Is the flat earth theory something people actually believe in your country?
I always assumed it was an American thing and that it was a tiny cult type following. Recently though, I have noticed two members of my family (both older working class men) spending a lot of time on the computer "researching" this stuff. It started with simple comments but now its getting to a point where they link me content that is Jow Forums tier. I guess you could say they are red pilled, but its not so funny when I realise the impact it is having on other members of there family, and how withdrawn and anti-social they are becomming?
Is this a growing trend overseas too? I am seeing more and more older men spouting the same shit you read on Jow Forums and I really cbf having another Christmas lunch while talking about how unfair divorce is on men.
how could it be just an "american thing" when new zealand is barely behind us in obesity rates and fucks more sheep than people in a year you dumb fucking kiwi
i am absolutely baffled why anyone in the world would believe that the earth is flat like a disc, humans have known the surface of the earth was curved since antiquity for fuck's sake. eratosthenes actually computed the circumference of the earth accurately. also you can see that the earth casts a curved shadow during a lunar eclipse, you can see a boat disappear below the horizon as it travels away from you towards the oceans, and if you high enough in altitude you can actually see the surface of the earth CURVE. anyone who thinks the earth is flat is just plain stupid.
Robert Myers
Most of the YouTube videos seem to be by Brits.
Lincoln Bennett
>American thing modern flat earth theory was founded by an English bible literalist
you have to understand that this is a mega conspiracy. they think that essentially most of science is a hoax. images of the earth are a hoax (NASA is a hoax). historical accounts are a hoax. media is a hoax. education is a hoax, etc.
it's actually less about "the earth IS flat" and more "the conspiracy is so great they could lie to us about things like the earth being round".
see what i mean?
Ayden Brooks
no they actually think it’s flat. my uncle does.
Samuel Morales
thanks for entirely missing my point
guess stupidity runs in the family
James Hill
stop projecting
Joshua Russell
Belief systems are mostly just that. Either of you in this thread probably couldn't successfully debate a flat earther. You have to be trained in the facts of the matter to be able to debate them and most people just assume what they've been taught is right.
Josiah Perry
>He dropped out of school at the age of 9. Shocker
Brandon Jones
Its a good post, but assuming this is the case how do you deal with it without arguing with people?
hmm
Camden Mitchell
Are you replying to (me) Without giving a (you)
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What the fuck is wrong with you??????
Anyway you learn some things and stop being a retard. I'm a literal genius 140 IQ so it's not hard for me, generally I go straight to the issue of timezones. When you do argue you don't act like an emotional bitch and you are humble and don't try to claim things you can't prove even if you think they're true--can you prove off the top of your head that NASA's images of the Earth are real or raw data?
Parker Green
Idiots are everywhere, but I don't think anyone seriously believes it here and if they do they just get laughed at in their face.
Grayson Torres
I wanted to join society but they were out of pin badges and when they finally made more I found out delivery price, no membership for me bros...
Dominic Fisher
bad post sorry american
Adam Rogers
What the fuck?
Josiah Wright
It seems clear to me atleast that the 'official stoy' is fucky and not the complete truth but sadly most people here are conformist tards who just repeat what big man on tv says so im mostly relegated to discussing it on the internet. dont meet many dutch people there either sadly. usa seems really cool about that theyve even got complete flat earth conventions
Jeremiah Hernandez
They're called epicycles, some Greek came up with the idea a couple thousand years ago and it hung around being repeated by stupid people until we discovered our first asteroids.
Adam Perez
>constellations change depending on latitude
Hmm, if the world was flat, then why can't I see all of them from where I'm at?
Cameron Williams
>It seems clear to me atleast that the 'official stoy' is fucky What did you even mean by this?
Isaiah Diaz
>story is obviously meant to be story the story the government and the media is pushing about the us knowing 100% what shape/strutcture the earth is, is obviously false ( that said BOTH the flat earth and globe-earth hypotheses are false and both sides have little evidence besides name calling) i mean we went from 'scientists' and governments pushing a flat earth to them pushing a spherical earth, and now they are saying 'its not really spherical its more ellipsoid ' and it keeps changing and changing...why not a cube earth in 100 years?
