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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Iunnrais@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Flat earthers don’t believe in a flat earth. What they actually believe is that Satan is fighting a war for the minds of people, and education is a tool of satan to lead you away from god. All other nonsense they spew stems from that— they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat because the education system, which they believe to be from Satan, tells you it’s spherical.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.

    It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I’m like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn’t feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.

    I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.

    She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.

    Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I’d destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But hey, she listened. Thats something most never do.

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    • Iunnrais@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think your wife’s case was actually significantly different from “flat earthers”, as a community. There’s ignorance, which can be corrected with knowledge and information and reasoning, and there’s willful defiance, which cannot. The very fact that she was freaked out and had a crisis, which enabled facts to enter her head, demonstrates that.

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      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, the true flatearthers deny what they are hearing and dig in deeper

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      • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agree, and if earth was indeed flat, these people would claim it was a sphere.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Whenever someone curls up in a fetal position and has an existential crisis, I KNOW that they are doing something right.

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good job lad

      Relevant xkcd

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What were your core talking points and structure that you managed to teach gravitational theory and heliocentrism in 4 hrs?

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      did you tell her if the sun was so small it can fit inside the earth, everything wouldve been vaporized near its vicinity, let alone the gravitational effects being to a object that small.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, they believe the earth is flat because the Bible says so; and the earth is young because the Bible says so, and that science is the devil’s work because it contradicts a book written by Bronze Age goat herders retconned by a guy in the Iron Age that got killed for telling the Roman’s he was king of the Jews.

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    • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is one of my favorite summaries of just how ridiculous religion can become. Only thing I want to fund a way to add would a condemnation of monotheism. Seems that had a whole lot to do with how the concept of religion has become so corruptible. Instead of the point being the betterment of your own tribe it becomes about how every other tribe is less than you.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Technically, this isn’t even a case of religion going crazy. The flat Earth conspiracy actually started out in the German Nazi party and were eventually pushed out because even the Nazis thought they were too crazy.

        Notice how many of them mention a vague “they” as the ones maintaining the conspiracy. That’s them referring to Jewish people. While this is notmal for most conspiracy theories, few directly originated from the Nazis.

        If you want more detail, there’s a couple episodes of Behind the Bastards explaining it. I definitely recommend giving them a listen

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah. its ridiculous. Rather than accept that there’s some inaccuracies and that parts of the bible contain mistakes and say something like “but most of it is true” … they double down, triple and quadruple down. They have to get increasingly improbable theories to explain how all this evidence isn’t really real. Fossils are planted by satan, to lead people astray; there’s a massive World Order whose sole job is to keep this secret for some strange reason.

        like. they could just build a rocket and launch it into space and see for themselves. Or some really simple experiments involving sticks and shadows. that allowed them to determine the distance of the sun from the earth, it’s circumference, and can be replicated with some lumber and fifty bucks in the gastank.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat

    Similar with the anarcho capitalist types

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      exactly like cult beliefs. dont believe with your eyes and ears.

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• zedgeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But… but… I posted it as a joke, so it is?? Please??

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nope. It’s science now because you posted it in Science Memes. You just single handedly destroyed years of accumulated knowledge with your careless shitposting. Way to go, bud. Bravo.

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    • zedgeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      DAMN YOU AND YOUR LOGIC, KOLANAKI!

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The only way to solve this is to assemble an angry mob with torches and threaten to burn the heretic

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s all fun and games tricking idiots into believing dumb shit, until they become fundamentalists.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And then vote

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  flat earthers=flat personality and flat brains.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flat EEG

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