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We know that is not your website silly
you can string a sentence together.

Not necessarily a sensible sentence, but at least it is legible.
Mr Ranting Stream of Vitriolic Abuse Cubeworld on the other hand...

The interwebs cry. Next thing you know, someone will start a website where people argue about plastic toy soldiers in some wartorn future..... oh, wait.

Has anyone started a website debating how penguins aren't a creation of god, since they weren't mentioned as being on the ark? That's what the interwebs really needs, as much as I need a complete collection of The State on DVD.

dietrich wrote:The interwebs cry. Next thing you know, someone will start a website where people argue about plastic toy soldiers in some wartorn future..... oh, wait.

Has anyone started a website debating how penguins aren't a creation of god, since they weren't mentioned as being on the ark? That's what the interwebs really needs, as much as I need a complete collection of The State on DVD.

Just penguins? What about the flatworms for the flat earth and all 1 mill species of nematodes?
that would be one long list of animals not mentioned
or was there a cover all generic term such as, "all beasties that crawl, slither, walk or fly"?

but that is another thread.

There was a sketch from The State where a catholic boy was saying he wouldn't go to the penguin exhibit at the zoo because they were obviously created by man after the Great Flood, since the bible doesn't mention Noah saving any penguins.

Lord-Loss wrote:But seriously everyone knows the Earth is shaped like a giant penis.

Actually that's just your penis that's a sphere. The rest of us have penises that look quite different.

'Ang on!
Noah didn't need to save the penguins!!
they can swim!

sebster wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:But seriously everyone knows the Earth is shaped like a giant penis.

Actually that's just your penis that's a sphere. The rest of us have penises that look quite different.

Well actually there was this one guy...

No. Best not to bring back the nightmares.

sebster wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:But seriously everyone knows the Earth is shaped like a giant penis.

Actually that's just your penis that's a sphere. The rest of us have penises that look quite different.

Awch!

Harsh Sebster, harsh.

the earth has no shape because it's endless and there isn't anything else in the universe, space is an illusion and a hoax.

When the one returns to bring order to the matrix, none of this will matter.

course its flat, how else does it fit on the elephants on the turtle

mattyrm wrote:Of course they are serious. As serious as those who think we rode dinosaurs to school 4000 years ago, but we killed them off after Noah took them on the ark. I suspect many flat earthers are people that deny it because somewhere in the bible it says the earth was a flat disc with a firmament above it. You can make yourself deny anything if you are willing to ignore obvious physical evidence because you think it cant coincide with your most passionately held beliefs. Leave them too it, because arguing with them seems to give their absurd position some sort of credibility. Ignoring the idiots entirely is a better strategem, unless they insist on knocking on your fething door of course. :-)

You will find that the Flat Earthers are a secular lot. Religion isnt behind it, besides both the Koran and Old Testament indicate the earth is round anyway. the New Testament makes no comment. I doubt even Westboro Baptists are Flat Earthers, they likely wouldnt be welcome anyway.

Flat Earthers are a counter culture to conventional science, it isnt taken seriously from without or within. They are there to puncture a few egos thats all. This is best indicated by the fact that Flat Earthers do not attempt to 'educate' children into following their theories, quite unlike religions and fringe scientific groups. I doubt many, if any, Flat Earthers are actually believe what they say, but they remain 'in character' whenever they are on topic.

Please remember the lengths Flat Earthers go to explain away such concepts as gravity and eclipses cannot be taken at all seriously. For example Flat earthers 'believe' the moon is a 32km billboard made of wood; eclipses are caused by the Antimoon, and gravitational forces exists because the flat earth is being subjected to constant acceleration from the underside. Given an audience I am sure they will have some way to explain whats causing the acceleration. I can see how it would be fun to argue these points, as it takes a bit of front to do so.

whatwhat wrote:Columbus thought the earth was a sphere, though smaller in circumference than it actually was. Hence he thought he could make it to the indies in a shorter time by traveling west. He still thought this on his death, and still believed that the west indies and americas he had discovered were off the east of asia. The belief that the earth was flat became widespread long before his time.

It was common knowledge at the time of Columbus that the world was round.

sebster wrote:

http://www.timecube.com/

Holy cow.
The time cube is the truth above all truths.
I have now converted to cubeism.
I shall now type in rants. ONE! is a number that is ONE greater than zero and ONE less than two, because two is ONE greater than ONE.

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Bookwrack wrote:

whatwhat wrote:Columbus thought the earth was a sphere, though smaller in circumference than it actually was. Hence he thought he could make it to the indies in a shorter time by traveling west. He still thought this on his death, and still believed that the west indies and americas he had discovered were off the east of asia. The belief that the earth was flat became widespread long before his time.

It was common knowledge at the time of Columbus that the world was round.

Sorry, that was supposed to be 'The belief that the earth was round became widespread long before his time.' You're right.

Yanno, once, when I was a little kid, I was told that the Earth and all the other planets were swallowed by a GIGANTIC fish (a void whale perhaps?) Anywho, that sounds a logical as the flat people. Why not? Its not like anyone has gone outside and asked the giant void fish what the dilly O is.

I stick to this logic in life

I would love to see their maps. and see them explain how to get from one end of the map to the other.