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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2282699, member: 780"]
No matter the evidence, there are RU fans that will see a ray of sunshine in the disaster. They are convinced that the Sleeping Giant” just has to rise up.

It reminds me of the Cargo Cults in the South Pacific islands.

From Rational Wiki:

“A cargo cult is a [URL='https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Religion']religious movement[/URL] usually emerging in tribal or isolated societies after they have had an encounter with an external and technologically advanced society. Usually cargo cults focus on [URL='https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Magical_thinking']magical thinking[/URL] and a variety of intricate rituals designed to obtain the material wealth of the advanced culture they encountered.” (In Rutgers case just about any successful athletic program qualifies as a “technologically advanced society”)

Reporter Paul Raffaele: "John [Frum] promised you much cargo more than 60 years ago, and none has come. … Why do you still believe in him?" (The Islanders had watched cargo planes arrive on their island at an airport built by the US military during WWII  and had assumed that the cargo was really theirs and it had been stolen by the US military people.)

Chief Isaac Wan: "You Christians have been waiting 2,000 years for Jesus to return to earth and you haven’t given up hope."
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