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The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Florida was very flat when I went to boot camp in Orlando in 1986. But not convinced the Earth is flat. I did a lot of flying (No I am not a pilot--to satisfy the curious) in the Navy and saw the phenomena of things popping up over the horizon. That only happens when you are flying around a ball.
Flat Earthism didn't gain traction until after 2013 when Youtube really took off. Youtubes are what gave this concept a boost. I can't call it the theory because it has no scientific support. The physical evidence just isn't there.
When someone is convinced of Flat Earthism, it is very difficult to convince them otherwise even in the face of the mountain of evidence against it. I have a few friends on other sites are are just convinced the earth is flat and in an enclosed dome. There is just no convincing them otherwise. One of those friends produces Youtubes and has a website dedicated to FE. He believes that NASA has made some big conspiracy to create the beautiful images we have of our world hanging in space on nothing.
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Originally posted by Sherman View PostFlorida was very flat when I went to boot camp in Orlando in 1986. But not convinced the Earth is flat. I did a lot of flying (No I am not a pilot--to satisfy the curious) in the Navy and saw the phenomena of things popping up over the horizon. That only happens when you are flying around a ball.
Flat Earthism didn't gain traction until after 2013 when Youtube really took off. Youtubes are what gave this concept a boost. I can't call it the theory because it has no scientific support. The physical evidence just isn't there.
When someone is convinced of Flat Earthism, it is very difficult to convince them otherwise even in the face of the mountain of evidence against it. I have a few friends on other sites are are just convinced the earth is flat and in an enclosed dome. There is just no convincing them otherwise. One of those friends produces Youtubes and has a website dedicated to FE. He believes that NASA has made some big conspiracy to create the beautiful images we have of our world hanging in space on nothing.
the people who believe in a flat earth are the same ones who believe other conspiracy theories. They seem to get a rush out of thinking they are privy to information of some huge conspiracy.
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They get very ugly when you challenge them too. I am on a site where the owners banned a guy for sharing videos shot by NASA. They banned him as a 'scammer'. Then they appointed as an admin a guy that thinks he's one of the two witnesses from the book of Revelation! It gives me more reason not trust this theory.
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Originally posted by Sherman View PostThey get very ugly when you challenge them too. I am on a site where the owners banned a guy for sharing videos shot by NASA. They banned him as a 'scammer'. Then they appointed as an admin a guy that thinks he's one of the two witnesses from the book of Revelation! It gives me more reason not trust this theory.
From time to time we get various nutters joining here on theologyweb. I don't think we had anyone claiming to be one of the two witnesses before, but we have gotten some doozies. We had one guy who insisted that YHWH was a fire breathing dragon.
One of our current special ones is Darfius who believes that Satan is controlling our computers and somehow rewriting our history using something called the Mandela effect, which is basically people misremembering the past, but he claims is Satan creating the Great Delusion somehow. See: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...gun&highlight=Last edited by Sparko; 09-16-2019, 08:07 AM.
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