Posts: 3286
Threads: 179
Joined: April 29, 2012
Reputation:
24
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm
I wonder how they explain GPS?
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!
Posts: 19881
Threads: 324
Joined: July 31, 2016
Reputation:
34
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 6, 2017 at 6:14 pm
(December 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I wonder how they explain GPS?
Great Pollen Sniffers?
Posts: 5356
Threads: 178
Joined: June 28, 2015
Reputation:
35
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 12:49 am
Anybody know how 'Antarctica' is associated with flat earthers?... I swear I saw the reference somewhere... Something about a treaty or something
Posts: 15351
Threads: 118
Joined: January 13, 2014
Reputation:
117
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 1:02 am
They think it's a huge ice wall guarded by NASA operatives. Edge of the disc, man.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
Posts: 15452
Threads: 147
Joined: June 15, 2015
Reputation:
88
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 1:02 am
(December 7, 2017 at 1:02 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: They think it's a huge ice wall guarded by NASA operatives. Edge of the disc, man.
Hahahaha!!
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
Posts: 12219
Threads: 125
Joined: January 11, 2010
Reputation:
45
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 1:12 am
(December 6, 2017 at 12:58 pm)pool the matey Wrote: Curious.
Any ideas?
How do they rationalise all the evidence of a round earth? It's the same as any group that wants to deny something really well-supported:
Really, the tactic is the same, whether it's flat-eartherism, germ theory denial (and its specifically HIV-denying cousin), climate change denial, Holocaust denial, or creationism: find the biggest smoking guns, take something that's either unclear or counter-intuitive, and obfuscate the shit out of it. And when that doesn't work, just do this:
Applications may change, but the broad outline is pretty much the same across the board.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png)
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Posts: 17162
Threads: 462
Joined: March 29, 2015
Reputation:
30
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 1:16 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Posts: 19789
Threads: 57
Joined: September 24, 2010
Reputation:
85
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 6:20 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2017 at 6:37 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 6, 2017 at 12:58 pm)pool the matey Wrote: Curious.
Any ideas?
1. God doesn’t know spherical trigonometry.
2. The shape of the earth can’t have more dimensions than I can count
3. On a spherical earth I am nobody. On a flat earth i’d Be visionary
4. I can see for miles and miles and miles
5. I’ve never been to the beach and seen a ship coming up over the horizon.
(December 6, 2017 at 1:29 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (December 6, 2017 at 1:24 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Flat earth has less math.
I think it actually has more. They have to account for gravity, why the sun can't be seen at all times (similarly, why the moon can't be seen at all times), how seasons work, etc. All of that is quite easy to explain with a spherical Earth, not so much with a flat one.
It’s not how much math it has. It’s how much math a wasted 2 years in the elementary school prepares one to understand.
Posts: 37
Threads: 1
Joined: July 26, 2016
Reputation:
0
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 10:40 am
Are Flat-Earthers a real thing? Seriously?
God - I've got so much to learn...
Posts: 7045
Threads: 20
Joined: June 17, 2014
Reputation:
55
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
December 7, 2017 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2017 at 11:40 am by FatAndFaithless.)
The problem with the flat-earth proposition is that it's entirely defined by Poe's Law. There's absolutely no way to tell the difference between a troll and a genuine believer because the proposition is so off the wall to begin with.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
|
![[Image: 0LfisqeF_o.jpeg]](https://images2.imgbox.com/c9/32/0LfisqeF_o.jpeg)
