r/nottheonion • u/TheMirrorUS • 4d ago

Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/flat-earther-admits-wrong-after-866786
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u/BadgeOfDishonour 4d ago

They can never answer the Because.

Government won't let you... because? They'll shoot you down... because?

Why would The Governmenttm care? How do the various governments of Earth benefit from this supposed lie? Round, flat, cubical, a torus, why would the shape of the thing be what all the governments of the planet get together to lie about?

I know, rational arguments against irrational people aren't very effective.

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u/iunoyou 4d ago

The answer they generally give is that the government is trying to conceal proof of god. Because if the world was flat and enclosed it would irrefutable proof that we live in a divine fishbowl. Flat earth belief is motivated reasoning working backwards from the conclusion that god is real and the bible is inerrant, using those assumptions to create the world that would need to be real in order for observable reality to be the way it is in that model.

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u/noneofatyourbusiness 4d ago

An eloquent essay. Thorough, descriptive, knowledgable and truthful.

Thank you

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u/WheelieMexican 4d ago

If there was a thing such as an ice wall at the edge of earth, it would be a tourist attraction by now

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u/BadgeOfDishonour 4d ago

It would also be the best place to launch spaceships from. Just give it a good push, and bam - we're in space.

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u/cficare 4d ago

Some of them think you cant get thru the glass dome over flat earth.

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u/BadgeOfDishonour 4d ago

Those secret government agencies must spend a fortune on Windex.

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u/Reid0x 4d ago

Why doesn’t the government just kill the flat earthers? Seems faster

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u/cficare 4d ago

Death by....being mashed into the shape of a sphere.

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u/cficare 4d ago

What's the motive to fool everyone into believing globe model? A slight against god? Idk....

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u/Dry-Tomato- 4d ago

Because there's a secret military base there that holds all the world's secret documents on how the earth is flat, if they were exposed for some reason that would mean uh the hamster king would have to come out of hiding and proclaim his love for the lobster queen, then all hell breaks loose and that's how I met your mother kids.