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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 9:07 am
No one doubts that there are trolls. Flat earth is great poe material...though I doubt that the trolls are playing three dimensional chess.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 9:41 am
Flat earthers should be roasted over a spit.... ...with a nice Chianti.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 10:05 am
(February 27, 2019 at 9:41 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Flat earthers should be roasted over a spit.... ...with a nice Chianti. No fava beans?
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 10:25 am
I don't ignore them or debate them. They provide a source of mental curiosity, absurd humor and loathing.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 10:29 am
(February 27, 2019 at 1:46 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Flat earthers should be encouraged to keep walking and don’t stop until they find the edge of the earth. They can be encouraged with the promise that we will wait with bated breath and large rewards for pictures.
(February 26, 2019 at 10:58 pm)Jackalope Wrote: The only benefit to having such public debates with such people is to convince fence-sitters. I personally won't because I have a low tolerance threshold for willful idiocy (and Poes).
Anyone who can still sit on the fence on this issue can fall off the edge of the flat earth.
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What about raw foodists?
We boil them. For the irony.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 11:50 am
(February 27, 2019 at 8:24 am)Yonadav Wrote: I have yet to meet a serious flat earther. They're pranksters. We had one post here a couple of weeks ago, and he was immediately banned for posting a link to his book. When I checked out his book, I found what I always find.
That's because Christianity is a troll of human mind (as is case with all religions).
I mean doesn't this sound like a typical Christian talk/ reasoning?
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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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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 12:13 pm
I'd have to say that it's hard to separate largely because it is appealing to Christian sources and Christian concepts and Christian authorities. It would be hard for it not to sound like typical Christian talk/reasoning because that's basically what it is. If you were to draw that parallel with a secular discussion of Rowbowtham's river experiment, or some of the arguments in Zetetic Astronomy, you might draw a different conclusion.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 12:35 pm
(February 27, 2019 at 10:29 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (February 27, 2019 at 1:46 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Flat earthers should be encouraged to keep walking and don’t stop until they find the edge of the earth. They can be encouraged with the promise that we will wait with bated breath and large rewards for pictures.
Anyone who can still sit on the fence on this issue can fall off the edge of the flat earth.
What about raw foodists?
We boil them. For the irony.
And the calcium-y.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 12:36 pm
That stuff looks like catnip for credulous skeptics to me. It's oriented toward causing the emotional meltdowns that credulous skeptics are addicted to. And all the rest of us get entertained by watching an idiot have a cow.
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RE: Should Flat-Earthers be debated or ignored?
February 27, 2019 at 1:05 pm
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(February 27, 2019 at 12:36 pm)Yonadav Wrote: That stuff looks like catnip for credulous skeptics to me. It's oriented toward causing the emotional meltdowns that credulous skeptics are addicted to. And all the rest of us get entertained by watching an idiot have a cow.
To be honest I don't see flat Earthers anymore ridiculous than creationists and I do preclude that you consider creationists serious?
The thing is that guy is quite serious Christian whose other books are about how Jews are evil and are cause of all evil, like they're behind 9/11 attacks, and do you take anti semitism as a joke? And also, aside from homophobia, that flat Earth book has lots of hate speech toward Jews.
Or, indeed, maybe you're right and that guy is a racist but also has a great sense of humor so he jokes on the side about Earth being flat.
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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