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[Fuzzery]

This is so JRPG.

Dat Yggdrasil tho

 

[driggonny]

Sounds like a pretty cool premise for a jrpg world...

Wait, they think there's a "flat-earth" dome atmosphere? How does that make any sense?

 

[donkey show]

 

[Piecake]

Sounds like a pretty cool premise for a jrpg world...

Wait, they think there's a "flat-earth" dome atmosphere? How does that make any sense?

Your problem right there is assuming that the things people say and believe in need to make sense. Some people are just nuts.

 

[Media]

That would involve making someone else watch an hour and thirty minute video of anger inducing bullshit though.

Only a true sadist would ask this of someone.


So, imma put the task on Mandrake.

I like where you're going with this.

 

[Speevy]

He thinks machines made everything.

 

[Santerestil]

These flat-Earthers not only think the Earth is flat but also infinite.

So they think it's like in Minecraft, cool!

...but they should decide if Antarctic is squashed or not.

 

[Capitan]

I'll be honest, i love this shit. it's fascinating to see what lengths people go through to delude themselves. taking the scientific method and trying to use it backwards instead- having a conclusion and trying to pull evidence out of the air to support it.

Sounds like a pretty cool premise for a jrpg world...

Wait, they think there's a "flat-earth" dome atmosphere? How does that make any sense?

if I recall, there is a very tall wall of ice around the earth keeping it in.

 

[Protein]

Wake up, treeple.

 

[TheGameshark]

I honestly don't know if the flat earthers are seriously this stupid or just a troll movement.

 

[Breads]

You made the same joke I was going to.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Why is it so hard to give people good education?

 

[Kayhan]

After watching this video, you will reverse your concept of forests by 360 degrees.

The most meta thing ever.

 

[ghostjoke]

Maybe it's from reading some Discworld recently, but the flat-Earth rabbit hole is fascinating. The creativity and pseudo-science is outstanding.

...

He's technically not wrong.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I'll be honest, i love this shit. it's fascinating to see what lengths people go through to delude themselves. taking the scientific method and trying to use it backwards instead- having a conclusion and trying to pull evidence out of the air to support it.



if I recall, there is a very tall wall of ice around the earth keeping it in.

I bounce back and forth between being fascinated in the same way as you and being incredibly frustrated. I've watched like every episode of that Unsealed: Alien Files and Conspiracy Files show on Netflix. I honestly think people that believe all this stuff process information differently. They ignore what doesn't confirm their whacky belief and make up science to confirm it.

It shares a lot of similarities with the people that talk about gang stalking, who almost certainly are having paranoid delusions but are encouraged to believe in that stuff because of the misinformation they find online created by people with the same issue.

 

[Violet_0]

they were right, my opinion on the Flat Earth theory did indeed make a 360 spin

 

[Par Score]

I suppose eventually people are going to start coming out against gravity. I mean you can't even see that shit.

Yes. Flat Earthers.

According to the most widely accepted and mainstream Flat Earth theory, gravity does not exist, the world is simply accelerating upwards at a constant 9.8 m/s2.

 

[Staccat0]

I work with a conspiracy nut. He says videos like this make the rounds be used the government wants to make REAL "skeptics" look bad.

 

[Burt]

After watching this video, you will reverse your concept of forests by 360 degrees.

 

[Lucreto]

They might have got the idea for playing Dragon Quest Heroes.

The yggdrasil tree seem like what they are talking about.

 

[shaowebb]

100 km trees? So those trees were growing IN SPACE.

Its only 62 miles to space. 100 km = yo where the fuck is all the air?

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

What's behind this revival of Flat Earth Theory? I always thought the Hollow Earth Theory was way cooler to believe in. Where are those people?

 

[jstripes]

I BELIEVE IN MOUNTAINS

THEY'RE REAL TO ME GODDAMMIT

Spoiler

only nightvale kids will get this

The mayor's secret police will be at your door shortly.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Listening to this man explain to me in broken english how forests aren't real for 90 minutes is my new fetish

 

[Casimir]

Christ, the lack of mental health care needs to be addressed. This is dumber than "ghosts are real, I heard a creaky noise in my home once!"

 

[Biske]

One of the worst forms of ignorance.

Makes young earth creationist ignorance almost seem nice.

Its impossible to tell if people are seriously believing this kind of shit, or just fucking with you.

Its the onion times x a million.


For example, this ladies response to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJLGWsUDKE

 

[Piecake]

Christ, the lack of mental health care needs to be addressed. This is dumber than "ghosts are real, I heard a creaky noise in my home once!"

This is obviously made by a guy who isn't American. Dude is Crimean. Wacko conspiracy theorists exist everywhere.

Woops. For some reason I thought you had America in that quote. Maybe I need to get my mental health checked out, lol

 

[Windam]

Have any of you that are ridiculing this have any "proof" that hasn't been manufactured by the governments to tell us this is wrong? You don't because your "science" is based on lies fed to you from a young age, generation after generation.

 

[rhandino]

Eeeeeek!!!! Reminded me of

 

[Killer Queen]

Also what I thought of. In addition to the hunters dream in Bloodborne.

 

[caffeware]

While I know you're joking, lakes are affected by it if they're large enough.

Only lakes that are connected to the ocean have tides. For example, Lake Malawi the 9th largest lake in the world doesn't have tides.

flat earth in 5 minutes

Spoiler

Enter the dark side.

 

[exmachina64]

 

[luoapp]

Obviously I didn't read the piece, but can someone tell me why on the flat Earth, The Atlantic spent some much time and effort on it?

 

[FTF]

lol this is even crazy for them.

 

[Brakke]

I BELIEVE IN MOUNTAINS

THEY'RE REAL TO ME GODDAMMIT

Spoiler

only nightvale kids will get this

Damn I wasn't brave enough to make this joke I was afraid nobody would get it.

 

[woolley]

I guess it's easy to believe if you never leave your mother's basement.

 

[DeadlyParasite]

So how do they explain the massive logging industry, or the fact that almost every house is built from copious amounts of wood. Seems like a giant waste if trees aren't the abundant resource they claim they are.

 

[TheGreyHulk]

i bet the creators are a bunch of stoners thinking, "oh shit, they're actually believing this shit, bro!"

 

[Deleted member 74300]

This is so JRPG.

I think they have been playing too much Golden Sun

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

While I know you're joking, lakes are affected by it if they're large enough.

Yah but what about my cup of coffee?

 

[Piecake]

Obviously I didn't read the piece, but can someone tell me why on the flat Earth, The Atlantic spent some much time and effort on it?

The writer finds it amusing and fascinating in a car on fire rubbernecking sort of way.

 

[louiedog]

So why are these stumps all flat on top? Was the cataclysmic event that caused the deforestation massive axes flying through space?

 

[caffeware]

Obviously I didn't read the piece, but can someone tell me why on the flat Earth, The Atlantic spent some much time and effort on it?

..

 

[Noirulus]

Water drops are spherical, and water makes up 70% of the earth so that means earth is a sphere and isn't flat. Checkmate, flat-earthers.

 

[Odrion]

i get it, because you'll turn around 360 degrees and walk away from the crackpot trying to sell this shit to you

hello there, old meme.

 

[MattKeil]

..

Flat Earth is spending an inordinate amount of time in the "ridiculed" stage, I notice.

 

[sturgboski]

I mean. Their proof is pretty much irrefutable that trees used to be huge af.

Goodness.

Oh, thanks. I was picturing taller trees and thought "OK yeah I could see a belief in taller trees. I mean certain species of animals have evolved to become smaller due to scarcity so I can see this claim." But no, that screen grab is just, nope.

 

[Antiwhippy]

They might have got the idea for playing Dragon Quest Heroes.

The yggdrasil tree seem like what they are talking about.

Because the yggdrasil tree comes from dragon quest.

...

 

[Tertullian]

Not just mesas—ordinary mountains are contrasted with the shattered, splintered remnants of trees; the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland is revealed to be a petrified organic structure, because (we’re told) cooling lava simply does not assume these shapes. There is no such thing as a mountain; there is no such thing as inert rock. Everything we walk on was once living wood, the mountain ranges were once tremendous forests reaching up to the stellar canopy, providing a link between humanity and the celestial spheres. The earth was really flat. But some malignant power cut all these trees down using vast machinery, and ever since then they’ve been gouging into the corpse of the earth, mining the dead trees for precious minerals, carving deep quarries that we, in our ignorance, call gorges and canyons (you can see the monstrous tracks leading away from Antarctic valleys); we think they’re natural, we even think that the traces of our destruction are somehow beautiful.

You know what flat earthers have made? A really cool fantasy setting. Imagine a world where people discover that the earth is flat; that there is no universal law of gravitation, but rather everything works on mystical Platonic geometry; that we are held to the ground by the eternal acceleration of the whole world as it hurdles through the void; that the oceans are held in by Antarctica and that no one has ever survived a trip far into the frigid land beyond the circle of the known world; that the whole geology of the earth consists of ancient fossilized megaflora; that all those giant trees died thousands of years ago and no one knows why.

 

[caffeware]

If people are still trying to debunk us flat earthers then I don't want to be on this plane anymore..