Some comedic reading for the weekend
In case you get bored this weekend, here’s a site I recommend you visit. It will make you laugh (hopefully), and it might make you cry. Will it change the way you think? Probably not. Will there be things that are over your head? Yes probably, but there’s also a lot of things that you will understand.
The website to which you have been directed is the official homepage of The Flat Earth Society. Yes, there are apparently still people out there who don’t believe the earth is round. I also recommend the Wikipedia article about the FES for some further reading.
Are there really people who believe we live on a flat planet and everyone has been deceived by an elaborate conspiracy? Can anyone really be that dumb? Does anyone take this seriously?
I don’t know. But I really, REALLY hope not.
April 12th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Hahahahaha! “What keeps a person on the South Pole from falling off?” Well. This is hilarious, but, unfortunately, I’m leaning towards it not being true.
“In the small town of Grass Roots, MO, one of our members has successfully infiltrated the public education system. By being hired on as a teacher in the district, she was able to gain a foothold that has allowed us to “replace” nearly every lower grade teacher in the entire town with loyal Flat Earthers. The students are now undergoing deprogramming measures and are expected to be released when they reach their mid-thirties.”
This seems rather absurd. And the fact that it’s “Grass Roots, MO” is an indicator that this is a pointed version of satire. Still, I think their point is that people obviously are ignorant of logic and reasoning. People like… PAWEL KOLASA!
April 15th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
those people probably base their physics on this
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Physics_doesn%27t_exist,_its_all_about_Gnomes
April 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Ah yes, the famous gnomes. Those pesky little buggers are able to hide their actions very convincingly in a solid mathematical framework.