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But everyone knows the earth is round.... just like a pancake 
Posted: 12:21 May 01 2006
Debate: This can't be real... can it?
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Spotted a link to this during my half-hourly web browse, and got both rather amused and confused. I try to, at least in theory, respect the beliefs of others so long as they respect others and their beliefs - but this is a real doozy, so much so that I can't even tell if it's real or an intentional joke. I haven't seen scope like this for 'suspension of disbelief' outside a movie since the 2000 US election. See for yourself.
The Flat Earth Society
What do you think? And what're your stances regarding the differing beliefs of others (whether scientific, religous, politicial or otherwise) and how seriously do you take them?
(Edited by Staff 02/05/2006 14:36)
Spotted a link to this during my half-hourly web browse, and got both rather amused and confused. I try to, at least in theory, respect the beliefs of others so long as they respect others and their beliefs - but this is a real doozy, so much so that I can't even tell if it's real or an intentional joke. I haven't seen scope like this for 'suspension of disbelief' outside a movie since the 2000 US election. See for yourself.
The Flat Earth Society
What do you think? And what're your stances regarding the differing beliefs of others (whether scientific, religous, politicial or otherwise) and how seriously do you take them?
(Edited by Staff 02/05/2006 14:36)
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But the moon landings proved it's flat: they couldn't afford 3D effects on the soundstage.
And being careful not to reignite World War III, I've always thought there's an important difference between respecting a belief and tolerating it.
Nah, amazingly it's kosher, genuine, the real McCoy. Even met a member once. They made the Lone Gunmen look staid in their passions.
by Alan
... this is a real doozy, so much so that I can't even tell if it's real or an intentional joke ...
And being careful not to reignite World War III, I've always thought there's an important difference between respecting a belief and tolerating it.
Posted: 18:17 May 01 2006 
Believing in something that is impossible to disprove and that holds some merrit is one thing, I can respect that. But believing in something that is so easy to disprove is just lunacy...
Posted: 10:05 May 02 2006
When I see these things I always wonder.... do these people really believe it themselves or do they just enjoy the attention of being different. You always have a nice conversation starter I guess, and if people are drunk enough and you have some compelling "factoids" you might even attract some new believers
Posted: 10:28 May 02 2006
Damn, perhaps not so kosher after all.
Finding the reference to the earth resting on four elephants in the Flat Earthers' FAQ leads me to think perhaps, just perhaps, it's a pisstake of proportions more epic than the theory it claims to promote. And according Wikipedia the actual Flat Earth Society might have folded a couple of years back.
Devious buggers.
But I still met a bonafide flat earther back in the day. Yippiee!
Finding the reference to the earth resting on four elephants in the Flat Earthers' FAQ leads me to think perhaps, just perhaps, it's a pisstake of proportions more epic than the theory it claims to promote. And according Wikipedia the actual Flat Earth Society might have folded a couple of years back.
Devious buggers.
But I still met a bonafide flat earther back in the day. Yippiee!
Posted: 00:13 May 03 2006 
Whats more interesting is that the idea that everyone used to think the earth was flat, and they we became enlightened relatively recently, is bollards.
Virtually all the main historical navigators and astronomers believed the earth was a 3 dimensional shape, sometimes a sphere, sometimes an egg or pear shaped, but rarely if ever, flat.
The whole 'everyone used to think the world was flat' thing is yet another example of romantic victorian 'creative' history.
Virtually all the main historical navigators and astronomers believed the earth was a 3 dimensional shape, sometimes a sphere, sometimes an egg or pear shaped, but rarely if ever, flat.
The whole 'everyone used to think the world was flat' thing is yet another example of romantic victorian 'creative' history.
Posted: 12:21 May 04 2006
Well said Wo, and this whole "church burning people for saying the earth is round" notion is also bollards. The likes of Francis Bacon and Erasmus openly wrote that the Earth was round, and it's referred to as a globe in Geoffrey Chaucher's Canterbury Tales.
Dodgy Victorian history has a lot to answer for!
Dodgy Victorian history has a lot to answer for!
Posted: 19:01 May 04 2006