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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(8,031 posts) Sun Jul 2, 2023, 03:57 AM Jul 2023

flat earther mom establishes flat earth foundation in kid before they see a earth globe

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flat earther mom establishes flat earth foundation in kid before they see a earth globe (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 OP

Home schooling is an oxymoron unweird Jul 2023 #1

It's exploding even in the cities. jimfields33 Jul 2023 #2

I was in my car in 2016 ShepKat Jul 2023 #5

Usually. marble falls Jul 2023 #7

stupidest thing ever. ShepKat Jul 2023 #3

The prequel to Idiocracy... MiHale Jul 2023 #4

Nothing promotes ignorance like stupidity. marble falls Jul 2023 #6

I know.. in their model, the sun swirls around ...how do they explain the sun rising in East BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2023 #11

There's so many of those kinds of questions they just blow past. marble falls Jul 2023 #12

Oh dear. Bless their hearts. ms liberty Jul 2023 #8

It's toilet paper rolls all the way down. love_katz Jul 2023 #9

The turtles are not amused. They will find you. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2023 #13

Cheers for the turtles. love_katz Jul 2023 #16

It actually predates Terry Pratchett - by a surprising amount muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #17

actually Terry did a series called Conjuay Aug 2023 #20

Wow, so proud of their ignorance they brag about it on social media. tanyev Jul 2023 #10

If they got the sizes all correct, then it'd form a sphere muriel_volestrangler Jul 2023 #18

JFC flying rabbit Jul 2023 #14

Well, we know now that all of the missing ships, through history, just rode over the edge. Chainfire Jul 2023 #15

So...where is the South Pole Prof. Toru Tanaka Jul 2023 #19

unweird

(2,545 posts)

1. Home schooling is an oxymoron

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 04:02 AM

Jul 2023

And this if not a parody is simply stupid.

jimfields33

(15,915 posts)

2. It's exploding even in the cities.

Reply to unweird (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 06:39 AM

Jul 2023

The pandemic helped cultivate it. I’m not for or against only because the one size fits all doesn’t make sense. I do believe the requirements need tightening.

ShepKat

(383 posts)

5. I was in my car in 2016

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 07:34 AM

Jul 2023

and I heard a news story about some people getting in a fit fight in a bar over it. First I heard of it. *shakes head

marble falls

(57,150 posts)

7. Usually.

Reply to unweird (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 07:42 AM

Jul 2023

ShepKat

(383 posts)

3. stupidest thing ever.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 07:23 AM

Jul 2023

my youngest is one, she homeschools. I am not allowed to be in my granddaughter's life because I will cause her to question her mother's lessons.

MiHale

(9,769 posts)

4. The prequel to Idiocracy...

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 07:33 AM

Jul 2023

marble falls

(57,150 posts)

6. Nothing promotes ignorance like stupidity.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 07:41 AM

Jul 2023

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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(8,031 posts)

11. I know.. in their model, the sun swirls around ...how do they explain the sun rising in East

Reply to marble falls (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:24 AM

Jul 2023

and setting in the west with that model?

marble falls

(57,150 posts)

12. There's so many of those kinds of questions they just blow past.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #11)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:28 AM

Jul 2023

ms liberty

(8,591 posts)

8. Oh dear. Bless their hearts.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:06 AM

Jul 2023

love_katz

(2,583 posts)

9. It's toilet paper rolls all the way down.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:18 AM

Jul 2023

Readers of Terry Pratchett's Disc World will see what I did here.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,397 posts)

13. The turtles are not amused. They will find you.

Reply to love_katz (Reply #9)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:48 AM

Jul 2023

love_katz

(2,583 posts)

16. Cheers for the turtles.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #13)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 10:47 AM

Jul 2023

muriel_volestrangler

(101,348 posts)

17. It actually predates Terry Pratchett - by a surprising amount

Reply to love_katz (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 4, 2023, 05:30 PM

Jul 2023

I first heard it as told as a reply from "a little old lday" to a lecturing philosopher, Bertrand Russell - taking the place of William James here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down#Modern_form

But that has "rocks all the way down" in 1838, and "tortoises all the way down" in 1854

Conjuay

(1,395 posts)

20. actually Terry did a series called

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #17)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 12:12 PM

Aug 2023

“The Science of Disk World” that goes into great detail on different ‘flat’ earth and turtles all the way down cultural beliefs. Four volumes, quite interesting (and Enjoyable!)

tanyev

(42,596 posts)

10. Wow, so proud of their ignorance they brag about it on social media.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 08:21 AM

Jul 2023

Last edited Sun Jul 2, 2023, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Also, there's some serious problems with the size scale for the continents, especially Eurasia.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,348 posts)

18. If they got the sizes all correct, then it'd form a sphere

Reply to tanyev (Reply #10)

Tue Jul 4, 2023, 05:38 PM

Jul 2023

The basic thing about a flat earth is you have to lie about reality. For instance, in a reply to a flat earth book of the early 20th century:

I will only give one other example of the astronomical proofs:

'If the earth were a globe, the distance round the surface, say, at 45 degrees south latitude, could not possibly be any greater than the same latitude north; but since it is found by navigators to be twice the distance—to say the least of it—or double the distance it ought to be according to the globular theory, it is a proof that the earth is not a globe.' This sort of thing reduces my mind to a pulp. I can faintly resist when a man says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have four legs; but when he says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have five legs I am crushed.

https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-english-online/courses/50906/a-defence-of-planets-93363/

flying rabbit

(4,636 posts)

14. JFC

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 09:27 AM

Jul 2023

Chainfire

(17,587 posts)

15. Well, we know now that all of the missing ships, through history, just rode over the edge.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sun Jul 2, 2023, 10:03 AM

Jul 2023

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(1,980 posts)

19. So...where is the South Pole

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Mon Jul 10, 2023, 07:48 AM

Jul 2023

in the midst of all this nonsense?

The Sun has more than 332,000 times the mass of the earth. Yet in this home schooling model, it orbits around the earth instead of the proven model where the Earth rotates around the sun.

Oh and in this model, how is it ever night time when the Sun is always shining on flat Earth?

Also, why do Australia and South America appear as large or larger than North America? North America is the largest of these three continents by a considerable margin.

I feel sorry for these children.

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