Much more interesting is the notion that our world is a simulation, which is taken seriously by some scientists….One example of a common belief that, if true, would prove we are in a simulation is that unlimited energy resources exist on our planet…Some think it suspicious that the Industrial Revolution was fueled by energy from a few shallow holes in the ground in Britain, and later in America…
Everyone I hate is a lefty dept: There was a time when the flat earth theory was a conservative principle.
Maggie
February 5, 2018 2:35 pm
Okay, I will admit to doing a bit of reading about Flat Earth theory, especially in relation to all the Antarctica references which pop up throughout many of the alternative worldview theory landscape (for lack of a better term). Antarctica is the last grand mystery of this world, be it flat or not.
My decision to limit my reading and commenting after the SOTU/Memo/Qanon research and summaries posted here (and some wonderful work by all involved!) coincided with the reading of an article about Antarctica which reminded me of another similar article I read about the frozen NonContinent somewhere down there. An article about a planet X or nibiru, I think. So, rather than even walk down that rabbit hole, I decided it was time to get some fences cleared and built.
Ah, shit… stopped by and see I’m attracting an angry mob. Well, the article was written around the time the Tea Party got all fired up and there were all sorts of fringe group crazies at the rallies with their little tables full of brochures. One of the brochures sent me to a web site where the Watchmen are supposedly keeping an eye out on the Wall somewhere for Writing which may or may not be of Divine origin.
In other words, the article said there was a big station on Antarctica where they were watching the arrival of Planet X, aka Nibiru, which was either a meandering planet that seemed to be headed this way by cosmological appointment OR it was a giant starship containing visitors which embark/disembark there on the continent of Antarctica.
Either way, it made me wary of mentions about strange constructions on Antarctica.
The likelihood of nefarious government operations on the Antarctic continent should in no way be construed as proof of a flat earth – just that governments waste most of their money keeping secrets from their citizens. Given the miles of thick ice, the fact that the continent has not always been under this sheet of ice, there is a possibility and even high probability that something of great importance exists down there . But it isn’t the “edge.”
Conejo Roho
February 5, 2018 3:19 pm
Are these the same people afraid to fly?
I’ve sat in a window seat on a 767….
There’s definitely a “curve” on the horizon.
What am I missing???
I’m pretty sure “The Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory” is a CIA disinfo operation. Those Youtube videos seem pretty slick and well produced for a bunch of nutcases that are X-Files crazy. The visuals and pics look like they came out of a lab. Much like the “secret space program” that the CIA disinfo guys have used to explain how the United States went to the Moon in the 1960s and haven’t been back since, this stupid “Flat Earth” crap is just something the idiots who ran the Goobermint into the ground use to discredit other legit skepticism like 9/11 where planes took down 110 story buildings and aluminum planes somehow went straight through CONCRETE and STEEL. This is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
The CIA is really bad at its job. This “Flat Earth Theory” is so lame that only the FEDGOV would actually pay for this. There are some people who may believe the Earth is flat. They are probably dark-skinned folk that do not believe the Germ Theory, haven’t mastered agriculture even Today, and boil the bones of Albinos in stew rather than use medicine. I do not see ANY of them in these videos. The CIA kinda SUCKS.
kinda SUCKS? Come on….they REALLY, ABSOLUTELY, INDUBITABLY, and 100% WITHOUT QUESTION….SUCK!
Thunderbird
February 5, 2018 6:26 pm
For most people the earth is flat. Only those who have ventured out of their box can verify to themselves the earth is round. So I can see how this story can catch on. Evolution of the human mind has been slow.
No one thought the Earth was flat in Europe. That’s Bullshit.
Flat Earth is what the Darwin Cult used to call people who believed in God. Ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round. Romans as well. There wouldn’t be a horizon if the Earth was flat. Only primitives in Stone Age tribes would believe this. Math and especially Advanced Math can use coordinates to PROVE the Earth is round. Only innumerate primitives cannot do this.
Random Factor
February 5, 2018 8:07 pm
It started as a “poison the well” psyop, one of many, like micro-nukes or directed energy weapons on 9-11. Now the trolls and opportunists have it.
Of course the earth is round. That is predictable within the rules of the simulation.
Thunderbird
February 5, 2018 9:17 pm
@ Dr Doom
We are not talking about then we are talking about now.
You say: “There would be no horizon if the earth was flat.”
What does a horizon mean to you? Can you explain it? Not to me but to yourself. Was it something you first read in a book?
And what can math tell us about the earth? Plenty; but most people do not know enough about math to explore the scientific evidence but can only experience.
The perception of a round earth comes from more than the observations of our five senses. It comes from intellectual observation of the things around us.
Overthecliff
February 5, 2018 10:15 pm
Admin, is it possible for you to maintain your principles and ban someone for being annoying and not for their opinions?
Socratic Dog
February 6, 2018 12:06 am
Worth mentioning that the “round earth” is up there with the Holocaust, the government line on 9/11, and the moon landings as something everyone “knows”. Knows how? We most of us learn what we “know” in the same way: school, the MSM, peer group pressure, etc.
As I get older I find myself a lot less certain about what I think I “know”. I’ve found out that 9/11 was shite, the Holocaust almost certainly was, the mainstream story on WWII and Nazi Germany was/is a load of bollocks. I find it difficult to be a True Believer about anything now. That has to include the Round Earth, even though my lyin’ eyes tell me it’s so.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that the more passionate and emotional people are about defending their beliefs, the less likely they are to be grounded in fact. All a “belief” is, so far as I can see, is a really, really strong opinion. Not a strong grounding for paying them any attention whatsoever.
Any “Belief” is a cul-de-sac of the brain. The trap that limits progression of homo sapiens awareness. Must await the next configuration neural structure, and , hence, new homo type. Sapiens is a short story.
Much more interesting is the notion that our world is a simulation, which is taken seriously by some scientists….One example of a common belief that, if true, would prove we are in a simulation is that unlimited energy resources exist on our planet…Some think it suspicious that the Industrial Revolution was fueled by energy from a few shallow holes in the ground in Britain, and later in America…
wut?
pyrrhic is a failed state all by his lonesome. Just join the barking seals, pyrrhic, you’ll have more meaning.
I heard pyyrhus was moving to Wisconsin to woo Andrea.
Let’s hope no one offers them a place to breed a pack of trollbotz here.
She considers all men liars. pyrrhic has no chance. I wonder if she has cats?
Stupidity is incurable, unfortunately for you….
saw that movie
These Lefty nincompoops have managed to evolve without the “irony” or “insight” gene.
Everyone I hate is a lefty dept: There was a time when the flat earth theory was a conservative principle.
Okay, I will admit to doing a bit of reading about Flat Earth theory, especially in relation to all the Antarctica references which pop up throughout many of the alternative worldview theory landscape (for lack of a better term). Antarctica is the last grand mystery of this world, be it flat or not.
My decision to limit my reading and commenting after the SOTU/Memo/Qanon research and summaries posted here (and some wonderful work by all involved!) coincided with the reading of an article about Antarctica which reminded me of another similar article I read about the frozen NonContinent somewhere down there. An article about a planet X or nibiru, I think. So, rather than even walk down that rabbit hole, I decided it was time to get some fences cleared and built.
Ah, shit… stopped by and see I’m attracting an angry mob. Well, the article was written around the time the Tea Party got all fired up and there were all sorts of fringe group crazies at the rallies with their little tables full of brochures. One of the brochures sent me to a web site where the Watchmen are supposedly keeping an eye out on the Wall somewhere for Writing which may or may not be of Divine origin.
In other words, the article said there was a big station on Antarctica where they were watching the arrival of Planet X, aka Nibiru, which was either a meandering planet that seemed to be headed this way by cosmological appointment OR it was a giant starship containing visitors which embark/disembark there on the continent of Antarctica.
Either way, it made me wary of mentions about strange constructions on Antarctica.
There, revised a bit for additional members of the angry mob.
The likelihood of nefarious government operations on the Antarctic continent should in no way be construed as proof of a flat earth – just that governments waste most of their money keeping secrets from their citizens. Given the miles of thick ice, the fact that the continent has not always been under this sheet of ice, there is a possibility and even high probability that something of great importance exists down there . But it isn’t the “edge.”
Are these the same people afraid to fly?
I’ve sat in a window seat on a 767….
There’s definitely a “curve” on the horizon.
What am I missing???
Indeed, sailors noticed that thousands of years ago, which is why ancient greeks knew the Earth was round….
thought the Earth was round…
There. Fixed.
I’m pretty sure “The Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory” is a CIA disinfo operation. Those Youtube videos seem pretty slick and well produced for a bunch of nutcases that are X-Files crazy. The visuals and pics look like they came out of a lab. Much like the “secret space program” that the CIA disinfo guys have used to explain how the United States went to the Moon in the 1960s and haven’t been back since, this stupid “Flat Earth” crap is just something the idiots who ran the Goobermint into the ground use to discredit other legit skepticism like 9/11 where planes took down 110 story buildings and aluminum planes somehow went straight through CONCRETE and STEEL. This is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
The CIA is really bad at its job. This “Flat Earth Theory” is so lame that only the FEDGOV would actually pay for this. There are some people who may believe the Earth is flat. They are probably dark-skinned folk that do not believe the Germ Theory, haven’t mastered agriculture even Today, and boil the bones of Albinos in stew rather than use medicine. I do not see ANY of them in these videos. The CIA kinda SUCKS.
kinda SUCKS? Come on….they REALLY, ABSOLUTELY, INDUBITABLY, and 100% WITHOUT QUESTION….SUCK!
For most people the earth is flat. Only those who have ventured out of their box can verify to themselves the earth is round. So I can see how this story can catch on. Evolution of the human mind has been slow.
No one thought the Earth was flat in Europe. That’s Bullshit.
Flat Earth is what the Darwin Cult used to call people who believed in God. Ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round. Romans as well. There wouldn’t be a horizon if the Earth was flat. Only primitives in Stone Age tribes would believe this. Math and especially Advanced Math can use coordinates to PROVE the Earth is round. Only innumerate primitives cannot do this.
It started as a “poison the well” psyop, one of many, like micro-nukes or directed energy weapons on 9-11. Now the trolls and opportunists have it.
Of course the earth is round. That is predictable within the rules of the simulation.
@ Dr Doom
We are not talking about then we are talking about now.
You say: “There would be no horizon if the earth was flat.”
What does a horizon mean to you? Can you explain it? Not to me but to yourself. Was it something you first read in a book?
And what can math tell us about the earth? Plenty; but most people do not know enough about math to explore the scientific evidence but can only experience.
The perception of a round earth comes from more than the observations of our five senses. It comes from intellectual observation of the things around us.
Admin, is it possible for you to maintain your principles and ban someone for being annoying and not for their opinions?
Worth mentioning that the “round earth” is up there with the Holocaust, the government line on 9/11, and the moon landings as something everyone “knows”. Knows how? We most of us learn what we “know” in the same way: school, the MSM, peer group pressure, etc.
As I get older I find myself a lot less certain about what I think I “know”. I’ve found out that 9/11 was shite, the Holocaust almost certainly was, the mainstream story on WWII and Nazi Germany was/is a load of bollocks. I find it difficult to be a True Believer about anything now. That has to include the Round Earth, even though my lyin’ eyes tell me it’s so.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that the more passionate and emotional people are about defending their beliefs, the less likely they are to be grounded in fact. All a “belief” is, so far as I can see, is a really, really strong opinion. Not a strong grounding for paying them any attention whatsoever.
Any “Belief” is a cul-de-sac of the brain. The trap that limits progression of homo sapiens awareness. Must await the next configuration neural structure, and , hence, new homo type. Sapiens is a short story.