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23 March, 23:58

In 1997, a few members of Heaven's Gate, a religious cult, bought a telescope to view a comet. They returned the telescope a few days later and said that it was faulty because there was no spaceship behind the comet. This action:

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  1. 24 March, 01:08
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    This action appears to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance because there is an expression of bias for the belief that the telescope should have showed a spaceship.

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    As this is also conflicting with the original intent behind the purchase of the telescope which was to simply view a comet, it expresses a contradiction in belief of the purchasers which signals this action to be consistent with the theory of cognitive dissonance.
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