re: Had a Conversation with a Flat Earth Believer Today

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I'm not a flat earther but anyone who blindly dismisses theories that aren't "mainstream" without being willing to research it open mindedly can be considered gullible in my book and there seems to be a lot of you in this thread.

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Most people don't have any ability to do research though. What they do is they end up regurgitating contrarian arguments they also don't understand. They don't end up portraying the original arguments honestly and also don't know how to respond to rebuttals. See the first moron's performance over the first few pages. The meme he posted contained a key hint that he didn't understand what he was missing just from the math alone, but he also didn't do the research to see where those numbers came from, because they come from the same derivation of how you determine the height of distant objects obscured by the Earth's curvature.

What these people want is proxies for research, not actual research. They want small, self-contained memes that make arguments for them without dealing with any counter-arguments at all. They aren't arguing in good-faith, because their goal is to set up a narrative that there is a 'mainstream' and their viewpoint is somehow counter-culture. The inculcated masses need to listen to them to break free of the shackles which are provided by 'mainstream,' without regard for why those viewpoints are 'mainstream.' They are immune to correction and also just don't care. It amounts to severe dishonesty, but they also don't care about being dishonest.