UM-Bot Posted March 6, 2020 #1 Share Posted March 6, 2020 A surprisingly large number of people in Brazil subscribe to the idea that our planet is not what it seems. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335221/11-million-brazilians-believe-that-the-earth-is-flat 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted March 6, 2020 #2 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Brazil nuts? 2 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWolf Posted March 6, 2020 #3 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Holy crap Batman! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted March 6, 2020 #4 Share Posted March 6, 2020 OMG! It's the 11 million candidates for the...... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seti42 Posted March 6, 2020 #5 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Wow, who'd have thought that far-right authoritarian + evangelical Christian + science denial = the complete dumbass package of flat earther... 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted March 6, 2020 #6 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Hmm..Seems like Brazil may be ahead of the US in this area. I'm going to write to the president and insist that we do something to close this flat earth gap. That America is not leading the world in this area is unacceptable! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadLordAvatar Posted March 6, 2020 #7 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Quote "To scientists, this (Flat-Earth theory) seems more like a topic for psychologists or sociologists to study. The Earth's shape isn't a scientific problem to astronomers." This. These flat earthers need their head checked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted March 6, 2020 #8 Share Posted March 6, 2020 32 minutes ago, DreadLordAvatar said: These flat earthers need their head checked. That should not take too long to do. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted March 6, 2020 #9 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I'm sure these same people don't believe we walked on the moon, satellites, or the ISS either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted March 6, 2020 #10 Share Posted March 6, 2020 They send out a lot of coffee beans. Does this mean a flat white is made out of flat beans? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaded1 Posted March 6, 2020 #11 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Surprise, surprise, religion rears its grotesque, multi-faceted head again. I can't get my head around the fact that, in this day and age, people would rather believe the "snake oil merchants" in the Evangelical church who spout their lies purely for financial gain, than established, scientific facts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festina Posted March 6, 2020 #12 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) Five years ago I had a 16 year old Brazilian exchange student for a few months. She spoke four languages and was an excellent student and yet I had to teach her how to peel an orange. No joke. Her family had servants that did everything for them. Edited March 6, 2020 by Festina 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festina Posted March 6, 2020 #13 Share Posted March 6, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Jaded1 said: Surprise, surprise, religion rears its grotesque, multi-faceted head again. I can't get my head around the fact that, in this day and age, people would rather believe the "snake oil merchants" in the Evangelical church who spout their lies purely for financial gain, than established, scientific facts. The Jesuits tortured and burned Giordano Bruno [an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist] alive for teaching hermeticism and having contrary opinions to catholic dogma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno The numerous charges against Bruno, based on some of his books as well as on witness accounts, included blasphemy, immoral conduct, and heresy in matters of dogmatic theology, and involved some of the basic doctrines of his philosophy and cosmology. Luigi Firpo speculates the charges made against Bruno by the Roman Inquisition were:[33] holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith and speaking against it and its ministers; holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about the Trinity, divinity of Christ, and Incarnation; holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith pertaining to Jesus as Christ; holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith regarding the virginity of Mary, mother of Jesus; holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith about both Transubstantiation and Mass; claiming the existence of a plurality of worlds and their eternity; believing in metempsychosis and in the transmigration of the human soul into brutes; dealing in magics and divination. And there was Galileo affair as well.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair Galileo was prosecuted for his support of heliocentrism, the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the Solar System.... ......Further on he [Bellarmine] ] says that interpreting heliocentrism as physically real would be "a very dangerous thing, likely not only to irritate all scholastic philosophers and theologians, but also to harm the Holy Faith by rendering Holy Scripture as false." Moreover, while the topic was not inherently a matter of faith, the statements about it in Scripture were so by virtue of who said them – namely, the Holy Spirit. He conceded that if there were conclusive proof, "then one would have to proceed with great care in explaining the Scriptures that appear contrary; and say rather that we do not understand them, than that what is demonstrated is false." However, demonstrating that heliocentrism merely "saved the appearances" could not be regarded as sufficient to establish that it was physically real. Although he believed that the former may well have been possible, he had "very great doubts" that the latter would be, and in case of doubt it was not permissible to depart from the [the Jesuits] traditional interpretation of [Jewish] Scripture. [emphasis mine] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair Edited March 6, 2020 by Festina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonKing Posted March 6, 2020 #14 Share Posted March 6, 2020 @Piney...what's worse bud,this or the Atlantis crowd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted March 6, 2020 #15 Share Posted March 6, 2020 22 minutes ago, CrimsonKing said: @Piney...what's worse bud,this or the Atlantis crowd? Atlantis - this lot are just idiots, the Atlantis mob are idiots who p*** all over history, culture and beliefs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted March 7, 2020 #16 Share Posted March 7, 2020 No educated person really believes the Earth is flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktexan Posted March 7, 2020 #17 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Climate change denial? Climates have always changed, we just dispute the pseudoscience of squarely blaming humans for a process that clearly existed far before us. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlitterRose Posted March 7, 2020 #18 Share Posted March 7, 2020 If people are determined to choose ignorance, no one can force them to choose otherwise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobolds Posted March 9, 2020 #19 Share Posted March 9, 2020 it could be true, depend on how you see it. if you take out all water , you will see one long flat land 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceBumZaphod Posted March 9, 2020 #20 Share Posted March 9, 2020 These flat earth folks also believe Australia is fake. It doesn't fit their flat earth models. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted March 9, 2020 #21 Share Posted March 9, 2020 2 hours ago, SpaceBumZaphod said: These flat earth folks also believe Australia is fake. If you want to believe kangaroos are real, that's up to you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seetheSeeker Posted April 6, 2020 #22 Share Posted April 6, 2020 As a Christian, I speak for many others who know for sure the earth isn�t flat. The Bible does not say the earth is flat, which is a false claim of sadly too many of my brothers and sisters. Even observation and critical thought from home makes clear the earth is a spheroid. Another false claim is that planets aren�t planets but angels.. why then do I see Saturn�s rings with a telescope. Religion and science don�t have to be mortal enemies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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