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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Do Flat Earthers believe in a heliocentric solar system?

« on: May 23, 2013, 05:31:58 PM »

As a legitimate flat Earther, I'm partial to a modified neo-Tychonian system

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The Lounge / Re: A Friendly Chat

« on: May 17, 2013, 07:20:12 PM »

Where were you on the 4th of April 2013 at 17:44pm?

That's not a real time.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: What are the 'unique' proofs that the earth isn't round?

« on: May 17, 2013, 05:47:53 PM »

We have a wiki page dedicated to experimental evidence, which you've been linked to before.

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The Lounge / Re: The Anti-Everything Brigade

« on: May 17, 2013, 05:28:46 PM »

But wait, it gets better!

http://www.mgtow.com/

Some highlights:

Be careful with single mothers, married women, and divorced women.

Males who spend their lives trying to please women are manginas.
Manginas love to club, drive cool cars, dress up, and act tough.
The biggest, baddest males are often the weakest willed manginas.
Males raised by single mothers or weak fathers end up manginas.
Marriage is for manginas who cannot say "no" to their girlfriends.
Manginas let girlfriends, parents, and society dictate their future.
Real men do not let anyone pressure them into marriage (slavery).
Conscious awareness can reverse a lifetime of brainwashing.
When your buddies act like manginas, tell them: "Check your balls."

Men enjoy hobbies, sports, eating, and conversing with other men.
Bachelorhood is exciting, enjoyable, relaxing, peaceful, and easy.
Retire at 50, date slender foreign women half your age, live it up.

And here are their forums!

http://www.mgtowforums.com/forums/forum.php

Wow. People are assholes. Like, I feel a strong urge to punch whoever wrote that.

So people can "pounce" on me by questioning my distaste for white girls wearing warbonnets, but when Eddy is uncomfortable about a passive aggressive girl, a woman who's nervous about men on a train, and then makes a weird rape comment and we question him suddenly we're over-reacting, pouncing on him, berating him, etc?

I call bullshit.
His comments were strange to me and I was only trying to discuss the issue further. This whole thread is becoming stupid now since Eddy is no longer taking part and others feel like they have to be white knights for him.

1) What's a warbonnet?
2) It came off as incredibly accusatory. Maybe that's not how you meant it to sound, but

You're missing the point. You said "probably" as in there is a possibility you could get it up for rape. Before you said rape makes your blood boil more than any other crime, if that were the case you would be so repulsed by the idea of rape that there would be no room for the possibility of an erect penis. But in this case, you implied that you had considered a pleasant outcome to rape.

And you can rape someone with any phallic object, you dope.

Sounds to me like it might as well be written in all caps.

I thought that people, rooster in particular, were over-reacting to Eddy's rape comment and were doing so in a rather hypocritical manner, and said that I thought so. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me, because it's accurate.

What you said specifically was:

she started flipping out over a comment which was in no way offensive (Eddy's rape comment. Really, rooster's interpretation was the exact opposite of what he was saying. He was commenting that for guys such as himself and me who aren't particularly violent, rape is the least sexy thing ever).

Nobody was flipping out at the comment, they were questioning it.  And the questioning wasn't unwarranted.  Here's the exact quote:

All I want is for us all to be treated equally, with no assumed guilt. But as a man I don't get that from these crazy people.
Even though I'm quite wimpy and really don't like conflict. Probably couldn't even get it up for a rape.

Does that really not sound incredibly sketchy to you?  In the first place, the word "probably" doesn't exactly conjure up images of superlatives like "least," but even more than that, it's like he was implying that his problem with rape is sexual in nature, rather than, you know, moral.  He might as well have said, "Rape isn't much of a turn-on for me," or "Having a woman struggle against you really kills the mood."

It's weirdly worded, but I understood what he meant.

_____

Now I have a very unrelated question, mostly directed at DDDDAts all folks because I'm trying to figure out where he's coming from. Is the way men are portrayed in yogurt commercials sexist? Is a just a harmless joke? Both? Is it even possible for something to be both of those things at the same time?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Ask a Physicist anything.

« on: May 17, 2013, 12:31:07 PM »

Uncertainty Principle, you can't see how fast something is and where it is at the same time with the same level of accuracy. What do you not understand about that?

I didn't ask what it was, I asked why physicists are so bad at explaining it to laymen. You're not even a physicist. I know perfectly well what it is. You think you're so smart, Rushy, let's see you explain it rather than just state it, shall we?

The reason you cannot measure both the position and speed is beacuse to measure something you have to interact with it. there are two ways to do this, to get the speed you use the wave function, and to get the position you use the partile function; when a particle hits another particle it interrupts its speed, and when you use a wave it is spread out so the position is only probable.

That's actually not true. It has nothing to do with the way we interact with particles, the Uncertainty Principle is a fundamental law of nature.

What is the Uncertainty Principle?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Ask a Physicist anything.

« on: May 17, 2013, 12:21:38 PM »

So I'm a physicist. I am finishing off a Masters in general physics and am currently applying to PHDs. Hence I know lots of science. If any of you have questions (which is why most people come to this forum) I will try to answer them and explain them. I should clarify, I am a round earth believer so I believe main stream physics. If any parts of main stream science confuse you / to you there seem to be holes in theory I will try to explain the confusing jargon / explain what modern science's answer to that hole in theory is.

When I look in the mirror, I am back to front but not upside down.  Why?

It's actually not very complicated, if you think about it.

Please explain it.

Certainly. Imagine a single photon of light. It bounces off of your shirt, then off of the mirror, then into your eye. Now let's imagine a line of atoms. Let's say there's three. When they start moving off of your shirt, they're in a line so that photon 1 is on the left, photon 2 is in the middle, and photon 3 is on the right. Now they hit the mirror and reverse direction. However, they do not change their positions relative to each other. Therefore, looking at yourself in the mirror is equivalent to standing in front of yourself and looking at your body. When you look in a mirror, you see what you would see if you were looking out from it.

Does that make sense? It's kind of difficult to explain.

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The Lounge / Re: The Anti-Everything Brigade

« on: May 16, 2013, 05:42:45 PM »

And now it's a woman's fault for making a misogynistic man? Great.

Yeah, rooster. It is always a woman's fault when men do awful things, didn't you know?


Tausami, who pulled the Nazi card? Oh, you did.  Also, no one has "flipped out" over Eddy's rape comment. Not rooster, and not me. Discussing it doesn't equal flipping out. Do you even realize that you're being condescending and sexist by labeling the response as "flipping out"? Probably not.

Apparently you think it's worse for a woman alone on public transport to be cautious than to be attacked. Sexism against men causes men to become sexist and violent? Next you'll be saying that the way a woman dresses causes rape.  Everyone makes snap judgements about the people they see around them.  People make decisions to protect their personal safety all the time.  If you're on a bus and some thuggish looking guy decides to sit right next to you, would you feel uncomfortable? Does that make you sexist? If he's black, does that make you racist? What if it's a dirty old homeless woman? Uncomfortable and disgusted, right? Does that make you a heartless bastard? Nope, it's normal.

I don't take offense at what you posted. I hope you'll try to see things from different perspective.

At what point did I say any of these things? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Everyone is exaggerating and distorting each other's posts and demonizing them.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I'll try again.

Eddy is over-reacting. He's wrong to get offended at that the subject of this bedlam, because she has perfectly valid reasons to feel as she theoretically does. However, he also has valid reasons for his being offended, and shouldn't be yelled at for it.

I never said

it's a woman's fault for making a misogynistic man

What I said is that our stereotype of the misogynistic man is rather self-sustaining. I did not single out women as being the perpetuator of this stereotype, nor did I place sole blame on the stereotype, nor did I make any mention of where the stereotype came from. I was simply sharing something I read on the blog of some professor of woman's studies or something like that and have been thinking about quite a bit lately.

I thought that people, rooster in particular, were over-reacting to Eddy's rape comment and were doing so in a rather hypocritical manner, and said that I thought so. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me, because it's accurate.

Anything else I need to go over again?

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The Lounge / Re: The Anti-Everything Brigade

« on: May 15, 2013, 07:48:55 PM »

Eddy might not have the high moral ground right now, but he's above certain other people in this thread. He's over-reacting imo, but at least he has a fairly valid point. It is kind of sexist to assume that men are sexist, and I'm of the opinion that it's that very assumption that perpetuates objectification and sexism. Men are constantly being told that we're objectifying, misogynist bastards; is it any surprise that many start to act that way? Certainly it's reasonable and logical to be a bit (read: very) cautious about talking to strangers given the statistics, but to assuming anything about someone based solely on their gender is inherently sexist. Like, that's the definition of sexism right there. Eddy is over-reacting and it's really not a big deal, but neither is his over-reaction. Let's all grow up a bit and avoid pulling the nazi card.

Anyway, I think rooster has the lowest moral ground here, because frankly she's being rather hypocritical. In a thread in which she is berating someone for thinking someone did/said something that was rather offensive when it wasn't really that offensive, she started flipping out over a comment which was in no way offensive (Eddy's rape comment. Really, rooster's interpretation was the exact opposite of what he was saying. He was commenting that for guys such as himself and me who aren't particularly violent, rape is the least sexy thing ever).

That's my two cents, at least. Given the state of this thread I'm sure someone is going to take offense to this, but it's written with the best of intentions.

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The Lounge / Re: Hello

« on: May 15, 2013, 07:34:14 PM »

Welcome to the society. Don't let thork bother you, he's terrible.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Breach of personal information

« on: May 15, 2013, 07:31:50 PM »

sokural, are you this insufferable IRL as well, or is it the anonymity of the internet that does it to you?

You aren't going to get anyone banned. You haven't even convinced anyone you actually care. Please stop wasting everyone's time.

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The Lounge / Re: The Anti-Everything Brigade

« on: May 15, 2013, 12:23:40 PM »

Eddie is a Magnetic Resonance Angiogram

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Gravity. It disproves FE Theory.

« on: May 15, 2013, 11:45:22 AM »

If it was this simple, why did it take you guys almost two millenia to figure out? 

The stranglehold of the church hindered scientific progress for a majority of that time.

FEers face a similar stranglehold. 

Has this forum been shut down? You're free to think as you please, conduct experiments as you please, and collaborate as you please. There is no stranglehold for FEers other than the theory they believe in.

Shutting us down would be the most effective way of helping us. No, the stranglehold is not the theory itself. It is insufferable, prejudiced globularists such as yourself.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Gravity vs upward motion

« on: May 13, 2013, 06:27:12 PM »

How, pray, does relativity "demolish" UA?

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Flat Earth Information Repository / Stellar parallax in the Neo-Tychonian planetary system

« on: May 13, 2013, 06:06:56 PM »

I've become quite interested in Tychonic astronomy as it relates to Flat Earth Theory and the Aetheric Wind. This paper demonstrates the mathematical equivalence of Neo-Tychonic and Copernican models of the Universe.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.7129.pdf

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earthers will love this movie!

« on: May 11, 2013, 06:34:16 PM »

actually im just posting a video. Not trying to start a debate with you clowns. I think it's best that I just accept that you're all idiots. Anyway, I can't wait for this film.

If one wants the intellectual high ground, one should try using proper grammar.

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Flat Earth General / Re: A question for round earth indocs.

« on: May 11, 2013, 10:52:03 AM »

Assuming a frictionless environment (in which case coriolis wouldn't matter, because while the rocks would be forced up against the sides of the tunnel this would not slow them down) and assuming that the rocks are a nice, spherical shape and of equal mass, it would be the best Newton's Cradle ever.

Otherwise, they would never reach the center due to coriolis.

/thread

How would it be a Newton's cradle?

Also, Coriolis is null if they are dropped from the north and south pole. In that case, they would fall into each other and ricochet some way into the side of the tunnel, then sort of float around the center until they came to rest against each other after a VERY long time.

Well, it would actually just be an oscillating machine more in line with a spring than a pendulum, but when the balls hit each other they would transfer their momentums to each other just like what happens in a Newton's cradle.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Ask a Physicist anything.

« on: May 11, 2013, 09:21:46 AM »

So I'm a physicist. I am finishing off a Masters in general physics and am currently applying to PHDs. Hence I know lots of science. If any of you have questions (which is why most people come to this forum) I will try to answer them and explain them. I should clarify, I am a round earth believer so I believe main stream physics. If any parts of main stream science confuse you / to you there seem to be holes in theory I will try to explain the confusing jargon / explain what modern science's answer to that hole in theory is.

When I look in the mirror, I am back to front but not upside down.  Why?

It's actually not very complicated, if you think about it.

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The Lounge / Re: The Anti-Everything Brigade

« on: May 10, 2013, 12:31:35 PM »

Yeah, Tumblr is an echo chamber of crazy. It's not just feminism, though. It has the same effect on fandoms. I think it's just a place where it's really easy to get worked up about things.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Gravity. It disproves FE Theory.

« on: May 10, 2013, 12:03:33 PM »

Let's stop being silly. The gravitational constant in RET is .0000000000667, and to find gravitational attraction you multiply that number by mass and divide by distance squared. Your mass will do exactly nothing to a marble, even according to the globularists, lolflatdisk

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Technology & Information / Re: Life without Google

« on: May 09, 2013, 01:26:53 PM »

Thork and Genius are the same person. Prove me wrong.