• Iunnrais@lemmy.worldEnglish
      292·
      2 hours ago

      Flat earthers don’t believe in a flat earth. What they actually believe is that Satan is fighting a war for the minds of people, and education is a tool of satan to lead you away from god. All other nonsense they spew stems from that— they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat because the education system, which they believe to be from Satan, tells you it’s spherical.

      And most (but not all) flat earthers have moved on to the next conspiracy that supports their central belief (Satan is fighting a war for your mind) and don’t care much about flat earth anymore. Flat earth was never the point, not being swayed by Satan is always the center.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 minutes ago

        Also, they believe the earth is flat because the Bible says so; and the earth is young because the Bible says so, and that science is the devil’s work because it contradicts a book written by Bronze Age goat herders retconned by a guy in the Iron Age that got killed for telling the Roman’s he was king of the Jews.

  • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    this is really stupid, but have you considered that the rotational speed of the earth at the equator is like 400 meters per second? How tf are we not flying into space under those speeds?? The answer is obviously that the center of rotation is ABOVE us (that’s right baby hollow earth is back) we’re inside rotating globe OH AND BTW that’s how gravity works, thank me later physicists.