The Earth is Flat

[MCN]

I'm sat on my Arse watching BBC iPlayer.
Who are the Flat Earthers?

What the Utter Fuck.

We have 500 registered flat Earthers in Scotland.

We have space in the asylums why are they not locked up for their own safety?
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[Pjay]

I'm still convinced they are trolls.
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[chickenstrip]

[GSTEEL32]

I found the whole argument fully engaging.

It does you good sometimes to question the things you take at face value. Especially the things we were taught at school without the forum for debate.

I don't have enough academical understanding of physics to have an opinion, but it did make me think about the validity of what we define as the "norm".

[Pjay]

What really gets me is when they say it's a NASA led conspiracy.
To what end? What does anyone have to gain from the earth being a sphere or flat? It makes no sense on that level at all.

Not to mention the Ancient Greeks worked it out a long time ago, well before NASA had anything to say about it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-experiment-the-ancient-greeks-used-to-show-the-earth-isnt-flat-2017-12?r=US&IR=T
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[chickenstrip]

I sometimes wonder if someone like Kim Jong Un isn't spraying some kind of chemical agent around the the globe (yeah, AROUND THE GLOBE ) that's turning everyone's brains to mush
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[Ste]

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[Bhud]

I don't believe for one moment that most of them believe that the earth is flat. But they're making the argument anyway. Why? Because this argument is really about poststructuralism in linguistics vs structuralists' scientifically determined definitions.

Example: "a real man is a grown human being who was born with XY chromosomes which can be found in every cell" vs "a real man is someone of whose life choices I approve (i.e. isn't a drug dealing scumbag, isn't a coward, etc.)" This one's really tricky because the first definition is based on biological determinism, yet if you accept the second and the first, it opens Pandora's box to all sorts of uncomfortable questions. Is a special forces soldier more of a man than an office worker? What if the office worker has more testosterone? What if a woman doses up on huge amounts of testosterone?

Another example: "Jesus is the son of God" (Christian) vs "Jesus is the prophet of God" (Muslim) vs "Jesus is an intertextual construct, possibly allegorical, within a functional literary narrative" (historicist). Well, are they talking about the same character? No. The Christian god and the Muslim god are different, so the Christian Jesus and the Muslim Jesus are different, and the historicist's Jesus is a projected social archetype making certain widely-shared social norms (e.g. "god") possible.

It will be interesting to see which way this argument goes, because it's all about power and nothing else. If you can define and dictate and change the meaning of words, as the poststructuralists would have it, you can redefine what the "world" is, and relegate empirical scientific methodology and proofs to subordinacy. Seems ridiculous to many people now, but who knows when a collection of biological brain cells hooked up to a computer may be fed a stream of data impelling it to carry out certain tasks and make certain decisions based on the world being flat. It's happened before, before the advent of microchips (i.e. before the Age of Enlightenment), and it may happen again. Even without a chip plugged into your brain, you may honestly believe, after sufficient punishments or drugs, not only that the Muslim or Christian or any other version of god is real, but that the earth is flat. For that reason alone, I reckon you can already see who's behind this "movement".

[King29]

Thing is these cunts make it sound convincing. Watch any documentary about planet X Nibiru or watch the Skywatcher channel on YouTube. Scary stuff.

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[chickenstrip]

Thing is, there's lots of space in space. You could even space the asylums out a lot for your spaced-out inmates. You know, so as not to block the view of space.
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[chickenstrip]

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[chickenstrip]

What, you think the Earth is flat?! Where are you typing from, an asylum?
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[MCN]

They take the computers off of us in the asylum.

It just proves that we are right and they do not want us to spread the word coz they are afraid they will lose control of the world.
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[chickenstrip]

[Pete.]

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