Free Thinking?

One thing that’s often heard on this forum not just from flat earthers but from others is the reluctance to accept expert opinion favouring instead  working things out for oneself or free thinking as it could be called.

Will those ‘free thinkers’ be forming an opinion on this while checking out the validity of the the experts claims:-

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/31/small-wonder-big-dna-advances-loom-at-university-startup-oxford-nanopore

Or how about double checking the calculations made of this celestial bodies orbit.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/01/huge-planet-killer-asteroid-discovered-and-its-heading-our-way

Or will there be some flat earthers especially those who rubbish the work of Newton have found an alternative way of calculating the orbits of heavenly bodies. There may even be some free thinking flat earthers who claim such bodies don’t exist.

The question is what is the actual limit of free thinking. How far can it take you or is it all just an excuse for the ignorant to make stuff up?

Is the distrust and rejection of experts and expert knowledge just a convenient way of justifying alternative views or just plan BS? Like this one:-

“The bitter (yet still hilarious) irony about all of this is that people like Newton, Copernicus, Einstein, and Hawking have been paving over reality for centuries”

In one fell swoop based on no more than  their own free thinking crass  ignorance about aircraft flight that poster consigned four of the most brilliant minds that have ever lived to the intellectual dustbin!

Is free thinking just an excuse for the ignorant to make stuff up or can one really validate scientific knowledge. If so what have YOU validated recently or even discovered?

I validated my theory of what this website is.

I validated my theory of what this website is.

Bully for you.

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

You could say that about every thread on the forum as they all boil down to one common denomiator.

Quote from: Unconvinced on November 02, 2022, 05:18:08 AM

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

You could say that about every thread on the forum as they all boil down to one common denomiator.

And that is what?

Timmy thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

Timmy thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

Apparently not.

I should go to bed.

Quote from: Timeisup on November 02, 2022, 07:28:17 AM

Quote from: Unconvinced on November 02, 2022, 05:18:08 AM

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

You could say that about every thread on the forum as they all boil down to one common denomiator.

And that is what?

Timmy thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

That’s what you think, and that must have taken sone effort, given how you think.

In reality  you  have zero idea what I think or even look like, not unless you’ve been peeping, you naughty boy!

Ok, you claim to know what I think. Please explain by what means you have gained this insight into the workings of my mental faculties, or are you just spraying more BS?

where is THE curvature. always looks missing to me. tell me your experience. do you have to wait for a good day to see the crvature..........

Quote from: NotSoSkeptical on November 02, 2022, 07:49:03 AM

Quote from: Timeisup on November 02, 2022, 07:28:17 AM

Quote from: Unconvinced on November 02, 2022, 05:18:08 AM

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

You could say that about every thread on the forum as they all boil down to one common denomiator.

And that is what?

Timmy thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

That’s what you think, and that must have taken sone effort, given how you think.

In reality  you  have zero idea what I think or even look like, not unless you’ve been peeping, you naughty boy!

Ok, you claim to know what I think. Please explain by what means you have gained this insight into the workings of my mental faculties, or are you just spraying more BS?

I can read your previous posts.  The conclusion is quite simple to make.

where is THE curvature. always looks missing to me.

Except in the photos and videos you provide, which show the bottom of distant objects obstructed by the curve of Earth.

Quote from: Timeisup on November 02, 2022, 11:25:33 AM

Quote from: NotSoSkeptical on November 02, 2022, 07:49:03 AM

Quote from: Timeisup on November 02, 2022, 07:28:17 AM

Quote from: Unconvinced on November 02, 2022, 05:18:08 AM

Does this need to be a separate thread from your other one?  Seems very similar, so isn’t it better to have in one place?

You could say that about every thread on the forum as they all boil down to one common denomiator.

And that is what?

Timmy thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

That’s what you think, and that must have taken sone effort, given how you think.

In reality  you  have zero idea what I think or even look like, not unless you’ve been peeping, you naughty boy!

Ok, you claim to know what I think. Please explain by what means you have gained this insight into the workings of my mental faculties, or are you just spraying more BS?

I can read your previous posts.  The conclusion is quite simple to make.

Good for you I hope you learned something.