Flat-earthers are just religious nutjobs. They don’t really believe any of the pseudoscience in it, they believe it because it conforms with what their holy book says.
I’m sure some are, but I stand by my assertion that I’ve met flat-earthers who were simply sceptical and pushing that particular point of view.
This was also when they were new. I’m not sure if those people represent the whole or if I just met an outlier (and online, at that, where anyone can say/claim anything). I certainly don’t mean to speak about all of them.
I had a friend pretty into mysticism. She kept it at bay enough it was harmless. Then one day at her place, had a conversation with her 18 year old son. The first half of the conversation he said I need to teach my son jow to deal with a break up. He had just been dumped and clearly had feelings about it.
The second half of this conversation with this young person, he spent trying to tell me why the earth was flat. He used a split screen tictok as his reference material. I was taken aback by this, he just graduated high school… Another time not long after, he saw husband’s car with a behemoth sticker on it. He was clearly distressed, and asked me why we would have that, didn’t I know I will attract demons and negativite energy?
This was two years ago or so. Im not friends with her anymore, last I heard he was going to get a mining job down south. I was amazed and baffled by the words coming out this young person’s mouth.
I had a brief phase on Instagram where I followed some flat earthers, and there did seem to be kind of a range of beliefs on it. There were the ones that would use pseudoscience to debate people, and then it would go kind of in a scale from that, to people using examples from scripture about the firmament and how God made the earth flat and NASA has been trying to hide God from the world and it’s only 3462 years old or some shit like that.
This is not a definition of all flat earthers. By painting with such broad strokes, you’re spreading your own version of misinformation. Flat earthers can be people from any background. There are some flat earthers who have this view you mention, but hardly all.
Flat-earthers are just religious nutjobs. They don’t really believe any of the pseudoscience in it, they believe it because it conforms with what their holy book says.
I’m sure some are, but I stand by my assertion that I’ve met flat-earthers who were simply sceptical and pushing that particular point of view.
This was also when they were new. I’m not sure if those people represent the whole or if I just met an outlier (and online, at that, where anyone can say/claim anything). I certainly don’t mean to speak about all of them.
I had a friend pretty into mysticism. She kept it at bay enough it was harmless. Then one day at her place, had a conversation with her 18 year old son. The first half of the conversation he said I need to teach my son jow to deal with a break up. He had just been dumped and clearly had feelings about it.
The second half of this conversation with this young person, he spent trying to tell me why the earth was flat. He used a split screen tictok as his reference material. I was taken aback by this, he just graduated high school… Another time not long after, he saw husband’s car with a behemoth sticker on it. He was clearly distressed, and asked me why we would have that, didn’t I know I will attract demons and negativite energy?
This was two years ago or so. Im not friends with her anymore, last I heard he was going to get a mining job down south. I was amazed and baffled by the words coming out this young person’s mouth.
The new ones are different.
I had a brief phase on Instagram where I followed some flat earthers, and there did seem to be kind of a range of beliefs on it. There were the ones that would use pseudoscience to debate people, and then it would go kind of in a scale from that, to people using examples from scripture about the firmament and how God made the earth flat and NASA has been trying to hide God from the world and it’s only 3462 years old or some shit like that.
It was weirdly interesting.
The only two flat-Earthers I’ve known irl were atheists
This is not a definition of all flat earthers. By painting with such broad strokes, you’re spreading your own version of misinformation. Flat earthers can be people from any background. There are some flat earthers who have this view you mention, but hardly all.
Every single flat earther is a fucking idiot.
Now this point, we can agree on.