RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
January 22, 2020 at 9:19 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2020 at 9:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Unfortunately, the entire business of knocking down ancillary claims like these is reading the afflicted wrong. They're offering up these things in place of a deeply held personal experience that informs them of the need to seek such items out to begin with.
It doesn't go "flat earth, therefore god" -BUT.."god, therefore flat earth".
Not, astrology, therefore magic..but magic...therefore astrology.
Explaining why they're wrong has little (if anything) to do with the facts of earth or stars (or pyramids, or cryptids, or numerology). FWIW, they may not actually -be- wrong, with respect to what legitimately informs these positions. These positions being rubble surrounding and protecting that actual item of relevant content. The afflicted will pick up and drop any of those items with breezy convenience (often cycling through the same items multiple times throughout their lives), because they're not informative and they don't matter..not even to the people who argue them.
It's theater for an audience of one.
It doesn't go "flat earth, therefore god" -BUT.."god, therefore flat earth".
Not, astrology, therefore magic..but magic...therefore astrology.
Explaining why they're wrong has little (if anything) to do with the facts of earth or stars (or pyramids, or cryptids, or numerology). FWIW, they may not actually -be- wrong, with respect to what legitimately informs these positions. These positions being rubble surrounding and protecting that actual item of relevant content. The afflicted will pick up and drop any of those items with breezy convenience (often cycling through the same items multiple times throughout their lives), because they're not informative and they don't matter..not even to the people who argue them.
It's theater for an audience of one.
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