It reads like a joke but it’s just a straight description of how flat earthers think.
It’s quite literally a joke about the Antarctica trip. There was one who changed their mind and was heavily ostracized for it.
My favorite theory from that whole debacle is that those guys actually went to the Las Vegas Sphere, which is apparently a giant green screen now (its not)
That’s the problem. Believing in a flat earth isn’t just some weird quirk, like believing that gluten is bad for you or the number 4 is bad luck because in Chinese it sounds like the word for death. You can have beliefs like that and still maintain friendships with people who don’t share them. It’s such an illogical belief that people who express it are always mocked, and it’s also such a big “conspiracy” that believers have trouble not talking about it. That means believers tend to form a community to support each-other and defend against these insults. It’s basically an especially stupid religious community or a cult.
Giving up on your belief that the earth is flat means losing your whole community. There’s no real way to be a sphere-earther in the flat earther community. Some of the people “lose faith” but don’t admit it to the others in the community because they don’t want to be ostracized.
I would guess that the people who manage to leave the community are the ones who have friends and family that are willing to forgive and forget and welcome them back after they leave the cult. That also means that the ones who have lost their friends and family due to their wacky beliefs are never going to drop those beliefs because they’ll have nothing left.
People do this all the time in hobby groups and other social formations.
Right now in cycling the industry is pushing a new wheel size, and people are freaking out about it and saying they will ostracize people who buy a new bike with the new wheels. And every youtuber influencer is like making videos about how they will stay loyal to the old size… and they all did this over a decade ago and in a few years they will all be huge proponents of the new wheels once they are socially acceptable to do so, when it’s established and no longer ‘new and scary’.
Everyone desperately wants to signal to the herd they are part of the group, until the herd makes it acceptable to change your mind.
Really? What’s the new wheel size? Get me in on this controversy!
32" vs 700c or 29"
Or 26 inches, ye olde mountain bike standard. Are they putting 32 inch wheels on road bikes now?
no, gravel and mountain bikes. it’s for increased traction and rollover.
It’s a description about how so many people think about so many things. Flat earth is just an obviously silly one that we can mock people for.
The reality is that so many people simply refuse to accept new information that contradicts their previously held views. To the point where it has contributed to societal breakdown.
YEAH BUT I SAW IT IN A MOVE THAT PENGUINS ARE MONOGAMOUS FOR LIFE, in a movie 20 years ago.
I don’t want to be told that they are only monogamous for each year and they over their lives they have 20 different partners.
One thing is beautiful and magical, the other means they are disgusting flightless sluts.
>Go to doctor
>Get CT scan of my head
>Totally normal, eyes not hacked
>NASA must have replaced the windows in the space station with 8K screens.Correct. The only way to know for sure is to walk out the airlock and see with your own eyes.
>Put on suit for space walk to get past the screens
>Stupid me, obviously the helmet is a top secret VR system
>Take off helmet
>
God, that scene fucked with me as a child.
I did a shit from a high tower to measure whether it fell straight to earth or curved, indicating a round planet. It curved, that’s when I realized NASA must have replaced my anus.
I do get a good laugh when every once in a while a flat earther comes up with a newer and more convoluted way of proving that the earth is in fact round. Then there’s the bonus round where they do the Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why their own results don’t prove anything.
What I thought I’d do was, I’d pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes.
SALINGER TAUGHT ME TO LOVE THE FLAT EARTH.
“NASA hacked my eyes” is honestly peak commitment to the bit. No amount of evidence can defeat advanced denial technology. 😂
Hey, back in the 90s, I went to an theme park and they had those IMAX screen with moving chairs and you felt like you were getting chased by the shark or the dinosaurs. So imagine what they can do now when they stuff you in a small cabin, they can make you believe ANYTHING! Who’s crazy now huh?
Tap for spoiler
/s, obvs
hey where’s this cabin they stuff you in where they make you believe anything? i could use a weekend off and would like to believe i’m marilyn monroe
only flat earthers can think that we have reached technology 2 just to fool them
What’s the explanation for the shape of the Moon, Sun, all other planets, etc… in the flat earth mindset?
Probably that they’re flat discs as well
All other things in the whole universe are round. Only Earth is flat, obviously.
they got vaccines and became gay and round and autistic.
back before we were shooting vaccines into them with our gay vaccine rockets they were totally flat and straight.
Occam’s razor insists that you were de- and then re-programmed to think that you were in space viewing the Earth, when, in fact, you were in a black room hooked up to an IV with a lurching goon whispering into your ear.
You never left the Denver airport.
IT’S MORE LIKELY THAN NOT. It happens every day.
They didn’t hack your eyes it was all just special effects.
See I thought he was doing it just to get free tickets to space.
