• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
    312·
    14 days ago

    I am entirely convinced the flat earth movement consists of 90% pranksters who are doing it for shits and giggles and 10% bona fide contrarian retards who falsely believe they’re in good company.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
      8·
      13 days ago

      Maybe started by pranksters then grifters realizes that can sell fake books and fake stuff like some fake tool that pretends to prove some false assumption

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        so you start with that fuzzy equality where you end up at 1=0 due to bad math. then you just start multiplying if by shit and it looks legitimate!

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      i think you have the percentages wrong but the groups right. more like 1:3 pranksters:dipshits

      also, would you mind using a different word than retard? i don’t particularly like being grouped with flat earthers.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      Maybe? The Netflix doc mad a pretty convincing argument that they are sad, undereducated, and unaccomplished losers who are desperate to feel superior to something and to have something approximating real friends.

      I think it started as stupid shit and people with the most desperate need latched on because they had nothing else in there entire lives.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    woah. i never see this. like as a former cultist, your typical response is “not my circus, not my monkeys” (even if it is your circus and your monkeys. I wish i never started that whale cult)

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        There’s this big whale statue in Utah and I started a joke religion about it. Only some folk took it seriously. Like I wasn’t even in Utah

        Edit this whale

        It was a running joke for the weekend on an alumni website and then I didn’t hear anything about until I read this article

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    Flat earth is one of those things that’s so ignorant that I don’t even get mad at them. I just feel sad for them.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      The only issue I have with flat earthers is the arrogance. The rest is ignorance that we can deal with if they allow us.

  • Wicked@lemmy.world
    2·
    13 days ago

    The earty is round but hollow, holes at the north and south pole, leading to agartha, where the black stone sit at the center.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    21·
    13 days ago

    In my experience the highly religious hold on to flat earth the most. Just another reason religion is cancer