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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  cofty

  I "better" myself by constantly reading brilliant books written by brilliant people and always applying healthy skepticism.

  You add absolutely nothing of value.
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  Hollow earth

  by Jrjw in

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  i thought the flat earth conspiracy theory was strange but ive just read an article about a new conspiracy theory that the earth is hollow and that its a paradise there and 8 foot tall intellectually advanced aliens live there who send space ships out every so often to check on mankind.

  apparently lost viking colonies and nazis that fled there after world war 2 are living there immortally 🤣🤣 .

  this world just gets better and better 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

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  cofty

  its hard to know what's real and true

  Not really. Common sense is your friend.
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  Hollow earth

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i thought the flat earth conspiracy theory was strange but ive just read an article about a new conspiracy theory that the earth is hollow and that its a paradise there and 8 foot tall intellectually advanced aliens live there who send space ships out every so often to check on mankind.

  apparently lost viking colonies and nazis that fled there after world war 2 are living there immortally 🤣🤣 .

  this world just gets better and better 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

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  cofty

  My brother told me to look into conspiracy theories

  Tell your brother that your time would be better spent reading real science. Conspiracy theorists are beyond all hope of recovery. Save yourself.
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  cofty

  why does anyone care?

  Dumb question of the year. Three days to go.
  
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  cofty

  they will start to think that their carefully crafted model is the absolute truth

  Planet earth is an ellipsoid. That is an absolute truth.

  If you doubt that you are an anti-science dullard.
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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

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  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  cofty

  Postmodernism has added precisely NOTHING to human knowledge.

  It is nothing but a bunch of self-important poseurs congratulating each other for their latest inscrutable ramblings.
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  cofty

  If this subject is of interest, you might enjoy the book, Longitude - TD

  Outstanding book. I have it on the shelf behind me right now.

  Anti-science dullards are missing out so much on the awesomeness of reality.
  
  
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  cofty

  No theories are not discovered. Facts are discovered. Theories are meta-narratives that explain facts, laws and observations. They are constructed and have enormous explanatory power. 99.9999% of science is the hard work of discovering the little details that lead incrementally to progress. That process continues to develop exponentially.

  Your lack of knowledge of that progress tells us something about your intellectual laziness but nothing at all about science.
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  cofty

  The mere fact that you ask about the discovery of new theories shows that you don't understand your own objection.

  Not sure if you are obtuse or trolling?
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  cofty

  Dunning - Kruger effect.