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Flat Earth General / Why I became a Flat Earther
« on: May 02, 2010, 09:00:20 PM »
I used to believe everything that society told me to believe. To be honest, I was pretty much a closed-minded bigot, and I scoffed at everyone who didn't agree with me about things I accepted to be true without evidence. I had only the vaguest knowledge of the Flat Earth Society, and it seemed like just about the silliest thing in the world to me at the time.
Then eventually I found this website. I didn't know what to make of it. I joined the forum and made a post in which I asked why the members believed what they did. I ultimately didn't get much from that, but I got better results by reading the forums, the FAQs, and even some of the FE literature. I realized I'd taken a lot of things for granted; it really opened my eyes.
I realized there was no proof the world was round. I became skeptical. The NASA photos could easily have been faked. The whole concept of gravity makes little scientific sense, but we just accept it because we have never questioned it. I always had some doubts about the nature of gravity, and also special relativity which seemed too far-fetched to believe. If supposed professional scientists could overlook questions like that, who says they couldn't make other mistakes? How have they proved the world is round? In no way have they done so.
The only "proof" we have comes from organizations such as NASA that stand to make a profit off keeping the secret. They get ENORMOUS amounts of money--just to fly things into space, they say. But why bother, when they can pocket the money and save lots of expenses by making up all the stories of what they find out there.
And then there is the fact that bodies of water have been shown to have no curving--at all. I wondered about this; why did RE'ers (my fellow RE'ers back then) never address this? FET addresses the perceived flaws in its ideas; RET does not. It is simply ignored by the scientific community when it doesn't seem to fit. For the longest time I ignored this and assumed the scientists knew what they were doing. I took a lot on faith; almost religiously. I gave up on religion long ago, and eventually I realized I needed to give up my faith in mainstream science. It has only its own interest in mind; see the Global Warming nonsense.
For every perceived flaw, FET has an answer. RE'ers are just so biased by their prejudices that they feel the need to call FE'ers names instead of addressing the issues. It's a travesty--they feel threatened when they cannot back up their beliefs. This, too, I eventually realized. We need to be more open-minded. We need to question our beliefs. I have questioned RET and I have questioned FET. FET holds up. RET does not.
I'm happy to join this community of open-minded individuals.
Then eventually I found this website. I didn't know what to make of it. I joined the forum and made a post in which I asked why the members believed what they did. I ultimately didn't get much from that, but I got better results by reading the forums, the FAQs, and even some of the FE literature. I realized I'd taken a lot of things for granted; it really opened my eyes.
I realized there was no proof the world was round. I became skeptical. The NASA photos could easily have been faked. The whole concept of gravity makes little scientific sense, but we just accept it because we have never questioned it. I always had some doubts about the nature of gravity, and also special relativity which seemed too far-fetched to believe. If supposed professional scientists could overlook questions like that, who says they couldn't make other mistakes? How have they proved the world is round? In no way have they done so.
The only "proof" we have comes from organizations such as NASA that stand to make a profit off keeping the secret. They get ENORMOUS amounts of money--just to fly things into space, they say. But why bother, when they can pocket the money and save lots of expenses by making up all the stories of what they find out there.
And then there is the fact that bodies of water have been shown to have no curving--at all. I wondered about this; why did RE'ers (my fellow RE'ers back then) never address this? FET addresses the perceived flaws in its ideas; RET does not. It is simply ignored by the scientific community when it doesn't seem to fit. For the longest time I ignored this and assumed the scientists knew what they were doing. I took a lot on faith; almost religiously. I gave up on religion long ago, and eventually I realized I needed to give up my faith in mainstream science. It has only its own interest in mind; see the Global Warming nonsense.
For every perceived flaw, FET has an answer. RE'ers are just so biased by their prejudices that they feel the need to call FE'ers names instead of addressing the issues. It's a travesty--they feel threatened when they cannot back up their beliefs. This, too, I eventually realized. We need to be more open-minded. We need to question our beliefs. I have questioned RET and I have questioned FET. FET holds up. RET does not.
I'm happy to join this community of open-minded individuals.