What on Earth…

[True-Blue]

I don’t really have an active profile on Facebook as such, no pictures of holidays, family or what I had for dinner; The odd post on a couple of the Z4 and Alpina’s groups and that’s about it.

However, WTF is all the ‘Flat Earth’ conspiracy bollox on there?…

Surely they’re all just attention seeking idiots and don’t believe what they’re posting??? nline2long:

 

[Pondrew]

However, WTF is all the ‘Flat Earth’ conspiracy bollox on there?

What do you mean conspiracy? The Earth IS flat, otherwise we would all fall off.
Have you ever tried sitting on a round thing, it just doesn't work!
That's just physics.

 

[Nictrix]

Of course it's flat.
If it was round all the water would run off.

 

[Pondrew]

Of course it's flat.
If it was round all the water would run off.

Good point. Also spirit levels wouldn't work, would they?

 

[True-Blue]

However, WTF is all the ‘Flat Earth’ conspiracy bollox on there?

What do you mean conspiracy? The Earth IS flat, otherwise we would all fall off.
Have you ever tried sitting on a round thing, it just doesn't work!
That's just physics.

Space hopper

 

[Pondrew]

Space hopper

That was exactly what I was thinking of! :lol:

 

[buzyg]

So we have established that the Earth is a space hopper with a puncture. :roll:

 

[TitanTim]

The moon landing happened in Twickenham!

Tim.

 

[buzyg]

They play rugby on the moon.

 

[coldel]

This is actually one of my past times, conspiracy theories and the psychology of people that peddle them

Often, it isnt the content of the conspiracy they believe, what they actually believe is that 'authority' often referred to as 'them' or 'they' are globally coordinating efforts to control and deceive us. Be it the moon landings, flat earth, mud floods (look those ones up!), the great reset, vaccinations and so on and so forth. They will believe anything as long as it underpins their belief that 'they' are out to get us.

Interestingly they see the world in a very binary way, in that either you are one of them, or you are blindly following authority without thinking. Obviously the world is much more complex than that, a million shades of grey, whats ironic is that most conspiracy theorists simply parrot things they are told on the internet, if ever there was someone who blindly follows authority if you like, its them as often they will happily retweet or whatever anything they are told to.

 

[Dav the wheel nut]

The earth is definitely flat, I’ve seen it on every page in my book of maps

 

[coldel]

There are also different groups of flat earthers, so they argue amongst themselves around what version of their made up stuff is right. There is the reasoning being because of 'them' as described above but there is also a strong religious contingent and the element of Creationism enveloped in it too as they talk about the 'firmament' etc. as part of their rhetoric on the subject.

I think whats scary is that there are celebrities out there going on TV genuinely saying, hey its flat.

 

[TitanTim]

And don't get me started on 9/11, planes were holograms, towers were rigged with explosives, inside insurance job etc

Tim.

 

[coldel]

It is one thing to be chatting flat earth on social media, but then there are levels of harmful conspiracies that go too far. Some people for example think that the Challenger shuttle disaster was faked and the astronauts are still alive. So they found people with the same name and passing resemblance to them and harass them outside their houses etc. And yes, 9/11 and the people that died, to start making stuff up, just because of an anti-authority anxiety that person has is disrespectful.

 

[Scubaregs]

If you ever want the most frustrating hour of your life, debate with one of these halfwit flat earthers. Best done in the pub with access to alcohol.

 

[pvr]

For all my school years I had believed that the USA was on the left of Europe until I went to the state and saw a map there, where Europe is on the left of the USA :lol:

 

[coldel]

Yes flat earth debates are very frustrating - they can be clever though, they often toss in very quickly 'facts' that support their position when in fact they are just things that have been made up.

The big question I always ask is, why? Why would governments across the globe that hate each other, that take ten years to create a bilateral trade deal to sell frozen chickens or the like, that have different governments from autocratic to composite governments, with changes in leadership on regular basis...why did they despite all those barriers, decide to come together and decide that they need to hide flat earth from everyone?

I've seen responses from things like 'there is hidden land out there' to 'oil in the great ice wall' to 'its the jews' :|

 

[enuff_zed]

Whilst we are discussing the shape of the earth: slightly related.................. almost convinced the wife that the Americans launched the rocket to the moon at night as they don't have sophisticated tech like the Chinese and Indians, so had to be able to see the moon to aim at it. :roll:

 

[coldel]

Thats why its always better to fly to the sun at night, its not as bright or as hot ...

 

[enuff_zed]

Thats why its always better to fly to the sun at night, its not as bright or as hot ...

Ah, your theory has eclipsed mine.