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I still think tho that earth is round, well maybe not perfectly round but ellipse.
Yet, I know some people think (even my brother and sister in law) that earth is flat. For me that ridiculous to think earth is flat. They who think earth is flat said that I am still keeping my mind on ancient knowledge, who still think earth is round or ellipse. Cheers! |
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the earth is like pizza...round AND flat...
i'll take a large lava with pepperoni... 
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bwahaha
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I still think tho that earth is round, well maybe not perfectly round but ellipse. Yet, I know some people think (even my brother and sister in law) that earth is flat. Meh. Give your brother and sister in law an air pump, and then they won't have to deal with flat stuff. 
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Good idea.
Somehow, ya know those flat earth people's mind is locked within stubbornness. Whatever they said that I am still keeping my mind on to ancient knowledge, fine. |
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Good idea. Somehow, ya know those flat earth people's mind is locked within stubbornness. Whatever they said that I am still keeping my mind on to ancient knowledge, fine. "FLAT-EARTHER' is a euphemism to describe people who don't believe in EVOLUTION. |
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You know some engineering disciplines still use outdated physics which, whilst academically incorrect math for calculating things like orbiting satellites, still works just fine for things like constructing an electrical engine.
For a person who is going to spend their life using pedal power and livestock, for example the shape of the Earth, being so big really makes no difference, since all the physics related to their experience and needs work just as if the Earth was flat. Since such people are generally religious pentacostals and religion is intentionally allegorical, you can just safely assume they're being allegorical when they say the Earth is flat, even if they don't know it. Just pretend they're saying "might as well be as far as my life goes". The main thing is that they're happy and you're happy. If it ever comes to something important where the distinction must be made, you have physical evidence on the side of scientific method and emotional anxiety on the side of wonton fantasies as a form of argument. However it is more important as social beings to avoid emotional arguments with other people simply for the sake of it and sometimes the courage to do the right thing means keeping your trap shut. In psychotherapy a legitimate contributor to irrational behaviour is a history of abuse, in laymans terms it means a person who has irrational conclusions can very easily turn surprisingly dangerous to someone that isn't expecting it. Childish thinking in an adult is a danger sign, not a comedy act. Unless physically confident, let them think any silly thing they feel like if it keeps them calm. |
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Flat earthers are not logical thinkers...we can see 40 billion lights away in space, but can't see England from America? Why is that? Haven't people wondered why they need so many communication and GPS satellites?
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Edited by
mightymoe
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Mon 07/02/18 05:58 PM
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You know some engineering disciplines still use outdated physics which, whilst academically incorrect math for calculating things like orbiting satellites, still works just fine for things like constructing an electrical engine. For a person who is going to spend their life using pedal power and livestock, for example the shape of the Earth, being so big really makes no difference, since all the physics related to their experience and needs work just as if the Earth was flat. Since such people are generally religious pentacostals and religion is intentionally allegorical, you can just safely assume they're being allegorical when they say the Earth is flat, even if they don't know it. Just pretend they're saying "might as well be as far as my life goes". The main thing is that they're happy and you're happy. If it ever comes to something important where the distinction must be made, you have physical evidence on the side of scientific method and emotional anxiety on the side of wonton fantasies as a form of argument. However it is more important as social beings to avoid emotional arguments with other people simply for the sake of it and sometimes the courage to do the right thing means keeping your trap shut. In psychotherapy a legitimate contributor to irrational behaviour is a history of abuse, in laymans terms it means a person who has irrational conclusions can very easily turn surprisingly dangerous to someone that isn't expecting it. Childish thinking in an adult is a danger sign, not a comedy act. Unless physically confident, let them think any silly thing they feel like if it keeps them calm. |
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Columbus proved it was not.
He could get east ny sailing west... All it takes is a belief |
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All it takes is common sense.
No it isn't flat. It is spherical. Why is this drum still being beaten??? |
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Who really cares as long as we don't start falling off
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The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD), and China until the 17th century.
Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat", and ascribes popularization of the flat-Earth myth to histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving.
Modern flat Earth societies consist of individuals who promote the idea that the Earth is flat rather than a sphere. Such groups date from the middle of the 20th century; some adherents are serious and some are not. Those who are serious are often motivated by pseudoscience or religious literalism.
Personally, I have looked out of an airplane window and saw the curvature of the Earth. I have watched the curvature move as the airplane progressed along its flightpath. |
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It’s why a marine VHF radio signal doesn’t always reach its target, because of the curvature of the earth. They work on direct sight, therefore if the antenna you’re trying to reach is below the horizon you wouldn’t reach it.
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from photos the earth is clearly round.
Every planet in our solar system ( that we can see) is round shaped and ours is flat and rectangle?.. really? Earth... the oddball of the galaxy |
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