does anyone REALLY believe that the Earth is flat?

martinedwards

I mean REALLY????

Car99

Its flat up to a point where it rounds off after that

Dravokivich

Its the loudness wars, no dynamic range to it anymore.

Manach

Flat, of course not. As any educated person knows, it is a curved shell of the Great A'tuin being carried across space by four elephants.

Ekerot

The Earth is actually a cube, believe it or not

Buford T. Justice XIX

Of course they do, the Flat Earth society has members all round the world!

Feisar

No but it's amazing how gravity effects ones perception of upright.

If a person was standing at the south pole and they could be viewed from space would they appear upside down?

Oink

If you’re part of an uncontacted tribe say in the Pacific, being a flat-earther is a belief. In Western society, I would call it a psych diagnosis.

NovemberWren

dimensions are up, down, right, left, and time. and now there may be 10 more dimensions, at least.
and so, Jesus may actually have walked on water.

Manach

Manach wrote: »

Flat, of course not. As any educated person knows, it is a curved shell of the Great A'tuin being carried across space by four elephants.

And what's holding up the elephants, eh?

ITISYOSU!

COVID

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

Of course they do, the Flat Earth society has members all round the world!

You probably think you're really clever saying that, but Bill Gates, 5G, Vaccines, etc. Whereas, Jim Corr, David Icke and the rest, one of them even smiled at the camera when he was on TV, which of course, is controlled by Jeff Bezos and George Soros. C.O.V.I.D.-19
Conspiracy
Of
Vicious
International
Demagogues

...haven't quite worked out what the '19' represents, but I'll have a bash after I have me tea.

Oink

NovemberWren wrote: »

dimensions are up, down, right, left, and time. and now there may be 10 more dimensions, at least.
and so, Jesus may actually have walked on water.

Dimensions, not directions.

odyssey06

Does anyone really believe they are standing on a ball of rock hurtling through space?

Intellectually yes but deep down...

Snotty

I was out with the spirit level yesterday, the earth is flat at the front of my house, but there's a good slope at the back

Man with broke phone

God convinced Abraham to kill his son, after watching him wrestle with his conscience for a while and decide to do it said ah ha Im only messing.

God genocided the whole earth except Moses and his family.

He sent his son to earth and had him murdered by Jews.

Then when one angel had the balls to stand up to him we were told that this angel was the bad guy.

We all believed it. We accused this new angels followers of being murderers and rapists while gods followers were murdering and raping.

Flat earthers dont believe everything they are told. They may not even believe the earth is flat. They just think you should question everything.

If you cant understand that you will probably happily work as a teacher or hospital porter or some job where you can be told how to do the same thing year on year in the same building for the rest of your days. Happily eating the same sandwhiches for the rest of your lunches. All the while Joe Bidens son sells secrets to chinese spy chiefs and talks openly about it on tape and they tell you Trumps a baddy.

And you swallow it all up.


No questions asked.

Plumbthedepths

People believe in religion, so why not.

John Frank Wilson

I happen to believe the earth is indeed flat. As flat as spherical, round, circular, three-dimensional, rotund... globe-shaped, spherical pancake.

Greentopia

martinedwards wrote: »

I mean REALLY????

How long have you been on the internet? of course there are flat earther loons out there. Mostly Americans it seems...unsurprisingly.

Hamsterchops

martinedwards wrote: »

does anyone REALLY believe that the Earth is flat?

Thomas Dolby released an album in the 1980s called The Flat Earth.

johnnyskeleton

odyssey06 wrote: »

Does anyone really believe they are standing on a ball of rock hurtling through space?

Intellectually yes but deep down...

Deep down its more molten iron and nickle than rock

Rothko

For the sake of my own sanity, I refuse to believe that anyone really thinks that the earth is flat.

Pauliedragon

Of course it's flat. Sure when I was down in Oz I had to do a handstand just so I could take a dump.

mistersifter

Eddie Bravo.

Manach

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

People believe in religion, so why not.

Some people never grow out of their edgy teenage opinioned phase either.

TheValeyard

Kermit.de.frog

You should watch this fella OP. He takes the piss out of them every week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZX2f1KJJA

arex93

I wish I could be rich enough to pay a space trip for a bunch of flat earth believers just to see their faces.

TheValeyard

arex93 wrote: »

I wish I could be rich enough to pay a space trip for a bunch of flat earth believers just to see their faces.

On that...

ILoveYourVibes

Yup ..my brother met a girl who did from america ..she didn't believe in evolution either

We asked her how she got here from the states if the world was flat without falling off ....she said gravity...

Pauliedragon

arex93 wrote: »

I wish I could be rich enough to pay a space trip for a bunch of flat earth believers just to see their faces.

You don't need to go to space to prove that. All they need is a trip to the nearest beach. Ask them to explain why the sky meets the ocean when they look out.

SouthWesterly

I know someone who believes it. He's not American.

PsychoPete

I've a friend who 100% believes the earth is flat, I asked her why the water doesn't just flow the edge and apparently there is a giant ice wall around the earth

kenmc

PsychoPete wrote: »

I've a friend who 100% believes the earth is flat, I asked her why the water doesn't just flow the edge and apparently there is a giant ice wall around the earth

That's well and good for now, but when global warming really kicks in....

Potential-Monke

Well we also have people who believe chocolate milk comes directly from brown cows, so...

Atlantic Dawn

A €20 return foot passenger ferry ticket to Holyhead and back would tell you it's not flat.

Dravokivich

PsychoPete wrote: »

I've a friend who 100% believes the earth is flat, I asked her why the water doesn't just flow the edge and apparently there is a giant ice wall around the earth

Do they get their maps from Civilization games?

drake70

Dravokivich

drake70 wrote: »

Would have been easier to use the suez and Panama canals.

gozunda

For anyone interested in realife flat earth realities - Read the DiscWorld series by Terry Prachett :pac:

The Mighty Quinn

I once went on a few dates with a girl who I rather liked, very pretty. I can't remember how it came up, but she told me one night out for something to eat, "I don't believe in dinosaurs".

I asked her what she meant, it's a strange thing to say. "I just don't believe in them, they weren't real, they didn't exist"... but.. but, there's fossils, hard evidence, they existed a long time ago! "No, I'm tired of people trying to convince me that they were real, they were made up for cartoons and films and childrens books".

The blooming romance fizzled out fairly rapidly that evening. Some things I cannot see past, I could never pretend that I was cool with that thought process!!

The Mighty Quinn

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

The blooming romance fizzled out fairly rapidly that evening. Some things I cannot see past, I could never pretend that I was cool with that thought process!!

I think that was her way of avoiding having to say, 'It's not you, it's me.'

tjdaly

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

I once went on a few dates with a girl who I rather liked, very pretty. I can't remember how it came up, but she told me one night out for something to eat, "I don't believe in dinosaurs".

I asked her what she meant, it's a strange thing to say. "I just don't believe in them, they weren't real, they didn't exist"... but.. but, there's fossils, hard evidence, they existed a long time ago! "No, I'm tired of people trying to convince me that they were real, they were made up for cartoons and films and childrens books".

The blooming romance fizzled out fairly rapidly that evening. Some things I cannot see past, I could never pretend that I was cool with that thought process!!

Funny, I would have found that cool and intriguing. You clearly weren't meant for her, and perhaps have a controlling impulse when it comes to women. Your road or the high road it would seem. Then again, my girlfriend also doesn't believe dinosaurs were real. Doesn't bother me one bit, we riff on all sorts of topics.

Most of these things are a useful exercise in skepticism in my opinion. Whereas many on boards will just see it as an excuse to point and laugh from the sidelines, group bonding at its finest, read into that what you will.

Dial Hard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And what's holding up the elephants, eh?

It's elephants all the way down.

The Mighty Quinn

tjdaly wrote: »

Funny, I would have found that cool and intriguing. You clearly weren't meant for her, and perhaps have a controlling impulse when it comes to women. Your road or the high road it would seem. Then again, my girlfriend also doesn't believe dinosaurs were real. Doesn't bother me one bit, we riff on all sorts of topic.

Talk about conjecture.

Dial Hard

Dial Hard wrote: »

It's elephants all the way down.

Nope - it's turtles all the way down. Maybe there are elephants on turtles but the turtle is yer man.

Dial Hard

StevieHardesty wrote: »

Nope - it's turtles all the way down. Maybe there are elephants on turtles but the turtle is yer man.

Well at least someone got the reference.

Dial Hard

Dial Hard wrote: »

Well at least someone got the reference.

ITISYOSU
I
TAKE-IT
I
SET
YOU
OR
SOMEONE
UP


But, I arsed it up. It's turtles all the way down. Morto!!

PsychoPete

Dravokivich wrote: »

Do they get their maps from Civilization games?

She tried to make me watch a 90 minute youtube video as "proof"

Xtrail14

Flat here on my offshore island on mayo

Mal-Adjusted

To take the OP's question seriously for a second, the flat earth society is mostly a combination of people there for the lolz, contrarians who want to be different, a number of grifters looking to make bank off of the whole thing and a small number of true believers. If you watch a few flat earth videos and read the comments, you'll begin to notice a few common themes.

One is an inability to grasp scale. They simply can't get their heads around how massive the Earth and Solar Syatem is.
Two is their $h!tty "experiments" that mess up numbers, have no control and ignore any variables that don't suit them ("water on spinning tennis ball" and "water always finds it's level" bieng two examples). They also infamously covered up results that prove the opposite of a flat earth.
Three is that they usually lean super religious and try to cite the bible as evidence for a flat earth. Ive gotten into a couple of discussions with flat earthers online and it always comes back to Jesus with them...always.
Four is that there is a strong willingness to believe any and every conspiracy theory going. Chemtrails, 5G masts, fake moon landing...all of it. This allows them to all believe each others contradictory bull$h!t as they go further down the rabbit hole to unexplain the world. It currently stands as...

The earth is a flat disc with the North pole at it's centre. Around the outer edge is a game of thrones style ice wall that we know as Antarctica. Beyond that there may or may not be more continents full of mineral wealth. Antarctica is off limits due to the antarctic treaty and full of milliraty patrols who dissapear anyone who finds out the truth. All of this is covered is a Simpsons-movie-style giant dome called the firmament that keeps the atmosphere from escaping. It goes much, much deeper than that but you get the point.

An Ri rua

martinedwards wrote: »

I mean REALLY????

We believe that it's a flat globe.

Ok????

Jesus (woops)...