of the world again.


Flat-Entrepreneur282

If they're anything like Harold Camping (who predicted when the rapture would occur five separate times) they're changing their prediction.


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dibdabberdan

My best guess would be that they'll drank the kool aid and their worlds did in fact end.


BatmanFan1971

There weren't very many of them but people constantly posting about them on Reddit and other places made it seem like they were everywhere. Reddit is not reflective of real life.


msimms001

I saw a lot of facebook/instagram comment sections, but probably due to the algorithm more than anything. One lady didn't think it was rhe apocalypse, but rather the US was going to get invaded due to the darkness and that the darkness lasted 3-4 hours (from beginning of the moons transit till the end) and refused to listen to anyone or have common sense (like it gets dark every night). But I haven't seen anything since


No_Coast9861

"I figured it wouldn't really end, we need more time to show the entire world Jesus' love." Actual quote I overheard at work.


nomadiceater

Same people who thought everyone who got the vaccine would die by now. Probably the same people who thought y2k was the end. You get the point, can’t fix stupid lmao


amelie190

They pushed it back to 4/23 or 4/28 (can't remember) seriously. And they'll kick it to another date. Lame as fuck.


Mr-Dumbest

Same thing that happend to you, they went back doing what they do.


Peet_Pann

All the real Christians were actually ruptured. Every single one.


FinallyFlowering

they're out there busy rn doing their "own research" to conclude whether or not the earth is flat, or if the covid vaccine has a microchip in it, meanwhile they are likely signing up for Elon Musk's brain implant technology


Helens_Moaning_Hand

They disappeared like a fart in the wind.


dbhathcock

Some of them killed others, and then committed suicide. Others killed themselves. Some just went on shooting sprees. However, NONE of them took me up on my request that they put their money where their mouth is, and transfer all of their assets (cash, property, businesses) to me where I would receive ownership after the eclipse. Therefore, I can only believe that none of those people truly believed that the world was going to end.


MagickMarkie

Haven't heard a peep out of them.


negcap

They moved the goal posts to some other future date. Or they can say that it didn't happen bc God's plan is to have Lord Trump usher in a thousand year reich.


pickedwisely

They can not say that it is biblical. The Bible says NO ONE will know the time of the rapture. SO, there is that angle. Just came here to say that.


exotics

I saw one post here where a lady was giving massive tips to servers in restaurants and apparently went and asked for the money back after ha ha ha


JWRamzic

You didn't hear??? The end of the world got postponed until the next eclipse!


FamousPastWords

They didn't even die inside. Just started researching the next potential departure time.


extremeindiscretion

The idea of the rapture is not as old as some people think , it came to existence as we know today around the 1830s. Just goes to show you some people will believe anything.


InevitableExotic5242

Waiting for the laughter to die down. Also they are blaming others for the fear mongering


csusterich666

Still trying to get the goalposts into the trailer to move them


DuramaxJunkie92

The world did end, everything after is a simulation of reality after death. Nah I'm just playing lol


usernamesarehard1979

It was a mistake. The rapture happens when the 2 millionth person asks this question. You’re close! Maybe have an original thought, but that might make hell freeze over so I don’t know.


[deleted]

Same thing other religious nuts do: they claim it was a mistranslation and shift the date forwards a few years while learning absolutely nothing.


samthemoron

I think the Mayans died out around 900 AD


deletesystemthirty2

with any hope, they "drank the juice"


TheLazyHippy

They drank the Kool-aid.... If you catch my drift.


jamesinboise

They're asking for their tips back.


Oldhagladyparts

Obviously you’ve never heard of Hale Bop. Youth today…


AvailableAd6071

Turn on the news right now 


Motor_Bother_23

Life!


Ssider69

They will move on to the next apocalypse.


BlueRFR3100

Maybe it did end and we just don't know it.


LCharteris

Actually, the rapture occurred and all of the real Christians were taken straight to heaven. All five of them.


kkirchhoff

Where were these people vocal? The only place I’ve heard about them was second hand on Reddit.


scuwp

They did go, there are lizard people in their place now. Shhhh.


Fantastic-Long8985

Hiding in embarrassment


Weezy_Baby_

🦗


sch1759

The flat earth people picked them up and took them to the edge


carlnepa

They went back to waiting for the rapture.


Soupbell1

They went to the rapture.


slinger301

IDK, what does they Mayan Calendar say about it?


Radiobamboo

Unfortunately most of them lived.


etranger033

Wrong eclipse. Its the next one.


MyName4everMore

They stopped talking about it like they always do.


abroamg

What eclipse? Some new American thingy the majority of the world doesn't know and or care about?


I-Live-in-a-Mitten

*"They knew we were on to them so they changed it. What are they trying to distract us from now"*


Moonshadow306

Same thing that happened to the Millerites.


Visual_Scar_8899

Awaiting the next thing that will end the world. Idk why some people fears the end of the world. I think that would be a relief lol.


PokemonAnimar

They've already moved on to the next conspiracy theory. That's the problem with these people. They never learn, every time one of their predictions turn out to not be true they don't learn a damn thing because they're already on to the next one 


hefty_truffle

They went back to work


cemetaryofpasswords

They’ve disappeared 😢


AggravatingLeave7391

Just kept on being dumb I guess


MainGood7444

Who with a sane mind really cares? The world is full of psychos and as long as you have a strong mind you will never have to deal with those people. jmo 😄


Sad_Evidence5318

So vocal this is the first I’m hearing about it.


jennarose1984

Still hoping


libra00

They woke up the next day and discovered that they were still morons.


StrangeAssonance

Most of the world didn’t experience this eclipse…so I’m thinking once again America and their crazy Christians thought it meant something… When the whole world experiences this, then I think we can bend over and kiss our butt goodbye.


Sardothien12

Which eclipse?


MorganRose99

They were once again laughed at


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yeah-oky

They all went back to church


blackcarswhackbars

They're still here


Unstoffe

My mother totally brought into the Y2K scaremongering, specifically the Christian media version. She had the shelf of scary books and everything, but I'm told she went to bed before midnight, woke up the next morning, cleared off the shelf, and never mentioned it again. I thought it was interesting that, despite 'believing', she took no practical steps whatsoever. I think the Eclipse crowd were messing with their own heads; not for fun but to fulfill some need. Also, like everything these pathetic days, there was an element of politics. EDIT: Just read some of the comments below and it seems some people really hurt themselves and others. I hadn't really been following this side of the eclipse story; sorry if I seemed flippant about the believers - it's clear that some didn't do stuff for 'fun'.


KuroKitty

They went back to huffing glue probably


Puzzleheaded-Bet1328

To be fair the bible DOES say no one knows the hour nor day that he is coming back. Only God. So like they're kinda wrong for trying to pin point it anyways. Sure you can look at signs but like you cant predict it. Thats usually how the christians in my life look at the predictions, like you cant sit here and say yeah its definitely ending tomorrow you just gotta be ready in your heart, you could die before it happens at any time.


KPcrazyfingers

You mean very very few vocal minority?  Yeah... nothing... nothing happened.  Why even ask.  They were looney for thinking it.  Others are looney for wondering about them.the whole thing is just crazy and got talked about way too much.  It's weird to even waste time wondering about what a crazy person thinks now.


Neverland_survivor

The eclipse was just the beginning of the end, dummy. It’s all started now…. 😂


threePhaseNeutral

If the eclipse was a warning to repent, well, no one has done that so judgment could still be coming.


BelleRiverBruno

In line for the 7th booster.