The Mayan Placebo
Channel: rozeboosje
Date: 2012-12-07

The final cop-out has been composed. If the 21st comes and goes without the slightest hint of anything significant happening, it'll all be your own fault for not being in tune with the vibrations of the Universe. In the mean time the True Believers will Feel the Love. Or something.

The cult I was thinking of may have been, according to DaithiDublin (see comments): "The Eternal Flame cult run by Charles 'Chuck' Brown and his wife Bernie. Chuck was a former nightclub crooner, scrap dealer and Evangelical pastor. In 1960 he claimed that the cells in his body were switching the DNA from death to life. Apparently there were over 200 in the UK & Ireland in the early 90's, and a few thousand around Scotsdale, Arizona with Chuck and Bernie, trying to figure out how to colonise other planets!"