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Found Out My Friend is a Flat Earther Today...
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Their conspirascientists are more correctly right they'd imagine.
excelsiorlef
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Creepy
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I convinced my space nerd gf that I was flat earther for about a year, we'd have long debates where she would become legitimately distressed and angry.
I eventually told her I was just messing with her, she doesn't believe me.... thinks I'm just pretending to be a sphere-earther(?) just to placate her.
I eventually told her I was just messing with her, she doesn't believe me.... thinks I'm just pretending to be a sphere-earther(?) just to placate her.
Seductivpancakes
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Miracles are also a conspiracy.
When you address the idiocy, you get called an elitist.
Like how when you call out bigotry, you get called the reason people are bigots.
Zap Rowsdower
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That's a gigantic red flag right there, born again religious types tend to go off into the deep end super hard.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Tell him you'll only respect his beliefs if he brings you a picture of the turtle or one or more of the elephants.
Blackpuppy
Member
The sun is about to come up in a couple of hours in Europe. How about stateside? No? So there you go!
Correctomundo
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I didn't realize so many people didn't know that denial of gravity goes practically hand in hand with modern flat Earth nutjobbery. They cite buoyancy as the reason things rise or lower. It's some colorful wackadoodle nonsense, for sure.
Ask your local flerfer about Nikola Tesla today!
Ask your local flerfer about Nikola Tesla today!
Pinko Marx
Banned
That's weird that you can ascertain the nature of the relationship with my friend so much that you can tell he's joking and I can't.
Kaneda Shotaro
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"Scientists don't even know what it is and you can't prove we landed on the moon!" is a response I've heard. Yes, we take a step forward and two back. The idiots are happy they can be more open about it now that they know they're not alone.
PixelatedBookake
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That's how I felt when my friend came out as a Trump supporter to me a few months before the election. The silly part is that he is an illegal immigrant and isn't even allowed to vote but said he would vote for Trump if he could. I don't talk to the guy very much anymore...
SymbiantXenos
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Go fund a trip to space.
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
I'll save you the time.
"What do you believe? How do you know its true? Do you believe everything you read? etc."
Now this is hilarious to me. I'd watch this movie.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
It's a couple of different movements swirling together into a perfect storm of ignorance. It's a push back against establishment thinking. Then you mix in trusting information from unverified sources on the internet. Then you add in a healthy dash of being able to go into echo chambers full of people that believe the same information. American schools haven't been very strong in the sciences for awhile too, so that definitely isn't helping.
Anti-vax, flat earth, fake news, etc. All the same problem. Someone that has actually studied in the field will be discredited because they're a shill for disinformation or "learned the wrong" information but whackos who type up random nonsense are taken seriously. These people have always existed, the internet has just led a lot more people down the rabbit hole.
EDIT: It probably also makes people feel a little better about themselves if science alluded them in school. Like "Oh, look at these sheep buying into what the books said. I really know how it works!"
Correctomundo
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The sun and moon are both lamps, doncha know?
SolarMystic
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If one of my best friends came up to me and told me he/she didn't BELIEVE in gravity and thought the earth was flat, we would no longer be friends anymore.
I'd also call their family and recommend having them committed to a mental hospital.
I'd also call their family and recommend having them committed to a mental hospital.
The Albatross
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I really love the reverse narratives that people create to believe this shit. Like when someone mentioned how nobody stands to gain by lying about the Earth's shape, the person countered that 'its all about control and knowledge is power." The perversion of this is that if you believe knowledge is power then why on this flat Earth would you ever believe something that is thoroughly disproven by common sense.
Gravity... I can kinda understand how someone might just dismiss it because it really doesn't fit most of our cohesive scientific models of other forces, BUT anybody who doesn't believe in gravity for that reason would likely not believe anything else either so it's not a valid rebuke.
Gravity... I can kinda understand how someone might just dismiss it because it really doesn't fit most of our cohesive scientific models of other forces, BUT anybody who doesn't believe in gravity for that reason would likely not believe anything else either so it's not a valid rebuke.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Spotlights. The party line is that they're spotlights.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
Usually stuff like this is just the tip of the iceberg, once you start believing one conspiracy theory you just start going down that rabbit hole and never look back.
LumpOfCole
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I really want to see these photographs of the edge of the world. Should be easy enough with weather balloons.
excelsiorlef
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Jesus!
How deep in are those clowns?
Sweeney Tom
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Correctomundo
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Kaneda Shotaro
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I have one life to live. I'd rather surround myself with interesting and intelligent people that I can engage in worthwhile conversations with but to each their own.
Yeah, disagree with me about things like pizza toppings and cats vs dogs? Sure. But flat Earth and gravity "opinions" like this will pretty much guarantee I will not be spending time with you in the future. Stupidity to this extent is non-negotiable.
Chuck Norris
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Is it any dumber than half the country believing in a magic man in the clouds creating the universe in 7 days?
Humans are so weird because people I know who are super successful and smart in so many things also have the strangest beliefs including flat earth, feng shui, Jewish conspiracy, various superstitious animisms etc.
Here I am thinking wow these guys are dumb for believing this but compared to them I'm just an underachiever posting in an internet forum.
Correctomundo
Member
Either there is no end and the plane just extends infinitely, or NASA and the Illuminati prevent that from happening. Depends on the flerfer.
TangoAlphaLima
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When you're a stranger.
-Mutsukki-
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Really now?
Pinko Marx
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It's weird, right? Like my day was seriously ruined by this conversation. And I suspect the next few days I'll be thinking about it just as much.
It really fucking sucks.
SolarMystic
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^ This guy knows what's up.
Eh... Religion is deeply ingrained in the culture of many people. Technically your not wrong, but it is not really the same thing. Many Christians in western society accept that not everything in their book should be taken literally.
Yes.
The Albatross
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Edgier than the earth my dude.
No not really. Well kind of but still sort of no.
Both of those are horse pucky. The Earth is clearly a torus with the sky being the non-euclidean entrance into the astral dimension (space). The reason why the Earth looks like a sphere is simply because of how light bends in a macroscale through atmospheric nimbuses.
Stay woke, avoid sheeple.
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