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The earth is "FLAT" the earth is "ROUND", is it even a debate?

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I questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, there must be one person here that can make the case of flat earthers, no?
 
lefty louie said:
I questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, there must be one person here that can make the case of flat earthers, no?
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Are you sure that your friend isn't just trolling you?
 
Do not worry. Tell him there are flat earth groups all around the globe.
 
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jamesrage said:
Are you sure that your friend isn't just trolling you?
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Quite sure. He's a childhood friend I have not seen in decades, he found me on FB and I think he has cracked up. He's sent me dozens of links condemning NASA and other groups claiming all sorts of things, he put me on to a flat earth group on FB and I find it amazing so many others are in the same boat. If I were a cult leader I know where to shop for clients.

Taxman said:
Do not worry. Tell him there are flat earth groups all around the globe.
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That's classic, a good laugh but he will just get pissed, he's nuts I think.
 
I hit one guy with, if earth is flat why don't the oceans spill over the edges of this coin we call earth. Answer: There is an ice dam around the perimeter of the coin and that holds the water back.

So then if global warming is real, the waters will rise to some extent until the ice dam melts and then well lose all the oceans, right?
 
lefty louie said:
I questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, there must be one person here that can make the case of flat earthers, no?
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Just smile and agree as you back away slowly.
 
lefty louie said:
I questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, there must be one person here that can make the case of flat earthers, no?
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Do not bother. People will believe in what they want to believe despite any evidence to the contrary.

I heard an engineer say he does not believe in climate change because 80% of the planet is water and he believes humans can not affect the seas.

End of story.
 
He probably also believes that man is causing climate change.
 
IMO most of the folks that are right leaning prolly do believe the Earth is flat, kinda like Ann Coulter's chest ......... and since the Earth is flat there is no climate change ........
 
cuban smokes said:
IMO most of the folks that are right leaning prolly do believe the Earth is flat, kinda like Ann Coulter's chest ......... and since the Earth is flat there is no climate change ........
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Actually I have read the claim that 66% of Flat Earthers are millennials who are very religious.

I assume you got your reference of climate change and flat earthers, and thereby extending to what you think conservatives believe, from Obama...
"President Obama blasted climate change skeptics during his energy policy speech at Georgetown University, saying he lacked "patience for anyone who denies that this problem is real. We don't have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society,"
 
Glowpun said:
I heard an engineer say he does not believe in climate change because 80% of the planet is water and he believes humans can not affect the seas.

End of story.
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Lol... I once heard some idiot claim that in just a few years he could slow the rise of the oceans and heal our planet.
 
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cuban smokes said:
IMO most of the folks that are right leaning prolly do believe the Earth is flat, kinda like Ann Coulter's chest ......... and since the Earth is flat there is no climate change ........
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Being he voted for Hillary Clinton I'd say that last thought of yours is a no go. LMAOL
 
cuban smokes said:
IMO most of the folks that are right leaning prolly do believe the Earth is flat, kinda like Ann Coulter's chest ......... and since the Earth is flat there is no climate change ........
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Wait for Trump to say it. Then they'll parrot it faithfully
 
Taylor said:
Lol... I once heard some idiot claim that in just a few years he could slow the rise of the oceans and heal our planet.
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Or the guy who stopped the rain.

 
lefty louie said:
I (sic) questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, (sic)("since") I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, (sic)(run-on sentence) there must be one person here that (sic)("who") can make the case of flat earthers, no?
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He is obviously playing with you, as a cat plays with a small mouse.....

Leftists are so sanctimoniously, pretentiously infatuated with their/your own intellectual supremacy that they/you don't even realize that intelligence is NOT wisdom. Intelligence is NOT common sense. Intelligence is NOT good judgment or enlightenment, and that is IF they/you are as intelligent as claimed/pretended, which in itself is highly questionable in almost all cases, as the above misconstructions by lefty suggest.
 
MrWonderful said:
He is obviously playing with you, as a cat plays with a small mouse.....

Leftists are so sanctimoniously, pretentiously infatuated with their/your own intellectual supremacy that they/you don't even realize that intelligence is NOT wisdom. Intelligence is NOT common sense. Intelligence is NOT good judgment or enlightenment, and that is IF they/you are as intelligent as claimed/pretended, which in itself is highly questionable in almost all cases, as the above misconstructions by lefty suggest.
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Oh no, he's not playing, there is a whole community fixed on this idea.
 
There are people who think that we are not really here, that everything is just a figment of our imagination.

There are people who believe that all white mice, are genetically linked to cancer.

There are people who think saliva causes cancer- but only if swallowed in small dosages over the period of a lifetime!

There are people who believe in an afterlife!

And if those aren't crazy enough beliefs, there are those who thought and still think that Donald Trump should be our president! LOL!
 
lefty louie said:
I questionable friend hit me the other day with, "The world is FLAT!" I promptly disagreed with him and gave the example of "When I stand on the west coast of Fl. I can see the sun set but I can't see Mexico or Texas so there must be a curve to the earth, I can't even see them with a telescope.

He isn't buying that as an explanation, so what do you all say, there must be one person here that can make the case of flat earthers, no?
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If your friend was even half trying he could have easily explained that. You are looking out over the sea which has a natural haze that deflects light much as seeing a mirage of water covering and hiding a road on a hot summers day. The source of that light, the sun is not hidden but anything close to the ground would be.

Ok, no that we have dealt with that one, try this.

The earth is not exactly flat. It is more of a saucer shape. Not as in ufo but as in a plate with the edges curled upwards. To demonstrate. Take another look out over that sea an you will see that the horizon is at eye level. Climb to the top of a hill or large building and look out over the sea and the horizon is again at eye level.

If the earth was round then the edge should curve down, not up.

P.S. I have no doubt some dick around here will take this seriously and get their knickers in a twist over arguing that the world is round. So let me make it clear that i am merely having some fun here and not trying to convince anyone the world is flat.
 
One of the two biggest conspiracy theories in world history, ever...to be true. The world is round.

The Greeks knew it BCE but hey, what did they know. Columbus over millennia later was warned about falling off the edge.
 
Of all the weird beliefs out there its weird that some people actually believe that. But they do.
 
Sometimes I think flat-earthers possess a rare unidentified form of brain parasite that drains their IQ points.
 
Pedestrian said:
One of the two biggest conspiracy theories in world history, ever...to be true. The world is round.

The Greeks knew it BCE but hey, what did they know. Columbus over millennia later was warned about falling off the edge.
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No. That legend was invented by Washington Irving.

In 1828, Irving wrote “The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,” which sounds like a biography but is mostly fiction. It says that Europeans learned from Columbus’s trips to the New World that the planet was round

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...log.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4e3b4c27fb15

Washington Irving?s Columbus and the Flat Earth – Darin Hayton
 
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