[An excerpt of DD explaining the Round Earth conspiracy]
How Does The Conspiracy Benefit?
This is not easily answered, but I've taken some insight into this and made some estimates on how the conspiracy could be making money:
Display of Power:
So, instead of angering people and possibly even sparking a revolt of some sort, they made up some stuff. And you know how lies tend to roll and get bigger and bigger until they're inescapable? I'd say a worldwide conspiracy is that concept...to the max.
32 comments
I think this site is bogus but I will just say it again, those conspiracy theorist, with their tinfoil hats are the ones to demonstrate it, not us. There are satellite photographs, known routes, star clusters which are only seen in one hemisphere..............a conspiracy is the last thing I expect.
Well, I'm sure that being correct about the shape of the earth is unimportant to you. After all, as 3rd assistant church janitor, you really don't run into many occasions where the shape of the earth really matters, and your intellectual honesty was stomped out years ago.
"Millions (probably billions) of dollars of money that didn't really belong to them had been basically tossed down the drain for research of the round Earth, when, in fact it was flat. "
Well duh the earth is flat. Like elephants could carry a fucking globe on their backs! They'd slip right off the turtle!
Ah a good old flat Earth... Why did they build the Panama canal - wouldn't that just be a shortcut to sailing off the edge of the world?
So, instead of angering people and possibly even sparking a revolt of some sort, they made up some stuff. And you know how lies tend to roll and get bigger and bigger until they're inescapable? I'd say a worldwide conspiracy is that concept...to the max.
So, the government messed up at a really bad time to mess up, and they've been pooling all of the already-angry tax-payers' money into research that eventually led to a less-than-exciting discovery: The Earth is flat. Everyone was wrong. Millions (probably billions) of dollars of money that didn't really belong to them had been basically tossed down the drain for research of the round Earth, when, in fact it was flat.
@SaneChick: Exactly. I know people who say the same thing about evolution, science in general etc.
If the Earth were flat wouldn't it stand to reason that we'd have pictures of the edge by now? Forget satellites and equations, all you'd need is a slow boat and a camera. Or does the Earth continue without bound? In such a case the United Nations will have to become a LOT bigger to represent all the undiscovered nations.
Hard as it is to believe, the Flat-Earth Society are absolutely serious about their beliefs, and have been since their formation in the 1880s (as the Zetetic Society).some of them) are as far off the nutso scale as Gene "TimeCube" Ray and the Vril Society.
Did you ever watch a ship ail away? first the hull disappears, then slowly, more and more of the superstructure. Or the lunar eclipse the other night. The shadow on the Moon was curved! Like a ball! My neighbor asked me an hour ago if I saw it, and I told him the same thing. He couldn't believe that there was anyone in this day and age so freaking stupid as to buy that "Flat Earth" crap anymore. I should have told him about FSTDT.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.
