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Shaq believes in a flat earth. Edit: Claims he doesn't believe in a flat earth

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Matt

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Earthbound64 said:
No, I wasn't.
I was providing one of the answers for the question that was asked.




I didn't "present" an "argument"




I never said anything about it "mak[ing] any sense"




Which, as I showed above, had nothing to do with my post.


Reminder: The question that was asked, and that I replied to, was:



There was nothing in there about the/a "decent answer" having to "make sense."
Because - surprise - no argument about the earth being flat makes sense.
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Man you are testy. It's not worth arguing.
 
Shai-Tan

Shai-Tan

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Joe Rogan loves to talk about flat earthers. I assumed it's because they are an easy target not because there are that many of them out there.
 
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Einchy

semen stains the mountaintops
Derwind said:
It's hilarious that a flat earth movement even exists in this day and age since you can easily FaceTime someone on the other side of the planet just to see if the sun is in the same position in the sky for them as it is for you?
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They think the sun is tiny and works like a spotlight. lol
 
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Shadow Puppetry

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Successful trolling is successful.

“No, I don’t think that,” O’Neal told Harbinger of a flat Earth. “It was a joke, OK? So know that when Shaquille O’Neal says something, 80 percent of the time I’m being humorous, and it is a joke. And 20 percent of the time, I’m being serious, but when I’m being serious, you’ll know. You want to see me, seriously? See me and Charles Barkley going back and forth on TNT. That’s when I’m mad and when I’m serious. Other than that, you’re not going to get that out of me, so I was just joking people. The Earth is not round, it’s flat. I mean, the Earth is not flat, it’s round.”
 
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Acorn

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Shadow Puppetry said:
Successful trolling is successful.

“No, I don’t think that,” O’Neal told Harbinger of a flat Earth. “It was a joke, OK? So know that when Shaquille O’Neal says something, 80 percent of the time I’m being humorous, and it is a joke. And 20 percent of the time, I’m being serious, but when I’m being serious, you’ll know. You want to see me, seriously? See me and Charles Barkley going back and forth on TNT. That’s when I’m mad and when I’m serious. Other than that, you’re not going to get that out of me, so I was just joking people. The Earth is not round, it’s flat. I mean, the Earth is not flat, it’s round.”
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"Hahahahahaha that thing I said and repeated was a lie, lulz tr4ll lyfe bitches"
 
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the-pi-guy

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What flat earther's think.

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Earthbound64

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Shadow Puppetry said:
Successful trolling is successful.

“No, I don’t think that,” O’Neal told Harbinger of a flat Earth. “It was a joke, OK? So know that when Shaquille O’Neal says something, 80 percent of the time I’m being humorous, and it is a joke. And 20 percent of the time, I’m being serious, but when I’m being serious, you’ll know. You want to see me, seriously? See me and Charles Barkley going back and forth on TNT. That’s when I’m mad and when I’m serious. Other than that, you’re not going to get that out of me, so I was just joking people. The Earth is not round, it’s flat. I mean, the Earth is not flat, it’s round.”
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Rentahamster said:
He says he was joking, which he most likely was, IMO.

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/s...veryone-when-he-made-his-flat-earth-comments/

Harbinger: “What’s going on with the flat Earth thing? Are you just messing with everybody with that?”
O’Neal: “No, the Earth is flat. Would you like to hear my theory?”
Harbinger: “Yeah, tell me about it.”
O’Neal: “The first part of the theory is, I’m joking, you idiots. That’s the first part of the theory. The second part is, I said jokingly that when I’m in my bus and I drive from Florida to California, which I do every summer, it seems to be flat. When I’m in my plane, and we’re getting ready to land, and I open up the window, and I’m looking at all the land that we’re flying over, it seems to be flat.”

“This world we live in, people take things too seriously, but I’m going to give the people answers to my test,” he said. “Knowing that I’m a funny guy, if something seems controversial or boom, boom, boom, you’ve got to have my funny points on, right? So now, once you have my funny points on, that should eradicate and get rid of all your negative thoughts, right? That’s what you should do when you hear a Shaquille O’Neal statement, OK? You should know that he has funny points right over here, and what did he say? Boom, boom, boom, add the funny points. You either laugh or you don’t laugh, but don’t take me seriously. When I want you to take me seriously, you will know by the tone of my voice that I’m being serious.”
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nocturnalis

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Hardcore Laker fan. I was so angry when I heard this, that I couldn't sleep. This has been bothering me for a week now. How does he think days and seasons work? Has he ever been to Australia?
 
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GuessMyUserName

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The answer to "why" is to make people less religious.

Which obviously makes sense with Russia being one of the most active countries in space exploration! They're always tryin' to disprove Christianity and whatnot.
 
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capitalCORN

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Exactly how does someone fall for this claptrap? All those years spent in school, looking at maps and globes, and all that just banishes because?
 
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chromatic9

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capitalCORN said:
Exactly how does someone fall for this claptrap? All those years spent in school, looking at maps and globes, and all that just banishes because?
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Some sort of religious born again thing. Once you say the earth is flat then its all down to god because of this dome structure. The idea of space is out the window with the trillions of galaxies and that we're just a lonely spec of dust in the vastness of space. Flat earth means we're in god's special creation/reality and science questions don't even need an answer like gravity.

There's a whole new wave of flat earthers with "compelling" videos hooking people in much like moon conspiracy videos did in the 1990s
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
KingV said:
They have convinced themselves that the sun works sort of like a spotlight, and that the seasons are caused by kind of a spiraling motion of the sun. Never mind this causes a ton of problems like; why isn't the North Pole sort of warm?

I assume their answer is that the trajectory of the sun sort of mirrors the calculations used for the round earth, but none of those people are smart enough to actually do those calculations to calculate that trajectory.
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So that means they think that the sun is flat too? If not then where's the housing? lol
 
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KingV

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TAJ said:
So that means they think that the sun is flat too? If not then where's the housing? lol
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This thread made me go down the rabbit hole (along with a person on my Facebook that has jumped into flat earth lunacy in recent years) and it seems that no one can quite agree on exactly how the sun works.


It seems a pretty glaring error, and I have seen responses from "we don't really know how it creates light" to "it's sort of like a parabolic mirror or bulb shape"

I would think it would have to be parabolic or something like that to work as a spotlight, but it still doesn't explain why it always looks round in the sky. It never looks "off angle".

They also dismiss the fact that the sun sets as a "trick of perspective". So there is that.

Don't engage with them though, they are so dumb it is frustrating.


Edit: other fun bits:
- Gravity doesn't exist, but is actually just constant upward acceleration of the planet of 32ft/sec^2, never mind one of the key reasons why many think the earth is flat is because they can't perceive any motion.
- the water is "held in" by an ice shelf at the end of the world. I haven't heard any explanation of why the ice shelf does not float up onto the top of the water. Presumably it is just so massive that it forms sort of a single mountain. If this was the case wouldn't global warming scare the ever loving shit out of you? Like one day the ice shelf might break up and the oceans would just completely raced?
 
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TastyBread

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I've been thoroughly entertained these past few pages, the new sun & moon spinning gif is marvellous. And the documentary posted earlier, 2 hours of some guy trying to convince you with bullshit after bullshit story, good lord. And after every segment "so ask questions, and do research".

Who on earth are these grown ass adults with this much free time to do this of all things haha.
 
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zeemumu

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Septimius said:
Nono. You see, it's not that there's a mass pulling everything down. It's that down is an absolute direction. If you go off the edge, you just fall.
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So, about space...is space just an infinite dome around the top half of earth? How does orbit work? Is the sun under the earth at night? If you fall off at night do you fall into the sun?

What would be on the underside? Whose gravity is pulling you down should you walk off the edge? Why doesn't the ocean drain off of the edge? Shouldn't there be a massive waterfall going off the ends? Does the earth still rotate like a space coin or a pizza in a microwave? How would day and night work in that 2nd case?
 
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digitalrelic

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tehbible said:
i started looking into 'conspiracy' years back. a lot of pitfalls and disinfo and shillery was present. clearly during that time i fell into that trap.

Flat Earth is the grandest conspiracy of all time, and it will continue to persist in the ensuing years. It's not going to go away. It will continue to be mocked, castigated and ridiculed.

I would definitely suggest that everyone at least look into it. Do your own research without relying on government sources / institutions.
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tehbible said:
believe me i scoffed and laughed as well... until i looked into it, as well as many others.

you can't just go to the outer edges. on a flat plane surface antarctica would be surrounding us, and you can't just go to antarctica. you would need a permit and get permission. its guarded by multiple nations via the antarctic treaty
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tehbible said:
its okay to get different viewpoints. i've supplied ample evidence/footage showing anomalies in space to question NASA/other space agencies.
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tehbible said:
look at how he falls. he falls quickly as if there is gravity.
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tehbible said:
Astronauts already train underwater in the NBL (neutral buoyancy lab). It's not far fetched for them to film 'the real thing' underwater as well.
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tehbible said:
You're literally seeing bubbles coming from all over in each of those gifs yet you deny it still? cognitive dissonance at it's realest.

c'mon dude this is laughable

Do you trust whatever the government tells you?
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tehbible said:
none of these shots look likes its filmed underwater to you? you couldn't have seen any of the material this quickly and responded. at least view what i'm showing to you.
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tehbible said:
here are some examples...

NASA doing some shady stuff here. They're definitely filming underwater. And no, I am not trolling.
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So how do you explain videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vOoXU56KI#action=share
 
Rentahamster

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Someone please do a mockup of a flat earth in Unreal Engine or something to show how stupid it is. It worked for the moon landing!
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If we've been accelerating upward for all of Earth's history then why haven't any of the stars gotten closer?

StylesClash said:
Can we at least change the title now?
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To what?
"It was just a social experiment, bro."?
 
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