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Intelligence
« on: September 17, 2007, 03:44:41 AM »
History is full of scientific figures who figured out all sorts of amazing things without computers or calculators or science books - the speed of light, gravity, laws of motion and that sort of thing. Einstein, Newton, other people who I can't be bothered to remember. These incredibly intelligent people all believed the world was round.

Are you Flat Earthers seriously suggesting that you're more intelligent than they are?
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2007, 04:59:48 AM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 17, 2007, 03:44:41 AM
These incredibly intelligent people all believed the world was round.

Fall..a..cy.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2007, 05:00:46 AM »
if they're so smart why are they dead?
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2007, 05:08:58 AM »
OK then, which famous scientific figures from the past believed the world was flat? (the bloke who wrote the book doesn't count)

They faked their own death, fool!
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2007, 05:10:32 AM »
Doctor Brian believed the Earth was flat and if you haven't heard of him it's because you're uneducated and ignorant, not because I made him up or anything.

No they didn't, don't lie, it's bad.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2007, 05:11:29 AM »
I am Newton.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2007, 05:18:02 AM »
You don't look like him. Pretty sure he wasn't a ginger Geordie...
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2007, 05:19:38 AM »
As certain as you are that the world is flat?
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2007, 05:20:50 AM »
Almost as certain
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2007, 05:25:03 AM »
If you believed me I would've taught you the secret of eternal life which I discovered back in the 1700s, but you can forget about that now
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2007, 05:27:24 AM »
You won't even give me the secret as my birthday present? Some friend you are...*mutters*
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2007, 10:45:11 AM »
Gaygay, your derailing is fucking annoying.

Anyways, as Divito kindly described, your post is meaningless via appeal to absurdity. Note that it doesn't mean anything if you think your authority means more than our authorities. Einstein wasn't wrong on relativity, or his work with the speed of light or anything else--that's obvious--but we are proposing that he was wrong in the idea that the Earth was round.

Your feeling of authority is pointless in debate. It means nothing.

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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2007, 03:55:28 PM »
But surely somebody like Einstein, an expert in physics, would be able to figure out if the world is round? You're suggesting that the greatest scientific minds in history weren't smart enough to realise the world is flat, but you are. It's a bit arrogant
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2007, 05:04:59 PM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 17, 2007, 05:08:58 AM
OK then, which famous scientific figures from the past believed the world was flat? (the bloke who wrote the book doesn't count)

They faked their own death, fool!

Socrates. Eat shit and die.
« Last Edit: September 19, 2007, 05:54:13 AM by Raist »
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM »
Quote from: Raist on September 17, 2007, 05:04:59 PM
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 17, 2007, 05:08:58 AM
OK then, which famous scientific figures from the past believed the world was flat? (the bloke who wrote the book doesn't count)

They faked their own death, fool!

Socrates. It shit and die.

Your grammar sucks. With a singular subject, one would add the "s" after "shit" and "die". O wait, are you just being a total dipshit.

One last thing: Determining simple natural facts is not up to philosophers who pull shit out of their ass. Its for astronomers who use calculations and experiments to make sure they know what they are doing.

So it shit and die.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2007, 07:05:13 PM »
Quote from: flaterthluvr on September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM
Your grammar sucks.
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Its for astronomers
Damn irony!
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2007, 07:13:52 PM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on September 17, 2007, 07:05:13 PM
Quote from: flaterthluvr on September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM
Your grammar sucks.
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Its for astronomers
Damn irony!
Way to point out a sentence error rather than counter his statement.

Dumbass.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2007, 07:25:27 PM »
Quote from: something on September 17, 2007, 07:13:52 PM
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Quote from: flaterthluvr on September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM
Your grammar sucks.
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Its for astronomers
Damn irony!
Way to point out a sentence error rather than counter his statement.

Dumbass.
Only 24 posts to realize the lack of contributions by TheEngineer. Kudos. Glad to have you on our team.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2007, 07:30:33 PM »
Quote from: Gulliver on September 17, 2007, 07:25:27 PM
Quote from: something on September 17, 2007, 07:13:52 PM
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Quote from: flaterthluvr on September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM
Your grammar sucks.
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Its for astronomers
Damn irony!
Way to point out a sentence error rather than counter his statement.

Dumbass.
Only 24 posts to realize the lack of contributions by TheEngineer. Kudos. Glad to have you on our team.
That is actually quite funny. 
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2007, 07:38:51 PM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 17, 2007, 03:55:28 PM
But surely somebody like Einstein, an expert in physics, would be able to figure out if the world is round? You're suggesting that the greatest scientific minds in history weren't smart enough to realise the world is flat, but you are. It's a bit arrogant

Your posts are worthless. Julius Caesar was a great military commander, and political leader, and was very intellectual. You would think that after so many battles, and so many experiences, he would know that his faith stands on solid grounds. However, now scientists are saying that Mars didn't actually help him in battles, and furthermore, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto never existed! Now, how can this be? How did he win his battles? Obviously, we need to rethink our views on the archaic Roman gods, don't we?

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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2007, 07:45:46 PM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 17, 2007, 03:44:41 AM
History is full of scientific figures who figured out all sorts of amazing things without computers or calculators or science books - the speed of light, gravity, laws of motion and that sort of thing. Einstein, Newton, other people who I can't be bothered to remember. These incredibly intelligent people all believed the world was round.

Are you Flat Earthers seriously suggesting that you're more intelligent than they are?

Aristotle argued that flies were spontaneously generated out of feces.

Does that mean we're wrong about all we think we know about reproduction, or does it mean that Aristotle just wasn't all that intelligent?

It can't be that he had an incomplete view of the world and simply made a mistake, by your logic.

Fallacy, indeed.   ::)
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2007, 03:12:31 AM »
Aristotle, Socrates, Ceasar, all people who lived thousands of years in the past. I'm talking about scientists (not philosophers) who lived in relatively recent times, especially around the time of your book. People who contributed to the current level of scientific advancement. How could they get everything else right and yet not realise the world is flat? It's a bit of a no-brainer.

It's also a bit weird for Christians to criticise the Roman beliefs. Yeah, they were all fools, believing in invisible gods who can do magic. Not like Christians believe in anything like that eh?

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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2007, 03:24:15 AM »
Where did speaking of the Christians come from?
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2007, 06:29:13 AM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 18, 2007, 03:12:31 AM
Aristotle, Socrates, Ceasar, all people who lived thousands of years in the past. I'm talking about scientists (not philosophers) who lived in relatively recent times, especially around the time of your book. People who contributed to the current level of scientific advancement. How could they get everything else right and yet not realise the world is flat? It's a bit of a no-brainer.

It's also a bit weird for Christians to criticise the Roman beliefs. Yeah, they were all fools, believing in invisible gods who can do magic. Not like Christians believe in anything like that eh?



Einstein maintained to his dying day that quantum mechanics was wrong. It is now accepted as fact in scientific circles.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2007, 07:41:07 AM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 18, 2007, 03:12:31 AM
Aristotle, Socrates, Ceasar, all people who lived thousands of years in the past. I'm talking about scientists (not philosophers) who lived in relatively recent times, especially around the time of your book. People who contributed to the current level of scientific advancement. How could they get everything else right and yet not realise the world is flat? It's a bit of a no-brainer.

Something tells me you're completely missing the point.

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It's also a bit weird for Christians to criticise the Roman beliefs. Yeah, they were all fools, believing in invisible gods who can do magic. Not like Christians believe in anything like that eh?

Agreed, although ridiculously irrelevant.

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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #25 on: September 18, 2007, 10:01:06 AM »
Quote from: TheEngineer on September 17, 2007, 07:05:13 PM
Quote from: flaterthluvr on September 17, 2007, 07:01:22 PM
Your grammar sucks.
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Its for astronomers
Damn irony!

I wouldn't call a missed apostrophy a major grammar error.

Nice job contributing, dipshit.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #26 on: September 18, 2007, 10:11:56 AM »
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 18, 2007, 03:12:31 AM
Ceasar

Oh god, why.

More on topic, the wisdom that ancient philosophers and mathemeticians give us are only points in the right direction, points toward the truth. Over the years, from Plato, to Aristotle, to Ptolemy, to Copernicus, to Kepler, the ideas about how the universe works have gotten more and more advanced. Even the Greeks knew that the Earth was a sphere, the fad of believing it was flat only resulted in the late dark ages.

Thanks for making sure that the wisdom of the dark ages doesn't die.
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #27 on: September 18, 2007, 12:24:55 PM »
Quote from: Diego, the Deviant Dick on September 18, 2007, 07:41:07 AM
Quote from: Captain Skank on September 18, 2007, 03:12:31 AM
Aristotle, Socrates, Ceasar, all people who lived thousands of years in the past. I'm talking about scientists (not philosophers) who lived in relatively recent times, especially around the time of your book. People who contributed to the current level of scientific advancement. How could they get everything else right and yet not realise the world is flat? It's a bit of a no-brainer.

Something tells me you're completely missing the point.

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It's also a bit weird for Christians to criticise the Roman beliefs. Yeah, they were all fools, believing in invisible gods who can do magic. Not like Christians believe in anything like that eh?

Agreed, although ridiculously irrelevant.

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What is the point?

And Einstein is a German, nobody cares what he thinks!
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #28 on: September 18, 2007, 12:26:59 PM »
Quote from: divito on September 18, 2007, 03:24:15 AM
Where did speaking of the Christians come from?
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Re: Intelligence
« Reply #29 on: September 18, 2007, 12:28:29 PM »
I just like to take the piss out of Christians every now and again, keeps them on their toes
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