Hnefahogg
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Post by Hnefahogg on Jan 20, 2022 13:46:29 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 20, 2022 18:14:06 GMT
But, I thought the Earth was hollow... and the moon is an alien space station (Like The Death Star)...
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 21, 2022 22:53:29 GMT
Earth, aka "The Flying Pancake"
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Post by Sarge on Jan 22, 2022 3:56:11 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jan 27, 2022 0:38:57 GMT
Might have a platform on BBC soon enough.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 27, 2022 7:00:14 GMT
Comparing gender in pop culture to flat earthers is apt.
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 28, 2022 1:19:14 GMT
What I want to know is does the flat Earth spin and, if it does, do people feel the change in acceleration as they move closer to the edge? If there’s an answer to this in the video please give me a time stamp.  |
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Post by politicidal on Jan 28, 2022 17:28:36 GMT
There is no debating the irrational. Tell that to David Jordan.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 29, 2022 9:49:26 GMT
These people are so stupid.
Everybody with a brain knows that the earth is a triangle, floating in a pool on the back of an invisible turtle, that is being dragged by four invisible unicorns around the sun sining ob-la-di-ob-la-da.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 29, 2022 21:20:53 GMT
There are two things the Flying Pancake people can never debate.
1. The stars. In their model, all the stars should be visible to all places on the pancake. Yet we in the north cannot see the Southern Cross and those in the south cannot see the Big Dipper
2. The distance. On their dopey map, the distance between South America and Australia is almost twice of what it is if you fly or sail.
They can come up with a bunch of hokum to explain everything else, ships disappearing over the horizon, seasons, the lengthening/shortening of days. But those two flummox all the ijits. Why the other planets and moons look like balls instead of record albums is another.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jan 30, 2022 17:42:56 GMT
There are two things the Flying Pancake people can never debate. 1. The stars. In their model, all the stars should be visible to all places on the pancake. Yet we in the north cannot see the Southern Cross and those in the south cannot see the Big Dipper 2. The distance. On their dopey map, the distance between South America and Australia is almost twice of what it is if you fly or sail. They can come up with a bunch of hokum to explain everything else, ships disappearing over the horizon, seasons, the lengthening/shortening of days. But those two flummox all the ijits. Why the other planets and moons look like balls instead of record albums is another. It all comes down to magical thinking. That the school boards wanting to ban Maus also want to ban Galileo should tell us something. Any conspiracy theory will gain traction on the internet. Back in the day, if you had a dopey thought, Earth is flat, Dinosaurs were fake, Elvis and JFK are partying in Vegas, you had to keep it to yourself. Now, hundreds of loonys are a click away.
And, to the simple minded, there's no more comforting thought than "I know something you don't know".
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 5, 2022 11:22:44 GMT
Any conspiracy theory will gain traction on the internet. Back in the day, if you had a dopey thought, Earth is flat, Dinosaurs were fake, Elvis and JFK are partying in Vegas, you had to keep it to yourself. Now, hundreds of loonys are a click away.
And, to the simple minded, there's no more comforting thought than "I know something you don't know".
Back in the day, the Evangelical churches’ Bible certainty was slacken and marginalized after the Scopes Monkey Trial. Their set in stone “6-Days of Creation” was the only “science” their children should know was held out for ridicule by the Godless Liberals. Then Reagan championed the Moral Majority…which over time has morphed into the Trump Cult…and the Internet became the source to confirm all their religious/political beliefs true with the proof those godless liberal requires. A common geocentric cosmology of the ancient world was for an unmoving earthly plain where the Sun, Moon, and stars revolve around it. Indeed, if the Bible, as the Word of God says the “world is firmly established; it cannot be moved,” then the science has to fit this literally rather than metaphorically. That this POV was thought up by folks who couldn’t know better is irrelevant, God Spoke it. Flat-Earthism is an explicit anti-faith in science, rather than a belief. I have some co-workers who are big science fiction fans and who are very religious. I'll ask them "how cool would it be if there really as shit like Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica out there?'. Then they rhapsodize on the fact that there must be a bunch of Luke Skywalkers ans Captain Spocks running around. I'll let them go for a little then ask "If that stuff is true, then what does that do to Genesis? I assumed that life on Earth was unique, God's creation."
They don't like that at all
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 11, 2022 19:11:48 GMT
thought I'd share this epic video from the fine people at "Globebusters" Two things which I's sure everyone except the Flying Pancake crowd can see 1. The Sun, Earth and Moon are not within inches of each other 2. They get the crazy shape when the light is taken to another wall.  I would love to ask where the Great Wall of Space is. But comments are turned off, of course. I'd love to look at the other videos but most are 1-3 hours and I simply cannot handle that much stupidity |
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