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Flat earthers

arthwollipot said:
It occurs to me that some of the flat earth mythology might have come from someone trying to answer these questions as a purely intellectual exercise without actually believing it, and then other people taking the intellectual exercise seriously as a matter of doctrine.

After all, reading this thread I find myself trying to come up with plausible answers to these questions. If I wrote down in a blog my attempts to answer them, then some random person on the internet came across it, I can believe that they might believe my intellectual ramblings as something deep and meaningful.
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Another possibility is that the Bible created flat earthers, since it describes a flat earth in numerous passages.
 
GT/CS said:
Another possibility is that the Bible created flat earthers, since it describes a flat earth in numerous passages.
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I see that some adherents are using the bible as a citation, and certainly some could come to flat earth from religious quarters.

This is the Flat Earth Society home page, not that they are the Vatican on this, but a great source for skeptics:

https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Flat_Earth_Wiki

They have a FAQ page and address religion there. Claims no association to religion. The page on flat earth figures gives some historical background.

It's fascinating, that's for sure.
 
It's also a 'opinion camp' thing .. sure, flat Earth is a bit extreme .. but if you are into, let's say .. Reiki .. you have to believe, science is wrong. Or maybe even lying on purpose. Then anti-vaccination is ok too. Chemtrails, sure thing. Alies, probably. And so on .. you either with us, or against us. Nothing in between ..
 
Dr. Keith said:
Not everybody has access to good territory for big footing.
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I get the comment.

Seems like we got a whole variety of Alternate Reality games going on, and personal preferences are going to play a part along with personal circumstance.

These guys are really out there, that's for sure. More than bigfoot gamers.

No gravity. That's so *********** ballsy!
 
I think this thread broke my brain... shoulda never opened it :rolleyes:


Query...

In our reality, should a pilot circumnavigate Antarctica clockwise, he would have it on his right side and make a long radius right hand turn all the way around.

Oops... forgot those pesky NWO air patrols. Let's try on the water instead...

Do they accept that people have sailed around the entirety of Antarctica?

If it's, as they claim, actually a 150-200 foot high wall around the outer edge... how would the ship manage this circling right, if their flat pizza world would require a long circuit... to the left? :boggled:

Come to think of it... that'd be a long damn cruise.

I bet it's those f'in magnets. :mad:

Yeah... that's the ticket. :p
 
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Jim_MDP said:
Do they accept that people have sailed around the entirety of Antarctica?
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Yes, but to a different purpose: to prove that the distance is vastly greater than the ball earth conspirators claim.

I forget which circumnavigation they referred to in a video I saw. But it supposedly took order of magnitude more time than it should have by ball earth computations.

They sailed around the outer rim, which is the greatest distance on their map, in contrast to the equator being the greatest distance in ball earth conspiracy propaganda.
 
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Dabop said:
Practically everything is a false flag according to someone or other
Sandy hookers are well represented at the various conspiracy sites, London one slightly less so, Boston marathon never happened- literally EVERYTHING is a false flag with one group or another
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Wait... I thought "false flag" meant one entity doing something while posing as another entity to direct the blame at that other entity... but the only specific thing you said in there other than "false flag" was a "never happened"... are you saying "false flag" means "never happened", or mixing references to two separate kinds of theory?
 
MRC_Hans said:
OK, flat earthers: Explain time zones.

Hans
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Take a look at the day/night cycle on the Flat Earth Society Frequently Asked Questions page:

https://wiki.tfes.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

It's really important that the sun is orbiting above the flat earth but with a flashlight beam that only shines on part of the earth at any point in time. Look at the diagram there with the moving sun and it will show what they claim. The sun is vastly closer to earth in this theory.

The orbit of the sun is wider in the winter of the northern hemisphere. It is narrower in the summer of the northern hemisphere. That does explain the seasons if you have a sun that shines like a flashlight, has vastly less energy output, and tastes like cotton candy.

Someone above asked who was holding the flashlight in the sky, and that's essentially asking what forces are at work causing the sun to orbit the flat earth. Why would the sun orbit above earth?
 
AlaskaBushPilot said:
Take a look at the day/night cycle on the Flat Earth Society Frequently Asked Questions page:

https://wiki.tfes.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions

It's really important that the sun is orbiting above the flat earth but with a flashlight beam that only shines on part of the earth at any point in time. Look at the diagram there with the moving sun and it will show what they claim. The sun is vastly closer to earth in this theory.

The orbit of the sun is wider in the winter of the northern hemisphere. It is narrower in the summer of the northern hemisphere. That does explain the seasons if you have a sun that shines like a flashlight, has vastly less energy output, and tastes like cotton candy.

Someone above asked who was holding the flashlight in the sky, and that's essentially asking what forces are at work causing the sun to orbit the flat earth. Why would the sun orbit above earth?
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And as I mentioned before, how well does that explain eclipses? Transits of Mercury? Phases of Venus?
 
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