I disagree. Your logic is faulty. Registering to the forum does not make your a member of FES, the publisher of the web site. Goodness, how did you ever make that leap?
"Welcome to the Flat Earth Society!" - Right in the FAQ!
This very forum is titled The Flat Earth Society. We are all members of it. God, that was hard.
If any of you are referring to the actual movement and membership that holds the belief of a flat earth, then SAY IT like that. Stop omitting words.
That was exactly what I was talking about. Gulliver was the one who insisted that the existence of this forum alone implies the existence of the Flat Earth Society that actually believes in and attempts to spread the word of the existence of a flat earth, a group which dissolved after Charles K Johnson's death. Somehow Gulliver thinks that the fact that this forum exists proves the current existence of such a group. I guess by Gulliver's logic there's an actual Flat Mars Society out there as well.
I asked him to provide a piece of literature produced by the Flat Earth Society, and he provided this website. So who are the members of the Flat Earth Society (for in order to exist as a group, it must have members)...
"I never said the Flat Earth Society had no members." Arguing in circles.
My point was that there is no formal "Flat Earth Society". Only this forum, as Gin (and I myself) stated below. And to say that this forum somehow demonstrates the existence of a group who actually believes in a flat earth is ludicrous.
Gulliver knew what I was talking about, divito. He's playing those word games he supposedly despises. The only "Flat Earth Society" currently in existence is one in which we are all members and no member actually believes in a flat earth (with a handful of
conceivable (though unlikely) exceptions, Tom Bishop being chief among them simply because he is one of the very few who has never admitted that he is just fooling around).
Given that Tom is one of the few who claims to unflinchingly believe in a flat earth, why would his arguments hold any less merit than, say, TheEngineer or EvilToothpaste, who have admitted to not believing in a flat earth, or Dogplatter, whose theories and suggestions are so patently ridiculous it's almost inconceivable that he's anything but a parodist?