The Earth Is Flat

#1
"If the Earth were a globe, there certainly would be -- if we could imagine the thing, to be peopled all around-'antipodes:' 'people who,' says the dictionary, 'living exactly on the opposite side of the globe to ourselves, having their fee [sic] opposite to ours' - people who are HANGING DOWN, HEAD DOWNWARDS while we are standing head up? But since the theory allows to travel to those parts of the earth where the people are said to hand head downward, and still to fancy ourselves to be heads upwards, and our friends whom we have left behind us to be heads downwards, it follows that the WHOLE THING IS A MYTH - A DREAM - A DELUSION - and a snare, and, instead of there being any evidence at all in this direction to substantiate this popular theory, it is plain proof that the Earth is Not A Globe."

If that's not compelling enough for some of you die-hard skeptics, I suggest you check out the Flat Earth Society forums


On a more serious note, how can people believe stuff like this? And they do believe it, it's not a big in-joke.
 

Sebastian

Well-Known Member
#2
Its possible because there are people out there who are plain stupid! They suffer from a lack of comprehension abilities, they just need a reality check.

But in the end i dont think its their personal fault. They are just born stupid. Its their genes :(
 

Preach

Well-Known Member
#6
Chronic said:
I bet none of them truly believe it but they want to feel special by being "different".
:thumb:

i made a thread once about a couple of guys in my class who were speculating.. if you have a pretty large circle in, say an image editor like paint, and you zoom in on the bottom of the circle, you'll be able to see a straight line if it's only a few pixels long. so if the diameter of the circle is infinite, would the circle then turn into a straight line?

they're playing on the fact that there is a lot the human brain doesn't understand. a lot of things that we think of in certain ways, well, our thoughts are illusions which are a result of the restrictions of being a human being.

this nonsense is wack and to answer your question properly, no, i do not understand why anyone would believe this.
 

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