Username1198
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So if someone pushes me off flat earth I go to China? Is that how it works? Or is it just one big ass flat board with nothing on the other side?
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These Coloradans say Earth is flat. And gravitys a hoax. Now, theyre being persecut
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Nah. If you get pushed off the edge you just land on either a giant elephant or turtle.
I'm assuming these guys are climate change supporters then, because once it heats up enough, the ice will melt and prove their theory valid.
OMG...what if...what if the Republicans have been trying to show us reality all along. They know climate change is real, they're just letting it go in order to expose the biggest lie in the history of human existence! Everyone else is only trying to stop it so the truth can't come out!
This is a great idea. I can make my own tinfoil hat, but if anyone gets a groupon for shoes that are also turtles, please message me.
All Possible Ways
Member
I made a grave mistake in reading the OP. Every bolded sentence added an aneurysm in my brain.
Username1198
Member
Huh. Welp I'm gonna be a flat earther for Halloween.
Has to be a turtle, swimming through space. An elephant is just crazy talk.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
The sheer stupidity of this. Come on now.
Unknown Soldier
Member
You can SEE the curvature of the Earth by going to the top of a sufficiently tall skyscraper...
blah blah you'll get shot down blah blah conspiracy nonsense
Username1198
Member
The satellite picture NASA doesn't want you to see:
NASA = Not A Space Agency
Holy shit
It's satire become real life. Chris Morris would be proud of this.
Muffin1611
Banned
Why? See, this is the worst part about discussing stuff with people like this. They claim things as a false foundation (can jet fuel melt steel beams?) which you most of the time can't refute just from your memory, or they won't accept your sources. And build on that.
OH MY GOD
oh maaaaan this picture
They've riden the Gravitron at the carnival. It's like a model of how the earth allegedly spins. When you're in it and it's spinning, you're glued to the walls and it's hard to move around. Checkmate the world doesn't spin.
Muppet of a Man
Member
We shouldn't pussyfoot around ignorant fools in this day and age. We shouldn't be trying to win their hearts and minds. We should be lambasting and publicly shaming this sort of willful ignorance. Send these mother fuckers back to the wood works from whence they came. Same deal with these bigoted evangelical zealots who believe the earth is 6,000 years old.
Smart people in this day and age are taking too much shit for granted and are resting on their laurels. Unless we really want the dark ages to reemerge, sometimes being nasty and making fun pays big dividends.
Smart people in this day and age are taking too much shit for granted and are resting on their laurels. Unless we really want the dark ages to reemerge, sometimes being nasty and making fun pays big dividends.
There are a few but they don't say much because well you can guess the response
Come on man. Don't call them out like that. You know the persecution they face.
Captin Quacker
Member
But who benefits from telling people the earth is round?
Everything is density and buoyancy, bro. Things fall toward the earth because they're denser. There is no such thing as gravity.
The question, then, is why dense things sink rather than float or go north or south. What's so special about "down"?
GarthVaderUK
Banned
People who sell scale model globes, the bastards.
Yeah wonder if they just have a really deep existential crisis.
We had one, it was amazing. The animated gifs were the stuff of legend.
Do you KNOW the mark-up on model globes?? Big money to be made there.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Literally cannot even be bothered with anyone who believes this shit. I've yet to encounter one but if I do I'd not even waste my words. Anyone who believes shit like that is an embrassment to humanity and a cancer to intelligence.
DrROBschiz
Member
You have arrived at the real truth
They want attention and to be catered to. To feel special and be pandered to like children
How long before people are dumb enough to buy these guys tickets for space tourism just to make some vain attempt to convert these assholes
This is what flat earthers really want
I H8 Memes
Member
Why wouldn't they just sell a flat model "globe".
I wonder why this has become a bigger thing lately.
There are massive factories dedicated to the production of spherical earths. Big business does not want to have to convert these to the production of less appealing flat earths.
Not to mention the deals they have with the map industry to keep the 2 entirely separate.
GarthVaderUK
Banned
The map market had already been cornered.
Oh snap. It was Rand McNally all along! Patient zero.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
That's a nice perspective on it.
I feel so bad for these people. It's somewhat comforting to think that most Flat Earthers simply put their faith in the wrong people; but I can't help but wonder if the denial exhibited by those who have genuinely tried to research the topic might be symptomatic of a serious illness. It seems like some of these people really think they've gained new insight through application of the scientific method, in spite of the fact that none of their conclusions stand up to the most cursory level of scrutiny.
The internet means no matter how insane you are you will always be able to find at least one person who agrees with you.
And when there's dozens of you? You have a new belief system.
Doctoglethorpe
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"I can't prove the globe anymore."
No you just can't find anymore evidense these dense mofos wont bullshit their way around. It's okay, you tried, don't get lost in the hole they've dug.
"Flat Earth makes us special"
Yeah you're special alright. No debating that.
No you just can't find anymore evidense these dense mofos wont bullshit their way around. It's okay, you tried, don't get lost in the hole they've dug.
"Flat Earth makes us special"
Yeah you're special alright. No debating that.
Linkstrikesback
Member
I have no problem with "persecution" of people who actively decide to ignores an insurmountable amount of evidence. Morons.
Post Trump election, stupid people need a new bottom.
I would like flat Earthers to explain this one. Would this work for them as an explanation for why Earth is flat...
And I like Discworld also A LOT.
Spacejaws
Member
Honestly if someone says something like jet fuel can't melt steel beams ask them how they know that. If they can give you actual melting points and burn temperatures then Just admit you don't know anything about it and either go research it or give up on that line of debate. Arguing something you're not informed about is almost as ignorant as some of the wacky stuff that people believe blindy.
I'd let them know I don't share their opinion but I'm not going to debate someone who is armed with dodgy facts if I haven't twice researched the thing itself. The majority of people in the world you can ask them why the globe is not flat and they'd laught at you 'just cause' but barely understand any of the science behind it. I think thats a sorry state of affairs that we promote sports, religion and celebrity gossip than understanding the nature of our reality. I'm not different I've not got a fooking clue but I'm not going to 'debate' anyones beliefs anytime soon.
Clockwork5
Member
Literally no sane person panders to flat Earthers. They are treated like the imbeciles they are. They are ridiculed, mocked and laughed at but ultimately they are ignored.
I read that as pixels and you got me curious for a second.
Fixed. As an acolyte who is familiar with your lengthier proclamations, I felt you were selling yourself short with the truncated description.
The Bible doesn't even teach that the Earth is flat. If the Bible DID teach that as a part of it's teachings, the "world controlling" Jews would be at the forefront of making sure their followers would believe in the flat earth theory as would the Christian and Muslim people as well.
OK, well get all flat-earthers to chip in for an expedition to circumnavigate the world and show everyone the giant ice wall. Burden of proof is on them, if science is lying, then by all means, please prove science wrong.
Anyone that actually feels strongly about this theory, and isn't doing this just to feel different, should do something about it. If not, then you deserve to be persecuted.
But I don't think anyone will do that. Problem is this belief doesn't persist because of evidence, it exists because of the people themselves. They can't prove anything one way or another, if they could, they wouldn't believe such nonsense. They need to feel special. They need to feel as though they see something that no one else sees.
Anyone that actually feels strongly about this theory, and isn't doing this just to feel different, should do something about it. If not, then you deserve to be persecuted.
But I don't think anyone will do that. Problem is this belief doesn't persist because of evidence, it exists because of the people themselves. They can't prove anything one way or another, if they could, they wouldn't believe such nonsense. They need to feel special. They need to feel as though they see something that no one else sees.
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