Flat earthers actually being insane, what are the odds?
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We are all insane Just some of us like you and me hide it better than others
And I am not to sure about you
I've read some of their premise, especially about the horizon. It's just that they really want to understand and often many people just assume what scientists say as gospel without understanding it as well. That's ignorance just the same, well, and blind faith.
I mean honestly, why do most people believe the earth is a sphere? Because scientists say so and they have seen pictures from space. The same people who thought that it was flat if it were not for astronomers to tell them differently but do they 'really' know? Think about it. Have they gone out and conducted tests to verify? Who is more ignorant? Neither one is really more ignorant than the other, just for different reasons.
I mean honestly, why do most people believe the earth is a sphere? Because scientists say so and they have seen pictures from space. The same people who thought that it was flat if it were not for astronomers to tell them differently but do they 'really' know? Think about it. Have they gone out and conducted tests to verify? Who is more ignorant? Neither one is really more ignorant than the other, just for different reasons.
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I look beliefs like flat earthers as mostly being into some sort of conspiracy theory
Then I question why
Why would they want to keep from us the information that the world is flat not not round?
What do they gain?
Not heard any good explanation yet
Anybody care to put forward any ideas of who they are and how it profits them to keep the rest of us believing in a ball Earth and not a flat Earth?
I look beliefs like flat earthers as mostly being into some sort of conspiracy theory
Then I question why
Why would they want to keep from us the information that the world is flat not not round?
What do they gain?
Not heard any good explanation yet
Anybody care to put forward any ideas of who they are and how it profits them to keep the rest of us believing in a ball Earth and not a flat Earth?
Im not saying they are right at all. It's just that many who do think the earth is not flat is also due to popular belief, not actual knowledge. Because they were told so. Scientists could tell the public anything and most would believe it, not that there is any reason to lie but people know that science is the most rigorous system of methodology but that still doesn't mean the public actually ' knows' but the trust is put into the experts who do.
Flat earthers are part of the public so the question still remains
which experts are the flat earthers listening to?
Still looks like they listen to conspiracy theoriest
Also appears they don't research anything
As long as not doing harm I don't have any problem
I might start to question if they build a Church and claim tax free status
The next step would be to set up a drilling operation in the Church to dig down to the turtle
No messing with turtle carrying our round Earth on its back
It's four elephants holding the disc of the earth. Great A'tuin, the - or a - World Turtle (Chelys galactica), is carrying the elephants.
There's a better way:
Unless that's some other world.
Correct Note you are talking about flat disc world
No messing with turtle carrying our round Earth on its back
Whereas our round ball Earth did away with the elephants and went straight to turtles all the way down
I tend to tar all "believers" with the same brush. There are lots of people who believe in a spherical (approximately) earth with no more reason than people who believe in a flat earth. If your belief happens to coincide with reality, that doesn't make it a superior belief.
Flat earth ''believers'' make up a relatively small percentage of the population and of what I've read about them, their beliefs are usually tied in with conspiracy theory thinking. I'm not quite sure what would motivate such self-deception. (that's what I'd consider it to be)
I believe in a ball Earth from evidence
If your belief happens to coincide with reality, that doesn't make it a superior belief
Of course it does. With overwhelming evidence it goes beyond belief and makes it close enough to a fact to be called such
DaveC426913
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I think his point was simply that many people just take it on faith, not on evidence. I'll bet if you asked the teen taking a duck-face selfie in a rave bar (or whatever the kids are calling it) what empirical evidence she has that makes her conclude the Earth is round, she'll say 'because everyone else says it is' rather than 'the Earth's shadow during a Lunar Eclipse is round'.
Well, if it "goes beyond belief" it isn't belief any more, is it?
Or they are just trolling you.