The Earth is flat, you fools!

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:42 pm

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I think that's actually true, you can't make out the curve from the ground or even from a regular plane.

So why can you see further from a tower than from the ground ? Special light laws for flatlanders too?

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bill2 wrote:

Special light laws for flatlanders too?

Ahhh Flatland... Click. Too obscure of a reference?

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How do they explain eclipses?

I've been puzzling over the Brendan Voyage reference.
I thought Tim Severin had proved that St brendan went to Iceland and Newfoundland

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:46 pm

craig007 wrote:

If someone told me they believed in this crap, I'd walk away and never speak to them again.

You'd be quite surprised what people are prepared to believe in.

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:51 pm

^^ so true!

This can be seen in the rash of massive safari's we have had lately. Wink

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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:06 am

Jayhawk wrote:

I never did trust NASA. Those bastages have been hiding the fact that the earth is flat from us for ages because .....well...... I don't know how to finish that sentence.

This seems so obvious JH. If they (NASA) don't tell us that the earth is flat, they won't have Billions (with a "B") of dollars of USD to play with every year... Shocked

Nanny Ogg wrote:

How do they explain eclipses?

Those are group hypnotic suggestions. "They" tell us there is going to be an eclipse at such and such a time and we all see it! It is no more than a simple Illusionist trick. You all just fall for it... Razz

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:19 am

best.response.ever.

From the forum there

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Quote from: turtles on Today at 05:44:07 am
Q.Why doesnt all the air fall over the edge?

A. Because you are an idiot who hasn't read the FAQ.

Sites like that confuse me, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. But honestly I get depressed if I ever take the time to think about the minds of some of earth's citizens.

Edit to say I just read some of the FAQ

Quote:

Q: Explain gravity.
A: Gravity does not exist.

Q: What about tides then?
A: Precisely what causes the tides is unknown, although it is theorized by some that the heavenly bodies do exert a slight gravitational pull. One explanation, therefore, is that the moon is causing the tides, with an accompanying body we call the anti-moon located underneath the disk of the earth balancing out the effect we observe. Others feel that the earth simply tips back and forth, thus causing tides.

To dogmatically state that gravity doesn't exist and then use it as a possible reasoning or explanation to defend your views makes me want to break things...for some reason little tiny porcelain figures

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:07 am

kleindoofy wrote:

Do they have any Australian members?

If so, do they post upside down?

I don't like to think about this too much but technically we Aussies ARE hanging upside down on the bottom of the big sphere (or disk if you prefer) compared to you lucky people on the upper surface.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:21 am

Craig, I'm with you in the "they're so f*cking stupid they make me angry" camp. Smile

How do they manage to walk and breathe at the same time? You'd think it would defeat their intellectual ability to make it out of bed each morning. Rolling Eyes

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Q: Explain gravity.
A: Gravity does not exist.

Must have spent years researching the subect to come up with that complexed and well referenced argument Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:13 am

@remmy

That first pic reminded me of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXsuAey-NE

Are you sure you ain't in Belgium?

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Gnasher wrote:

technically we Aussies ARE hanging upside down on the bottom of the big sphere (or disk if you prefer)

That's assuming the galaxy is the right way up of course. Now THERE'S a theory right there...

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:06 pm

I think I'm putting too much thought into this.

What is their theory of gravitation? Just because things always fall DOWN isn't enough. There has to be a reason, doesn't there? So how do they explain it?

(My cat didn't believe in gravity. She had to keep testing to see if it still worked - by pushing things off tables, etc.)

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:11 pm

Define "down" Titania Shocked

If gravity suddenly stopped then I would fly "up" into the sky I see here, but because I'm in Australia I would actually be falling "down" because I am on the under-side of our planet.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:17 pm

Ok I'm going to end this right now, the world is not flat. its banana shaped. Mount Everest is one end and and mount mckinley Washington state is the other end. and I can prove it.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:33 pm

@Tatiana

Their theory on why things when dropped or thrown come back to earth is that their flat earth is always rising at a rate of 9.8m/s! So things don't fall they stay stationary and the earth rises to meet them.

I don't know why I read their FAQ, I know it killed off a few of my brain cells.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:02 pm

^^^But, but, Oh, hell.

It's pointless to argue with illogic.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:24 pm

packman wrote:

Ok I'm going to end this right now, the world is not flat. its banana shaped. Mount Everest is one end and and mount mckinley Washington state is the other end. and I can prove it.

I dare you to tell that to the Flat Earth Society and see how they react. It would amuse me greatly.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:30 pm

The Blackwood Con wrote:

I dare you to tell that to the Flat Earth Society and see how they react. It would amuse me greatly.

You dare me hmmmm brb. Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:30 pm

A couple of years ago I came across that site and used to browse it at lunchtimes for entertainment value. Hard to believe that anyone could take that seriously. AFAIR there were guard towers in the ice field to prevent anyone from getting close enough to see the edge. The temptation to troll it was huge.

I did run a bait posing as a flat earther, but finally lost the lad when my secretary had to inform him that I had fallen over the edge of the world and was believed to have been swallowed by a giant turtle. I may have pushed that one a bit too far.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:54 pm

Rorschach wrote:

...when my secretary had to inform him that I had fallen over the edge of the world and was believed to have been swallowed by a giant turtle. I may have pushed that one a bit too far.

Thank god I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. If I was I would have snarfed all over my laptop screen. Goodness...so funny.

I expect that as well as not having any sense of logical thought, they also don't have a sense of humor.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:00 pm

there I posted it
http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?topic=296.0
Lets see what happens now. Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:17 pm

@ Gnasher:

One of their top delusionists wrote:

Disclaimer: Although I believe that the Earth is flat, this is not actually part of the Flat Earth Theory.

Most of you have probably been brought up believing in the imaginary land called Australia. I bet many of you even learned about it in school. I am here to tell you the truth.

Well, the fact is that Australia doesn't really exist. Everything you have ever heard about it was made up, and any pictures of it you have seen were faked by the government. I am sure you have even talked to people on the internet who claim to be from Australia. They are really secret government agents who are surfing the internet to enforce these false beliefs.

We are not entirely sure why the government made up an imaginary continent, or why it is trying to convince the world that this continent is real, but we can tell you that we know for a fact that Australia doesn't really exist.

Please join us in our quest to convince the world of the truth.

What do you have to say for yourself Gnasher... IF that's your real name.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:19 pm

@ Packman

Rorschach wrote:

The temptation to troll it was huge.

EDITED because luckey's post seems to have slipped in before mine

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Naughty boy Packman

Laughing

I'm now worried about hubby and son flying to Japan. They told me last time they flew over lots of icy places, sounds like they'll be close to the edge.
Is it possible the aeroplane will fly over the side?
I'll get them to look down for elephants ( with trunk boxes )
Will the travel insurance cover them?
Or are they likely to mash the banana?

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