Are Hardcore Conspiracy Theorists Retarded?

[Jake the Muss]

Right but when talking about hundreds of thousands of people, a few are going to risk that social rejection or perhaps not even go to that length but tell someone they trust that isn’t involved in it and then that opens up the possibility of those people running their mouths

Compartmentalization.

If society has levels of truth and understanding, then a few can manipulate and control the masses.

The masses are not aware of the manipulation, because they are too preoccupied with survival or improving their status to care about a greater truth.

 

[Jake the Muss]

@Jake the Muss tells me that people would rather have fame and fortune than risk being socially ostracized and yet he’s a fucking flat earther, who is being socially ostracized

Thanks for proving my point dipshit. You apparently don’t mind being ostracized if it means bringing out the “truth”

Most people don't care. Some people actually give a shit.

 

[Jopious Extronimous]

Can we ban them for trolling then?

Sadly neither trolling or being terrible at it get you banned anymore. Scyther did what they're doing but actually was a little clever with it at times, putting little bits of hilarity in his long-winded and seemingly adult arguments. He was around for a decent amount of time before he caught the hammer for going hard on another topic.

I'd ban them for just being terrible at an old gimmick. It's like watching someone's mom do a bad Flash Gordon impression.

 

[rj144]

Sadly neither trolling or being terrible at it get you banned anymore. Scyther did what they're doing but actually was a little clever with it at times, putting little bits of hilarity in his long-winded and seemingly adult arguments. He was around for a decent amount of time before he caught the hammer for going hard on another topic.

I'd ban them for just being terrible at an old gimmick. It's like watching someone's mom do a bad Flash Gordon impression.

What did Scyther get banned over?

 

[Jake the Muss]

What levels? It's not a hard question. In a plane, they use horizon indicators. I have no idea if that's what you're referring to because I don't know of any other levels. Horizon indicators are relative to the horizon.

Oblate spheroid.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

I don't think the flat earthers should be banned. Their contributions may be drivel but they point to an important trend in the sociology of knowledge while doing relatively little harm.

 

[rj144]

Oblate spheroid.

 

[rj144]

I don't think the flat earthers should be banned. Their contributions may be drivel but they point to an important trend in the sociology of knowledge while doing relatively little harm.

They do harm if they get their ideas spread to more people. It's undermining science.

 

[Jake the Muss]

Still waiting for a picture to prove Earth is an oblate spheroid.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

They do harm if they get their ideas spread to more people. It's undermining science.

Agreed, but this particular case is different from the harm caused by vaccine or global warming denialism in terms of practical consequence. It's also absurd enough that observers can contemplate it from a safe distance.

At some point we're going to have to collectively acknowledge that some knowledge is passed down via authority, and that's okay.

 

[Jopious Extronimous]

What did Scyther get banned over?

I think it was something like a school shooting hoax thread, the pictures being what got him banned. After the flat earth stuff got old he started randomly making other conspiracy threads. Had dubs for awhile then pffflt. Iced. He missed the attention he had been getting and was just trying to be as controversial as possible after that. Sadly he could never recapture his glory days. Poor fellow. It's like he fell off the edge of the earth...

 

[Jopious Extronimous]

Still waiting for a picture of Earth being an oblate spheroid.

Hey you sound totally convincing man, can you show me some pictures of the flat earth from high up so I can start spreading the word too?

 

[rj144]

Still waiting for a picture to prove Earth is an oblate spheroid.

Still waiting to see if you understand an airplane.

 

[Jake the Muss]

Hey you sound totally convincing man, can you show me some pictures of the flat earth from high up so I can start spreading the word too?

I already said that it's impossible to do it, which is why you don't have a picture of a flat or oblate spheroid earth.

However, according to heliocentrists we have already been to the moon, so surely we should be able to find a picture of earth as an oblate spheroid.

Why is it so difficult for you to just post a picture, doesn't NASA have a public archive full of images to choose from?

 

[pinger]

No one needs to prove it. Common sense dictates that you're on a flat motionless plane in which the heavenly luminaries circle over head.

The burden of proof is on your side. You're the one that believes your on a pear shaped rock hurling around in space at mind numbing speeds. You're the one who claims that earth is just like every other known object in the universe, except we just got lucky with life..


You're the one who claims the sun is 93 million miles away and 600 thousand times the size of earth.
You're the one who believes in an invisible force that is strong enough to hold every drop of water to the balls surface yet weak enough that a fucking dandilion petal is able to stay attached to its fragile resting place...

You're the one who is throwing away all of your senses on a fucking lunatic brain dead global earth model.


I do not need to "prove" the earth flat and motionless because nothing in every Day nature points to the idea that we are moving in many different orbits at many diffent speeds.

You're the one who needs to come up with the proof..

You can't

Yes, case in point

 

[BEER]

I already said that it's impossible to do it, which is why you don't have a picture of a flat or oblate spheroid earth.

However, according to heliocentrists we have already been to the moon, so surely we should be able to find a picture of earth as an oblate spheroid.

Why is it so difficult for you to just post a picture, doesn't NASA have a public archive full of images to choose from?

This has already been explained to you:

The equatorial circumference of the earth is 24,900 miles.

The polar circumference of the earth is 24,812 miles.

A circumference difference of 88 miles is going to be imperceptible in a full-image view of the earth.

 

[Jopious Extronimous]

I already said that it's impossible to do it, which is why you don't have a picture of a flat or oblate spheroid earth.

Why is it impossible to do? I've been in a plane and looked out the window, why cant you do the same and just take a picture? Come on man, how am I supposed to convince people of something in the 21st century and I can't even provide visual evidence of it? Is there at least a place I can tell them to go, to see the edge?

However, according to heliocentrists we have already been to the moon, so surely we should be able to find a picture of earth as an oblate spheroid.

Why is it so difficult for you to just post a picture, doesn't NASA have a public archive full of images to choose from?

There's a bunch of pictures, they're all over google. But I thought you guys said they were all faked? Why are you asking for pictures from NASA, I thought they were corrupt and misinforming people?

This sucks man I wanna spread the word and convince people but you're not giving me anything to work with.

 

[Jake the Muss]

This has already been explained to you:

The equatorial circumference of the earth is 24,900 miles.

The polar circumference of the earth is 24,812 miles.

A circumference difference of 88 miles is going to be imperceptible in a full-image view of the earth.

Why is it impossible to do? I've been in a plane and looked out the window, why cant you do the same and just take a picture? Come on man, how am I supposed to convince people of something in the 21st century and I can't even provide visual evidence of it? Is there at least a place I can tell them to go, to see the edge?



There's a bunch of pictures, they're all over google. But I thought you guys said they were all faked? Why are you asking for pictures from NASA, I thought they were corrupt and misinforming people?

This sucks man I wanna spread the word and convince people but you're not giving me anything to work with.

It is a loaded question...we haven't been to the moon.



Source: Astronaut admitting it himself.

/end thread

 

[BEER]

It is a loaded question...we haven't been to the moon.



Source: Astronaut admitting it himself.

/end thread

That dude didn't say we didn't go to the moon, you dolt.

He said that with the rocket tech that NASA is currently using, which doesn't have the objective of reaching the moon, won't go to the moon.

Y'all will find anything and misinterpret it lmao

That's like me saying "my Jetta can only run on gasoline, therefore electric cars are fake"

 

[Jopious Extronimous]

It is a loaded question...we haven't been to the moon.



Source: Astronaut admitting it himself.

/end thread

...you didn't answer any of my questions, at all.

I'm starting to wonder if you really want people to believe your position. Here I am a willing believer trying to let you convince me, and you can't even directly respond to me.

Do you know some other flat-earthers who are more intelligent and informative than you, so I can talk to them instead?