What is your opinion on Flat Earth theory?

[TaraJo]

I don't want to take them seriously.

Then again, I didn't want to take anti-vaxers seriously and I never wanted to take creationists seriously, either.

I know, I'm slipping into politics here, but it's no surprise that there's so much overlap between flat earthers and right wing groups; the GOP has been spreading the message that all things government are evil, meaning that NASA is lying to us and manipulating everyone.

[GUBU]

I've noticed that there are a lot of videos on youtube about the flat earth and the community seems to be convinced. I don't know how many of them are not serious, but some are. And religious people are happy too, because many religions suggests flat earth. 

It's turtles all the way down, apart from the four elephants.




Oh and the snake devouring its tail.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've noticed that there are a lot of videos on youtube about the flat earth and the community seems to be convinced. I don't know how many of them are not serious, but some are. And religious people are happy too, because many religions suggests flat earth. 

They seriously put forward the idea that Antarctica is some kind of ice wall? What is beyond that wall, the creepy guy from Game of Thrones? 

Uh, the Ice Creepy Guy, from Game of Thrones, not all the other creepy guys from Game of Thrones.

[GUBU]

Now that's funny!

This is because SC is part of the global conspiracy to keep down knowledge of aliens, the flat earth, demons and giants, and nuclear powered squirrels.

You mean he is a Stonecutter? Hot damn! I knew I wasn't the only one on the forum, but couldn't figure out who.

[johan]

The OP seems to have been drive-by. C'est la vie I suppose.

I have to say that the flat earth movement is probably the theory/movement/conspiracy/whatever that shakes my confidence in mankind the most. Other things I can understand even though I don't agree with them. Theism? I don't buy into it, but I get it. I understand why people are inclined to want to believe in it. Plus in the case of the theists at least, its a question that cannot be answered. We can't prove the god exists nor can we prove he doesn't. So I get theism. I don't agree with it but I get it.

With the other pure conspiracy types I start to struggle to understand. But even with most of them I at least kind of get it. With the anti-vax idiots, the chemtrails kooks and the 9/11 assholes there is at least reasonably clear sense of protagonist/antagonist going on. There's an evil power with a motive that is at least somewhat plausible driving the core of the theory.

But the flat earth nuts don't need any such trivial details to drive their insanity. They believe the earth is flat, they believe everyone in power knows this to be true and they believe everyone in power wants to keep this truth from us for... no particular reason of any consequence. And that's good enough for them.

That's just a special kind of stupid. It would be of absolutely no benefit to anyone to hide the fact that the earth was flat if that was so and yet these window lickers just don't care. They're sure they know the truth and they're sure the government is keeping the truth from us for... no reason.

And there's tons of these people and most of them are breeding. I've said it before but I don't think its ever been so true as when I say it now. We're fucked. Put a brick in your toilet, save the whales, protect the ozone, whatever you want. None of it will matter because we're fucked.

1000 years from now this planet will be populated by diverse species of wild lifeforms roaming vast forests and tundra set on top of layers of soil filled with concrete plastic and garbage. And the flat earth crowd, more than any other are a sure sign this apocalypse is looming and unavoidable.

[Astonished]

After watching Doctor Strange, I'm convinced a powerful enough sorcerer inside the Mirror Dimension could bend and shape things such that they could create a flat earth.

[Fake Messiah]

What do you know, the idiots are having first Flat Earth International Conference in Cary, North Carolina.

As you can see from a flyer people of all stupid will be present: plain stupid, goofy stupid, nerdy stupid, fanatically stupid, high on meth stupid, old and stupid, look-at-me I want attention stupid.


Too bad they won't have their conference on a ship in the open waters going to the coast and wandering "How come we first see tops of the mountains and then, later on, lower grounds?"

[Alex K]

What do you know, the idiots are having first Flat Earth International Conference in Cary, North Carolina.

As you can see from a flyer people of all stupid will be present: plain stupid, goofy stupid, nerdy stupid, fanatically stupid, high on meth stupid, old and stupid, look-at-me I want attention stupid.


Too bad they won't have their conference on a ship in the open waters going to the coast and wandering "How come we first see tops of the mountains and then, later on, lower grounds?"

Did they invite speakers from around the globe?

[ignoramus]

Guys? Can a rainbow be curved if the earth was flat?

(Why am I bothering using logic to show Christian flatearthers anything!) They have compound mental issues.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I thought that was a poster from a 90s teenage High school drama.