Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?

[fredd bear]

Oh for fuck sake!

"Borrowed knowledge" ? All formally acquired knowledge is "borrowed"

Let me make a wild guess; You did not attend college/university?

Oh for fuck's sake. You have reading comprehension problems.

Actually, I don't have problems with comprehension. I sometimes misunderstand, or perhaps do not read as thoroughly as I should.


I'll go back and read the whole thread from the beginning. If I see I have made a mistake, I'll apologise.

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Santa Claus does not exist, and there is no Easter Bunny
You'll find out when you grow up that Big Bird isn't funny, funny, funny.

 I once sent a very rational female friend a photo of a dead rabbit on the side of the road. Very near it, was a basket on its side, and some Easter eggs.

Her reply  was as revealing as it was succinct ; "you're just sick"

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@Yonadav



"the fact that the earth is round is a matter of borrowed knowledge. They 'know' that the earth is round because they have been taught that it is, and have seen pictures from space, and that sort of thing. But borrowed knowledge isn't sophisticated or intelligent. It's simply borrowed. It's not wrong to have borrowed knowledge. All of us modern folk have our heads packed full of borrowed stuff. But the delusion of sophistication is wrong. And when people are challenged about that delusion, the result is frequently entertaining."

No, I didn't misunderstand your claim about borrowed knowledge. I simply think it's an absurd oversimplification. I doubt we will agree agree on this topic. Perhaps if you explained it using smaller words.


By the way, your comment ,which virtually says "you just don't understand' is a classic ad hominem attack, not an argument.