Flat Earth movement - explain please...

[Red]

We live in the age of conspiracy theories. The Post Truth era. Trust no one. All authority is part of a conspiracy. And belief in the flat Earth is the ultimate conspiracy theory....

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...h-is-the-ultimate-conspiracy-youtube-facebook

"It was Day Two of the first-ever Flat Earth International Conference and I was fried. I had spent the last 48 hours in a hotel ballroom with over 500 flat earthers, listening to hours of lectures from apocalyptic preachers, crank podcast hosts, and self-proclaimed scientists......"

"But the deeper I got into the underground Facebook communities, YouTube channels, and blogs where flat earthers congregate, the more it seemed anything but benign. This is a group of people who have entirely reconstructed their universe out of self-righteousness and spite for authority. It is a worldview where dissent is demonized and pride supersedes fact. The flat earth movement is a look into a post-truth future and a canary in the coal mine of our political discourse. And this conference was the first time the growing community would leave their online forums and come aboveground....."

"As I’d come to find out, the shape of the world is only half the story of flat eartherism. It is also a full assault on authority and its trappings. Resurgence of the idea had traditionally coincided with watershed moments in history beginning with the Protestant reformation, then the Industrial Revolution, and seemingly again now....."

 

[jope]

who care if these dummies think the earth is flat? Doesn’t hurt anyone.

You say that now, but just wait until they push you off the edge of the earth

 

[infection]

If you all want to fret over the magnified existence of a few idiots, and others joining the fold primarily because they like antagonism, then by all means, have at it. If you likewise want to believe that the “post-truth era” and the “age of misinformation” is a new phenomenon that the world has never yet seen until it’s reared its head within the past decade, well, have at that, as well.

 

[Siro]

 

[Gameface]

Flat earthers have members all around the globe!

 

[Gameface]

They are idiots. I work with a guy that is way into conspiracy theories. He is insane. Like for real.

In the end, who care if these dummies think the earth is flat? Doesn’t hurt anyone.

Not to name names but does this guy's name start with a D?

 

[fishonjazz]

Not to name names but does this guy's name start with a D?

Yes. Some of the stuff he says is like really really crazy.

 

[Gameface]

Yes. Some of the stuff he says is like really really crazy.

Yeah, when I was in processing a couple Sunday's ago he started telling me stuff. Some of the other guys came back into the control room and you could tell they were like "ahh ****, not this ****."

 

[infection]

Yeah, when I was in processing a couple Sunday's ago he started telling me stuff. Some of the other guys came back into the control room and you could tell they were like "ahh ****, not this ****."

Did you guys end up on JF because of the recommendation from one of you, or did you end up at your employment because of your JF association and recommendation on that? Or did you both independently end up on JazzFanz and coincidentally work at the same place?

 

[Gameface]

Did you guys end up on JF because of the recommendation from one of you, or did you end up at your employment because of your JF association and recommendation on that? Or did you both independently end up on JazzFanz and coincidentally work at the same place?

I asked Fish at one of my poker games if I could use him as a referral for my application to the place we work. He had talked about the good pay and benefits.

I really like working there, too.

 

[babe]

The amount of them posting under any space video on Facebook is insane. I think you are vastly underestimating their numbers.

Well, since I actually don't know one, have not been told by anyone I know that there is one they know, and have never been told by anyone that they have been told of anyone they know that there is one, or that there is one even third or fourth hand accounts by any of their friends......

I think they exist only in political mythology. Generally, believed by the Left as the foundational belief system of the Right.

In short, people like MVP who know nothing about anyone outside "The Bubble" of politically-correct society. These are the only folks who believe flat-earthers exist.

But I admit, it is irresistible to taunt such "believers".

So of course, I punched the "Yes" button on the poll, but with-held my identification of course.

This is soooooooo much fun.

The Bible doesn't say anything about the shape of the earth. And, mathematically, "flat" would be a zero curvature or an infinite radius.... a limit that would require practically unattainable large numbers. Name a radius. There will be a larger radius which will render your radius lesser, and give your "earth" a non-zero curvature.

I'd expect One Brow to know we can't mathematically prove "flat".

flat is relative, and a good enough idea to use when going to the store for groceries.

 

[babe]

Yeah, when I was in processing a couple Sunday's ago he started telling me stuff. Some of the other guys came back into the control room and you could tell they were like "ahh ****, not this ****."

I bet if you could get him drunk at a party, he'd let on he was only saying that to prove you're an idiot. A lot of people like to talk crap. Doesn't mean they believe it. Really.