Flat Earth lunacy

knobshine

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At least they're not as mad as this chap.

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w1z4rd

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Hehe. Sure. Wikipedia knows everything. That's why I'm an editor. ;)

If you are an editor as you so claim then you would know how quickly defaced or incorrect articles get fixed and restored :)
 

Arthur

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If you are an editor as you so claim then you would know how quickly defaced or incorrect articles get fixed and restored :)
I do. I am one of the correctors. ;)

None of this has anything to do with whether the Flat Earth Society is an elaborate hoax. Of course the first stop is to ensure the Wikipedia entry conforms - it' harmless fun, and it does make a point. Read up Alan Sokal's delicious hoax. Other than knowing some of the FES members and writers directly, there's really no way of knowing for sure just how much they chuckle.

On the other hand, the modern Geocentricists are serious.
 

Slootvreter

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One of the cleverest people I know is a member, he even states so on his business card, and I can assure you he does it as some kind of intellectual joke.

I'm not saying there aren't true Flatievers around & also if satire quite covers it, but they're just having fun messing with your belief systems.

Your friend would certainly lose my business, if I had any.
 

satanboy

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SaiyanZ

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Its surprising that, in this day and age, people can still believe the earth is flat.
What do they believe flight and sail crews see when they travel east from, say, Australia or west from the USA?

Religion exists.
 

SykomantiS

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Its surprising that, in this day and age, people can still believe the earth is flat.
What do they believe flight and sail crews see when they travel east from, say, Australia or west from the USA?

The flat earth society has members all around the globe.
 

Moosedrool

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I like these flat earth people. Well the trolls at least. They turned into a insanely large youtube topic thanks to peoples inability to pass by people that are wrong on the internet.
 

Priapus

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So, out of all the people who believe in flat Earth - what percentage of them are just trolls? 99% ? People can't seriously believe the Earth is flat, can they??
 

NeonNinja

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So, out of all the people who believe in flat Earth - what percentage of them are just trolls? 99% ? People can't seriously believe the Earth is flat, can they??

The same way creationist say evolutionists can't believe hogwash and vise versa.
 

Slootvreter

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What would be the point of all the governments and science institutes in the world lying to us as telling us the Earth is round, and not flat? What are they trying to archieve?

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: I know the earth is not flat. :eek:
 
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