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I hate the flat earth society, they are the stupidist people in the "globe".
"Obviously it isn't perfectly flat, thanks to geological phenomena like hills and valleys."
Baloney! :hatred:
Hills and valleys are faked by big army brass, just like the moon landings.
For the record, neither the Bible nor the ancient Greeks describe the earth as flat, although both used the phrase "the four corners of the earth" as a figure of speech to describe the four cardinal directions.
When people make up their minds that the world is run by vast conspiracies, they are automatically shut to all other evidence . . . whether they be flat earthers, Holocaust deniers, moon landing debunkers, or 9/11 conspiracy geeks.
My grandmother firmly believed the moonlandings were faked.
She also thought Amy Carter was severely mentally retarded and this fact was being hidden from the public by the government.
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I'm With Stupid
I wonder why they think anyone would bother to lie about the earth being a sphere, if in fact it is flat. I can't really see what anyone would gain from that.
And after all these years, why haven't these people chartered and airplane to take them to the edge of the earth? They could prove themselves right that way.
And is it flat on the bottom as well?
Their theories on how it can by daytime in the US while simultaneously being nighttime in China must be pretty interesting. Of course, China might just be a fabrication I guess.
You really have to wonder what combination of ignorance and insanity makes people subscribe to such goofy beliefs beyond the age of 4 or 5. Really, that's about when the whole round earth thing was explained to me, and it made perfect sense then. Even if you somehow believe the astronauts, scientists and airlines of all nations have managed to keep this secret, as part of some vast conspiracy led by globe manufacturers (the most sensible reason for it I could come up with), you only need a rudimentary understanding of physics to see why a flat earth is far less likely than a globe. And I only need to turn on my TV to see that there are satellites in orbit. And apparently the entire Cold War was a hoax, or at least the space race, because you'd think the Soviet Union might have had something to say about a faked moon landing. Honestly, human stupidity knows no bounds.
The only belief people like this make me question is my belief in free speech.
I think the earth is lumpy but not truly flat or round.
You don't even need satellite images to know the earth is round. As has been mentioned, the ancient Greeks managed to figure it out without the aid of satellite photos. I've heard three different ways of proving the earth is round. 1. Observing the earth's curved shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. 2. Watching ships sink below the horizon as they go out to sea (rather than falling off the edge). 3. Astronomical observations of the poisitions of constellations at various points around the world.
Even if you believe the moon landing was faked, how would you avoid those three proofs?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 14, 2008, 08:33:11 PM
Even if you believe the moon landing was faked, how would you avoid those three proofs?
"LALALALALALALALALA! I'M NOT LISTENING! LALALALALALALALALA!"
I wonder if all these people are trying to pull our legs? It'd be the world's biggest practical joke yet!
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"Circumnavigation is a case of traveling in a very broad circle across the surface of the Earth."
According to that map/theory, doesn't that mean the earth should be cone shaped, not flat?
None of these people must be able to drive either. If you drive down a really, really long road, you can't see the end and that's because of the curvature of the earth. :lookingup:
It's ROUND!!!! HERES PROOF!!!!
I DON"T THINK THE WORLD IS FLAT AT ALL-I THINK IT"S ROUND AS A BALL!!! LALALALALALA-TRA-LA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuvRFZ4Mxbo
Judas Priest think it's round too......so that means it is! :hatred:
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Quote from: indianasmith on August 14, 2008, 05:23:36 PM
When people make up their minds that the world is run by vast conspiracies, they are automatically shut to all other evidence . . . whether they be flat earthers, Holocaust deniers, moon landing debunkers, or 9/11 conspiracy geeks.
I think there's a deeper issue at hand here... The fact these people think so many would lie about something so obviously true is amazing.
There is a thin line between instinct for survival and paranoia. Unfortunately a vast amount of people can't seem to separate the two. True paranoia can be very detrimental; it can destroy individuals and even whole families (by the affected person). The worst part is that paranoia is often contagious.
Quote from: circus_circus on August 15, 2008, 06:31:11 AM
Judas Priest think it's round too......so that means it is! :hatred:
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Well...that settles it! If Cartoons and Judas Priest say it's round-so it must be!
DEATH to the FLAT EARTHLINGS! WE MUST VANQUISH THEM, Least they infect us with they're Satanic foolishness! :hot:
Their theories of gravity must be quite interesting. Gravity pulls everything towards the center of whatever object you're on, which works out just fine on a sphere shaped planet. But on a disk, once you got away from the center of it, gravity would be pulling sideways. Of course, that would create a problem with things like oceans, which would tend to collect in the center of the disk. You'd have to have a long cylinder-shaped planet with us living on one of the flat ends for it to work. And still you'd be standing fairly crooked if you went to, say, Argentina.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 15, 2008, 06:54:14 AM
Well...that settles it! If Cartoons and Judas Priest say it's round-so it must be!
Well, if we are gonna let rockers decide, we cannot discount THIS point of view:
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(PS: I always thought this was one of the coolest album covers).
Finding the edge of the earth is easy. You'll find it after fighting off a cyclops, avoiding sirens, dodging an evil witch who will turn your crew into pigs and finally sailing past Scylla and Charybdis. Here is a pic from one of my vacations in that area.
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Good times, good times...
Even if we don't go into discussions of physics or astronomy or geology, things like compass bearings, weather, day and night, and seasons wouldn't work on a disc. Neither would climate. How is this thing cold in the middle and at the edge, but hot in between? Why does the night sky look different from different parts of it?
Maybe climate is an elaborate hoax, and people who travel to other latitudes are brainwashed into thinking the weather is different there. It's a similar process to when people are knocked out on trips across the southern hemisphere, to hide the unusual length of the trip.
The thing I still don't understand is the why. Assuming a secret that big could be kept from all but a few people, who must be extremely intelligent to have deduced its existence with no actual evidence, what purpose would the deception serve? What would make it worth the trillions of dollars, the international cooperation and the unheard-of level of secrecy needed to pull it off?
I have a theory. Maybe the people who live on the other side of the disc want to remain hidden. This would be an alien race who built the disc, which admittedly could not have formed naturally. They equipped it with artificial gravity, time distortion fields, a dome with adjustable refractive properties to control day and night, and a vast network of heat pumps to transfer heat from the edge and the middle to the area in between. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government, business and academia in all countries. They pump fossil fuels from the other side to our oil wells, and likewise operate the equipment that runs our volcanoes, earthquakes, weather. They also planted fossils and geological formations to fool us. You will note that the creationists have also managed to piece together part of the puzzle. The reason is because these aliens want to study us in secret, and have been doing so for thousands of years. For what purpose? Only they know, and possibly the Scientologists.
Amazing what you can come up with if you start with a crazy assumption.
Quote from: AndyC on August 15, 2008, 08:32:52 AM
Even if we don't go into discussions of physics or astronomy or geology, things like compass bearings, weather, day and night, and seasons wouldn't work on a disc. Neither would climate. How is this thing cold in the middle and at the edge, but hot in between? Why does the night sky look different from different parts of it?
Maybe climate is an elaborate hoax, and people who travel to other latitudes are brainwashed into thinking the weather is different there. It's a similar process to when people are knocked out on trips across the southern hemisphere, to hide the unusual length of the trip.
The thing I still don't understand is the why. Assuming a secret that big could be kept from all but a few people, who must be extremely intelligent to have deduced its existence with no actual evidence, what purpose would the deception serve? What would make it worth the trillions of dollars, the international cooperation and the unheard-of level of secrecy needed to pull it off?
I have a theory. Maybe the people who live on the other side of the disc want to remain hidden. This would be an alien race who built the disc, which admittedly could not have formed naturally. They equipped it with artificial gravity, time distortion fields, a dome with adjustable refractive properties to control day and night, and a vast network of heat pumps to transfer heat from the edge and the middle to the area in between. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government, business and academia in all countries. They pump fossil fuels from the other side to our oil wells, and likewise operate the equipment that runs our volcanoes, earthquakes, weather. They also planted fossils and geological formations to fool us. You will note that the creationists have also managed to piece together part of the puzzle. The reason is because these want to study us in secret, and have been doing so for thousands of years. For what purpose? Only they know, and possibly the Scientologists.
Amazing what you can come up with if you start with a crazy assumption.
Wow, well it would make an awesome movie...
Well, you can't bring a logical argument to someone who is completely illogical.
That's kind of like asking if 9/11 REALLY happened: were you there? Have you had direct contact with someone who saw it? Just because there are images on TV do not mean it necessarily happened right? 'Tell it to the families of the dead' you may say, but do you know any of them? :buggedout: Disinformation is a crazy thing...
For all I know all you people on this website are fakes, just robotic algorithm's programmed to make me think there's more out there...
And I'm sure there are people out there who think like all of this... crazies!!!
Quote from: AndyC on August 15, 2008, 08:32:52 AM
I have a theory. Maybe the people who live on the other side of the disc want to remain hidden. This would be an alien race who built the disc, which admittedly could not have formed naturally. They equipped it with artificial gravity, time distortion fields, a dome with adjustable refractive properties to control day and night, and a vast network of heat pumps to transfer heat from the edge and the middle to the area in between. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government, business and academia in all countries. They pump fossil fuels from the other side to our oil wells, and likewise operate the equipment that runs our volcanoes, earthquakes, weather. They also planted fossils and geological formations to fool us. You will note that the creationists have also managed to piece together part of the puzzle. The reason is because these want to study us in secret, and have been doing so for thousands of years. For what purpose? Only they know, and possibly the Scientologists.
Amazing what you can come up with if you start with a crazy assumption.
Maybe it's the Illuminati :teddyr:
Quote from: circus_circus on August 15, 2008, 11:04:01 AM
Maybe it's the Illuminati :teddyr:
Or the Freemasons. Can't rule them out. Elaborate, yet entirely pointless conspiracies are all around us. :buggedout: