Flat Earthers- what to do with em

Flat Earthers- what to do with em

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10,668 posts

277 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Friend of mine for some reason has latched onto the flat earth malarkey in a big way. Literally daily on my fb feed there is a video or other "proof", and he gets into some right old heated arguments with folk.
Obviously I could block or unfollow, but he's otherwise a decent enough guy, he's a fellow car nut and builds his own engines/cars etc.
I'm puzzling having looked at a few of his posts about when this all recently became a big thing again and how?

Some of his "proofs" ( generally share of other people's stuff)-
fish eye lenses used in all videos about the globe
You can get into space with helium balloons
You can't fly over the arctic / Antarctic (Or you will see the "ice walls" at the end)
NASA is Hebrew for deceit ..
If we were on a globe spinning through space the star patterns would change..
Using a periscope from under water you can see miles in a submarine....
And various other nonsense.

These people appear to get really het up. Apparently we just need to open our eyes to the deceit and stop being sheep.

Anyone else been daft enough to want to respond and ask questions but can't knowing you'll just get dragged in and waste your life arguing?
Just a bit puzzled as they seem to have dropped 9/11 conspiracy theories and gone onto this now. He also posts up lots of other conspiracy related stuff too, it looks like a full time job at times.

big alpha male

52 posts

74 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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nuts

vonhosen

40,198 posts

216 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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It's true.
Proof.


Plate spinner

17,649 posts

199 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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If he’s a mate the right thing to do is respect he has alternate views to yourself and just to treat him in the normal way and enjoy him for the person he is. If the subject creates conflict, just avoid it.

Personally though, I’d sack him right off. Weird and thick was never a combo I could tolerate long term.

generationx

6,644 posts

104 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Throw him over the edge

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Original Poster:

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277 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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It's very bizarre. It used to be illuminati stuff all the time. I just ignore it and accept he just thinks differently. But the flat earth stuff (to someone with an engineers brain) seems just too far out there
I'm tempted to ask what "they" are gaining from deceiving us all, it must have cost trillions to do so.
He can see the moon at night, that's round, how do they explain that one away?

Puzzling lol

InitialDave

11,854 posts

118 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have flat earth stuff in my FB feed than some of the inane political opinions I see.

Suggest you take the same approach I do, if you're otherwise friendly with them. Put their stuff on filter so you don't see it unless you actively go looking for it.

cobra kid

4,906 posts

239 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Thousands of believers "around the world"

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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I tend to view it in much the same way as more extreme religious beliefs, climate change denial, etc. There's no point in trying to change the views of people who wont believe the consensus of scientific proof because they've generally already rejected the best evidence that there can be against their viewpoint.

I get around the Facebook problem by not using Facebook. smile

Stu08

696 posts

116 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Or is the moon disc shaped; we just coincidentally see it from the correct angle for it to appear spherical...........

kambites

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220 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Stu08 said:
Or is the moon disc shaped; we just coincidentally see it from the correct angle for it to appear spherical...........
Well it is tidally locked to the earth so we do always see the same side. However, if it was flat, you'd be able to see the turtle's head sticking out.

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Prove him wrong.

Vaud

50,288 posts

154 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Leave him on as a friend but Unfollow his posts?

daddy cool

3,996 posts

228 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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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".

rallycross

12,744 posts

236 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Push them over the edge? (and according to these idiots there must be an edge somewhere if its not a sphere)?

mickk

28,769 posts

241 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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Tell him to set off walking one morning in a straight line.

MTech535

613 posts

110 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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You cannot reach the edge.

NASA guards will shoot you from the ice wall!

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Friday 26th January 2018
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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.

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Friday 26th January 2018
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rallycross said:
Push them over the edge? (and according to these idiots there must be an edge somewhere if its not a sphere)?
At the poles. The no fly zones "they" have are proof of this.

Monty Python

4,812 posts

196 months

Friday 26th January 2018
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We've had ships for hundreds of years, aircraft for over a hundred and photography for a couple of hundred, yet in all that time, not one person has reached the "edge" and taken a photograph....I wonder why.