How were people tricked.

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How were people tricked.
« on: March 01, 2011, 07:57:10 PM »
In FET, how were people "tricked" into thinking the earth was round?(because at some point in time, before the conspiracies, some epople must have believed the world was round)

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 09:11:47 PM »
All things being as so, the long answer is not the correct answer follows a simple path.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 10:28:56 PM »
It's always been the other way around.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 05:47:32 AM »
All things being as so, the long answer is not the correct answer follows a simple path.

... what? ???

Sentence fragments confuse me.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2011, 10:08:27 PM »
Your assumption is that it is a fragmented sentence.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2011, 10:09:29 PM »
How would you phrase it?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2011, 11:14:42 PM »
All things being as so, the long answer is not the correct answer follows a simple path.

Lurk moar...in English class.
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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2011, 04:12:30 AM »
How would you phrase it?

Well that's the problem; I hardly even know what you said in the first place.  Oh, and nice double post.

Maybe something like
Quote from: Bullhorn
All things being as so, the long answer is not the correct answer follows a simple path.
All things said, the longest and most complicated is not necessarily the correct answer; often the correct answer is the most simple, which is essentially Occam's Razor.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2011, 04:56:54 PM »
What you have said and what I have are none in the same.

Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2011, 07:32:37 PM »
What you have said and what I have are none in the same.

Bullhorn, what is your native language? Would it help to maybe say what you want in that language and see if anyone here can translate it?
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 05:56:08 AM by JoshuaZ »

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2011, 10:16:31 PM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.
« Last Edit: March 03, 2011, 10:18:32 PM by bullhorn »

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2011, 11:45:35 PM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.

That's beautiful. Could you please rephrase the original cryptic statement you made so we can understand it?
I'm not black nor a thug, I'm more like god who will bring 7 plagues of flat earth upon your ass.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2011, 03:18:02 AM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.

That's beautiful. Could you please rephrase the original cryptic statement you made so we can understand it?
Is it? My eye twitched in disgust at trying to understand it. If this is beauty...
Scepti, this idiocy needs to stop and it needs to stop right now. You are making a mockery of this fine forum with your poor trolling. You are a complete disgrace.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2011, 04:01:25 AM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.

Stop trying to hard to sound smart.  Rephrase your original statement so we "normies" can understand you.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2011, 06:45:47 AM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.

That's beautiful. Could you please rephrase the original cryptic statement you made so we can understand it?
Is it? My eye twitched in disgust at trying to understand it. If this is beauty...

Maybe in the future I'll ring a bell every time I'm being sarcastic, or something.  :P

Isn't Bullhorn the raindrop guy? That should tell us something right there.
I'm not black nor a thug, I'm more like god who will bring 7 plagues of flat earth upon your ass.

Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2011, 11:57:24 AM »
Were you tricked?  How?  ???
"In my day and age the earth was as flat as a stove lid and it floated on water like half of a sliced orange."

-St. Augustine

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2011, 04:00:17 PM »
Your offer is warm, as is the snow grain window, under a heath of heart.

That's beautiful. Could you please rephrase the original cryptic statement you made so we can understand it?
Is it? My eye twitched in disgust at trying to understand it. If this is beauty...

Maybe in the future I'll ring a bell every time I'm being sarcastic, or something.  :P
That would be appreciated  ;D
And using blunt sarcasm on the net in regards to some attempted poetry is bound to fool a few.
Scepti, this idiocy needs to stop and it needs to stop right now. You are making a mockery of this fine forum with your poor trolling. You are a complete disgrace.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2011, 09:33:50 PM »
:)

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2011, 09:57:27 PM »
:)

Smiley spam is cool but are you going to clarify anything, or...
I'm not black nor a thug, I'm more like god who will bring 7 plagues of flat earth upon your ass.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #19 on: March 04, 2011, 10:10:26 PM »
:)

Smiley spam is cool but are you going to clarify anything, or...

I still understand that better than

All things being as so, the long answer is not the correct answer follows a simple path.
Scepti, this idiocy needs to stop and it needs to stop right now. You are making a mockery of this fine forum with your poor trolling. You are a complete disgrace.

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2011, 09:40:19 AM »
In FET, how were people "tricked" into thinking the earth was round?(because at some point in time, before the conspiracies, some epople must have believed the world was round)

They weren't tricked, they were mistaken.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2011, 05:45:36 PM »
Sure, but how?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2011, 05:50:20 PM »
Sure, but how?

They simply incorrectly interpreted the data, guided by their bias toward RE.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2011, 05:52:09 PM »
No i mean originally

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2011, 05:57:41 PM »
No i mean originally

Can you be more specific?
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2011, 06:10:26 PM »
No i mean originally

Can you be more specific?

What about before there was a RE bias?  Remember that there was an FE bias before there was an RE bias.
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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2011, 06:11:11 PM »
That is what i meant

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2011, 06:21:11 PM »
No i mean originally

Can you be more specific?

What about before there was a RE bias?  Remember that there was an FE bias before there was an RE bias.

The best I can figure is that the Greeks got it into their heads that the Earth was a sphere, because spheres are such perfect geometric constructs and they fallaciously believed that the underlying forces behind the universe as we know it must be perfect and produce perfect things (despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary).  Aristotle took up the cause; Christianity came to depend on Aristotle's metaphysical philosophy.  And voila: a bias that would cripple scientific progress for centuries was born, predictably thanks in no small part to organized religion.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #28 on: March 05, 2011, 06:25:45 PM »
I read that the church believed in a flat earth? ???

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Re: How were people tricked.
« Reply #29 on: March 05, 2011, 06:30:51 PM »
I read that the church believed in a flat earth? ???

Well then you read wrong.  It's a fairly common misconception about the early Church.
Where did you educate the biology, in toulet?