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Journeyman

(15,143 posts)
4. It rests on the back of a turtle . . .
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 05:37 PM
Oct 2018

or so multiple mythemes told in Hindu, Chinese, and First Nation mythologies. Sometimes, four or five elephants are said to balance it on the back of the turtle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle

hlthe2b

(106,330 posts)
2. This trend of discarding expertise/anti-intellectualism is propelled by RW and plutocracy
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 03:41 PM
Oct 2018

It will be the ruin of us yet, if we don't get a handle on it.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)
7. That's because flat-earthers are imbeciles.
Mon Oct 15, 2018, 03:08 PM
Oct 2018

Stop what you are doing.

Go on Nasa's sat/cable channel.

Watch live video of the earth rotating for one entire revolution.

Laugh at the flat-earthers.

Go back to what you were doing.

DetlefK

(16,455 posts)
8. Flat-Earthers are half-educated conspiracy-theorists imagining themselves as heroes.
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:38 AM
Oct 2018

They alone have the truth!

Then they make a half-assed error-riddled experiment, mix it with gut-feeling and (surprise!) it leads to the conclusion that Earth must be flat.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
9. "We're not idiots"
Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:32 PM
Nov 2018

"We're intelligent people from all walks of life and all ages."

Oh FFS. You are dumber than a post.

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