The claim is "Earth isn't a planet", sometimes with the addition of "space isn't real".
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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There's no consistency to it. It really depends on the individual.
I think you'll find that flat earthers from all around the globe are in total agreement.
The flat earth conspiracy is just made to make money of dumb people. There is nothing more to it and what ever they believe doesn't matter.
Where's the money to be made? Or are they just easily identifiable targets for sale of essential oils, healing crystals and chiropractor gift cards?
Yeah they pay for these conventions, flat earth merch, flat earth messuring tools, maps and a bunch of other crap.
Damn we need a new conspiracy so I can get in on the ground floor and make some cash!
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Flat earthers are just nutjobs that don't even agree with each other. There us no point to investigate them.
The one flat earther i know believes the sun and the moon are just spotlights held up from the ceiling of a giant dome.
my brother thinks we live inside the earth and the sky is a projection. not even kidding
Did he fall asleep watching Gurren Lagann?
but the dome is round, yeah? :>
Flat Earthers aren't real
Aren't all of those just fake images the government displays on the dome LCD covering the world inside ice walls? If they were real they would have dropped out of the sky already.
I can never tell what they really believe. But I once saw a picture about flat earthers.
It basically said other planets are round because they have been observed to be round. But Earth is flat because it has not been observed to be round.
Though if they did see Earth from afar, I'm sure there would be some excuse as to why it's fake.
To them photographs are all made with fisheye lenses which is why only the earth looks round and distorted but fucking nothing else in the same frame.
I'm definitely not a Flat Earther, but I watched a documentary about them and a lot of them seem to think the Earth is flat and the sky is like a glass dome, and the other stars and planets are presumably just projected onto the dome somehow? Kind of like this: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/flat-earth-1.jpg
As for what's beyond the dome or why nobody's ever encountered the edge of it, I honestly couldn't tell you lol.
I used to work with a flat earther and this is the description he gave. He was raised Christian and attended a Christian college, so I guess he was never taught much science.
If you're trying to apply reason to the theory, I think you're misunderstanding the theory.
When you dig to the roots of flat earth, it's a "don't trust the secret globalist government feeding you lies" kind of thing (Aka a dog whistle for antisemitism)
Pff Jews aren't even real. The government invented them to control the population.
"all antisemitic conspiracy theories are deliberately introduced cognitohazards from the illuminati to control the populace" is the best conspiracy theory regarding jewish folk i've ever seen.
As Iโve heard it, they believe that other planets are around because they can be observed. Any observation of the earth being round is a lie.
These people are crazy
Uses telescope to observe Mars
Yup, that's round.
Is taken up into space to look down at the round Earth
No, it's still flat. The windows are curved to make it look round.
Is taken to Mars with the same telescope and it's pointed at Earth
The glass on the telescope is round, which makes the Earth look round.
Something like that, yes
I don't think flat-earthers are capable of indulging in concepts like other planets. They're entire personalities are completely dedicated to indulging in their silly "theories" and insisting that it's important.
For example, have you ever asked a flat earther what possible incentive could there be for "the government" to lie about the shape of the Earth? The only answer they've ever given me is "control", then they get very smug as if this someone proved something and won't really discuss it any further. I don't think they're capable of imagining anything beyond that.
I can't imagine how the shape of our planet can be used to control us. I mean, if the earth was neither round nor flat, but.... I don't know, toroidal. How would that affect our behavior?
Is non-Euclidean geometry more likely to make the population docile?
And why not use the flat earth as a form of control? Since that vision is much more limited than the traditional one, since there is no space, no gravity, no planets, no stars and no cosmos. Just what you can see and nothing more.
The closest thing to an explanation I've ever gotten was "it's about control of information maaaaaan!!!! Wake up and stop listening to the LIES!"
I chose to end the conversation at that point
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