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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Q&A => Topic started by: Catchpa on May 02, 2010, 09:43:08 AM

Title: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 02, 2010, 09:43:08 AM
Once and for all, who the believes in bendy light?

Wilmore don't, John Davis don't, many others don't. Please for the love of god let us know if there are ANYONE left believing. It seems discussions are still going on, but no FE I've seen claims he even believe it.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Ellipsis on May 02, 2010, 10:15:00 AM
It's to explain why the sun is so close to the horizon during sunset and sunrise, right?  I think I arrived late, as for my entire time here it's had the feel of an inside joke.  What did I miss?  Did a bunch of them believe it, some obvious flaw was pointed out, and now none of them believe it?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 02, 2010, 10:19:11 AM
and now none of them believe it?

That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 02, 2010, 10:20:02 AM
Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: frozen_berries on May 02, 2010, 10:21:28 AM
Once and for all, who the believes in bendy light?

Wilmore don,t, John Davis don,t, many others don't. Please for the love of god let us know if there are ANYONE left believing. It seems discussions are still going on, but no FE I've seen claims he even believe it.

I don't.

Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?

It does matter as it puts a big hole in the FE theory.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 02, 2010, 10:23:33 AM
It's a possible explanation for something, whether one actually "believes" it is irrelevant.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: frozen_berries on May 02, 2010, 10:33:35 AM
It's a possible explanation for something, whether one actually "believes" it is irrelevant.

It is very relevant. If FE'er does not believe in the possible explanation for something(bendy light), it puts a big hole in there entire belief (flat earth). Unless they have another explanation.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Lorddave on May 02, 2010, 10:40:49 AM
It's a possible explanation for something, whether one actually "believes" it is irrelevant.

It is very relevant. If FE'er does not believe in the possible explanation for something(bendy light), it puts a big hole in there entire belief (flat earth). Unless they have another explanation.

Perspective light + atmospheric magnification.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 02, 2010, 10:41:20 AM
Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?

Uhm, yes.

1) RE don't have to continually argue against idiots like Parsifal, or argue against the idea at all.
2) You'll have to come up with another theory.

Do you or do you not believe, FE'ers?

Stop shitting up my thread. There's one question, adressed to only FE'ers. Don't argue why it's relevant, don't argue you don't care, don't argue it doesn't put a hole in your theory and don't argue why I didn't include something else on the "don't argue list".
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 02, 2010, 10:44:27 AM
1.) Parsifal seems pretty confident no RE'ers have disproved bendy light, so it is a valid hypothesis/whatever you want to call it.

2.) If it's not relevant, why post it?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Thermal Detonator on May 02, 2010, 01:26:38 PM
1.) Parsifal seems pretty confident no RE'ers have disproved bendy light, so it is a valid hypothesis/whatever you want to call it. 

He deliberately pretends the disproof was never written in the forum. I don't call ignoring posts that show why it's disproved "pretty confident".
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sliver on May 02, 2010, 02:29:41 PM
Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?
Gonna put you down for, "Believes in the bendy light theory."
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 02, 2010, 02:33:09 PM
I don't think Sean believes in a flat earth. It's a bit hard to tell from his post history though, when half of lies in the number game in random musings.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: markjo on May 02, 2010, 02:38:44 PM
I don't think Sean believes in a flat earth. It's a bit hard to tell from his post history though, when half of lies in the number game in random musings.

George Scott Fallacy.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 02, 2010, 03:34:11 PM
I don't think Sean believes in a flat earth. It's a bit hard to tell from his post history though, when half of lies in the number game in random musings.

How is that relevant to my posts in this thread?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Crustinator on May 02, 2010, 06:58:36 PM
1.) Parsifal seems pretty confident no RE'ers have disproved bendy light, so it is a valid hypothesis/whatever you want to call it.

Nope. There's a great raft of optophysics which disproves bendy light. Steve just chose to ignore it. :'(
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: The Question1 on May 02, 2010, 07:27:55 PM
Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?
Yes,its in the FAQ which every visitor is refered to no?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: OneStarBandit on May 02, 2010, 09:51:03 PM
If you can accept that glass and water can bend light, why can't you accept that our atmosphere can bend light?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: flyingmonkey on May 02, 2010, 09:55:31 PM
It does, just not in the perfect way that is required for FE.

Moon via bendy light:

(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/iss_04_14/i28_23E15807.jpg)
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: TheSphericalist on May 02, 2010, 10:23:28 PM
1.) Parsifal seems pretty confident no RE'ers have disproved bendy light, so it is a valid hypothesis/whatever you want to call it.

If you can prove that the Earth is a sphere, you disprove bendy light, so bendy light has been disproven.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sliver on May 03, 2010, 06:55:14 AM
Does it really matter if anyone believes it or not?
Gonna put you down for, "Believes in the bendy light theory."
Gonna repost this and point out that Sean did NOT refute this statement.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 03, 2010, 10:57:22 AM
I don't think Sean believes in a flat earth. It's a bit hard to tell from his post history though, when half of lies in the number game in random musings.

George Scott Fallacy.

No, it isn't. I was unable to find any posts from him saying if he believed in either, though I found some early ones questioning the FET.


So far, no one has come forward to say they believe in bendy light. It's currently safe to assume that the bendy light idea is no longer a part of FET.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 03, 2010, 11:57:10 AM
Whether anyone believes it is irrelevant.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Rob Valensky on May 03, 2010, 11:59:29 AM
Whether anyone believes it is irrelevant.

An extremely stupid post.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 03, 2010, 12:01:54 PM
How so?
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Thermal Detonator on May 03, 2010, 12:18:07 PM
Because if nobody believes it then it should be discarded completely and the flat guys should get to work on a new theory.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 03, 2010, 12:21:51 PM
(Unless someone disproved bendy light, which Steven denies) It is a possible solution to a problem with FET. Because people choose not to believe it, that doesn't make it any less possible.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Thermal Detonator on May 03, 2010, 12:27:43 PM
(Unless someone disproved bendy light, which Steven denies) It is a possible solution to a problem with FET. Because people choose not to believe it, that doesn't make it any less possible.

Once a theory is disproved, it becomes less possible. I could choose not to believe any number of proven scientific facts, that doesn't mean my opinion is correct or valid. Beeny light is not a solution to anything in FET because as well as explaining ONE phenomenon it also predicts others which are NOT observed. Therefore the theory of beeny light is demonstrated to be wrong, regardless of how many people want it to be right.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sliver on May 03, 2010, 06:47:16 PM
Whether anyone believes it is irrelevant.
This comment is kind of like when Clay Aiken said it was no one's business if he was gay or not.  everyone knew he was, but he just wouldn't admit it.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 04, 2010, 01:24:34 AM
I'll be linking this thread everytime anyone mentions EA/BL.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Crustinator on May 04, 2010, 06:57:19 AM
Unless someone disproved bendy light

Maxwell.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: corleone on May 04, 2010, 12:22:04 PM
Whether anyone believes it is irrelevant.

Why is it so irrelevant? I found it quite interesting.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 04, 2010, 01:24:22 PM
Whether someone believes it or not has no relevance to it's validity as a theory.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 04, 2010, 01:41:18 PM
Whether someone believes it or not has no relevance to it's validity as a theory.

Saying your mom is fat enough to guard the whole ice wall is not believed, but it's relevant because it could be possible.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 04, 2010, 01:55:31 PM
It could be, until I, or anyone, disprove the idea with some simple measurements.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 04, 2010, 01:57:56 PM
All right. I had to make sure you were just trolling.

So far everyone has been in agreement that no one believes in bendy light, meaning we don't have to discuss it anymore.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 04, 2010, 02:03:36 PM
So far no-one has explained why people believing a theory is relevant.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Catchpa on May 04, 2010, 02:05:40 PM
lol nice one, you almost had me I must admit
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Sean on May 04, 2010, 02:10:55 PM
I'm guessing nobody is going to tell me? :'(
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: corleone on May 04, 2010, 02:34:58 PM
Whether someone believes it or not has no relevance to it's validity as a theory.

I'm not talking about the validity of BL as a theory. I'm just curious about the amount of people that belives on BL. Why? curiosity itself.
Title: Re: Bendy light
Post by: Thermal Detonator on May 04, 2010, 03:03:14 PM
So far no-one has explained why people believing a theory is relevant.

I have, in another thread.
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