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This is not a joke. This is genuinely what a significant number of flat earthers believe.
Flat earthers don’t believe in a flat earth. What they actually believe is that Satan is fighting a war for the minds of people, and education is a tool of satan to lead you away from god. All other nonsense they spew stems from that— they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat because the education system, which they believe to be from Satan, tells you it’s spherical.
And most (but not all) flat earthers have moved on to the next conspiracy that supports their central belief (Satan is fighting a war for your mind) and don’t care much about flat earth anymore. Flat earth was never the point, not being swayed by Satan is always the center.
After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn't some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.
It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I'm like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn't feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.
I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.
She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.
Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I'd destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.
But hey, she listened. Thats something most never do.
I think your wife’s case was actually significantly different from “flat earthers”, as a community. There’s ignorance, which can be corrected with knowledge and information and reasoning, and there’s willful defiance, which cannot. The very fact that she was freaked out and had a crisis, which enabled facts to enter her head, demonstrates that.
did you tell her if the sun was so small it can fit inside the earth, everything wouldve been vaporized near its vicinity, let alone the gravitational effects being to a object that small and that close to it.
Whenever someone curls up in a fetal position and has an existential crisis, I KNOW that they are doing something right.
Also, they believe the earth is flat because the Bible says so; and the earth is young because the Bible says so, and that science is the devil’s work because it contradicts a book written by Bronze Age goat herders retconned by a guy in the Iron Age that got killed for telling the Roman’s he was king of the Jews.
This is one of my favorite summaries of just how ridiculous religion can become. Only thing I want to find a way to add would be a condemnation of monotheism. Seems that had a whole lot to do with how the concept of religion has become so corruptible. Instead of the point being the betterment of your own tribe it becomes about how every other tribe is less than you.
Similar with the anarcho capitalist types
exactly like cult beliefs. dont believe with your eyes and ears.
But.. but.. I posted it as a joke, so it is?? Please??
Nope. It's science now because you posted it in Science Memes. You just single handedly destroyed years of accumulated knowledge with your careless shitposting. Way to go, bud. Bravo.
DAMN YOU AND YOUR LOGIC, KOLANAKI!
The only way to solve this is to assemble an angry mob with torches and threaten to burn the heretic
flat earthers=flat personality and flat brains.