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What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
#21
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
I wonder how they explain GPS?
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#22
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
(December 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I wonder how they explain GPS?

Great Pollen Sniffers?
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#23
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
Anybody know how 'Antarctica' is associated with flat earthers?... I swear I saw the reference somewhere... Something about a treaty or something
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#24
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
They think it's a huge ice wall guarded by NASA operatives. Edge of the disc, man.
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#25
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
(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!!
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#26
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
(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.
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RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
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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"
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#28
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
(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.
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#29
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
Are Flat-Earthers a real thing? Seriously?
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#30
RE: What are the rationalizations of flat earth believers?
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.
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