Flat Earth Theory, I cant distinguish spoof from belief!

[SloeBerri]

Aibu to have been thinking it was a joke? I get a few flat earth memes on fb through an acquaintance, I thought they were spoofs. It’s slowed dawned they are serious, a mutual friend has confirmed this. There are clearly a fair few others too.

I’ve had a browse, but fb pages like the flat earth society... they seem written as a spoof? Is it an elaborate joke? A mix? How the hell did it come into fashion and why.

The acquaintance is into everything from anti-vax to chem trails, and although those are odd I can see how flawed logic follows through. Why would a conspiracy state the world is round... ?

I’m just bemused and struggling to make sense of this one...

I know its hard to believe, but some people do actually believe the world is flat.
These people are collectively known as 'idiots'.

People do sadly believe this bullshit. However, those of us who have/had cats know this is not fact, because if it was, the cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now...

Combo of spoof and serious

It's hard to differentiate as the ones that are serious are even more ridiculous than the spoofers

I like to watch a bit of Martin and Odette on YouTube when I want to feel better about myself

I think it's more about the belief that we are being lied to or controlled or whatever. I think that's what it all comes down. I've never understood why they think anyone would gain from the shape of the planet.

DH and I were talking about this yesterday. Most conspiracy theories, while absolute bobbins, have some kind of internal logic, flat earth just doesn’t. As an individual it’s nigh on impossible to prove the queen isn’t a shape shifting lizard monster or the vapour from airplanes isn’t drugging us into submission to our illuminati overlords, but almost anyone can if they’re motivated enough can get on a plane or a boat and travel far enough in one direction to see that the earth is in fact round. That along with the question of why the fact of the earth being flat would be worth keeping from the masses makes the whole thing a special kind of stupid.

The only conclusion we could come to is that some people believe it out of sheer bloody mindedness, because they refuse to believe in anything “experts” or “governments” tell them, so if scientists say the earth is round then it can’t be true because science = evil.

Yes, flat earthers think "They" are lying to us. Well, who are "they"? Government? Yes, just normal regular peiple. It's like flat earthers believe there is some extreme higher power in control...There's not!

If there was a higher power at work controlling the world they’d be making a better job of it.

Didn't their tagline say they have followers all over the globe?

I think I read that it started as a spoof to serve as a debating point for people to argue over but has been taken over by the weirdos.

Flat earthers and conspiracy theorists generally feel safer, imo, that there is a higher power /group in overall control
The idea that we are all a bumbling mess scares them. It also gives them a cop out for not taking responsibility

There's a woman on another forum who genuinely believes in flat earth, doesn't believe in moon landings, blames everything on electromagnets. It's astounding, and what's terrifying is I really think she's real and she has kids, and she's not the only one!

The Flat Earth Society has supporters all around the globe.

So how on earth, do they get the pictures of earth from space?
And the fact if you look out to sea you can see the curve of the earth...

OP... is your mate known as Wazza?

I have one just like it. Those of us who know him in real life know he has isn't the brightest button in the box. But he does write a good Facebook post and gets lot of engagement, some from obviously intelligent people.

It's just weird!

I think some of them carry deep emotional scars from childhood when they found out about Father Christmas.

My favourite bit of it all is that to continue to prove the theory, Australia doesn't exist and is just a state in 'murica full of people PRETENDING to be Australian.
Reading about flat earthers is a favourite hobby of mine...

I work with a guy who believes in all this stuff...highly intelligent...but barking..and for some reason quite convincing...just questions everything, conventional thought as being societal brainwashing..apparently there is a dome over the flat earth..

I imagine the memes themselves are spoofs, but your friend has taken them seriously. Like people who share stories from the Southend News Network as if it’s a real paper.

Goading flat earthers is always fun. One question they can never find an answer to is why countries who have been at war for years have all managed to agree on one thing: that this must be kept from the people. How many millions worldwide died during WW2? How many nations saw a devastating effect? Yet not one government in that time of unimaginable upheaval went rogue and blew the worldwide cover-up?

Where do they think the world ends than?.how does the sea not fall off the end so many queations.

Infinity pool stylee one would imagine.

I thought it started as a debating society, arguing something so ridiculous was more of a challenge. However some idiots seem to believe it, not sure how!

and why are there no pictures or accounts of the edge of the planet?

‘and why are there no pictures or accounts of the edge of the planet?’

The fact that there aren’t millions of pretty much identical pictures on Instagram of idiots posing at The Edge is evidence in itself.

Pouting duck faces at the edge?