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This is layered... Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.
I have met a Flat Earth conspiracy believer mom who was homeschooling her kid, explaining how the sphere Earth model is wrong and so on, her complain was that despite her best efforts to ~~indoctrinate~~ educate her child, the child was not convinced that the Earth is flat. It goes to show that some children are just too intelligent to fall for this kinda shit. The child was eight or nine years old I think.
The thought of a nine year old looking at a "grown" women with disbelief as the women tries explaining the flat earth BS is actually fucking jokes lol
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I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different
I told her to listen to her teacher
Gives off "my grandma said Cleopatra was black" vibes.
Strong "Waterboy" vibes
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
All of this effort just to teach your kids... flat earth?! Could've been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would've been more useful for the child's future.
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
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Reminds me of when I started going to public school and learned about evolution, something my Evangelical parents always taught me was a lie.
Thankfully my education broke me out of that, but it put me behind a little bit.
Jeez man, i can only imagine. At least you were among the lucky ones who were smart and confident enough to resist their parents misbeliefs.
Forgetting to model Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars” … that’s just lazy parenting.
Have these kids even read Discworld?
But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?
when in doubt: mysterious shadow object, lmao.
“According to flat-Earth conspiracy theorists, this astronomical phenomenon — known as a total lunar eclipse — was actually a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of a mysterious "shadow object" that orbits the sun and occasionally passes in front of the moon from our point of view here, on an allegedly pizza-shaped Earth.”
source: https://www.space.com/43086-flat-earthers-explain-lunar-eclipses.html
It’s not that I can’t workout how to make that work with some super massive object. It’s that it’s so ridiculous to do so that I won’t bother. All hail mysterious shadow object!
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I've tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn't make it work.
I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you'd insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.
I have never through of that....how is day an night supposed to work on a flat earth? Like Minecraft they just...rotate around? What about the underside of the earth? The other side of the coin....do people live there too? Can we visit them if we dig a hole?
The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions
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Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?
What do you mean? You're seeing how it works right here.
Sun and moon are spherical objects suspended by a coat hanger and constantly turned in motion by a higher being.
Man this is just sad
So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
If i know right, they think the sun has much less power than usual, so it works like a spotlight. So its light wont reach the territories under the moon
Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it's big enough to see.
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They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work
You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(
I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger
Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions
Turtles
Comeon man.. turtles, infinite amount of turtles
I believe the answer to your question of “what do the pillars stand on” is a turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And it is turtles all the way down. Though I might be confusing two different beliefs.
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The giant Turtle
IRL Wimp Lo.
Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn't want us to know.
Can we talk about the "map" itself for a moment? They traced a map on a light board to cut out the continents and this abomination is the best they could do?
Is there a badparents Lemmy group?
I thought this was a joke.
Edit: I mean, the whole flat earth movement thing. I'm realizing now, that these people are serious...
I always wondered...if the earth is flat then what's on the under side? Why haven't we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can't get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?
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