(January 22, 2020 at 9:19 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: 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.
That's not a bad assessment. The redoubtable Egyptologist Flinders Petrie referred to flat Earthers (and other like them) as '...people to whom a theory is dearer than a fact.'
Hard to shift people with that mindset.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
