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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 25, 2019 at 9:00 am
Yeah, people here debate evolution deniers and they're the same as flat Earthers: the have a huge gap in their knowledge which they refuse to fill and just insist that they're right.
If some flat Earth opened a topic on this forum I think I would see you all debating him/ her.
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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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 25, 2019 at 9:43 am
(August 25, 2019 at 9:00 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Yeah, people here debate evolution deniers and they're the same as flat Earthers: the have a huge gap in their knowledge which they refuse to fill and just insist that they're right.
If some flat Earth opened a topic on this forum I think I would see you all debating him/ her.
If you present to the fence-sitters there's nothing wrong with that. Just don't think you'll change many minds among the true believers.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 25, 2019 at 3:47 pm
(August 25, 2019 at 6:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (August 24, 2019 at 6:36 pm)energyBeing22 Wrote: I think they should be ignored. It's too ridiculous and it will just be an exercise in listening to people who are in denial and/or trolling. Ignore the people, address the issues. If we let them go unchallenged some people will think they actually have a case.
These people are probably unable to think for themselves anyway; they'd probably be duped by some thing or another with or without us "address[ing] the issues."
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 25, 2019 at 5:55 pm
(August 25, 2019 at 3:47 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: (August 25, 2019 at 6:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Ignore the people, address the issues. If we let them go unchallenged some people will think they actually have a case.
These people are probably unable to think for themselves anyway; they'd probably be duped by some thing or another with or without us "address[ing] the issues." I'm not worried about the flatters. I'm just determined that they will not be the only voice heard.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 25, 2019 at 6:00 pm
I've had it up to HERE with flat earthers. The next one that approaches me about this, I swear I'm going to take him to the edge and push him off.
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‘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
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 26, 2019 at 12:18 am
But I've prepared so many comebacks for a flatter when he/ she comes here, like: "Hey look, even NASA is making pins to educate you"
![[Image: ECx-Mww9-XUAAdi69.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/4d9C9rw6/ECx-Mww9-XUAAdi69.jpg)
"So who are you going to believe? NASA or some guy on the internet?"
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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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
August 26, 2019 at 5:14 am
(August 26, 2019 at 12:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: But I've prepared so many comebacks for a flatter when he/ she comes here, like: "Hey look, even NASA is making pins to educate you"
"So who are you going to believe? NASA or some guy on the internet?" Work on the material, not the person.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
September 6, 2019 at 8:13 am
Seems like Richard Dawkins also doesn't debate flat earther
![[Image: Dawkins-flat.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/9ffWPJW5/Dawkins-flat.jpg)
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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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
September 6, 2019 at 8:20 am
"All that is required for evil (or ignorance) to triumph is that good people do nothing."
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
November 4, 2019 at 6:13 pm
A friend of mine recently recanted his stance on FE. Proud of him for seeing his way out if that shit. Well, sort of proud.
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