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Bumped into an old friend. He's a flat earther now.
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SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Mr_Appleby
Member
Ha, my friend is anti-vaxx, believes David Icke re: reptilians, (still) believes in Pizzagate, and also the general illuminati/chemtrails/HAARP/grabbag of conspiracy stuff. Flat Earth is one of the few things he hasn't mentioned yet but it's probably just a matter of time.
I'd turn him on to TimeCube but iirc the site is down these days.
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
Mulder have no issue with it. Who are we to claim higher standards ?
Seriously, i feel for you. I live in a place were 911 conspiracy theory is actually common knowledge among somewhat leftist young people. It's pretty hard to just get pass that, but your case seem like the whole package. However you can always just laugh at him about the issue, many conspirationist are not dead serious about it, they maintain a level of irony.
Seriously, i feel for you. I live in a place were 911 conspiracy theory is actually common knowledge among somewhat leftist young people. It's pretty hard to just get pass that, but your case seem like the whole package. However you can always just laugh at him about the issue, many conspirationist are not dead serious about it, they maintain a level of irony.
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I would do the same, arguing with crazy only provokes trouble. Let them ramble about and say "huh, yes, interesting... you don't say, cool" move on, try to stay clear of them.
Fortunately I never had to deal with crazy people in my close circle of family and friends, not to that degree at least.
Fortunately I never had to deal with crazy people in my close circle of family and friends, not to that degree at least.
Poor GRIMES
Banned
It's astounding to me how some people on GAF continue to consider dangerously warped people as friends despite the fact.
ShiroAmakusa
Member
I used to have a friend like that (turned slowly into a religious nut, knee-deep into conspiracy territory with growing racist tendencies).
I tried really hard to keep him sane and informed but it was tough. I even got close to getting through to him but the moment he became father to a son, it turned into an impossible task. He became very protective of his son and put great effort into a "proper" education for him.
Needless to say that the kid turned out to become the laughing stock of his school for all the nutty theories he willingly expressed. Why would his dad lie to him? It must be true and my friend reassured his son that it's the others that are wrong.
I just couldn't deal with it, it broke my heart to watch my oldest friend basically vanish in this fucking rabbit hole, dug by his own insecurities and mental issues. It didn't help that I'm struggling with depression myself and just couldn't summon the strength to help him through this.
That's how my longest and deepest friendship ended and all that's left is my ingrained hate for all the conspiracy "gurus" like Alex Jones, up to the point where I just want to see them dead. Unceremoniously buried six feet deep for all the harm they do to gullible, certainly to a wide extent mentally impaired, people.
I tried really hard to keep him sane and informed but it was tough. I even got close to getting through to him but the moment he became father to a son, it turned into an impossible task. He became very protective of his son and put great effort into a "proper" education for him.
Needless to say that the kid turned out to become the laughing stock of his school for all the nutty theories he willingly expressed. Why would his dad lie to him? It must be true and my friend reassured his son that it's the others that are wrong.
I just couldn't deal with it, it broke my heart to watch my oldest friend basically vanish in this fucking rabbit hole, dug by his own insecurities and mental issues. It didn't help that I'm struggling with depression myself and just couldn't summon the strength to help him through this.
That's how my longest and deepest friendship ended and all that's left is my ingrained hate for all the conspiracy "gurus" like Alex Jones, up to the point where I just want to see them dead. Unceremoniously buried six feet deep for all the harm they do to gullible, certainly to a wide extent mentally impaired, people.
Vincent Grayson
Member
He probably is.
I've never met a conspiracy theorist that buys into flat earth, 9/11 truthers, etc without also being anti-vax, or isn't at least "investigating" it.
EdibleKnife
Member
Tell him to go to a 9/11 Memoria/Remembrance Event and claim the same shit. I know he's your friend but I truly see these people as utter cowards who get to feel stronger or smarter by simply being contrarian and think they're geniuses only because "so few people are privy to the information they know". They'd believe ingesting fire is actually good for you if one of their sites claimed it and said the liberal media and the Illuminati are "trying to subdue the facts".
Shambalakan
Member
We should respect people with thousands of beliefs, but flat earthers aren't among them without a doubt.
I've smoked week every day for years and it didn't make me a flat fucking earther lol
Aaron Strife
Banned
But if the earth isn't flat then why am I not standing upside down when I visit China
Checkmate atheists
Checkmate atheists
TomJoadsGhost
Member
I think if I bumped in to someone who I hadn't seen for years i'd like to pretend to be into all kinds of crazy shit just to scare them off.
I wonder if these things are just people feeling that they are insignificant and then warping their minds to think that they know the "truth", that they are not insignificant, that they are one of the few special who have embraced the "truth". Like, what if it's all a defence mechanism?
Why stop at flat earth? Why not triangular earth or square earth?
Why stop at flat earth? Why not triangular earth or square earth?
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
I don't understand why flat earthers dispute a round earth. Just because it's flat doesn't mean it isn't round 2-dimensionally.
Checkmate.
Checkmate.
maquiladora
Member
In a world where there are enough fucking idiots to elect Trump, anything is possible.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Two of my friends are all about this shit. I think my brother is too 
Triggerhappytel
Member
Probably not a rabbit hole you want to be going down.
I wouldn't count on it. If you believe something this moronic I'll bet it's easy to slip into other dumb beliefs as well.
SolarMystic
Member
Ask him if he knows about the slave labor on Mars.
Really though, call social services. Dude is a real danger to his children.
Really though, call social services. Dude is a real danger to his children.
It should shock me that these people actually exist, but then I remember that this country is also home to hordes of ignorant racist morons that went out and voted for Trump last November. No doubt a near 100% degree of overlap between the two groups as well.
As for it being a friend that had these beliefs, I would cut all ties with any person dumb enough to actually believe that the earth is flat in 2017. Zero interest in wasting my time with someone like that.
As for it being a friend that had these beliefs, I would cut all ties with any person dumb enough to actually believe that the earth is flat in 2017. Zero interest in wasting my time with someone like that.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I mean, Social Services won't care because he has some dumb beliefs. Otherwise they'd have to take kids away from millions of people.
That's why he needs to mention the reefer madness.
SolarMystic
Member
Yeah I know, but it would be nice to inconvenience the idiot as he was investigated, even if nothing came of it.
It's people like this that really give credence to the idea of needing a license to procreate.
(No, I am not for that idea, stuff like this just makes it seem like not a bad idea)
Suggest going on a voyage to find the edge. After all, if the Earth is flat, then either the Earth continues infinitely or else there is some edge. In the former case there are undiscovered lands to be claimed beyond the "known world" -- China/America/Australia whatever. In the latter case there is some cliff where the land just stops, you can take pictures of the edge and show everybody, instantly becoming rich and famous as a result
killatopak
Member
he's not a friend anymore.
Mohonky
Member
You're friends with Alex Jones?
No but seriously how do you actually have a conversation with someone like that? Dont you just turn around and say something like oh ffs get a hold of yourself you're talking bullshit right now!!
Messofanego
Banned
I hope he never has children.
I've got a friend that has these ideas about time and treats it as though it's a deity with a will and consciousness. At first I listened. For a long time I listened (like not one sitting, but over the course of a period of time). After a while I was just like "I can't do this right now. Hearing you talk about this is mentally taxing." Now when he brings it up, he knows how I feel about it so I get to sigh and eyeroll, he wraps it up super quick, and brings it up much less. I think it's ok to have friends that have stupid beliefs just as long as they know you think their beliefs are stupid and you'd rather not hear them talk about stupid shit.
We have gone full circle. To think once upon a time people would kill you if you said the earth isn't flat.
Have you checked to make sure?
Science is liberal, so to be a true conservative you have to believe in this shit.
Bible writers thought the earth was a circle, using the same word for it that also means 'round' or 'sphere'
Job 26:10 Isaiah 40:21-22
People as far back as Rome (possibly even bronze age people) knew the earth must have been a sphere because they could see the 'rising shore' phenomenon while sailing and also had a good grasp of geography which made them notice that different areas of the world had the sun cast a different shadow even on the same time of the year.
Heck, Eratosthenes was very close in estimating the size of the earth as well as some other things that are pretty amazing.
the-pi-guy
Member
Ah, so he's fallen for it. The government started the flat Earth myth to find out who's vulnerable.
That's how they brainwash people into becoming the Illuminati. They don't want just anybody in the Illuminati. They want the people that they can control.
I kid, but something like that might scare people into their senses.
That's how they brainwash people into becoming the Illuminati. They don't want just anybody in the Illuminati. They want the people that they can control.
I kid, but something like that might scare people into their senses.