Religion

NeoGreen

(4,033 posts) Mon Nov 18, 2019, 12:57 PM Nov 2019

Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They're Idiots

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/11/18/flat-earthers-are-whining-about-how-their-friends-think-theyre-idiots/

Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They’re Idiots
By Hemant Mehta, November 18, 2019

In a lengthy CNN feature on the spread of the Flat Earth community — cheekily titled “The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe” — a couple of people attending a recent conference in Dallas, Texas whine about how they’ve lost friends over their lunacy.

“I don’t want to be a flat Earther,” David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. “Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you’re an idiot?”
…
“This (conference) is an outlet for a lot of people that might otherwise get ostracized by friends and family and co-workers. When they come here, they know it’s absolutely a safe space,” [conspiracy theorist Mark] Sargent says of this week’s event.
…
For Davidson, the next stage is to debate leading members of the scientific community, but “they just laugh at us and say, ‘you guys are dumb.'”

That’s because these guys are dumb.

At least they admit they live in a (flat) bubble. Just because they’re ostracized doesn’t mean their views deserve any respect. In this case, their friends are right to distance themselves. Why surround yourself with people unable to accept even the most basic of realities?

17 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Flat Earthers Are Whining About How Their Friends Think They're Idiots (Original Post) NeoGreen Nov 2019 OP

How are they any different from edhopper Nov 2019 #1

They aren't. Raster Nov 2019 #4

Because you can 100% and unequivocally prove they're wrong, like with friggin PICTURES ... mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #7

Their arguments are no less stupid edhopper Nov 2019 #8

If you'd said THOSE fundies ... then I'd have agreed outright ... although it's SLIGHTLY harder mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #15

Considering there are man made structures edhopper Nov 2019 #16

why did you restrict that to fundamentalists? Voltaire2 Nov 2019 #11

Low hanging fruit edhopper Nov 2019 #12

fair enough Voltaire2 Nov 2019 #13

Their friends are right. 3catwoman3 Nov 2019 #2

well, if they can't live in a bubble, do they live in a pancake? frisbee? NRaleighLiberal Nov 2019 #3

A simple look at the sky will convince anyone w/ a rational mind that the earth is round... SWBTATTReg Nov 2019 #5

You can't fix stupid. Va Lefty Nov 2019 #6

The flat earth needs to be a disk magnet sanatanadharma Nov 2019 #9

Eh, fuck me. First of all, did you look close at the picture of Earth? 3Hotdogs Nov 2019 #10

There is a reasonable explanation against it Major Nikon Nov 2019 #17

Flat earthers shouldn't support Trump because he "digs coal". CaptYossarian Nov 2019 #14

edhopper

(34,836 posts)

1. How are they any different from

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 12:59 PM

Nov 2019

religious fundamentalists?

Raster

(20,999 posts)

4. They aren't.

Reply to edhopper (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:04 PM

Nov 2019

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

7. Because you can 100% and unequivocally prove they're wrong, like with friggin PICTURES ...

Reply to edhopper (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:21 PM

Nov 2019

Being a flat-earther is the absolute epitome of friggin' STUPID.

And on top of it, there's no VALUE to it as there's no Afterlife involved, no respect from the general population accorded you for your 'flat-earth values' or whatever. Finding Flat-Earth isn't get ya outta jail quicker like Finding Jesus might, etc.

edhopper

(34,836 posts)

8. Their arguments are no less stupid

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #7)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:29 PM

Nov 2019

than Young Earth Creationists.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

15. If you'd said THOSE fundies ... then I'd have agreed outright ... although it's SLIGHTLY harder

Reply to edhopper (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 07:25 PM

Nov 2019

to debunk their nonsense insofar as their aren't literal PICTURES proving how f***ing stupid they are ...

Pictures ... and the friggin Moon up in the sky every night, an obvious freaking SPHERE ... herpty derp ....

edhopper

(34,836 posts)

16. Considering there are man made structures

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #15)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 07:41 PM

Nov 2019

older than 6,000, I'd say they are just as obvious to reality.

Voltaire2

(14,719 posts)

11. why did you restrict that to fundamentalists?

Reply to edhopper (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 03:39 PM

Nov 2019

edhopper

(34,836 posts)

12. Low hanging fruit

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #11)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 03:47 PM

Nov 2019

Voltaire2

(14,719 posts)

13. fair enough

Reply to edhopper (Reply #12)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 03:48 PM

Nov 2019

plus we are all allowed to ridicule them here without causing upset.

3catwoman3

(25,453 posts)

2. Their friends are right.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:02 PM

Nov 2019

As has been observed elsewhere, cats are proof that the Earth is not flat. If it were, cats would have already knocked everything off and over the edge, just like they do with dressers and counter tops.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,504 posts)

3. well, if they can't live in a bubble, do they live in a pancake? frisbee?

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:03 PM

Nov 2019

These fringe believers must just be looking for attention, or to belong to a group that is on the fringe. No sympathy for them for sure...if they don't want to be ostracized, they need to open up their brain and learn something.

SWBTATTReg

(24,107 posts)

5. A simple look at the sky will convince anyone w/ a rational mind that the earth is round...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:05 PM

Nov 2019

after all, why do you see clouds all of the way to the horizon, before the earth circled away from your perspective (15 miles or so)...if the earth was flat, you would only see the clouds immediately above you and that's it. Otherwise, like in the real world, you see layers and layers of cloud cover, going all of the way to the horizon.

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

6. You can't fix stupid.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:09 PM

Nov 2019

sanatanadharma

(4,074 posts)

9. The flat earth needs to be a disk magnet

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:29 PM

Nov 2019

I will give the flat-earthers credence on the day we on earth can see and handle a disk magnet with the poles at center and circumference, as they claim is the truth of the flat-earth.

3Hotdogs

(13,403 posts)

10. Eh, fuck me. First of all, did you look close at the picture of Earth?

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 02:05 PM

Nov 2019

The famous one, taken from Apollo 8? That fucker is round BUT FLAT. You can see it as well as I can.

Also, thousands of people disappear every day. You see their pictures on milk cartons. Where else did they go, but off the edge? There is no other reasonable explanation for it.

Major Nikon

(36,900 posts)

17. There is a reasonable explanation against it

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #10)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 08:27 PM

Nov 2019

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

14. Flat earthers shouldn't support Trump because he "digs coal".

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 03:54 PM

Nov 2019

Tell them that if you dig too deep, the earth will have a hole go straight to the other side. The whistling sound will keep everybody up at night.

Of course, Trump supporters are up all night anyway. Those crosses don't burn themselves.

Reply to this discussion