Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?

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Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« on: November 20, 2007, 06:53:42 PM »
In the end, why does it even matter if the world is flat or not? And why do "they" (whoever they are) want us to think that the earth is round?

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 06:54:31 PM »
Money.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 07:07:25 PM »
Babes.  It all comes down to babes.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2007, 09:17:20 PM »
RTFM.


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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2007, 09:58:52 PM »
Unfortunately, there is no manual.
Ergo, it would most likely be UTFF. Understand The Freakin FAQ.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2007, 10:37:08 PM »
Unfortunately, there is no manual.
Ergo, it would most likely be UTFF. Understand The Freakin FAQ.

Close enough.


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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2007, 07:38:35 AM »
There is no reason. Thus probability of the conspiracy is pretty much nonexistent.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2007, 08:14:57 AM »
because if the people knew it were flat anarchy would reign and the world would end.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2007, 08:20:38 AM »
Because pancake sales would skyrocket throwing the economy severely off and leading to a second bloody dark age.  :o
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2007, 08:22:00 AM »
And then the cows, who have waited many millenia to overthrow humanity, will sieze their chance and enslave us, killing billions in the process.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2007, 09:04:31 AM »
The Conspiracy doesn't even know what shape the earth truly is. Because man has never been to space.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2007, 09:08:03 AM »
The Conspiracy doesn't even know what shape the earth truly is. Because man has never been to space.

Orly? (assuming FE is real for a moment) And yet you do from a few simple experiments...
You would think they were smart enough to figure it out.  ::)
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2007, 09:14:32 AM »
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You would think they were smart enough to figure it out.  ::)

Why would they be doing experiments?

The earth has been a sphere since at least 350 B.C., since the time of Aristotile. Since then every man woman and child believed that the earth was a sphere without question. Without this website, would you have ever considered rejecting what your first grade teacher told you about the shape of the earth?

Besides, NASA was originally a Conspiracy to win the space race and establish the illusion of military dominance over space. It's the proverbial mouse who roared. Why would a Conspiracy do genuine research?
« Last Edit: November 21, 2007, 11:12:11 AM by Tom Bishop »

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2007, 09:25:34 AM »
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You would think they were smart enough to figure it out.  ::)

Why would they be doing experiments?

The earth has been a sphere since at least 350 B.C., since the time of Aristotile. Since then every man woman and child believed that the earth was a sphere without question. Without this website, would you have ever considered rejecting what your first grade teacher told you and looking into the shape of the earth?

Besides, NASA was originally a Conspiracy to win the space race and establish the illusion of military dominance over space. It's the proverbial mouse who roared. Why would a Conspiracy do genuine research?
Because we have telescopes and refractors that can clearly see other spherical planets.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2007, 11:13:22 AM »
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Because we have telescopes and refractors that can clearly see other spherical planets.

The planets are not the earth.

Your argument is an analogy in favor of roundity. It is a favorite "argument," in support of the earth's spherical form. Astronomer John Wrottesley Wallace once poised to the Flat Earth Society "that as all the heavenly bodies are worlds, and visibly round, may, not the earth be so necessarily, seeing that it is one of the same category?"

This is only seemingly plausible. In reality it is a piece of self-deception. It must first be proved that the lights we see in the sky are worlds. To do this, or to make it even remotely possible that they are so, it must first be proved that they are millions of miles distant from the earth, and from each other, and are hundreds or thousands of miles in diameter. By plane trigonometry, in special connection with carefully measured base lines, Samuel Birley Robotham has demonstrated and placed beyond all power of doubt that the sun, moon, and stars are all within a distance of a few thousand miles from the surface of the earth. Therefore they are very small objects. Therefore not worlds. And therefore, from analogy, offers no logical reason or pretext for concluding that the earth is a sphere.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2007, 11:31:51 AM »
There is no reason. Thus probability of the conspiracy is pretty much nonexistent.

I'm pretty sure you're worse than an actual troll.


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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2007, 12:04:53 PM »
Conspiracy.

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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2007, 12:05:50 PM »
There is no reason. Thus probability of the conspiracy is pretty much nonexistent.
I'm pretty sure you're worse than an actual troll.
Prove me wrong.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2007, 12:07:55 PM »
Why would they be doing experiments?
To figure out the shape of the Earth. duh  ::)
If it is a sphere then they could drop the act.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2007, 07:00:26 PM »
I'm sorry that was rude.  :D
I'd like to hear your response though Tom.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2007, 07:40:11 PM »
I'd like to hear your response though Tom.

You came here and sought us out for confrontation about our beliefs. I did not go to your forum and seek you out for yours. Therefore, the onus is on you to prove your hypothetical model if the earth. It's not my job to disprove a spherical, cubed, or inside out model of the earth.

You came here and presented your beliefs to us. Therefore you're the one here who needs to prove his model.

Observations imply a Flat Earth by pretense. What experimental evidence do you have for a Globe Earth?
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2007, 08:31:18 PM »
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You would think they were smart enough to figure it out.  ::)

Why would they be doing experiments?



that only explains why NASA would not do any experiments and just keep quiet. not any of the other countries, or independent researchers. And i am not suggesting that there is a wild ambition in much of the scientific community, but surely this is the sort of thing that could cause an issue in any number of legitimate research areas.
so why would a guy in india care about an american conspiricy? why wouldn't he go public after figuring it out?
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2007, 08:34:01 PM »
I'd like to hear your response though Tom.

You came here and sought us out for confrontation about our beliefs. I did not go to your forum and seek you out for yours. Therefore, the onus is on you to prove your hypothetical model if the earth. It's not my job to disprove a spherical, cubed, or inside out model of the earth.

You came here and presented your beliefs to us. Therefore you're the one here who needs to prove his model.

Observations imply a Flat Earth by pretense. What experimental evidence do you have for a Globe Earth?


I have experimental evidence for a Globe Earth, but every time I post them, you disappear. So I gave up.
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2007, 08:39:17 PM »
I'd like to hear your response though Tom.

You came here and sought us out for confrontation about our beliefs. I did not go to your forum and seek you out for yours. Therefore, the onus is on you to prove your hypothetical model if the earth. It's not my job to disprove a spherical, cubed, or inside out model of the earth.

You came here and presented your beliefs to us. Therefore you're the one here who needs to prove his model.

Observations imply a Flat Earth by pretense. What experimental evidence do you have for a Globe Earth?


I have experimental evidence for a Globe Earth, but every time I post them, you disappear. So I gave up.

ha ha. you found that too?

and actually tom, you are only half right. your website is in the public domain, and you are expressing views radically different from the accepted status quo. As the vast majority of the planet feels the earth is shaped like a sphere surely it is up to you to explain why you believe differently. After all, if all you are going to when someone questions anything is say "i know you are but what am i" why have a website like this? why not ban any kind of questioning of your theorys and just sit back and agree with each other that the world is flat and that a secret (and suprisingly massive and long running) conspiricy is the only thing between the rest of us and the truth?
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Re: Why do "they" want us to think that the earth is round?
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2007, 08:42:35 PM »
I'd like to hear your response though Tom.

You came here and sought us out for confrontation about our beliefs. I did not go to your forum and seek you out for yours. Therefore, the onus is on you to prove your hypothetical model if the earth. It's not my job to disprove a spherical, cubed, or inside out model of the earth.

You came here and presented your beliefs to us. Therefore you're the one here who needs to prove his model.

Observations imply a Flat Earth by pretense. What experimental evidence do you have for a Globe Earth?


I have experimental evidence for a Globe Earth, but every time I post them, you disappear. So I gave up.

ha ha. you found that too?

and actually tom, you are only half right. your website is in the public domain, and you are expressing views radically different from the accepted status quo. As the vast majority of the planet feels the earth is shaped like a sphere surely it is up to you to explain why you believe differently. After all, if all you are going to when someone questions anything is say "i know you are but what am i" why have a website like this? why not ban any kind of questioning of your theorys and just sit back and agree with each other that the world is flat and that a secret (and suprisingly massive and long running) conspiricy is the only thing between the rest of us and the truth?

Don't get me wrong though. I have experimental evidence for a flat earth too. What to believe, what to believe...
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