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Oh, but the Millerites didn't disappear entirely. The group morphed into the Adventist movement and the Seventh Day Adventist church. True to form with these things, they clam That Miller wasn't wrong about his calculations, just that he'd misunderstood. They say something did in fact happen on that day, just not something observable. (rather than the second coming of Christ, that day was when Christ entered into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary---the beginning of the end times) So these things always find an excuse to live on in a slightly altered form.

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On the topic of single purpose youtube channels, I'm not sure this is quite single purpose as the actual content is fairly diverse while the form is consistent, but maybe this is the inverse of those? Anyway the channel is schnooleheletteletto: https://www.youtube.com/user/schnooleheletteletto

These videos are basically exactly what the title says. They're all very short, usually under a minute or two (with a couple of exceptions but they aren't quite as compelling), and feature.... exactly what the title says. Here are a few of my favorites:

Touching cheese with an ax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BHF6i1NQjM

Putting drill in the freezer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbAKSXUeG0

Waffle falling over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDj72zqZakE

and of course, Waffle not falling over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k57Tw5Zqr-w

I find them so oddly compelling! Sometimes they're funny and sometimes I feel like they're records of an alien who is playing a VR game where you just live in a house as a human, and he's bored of playing the regular missions. Hope these nag at you as much as they nag at me!

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