I've recognized that there is a definite disconnect from reality exhibited by these flat earthers. Could it be that there is a prominent defect in their brain chemistry that causes them to be able to see some form of sense within nonsense?
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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 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? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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 Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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.
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Are there any Flat Earth believers? There used to be a Flat Earth society in England. They were not serious believers, merely some affluent folks with a sense of humour.
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)
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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'.
One of the most common themes I've seen of many flat earthers is their heavy devotion to Christianity.