Flat Earthers- what to do with em

Flat Earthers- what to do with em

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rufmeister

1,333 posts

122 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Does he smoke weed?

Seems the people on my feed that believe in conspiracies, flat earth, illuminati etc, are all heavy weed smokers.

kambites

67,556 posts

221 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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daddy cool said:
kambites said:
I tend to view it in much the same way as more extreme religious beliefs
Why just the "extreme" religious beliefs? I would class flat-earthism and ALL religion under "stuff what stoopid humans made up".
It's quite possible to be religious without denying any evident science - science doesn't really do anything to prove there isn't a god.

Mafffew

2,149 posts

111 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I refuse to believe "flat earthers" are anything other than some elaborate joke.

alorotom

11,939 posts

187 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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200Plus Club said:
One of the recent "shares" caught my enquiring mind's attention. Some chap (poss australia) is in a "battle" with the freemasons who are pumping toxic cancer causing gas into his house at night and also tampering with his water supply because he keeps exposing the masons and their plans.

The evidence as such was some photographs of his house wiring in the loft wrapped around water pipes and vent duct. He's found the same at his friends and family. He was using a voltmeter in a video to measure resistance in running water out of his tap. I wasted a good hour looking at his fb posts about this as it's relentless. He should come look in the ceilings at every building I've worked in and see the data cabling and telephone wires the lazy arse contractors run without using containment. I was intruiged tho as to how the masons would be sneaking out of their charity luncheons (half pissed) to break into his municipal water supplies or sit pumping gas into his house at night.
That guy to be fair was a fruit loop and clearly needed medical intervention.
There was a chap in the US who had a program made about him and very sikilar but it was the CIA and FBI that apparently sabotaging his life and trying to execute him for exposing ‘truth’s’ - completely bonkers

99dndd

2,084 posts

89 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I have a weird respect for this kind of thing.

I'm pretty sure they all know the earth is round but they're standing up against what the government tells them it is.

Fight on!

Question everything!

etc, etc...

Decky_Q

1,510 posts

177 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Surely a go pro and a big helium balloon for Christmas? Or a few big helium balloons and a plastic chair?

Helical

181 posts

95 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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If it was flat, what stops all the dinosaors/washing machines/oceans falling off the edge?

An ice wall did someone say? What stops that falling off? And assuming its cold enuogh to form such a wall at the edge, being flat it would be broadly the same temperature across the disc I suspect.

Such fun biggrin

It might explain where all my USB sticks have gone over the years though...

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Decky_Q said:
Surely a go pro and a big helium balloon for Christmas? Or a few big helium balloons and a plastic chair?
There is a fella and a steam powered rocket trying to prove this.

DapperDanMan

2,622 posts

207 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Tell him he is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.

PowerslideSWE

1,116 posts

138 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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MTech535 said:
You cannot reach the edge.

NASA guards will shoot you from the ice wall!
The NASA guards if that is what they were are all dead now due to a semi dead dragon melting the ice wall with it's blue fire, or am I barking up a different tree here? wink

Surely flat earthers are just having a laugh? But then again, human stupidity is infinite...

durbster

10,262 posts

222 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Mafffew said:
I refuse to believe "flat earthers" are anything other than some elaborate joke.
People are prone to believing pretty much anything if it's presented in the right way. Flat-earthers are amusing and harmless but is the process to reach that point of view any different to how somebody ends up not vaccinating their children, or even conducting a suicide bombing?

The internet has proven people aren't particularly swayed by even the most compelling and comprehensive evidence, so it's not as simple as presenting the facts. The psychology behind it is extremely complex but it's something we've got to get a grip on in the information age.

Julian Thompson

2,543 posts

238 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Hahah a few years ago we had this really passionate guy working for us who loved to debate things but who ran out of patience when the debate went against him. For about six months prior to the Christmas party I got everyone else in the company to start talking about FE as if they actually believed it. Whichever building he went into the people switched conversations and started chatting about FE!

By Christmas time he was completely confused and sometimes would actually begin to consider that even HE might have to concede that the Earth is, in fact, Flat hehehe.

At the Xmas party we did the big reveal and handed him a little award for putting up with us all - seeing his face was absolutely priceless!!!

Leins

9,467 posts

148 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I'm a cube earther, so as to keep them all happy

Deendog

168 posts

120 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I see you lot are in on it as well

mr_spock

3,341 posts

215 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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200Plus Club said:
NASA is Hebrew for deceit ..
I don't speak Hebrew but I can read the alphabet:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=pl&am...

Hebrew for "deceit" would be pronounced "tarmit", or possibly "rama-oot" for "a deception".

Russian Troll Bot

24,977 posts

227 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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The thing that has always confused me is, even if the world is flat, what reason or gain would governments have to hide it from us? At least with other conspiracy theories like Area 51 or JFK you could make a logical argument as to why it would be kept secret.

Tempest_5

603 posts

197 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Anyone seen David Icke recently? is he still alive or have the reptile space aliens gobbled him up yet ?

I've always viewed goalkeepers suspiciously after his Wogan episode.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

126 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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kambites said:
However, if it was flat, you'd be able to see the turtle's head sticking out.
Just... Ewww.

Gary29

4,155 posts

99 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I can't fathom how any, even semi-intelligent, being could think that the Earth is flat?

Just WHY would NASA be trying to 'fool' us?

Dark85

661 posts

148 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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1.)Suggest a holiday to Tenby
2.) Take him to this bandstand https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6721395,-4.69370...
3.) Look East and see the Gower on the horizon, it looks like an island but it's the end of a peninsular, the google picture is a little messed up but it's there.
4.) Go down to the jetty people are using to the lower right - look in the same direction and you'll see nothing but open water.
5.) Ask him to explain where the Gower has gone.