05-04-2018, 08:03 PM
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#1481
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Originally Posted by Old Yeller
Someone explain Flat Earther's to me as I'm absolutely baffled by their conspiracy theories.
I mean with anti-vaxxers there were bull#### studies produced linking vaccines with autism. Or the CIA assassinating JFK, the CIA was pretty disruptive meddling in other gov't agendas in the 1960s/70s so why not meddle in their own internal affairs to further an agenda.
At least in both these cases there's a bit of an underlying structure of why I can see how some people would lean towards a conspiracy angle.
But Flat Earther's.... do they just not like ... globes? The international conspiracy theory of... gravity?!?!?!?
I mean come on, this is their sun/moon model:
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They should make a reality show where it follows a group of flatearthers around the globe trying to proving to us that the earth is flat.
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05-04-2018, 08:09 PM
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#1482
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One of the Nine
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What happens when you walk (snowmobile? Nodwell?) to the edge of Antarctica? Can you look underneath and see the turtle's ass?
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05-04-2018, 08:38 PM
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#1483
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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Is every planetary body flat? Or just earth?
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05-04-2018, 08:52 PM
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#1484
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by thatguy
They should make a reality show where it follows a group of flatearthers around the globe trying to proving to us that the earth is flat.
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They wouldn't be going around the globe because, I don't know, it's not a globe.
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05-04-2018, 09:09 PM
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#1485
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Oh man, I just went down the flat-earther forum rabbit hole for the last half hour. That's some hard-core denialism.
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05-04-2018, 09:12 PM
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#1486
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
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How do they think gravity works? If it was centred in that disc everyone would be walking around on an angle. And if it’s suppose to be spread evenly, then how do that tiny sun and moon spin around?
I’m convinced it’s all a joke and they just get off on giving people aneurisms. And it works perfectly because it’s the dumbest idea anyone could possibly think of.
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05-04-2018, 11:18 PM
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#1487
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First Line Centre
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A friend of mine turns out to be a flat earther. I haven’t asked for his explanation yet and am not sure I will. He posted a comment about how water can’t bend and some math about the curvature of the earth. I decided to read up on this movement and went down the rabbit hole as well. It is a head scratcher for sure.
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05-04-2018, 11:43 PM
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#1488
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Now just to go a level deeper, how the hell do compasses and magnets work on a flat earth. If one end points north, surely the other end of a compass would point south. Do this a couple billion times across the world and find out the world is round.
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05-05-2018, 04:29 AM
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#1489
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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Now just to go a level deeper, how the hell do compasses and magnets work on a flat earth.
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05-05-2018, 02:20 PM
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#1490
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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
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Are you insinuating that Flat-Earthers are Juggaloes?
I'm not knocking you, there certainly seems like theres a point to be made there, I'm just asking...
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05-05-2018, 04:19 PM
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#1491
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Originally Posted by Locke
Are you insinuating that Flat-Earthers are Juggaloes?
I'm not knocking you, there certainly seems like theres a point to be made there, I'm just asking...
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No I was just showing that lots of people are fascinated/baffled by magnets. Hey even on this supposedly round planet those things are spooky. Just the other day my cutlery at Red Lobster stuck together...and not from garlic butter. They were magnetized!. True story. Did not get the free lobster stuffed mushrooms I had hoped for after such an ordeal.
Last edited by OMG!WTF!; 05-05-2018 at 04:21 PM.
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05-07-2018, 09:05 AM
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#1492
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Why do flat earthers get even a shred of attention is beyond me.
Its like someone saying computers don't exist and someone taking the time to debate them.
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05-07-2018, 09:09 AM
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#1493
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
. Just the other day my cutlery at Red Lobster stuck together...and not from garlic butter. They were magnetized!. True story. Did not get the free lobster stuffed mushrooms I had hoped for after such an ordeal.
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Holy Sweet Jesus Christ that is terrifying.
Who the hell eats at Red Lobster.
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05-07-2018, 09:26 AM
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#1494
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Holy Sweet Jesus Christ that is terrifying.
Who the hell eats at Red Lobster.
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Old people. Have you seen the commercials? It's like Pavlov talking directly to my parents. They're always disappointed but they have to keep trying it.
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05-07-2018, 09:31 AM
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#1495
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Old people. Have you seen the commercials? It's like Pavlov talking directly to my parents. They're always disappointed but they have to keep trying it.
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Don't you love your parents?
I told mine that I will no longer be a party to their going to Red Lobster.
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05-07-2018, 09:39 AM
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#1496
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Don't you love your parents?
I told mine that I will no longer be a party to their going to Red Lobster.
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I'm trying to let them run out the clock in relative bliss. Trump is great. Auntie Rachel don't know nothin. And I'd better not bring a divorced girl to Red Lobster.
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05-07-2018, 10:06 AM
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#1497
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Who the hell eats at Red Lobster.
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The same monsters who eat at the Olive Garden.
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05-09-2018, 06:25 AM
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#1498
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Lifetime Suspension
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I took the plunge on flat earth and it was interesting to see how a compelling argument can be made out of a bunch of individual ideas that sound good on their own, but the sum of those ideas equates to some really bad thinking that crumbles when analyzed as a whole.
think flat earth has become a rallying point for people who are frustrated by technology, we live in an age of scientific wonder, and all that science is basically magic to anyone who struggles to grasp the basics of physics, which creates a feeling of helplessness that is soothed by rebelling against science by picking up the banner for things like flat earth.
Getting into flat earth does lead one to some more compelling conspiracies, such as the nature and purpose of NASA and the Antarctic, and the pentagons ability to lose trillions of dollars.
Last edited by Matata; 05-09-2018 at 06:58 AM.
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05-09-2018, 07:28 AM
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#1499
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Offered up a bag of cans for a custom user title
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Westside
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Originally Posted by Matata
think flat earth has become a rallying point for people who are frustrated by technology, we live in an age of scientific wonder, and all that science is basically magic to anyone who struggles to grasp the basics of physics, which creates a feeling of helplessness that is soothed by rebelling against science by picking up the banner for things like flat earth.
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I think you are overthinking this a bit. Flat earthers are people duped by the internet. There are many other groups that are similar (anti vaxers, 911, etc.). People are easily duped. Useful idiot I believe applies here.
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05-09-2018, 07:37 AM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I think you are overthinking this a bit. Flat earthers are people duped by the internet. There are many other groups that are similar (anti vaxers, 911, etc.). People are easily duped. Useful idiot I believe applies here.
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I think this is partially true as well. But you would have to have something against the science community to outright disagree with them based on some internet blogs. These are people who think the government is a big conspiracy. I’m not sure what really causes that other than a lack of education.
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