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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 11:55:29 GMT
I have just learned that today there are actually people who think that the earth is flat. This is the first time I heard about it and I don't quite understand how people can come to a conclusion like that. Apparently, gravitaion as such doesn't exist, either.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Apr 21, 2016 12:52:32 GMT
long ago I learned that there are people who are barking mad. There's nothing anyone can do about it. It's a basic human right to be totally bonkers.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 21, 2016 12:57:01 GMT
Yep, at first I was sure they must be joking, but they are real.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Apr 21, 2016 13:55:38 GMT
If you want to have a sojourn into the universe of the fruit cakes just Google David Icke.
To quote PT Barnum "There's one born every minute".
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Post by juju on Apr 21, 2016 16:34:48 GMT
I have a Facebook 'friend' (I knew her IRL, a long time ago) who is a fervent believer in chemtrails and flat earth theory. She posts a lot of stuff - there's a lot of 'evidence' and believers out there.
The rest of us are just 'sheeple' of course.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 19:24:10 GMT
The rest of us are just 'sheeple' of course. Yes, we believe absolutely everything the media feeds us and don't think for ourselves at all, I know. Still... a flat earth? I would have thought that would go a bit too far.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2016 20:47:17 GMT
I bet my mum would love the chemtrails thing Though not the flat earth one.
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Post by juju on Apr 21, 2016 21:44:47 GMT
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Post by Yuki on Apr 24, 2016 4:36:37 GMT
Last year a Saudi sheikh denied the Earth's rotation around itself and around the sun. Most Muslims reject his claims, but some do actually believe him.
A few years ago, an Iraqi "astronomer" claimed that the Earth was flat. The fact that they're having that debate on TV and being serious about it, summarizes the reasons why 1.6 billion Muslims only have 3 Nobel Prizes in science and literature.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 1, 2016 0:11:39 GMT
The irony of it all never ceases to astound me!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 3, 2016 16:45:43 GMT
It's all that post-modern distrust of science that brings it on ...
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Post by Yuki on May 4, 2016 14:48:19 GMT
It's all that post-modern distrust of science that brings it on ... In other places, it's the pre-modern distrust of science actually!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on May 4, 2016 19:11:14 GMT
Aaaarrrrgh! So much lack of trust!
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Post by yooperguy on May 16, 2016 0:18:21 GMT
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to screw with a conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I've caused more than to pop A vein.
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Post by jayme on May 16, 2016 21:51:16 GMT
Hmmm....my chemtrail friend changed his name to Molon Labe and unfriended me.
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Post by tangent on May 17, 2016 9:31:05 GMT
*blinks*
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Post by spaceflower on May 26, 2016 16:15:09 GMT
I don't know if they believe the earth is flat but there are those who seem to think "If I have not seen it myself, I can't know that it is true". So since they have not experienced The Holocaust themselves, they are skeptical. Why should they believe teachers or books? It could be all made up. There are a few survivors left to visit schools and tell. When they are dead, there are only written testimonies, and they might be made up.
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Post by bobbridges on Jan 25, 2020 3:27:16 GMT
Yeah, but the flat-earth thing is puzzling even so. I get not feeling confidence in second-hand information, but anyone can see the earth is round just by standing in any broad plain. That's not just sailors—they've always known the earth is round, Washington Irving notwithstanding. But it's clear enough if you live in the US plains, and even in hilly country any high hill or flat airport will give you a clear view of the clouds curving below the horizon.
I, too, thought when I first heard about it that it must be a joke. It probably was, at first, don't you think?
(Clearly I'm bored, dredging up this thread. But I'm going to bed now.)
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