Flat Earth, fact or fiction

[lewisnotmiller]

See atheist theory looks like a rocket. But when it tries to take off, it can't. It's like a stubborn belief.

What is 'atheist theory' and where the heck is it taking off to? As an atheist, I feel like I should know these things.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Aren't we living in some kind of invisible world? There lots of things that we can't see.

Sure.
So there is no such thing as 'fantasy' then?

 

[sovietchild]

Sure.
So there is no such thing as 'fantasy' then?

One common thing about atheists and flatties is that they both don't have a good argument.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

One common thing about atheists and flatties is that they both don't have a good argument.

Argument about what? Feel free to try me. I think you're out of your depth though.
Mind you, I'm not that smart.

 

[Flankerl]

Hollow Earth > Flat Earth

 

[Kemosloby]

The OT authors probably had a similar view as the Babylonians did. A flat, dome covered Earth with pillars and windows like a coliseum.
Here's a link that talks in detail about that point:
The Flat-Earth Bible.

Yet a whale belly isn't dome shaped and the heart of the earth would be at the center of a sphere. I guess I threw a monkey wrench into his argument.

 

[McBell]

It IS confusing, I grant you. What with all the flying horses, and crap.

OMG!
Flying horses do have to crap...
Especially if they are afraid of heights....
Hopefully those on the ground had umbrellas...

 

[lewisnotmiller]

OMG!
Flying horses do have to crap...
Especially if they are afraid of heights....
Hopefully those on the ground had umbrellas...

I think they crap rainbows. Or maybe that's unicorns.

 

[Ubon]

Many people still believe its flat and a round earth is a conspiracy

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

OMG!
Flying horses do have to crap...
Especially if they are afraid of heights....
Hopefully those on the ground had umbrellas...

I remember about a thousand years ago on a television show called "Hollywood Squares," where they asked television stars to answer questions and the contestants had to guess if they were right or wrong, one very funny TV star by the name of Paul Lynd was asked: "Can you stuff a goose with prunes?"

And Lynd answered (to my delight): "Yes, but for God's sake don't let it fly!"

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Yet a whale belly isn't dome shaped and the heart of the earth would be at the center of a sphere. I guess I threw a monkey wrench into his argument.

Or you didn't. Because the belly of a whale is in fact dome shaped and the heart of a flat circle is its radial center.

 

[Valjean]

Science was brilliant at the time.
Can you make a flint axe, knife or arrow-head?
The Phoenicians traded with Cornwall for tin, to make bronze.
The pillars of the great temple were bronze, and how they managed that continuos pour of molten metal is just gobsmacking.etc etc .

Those sound like technology, not science. Science is an investigative modality.

Flat earth believe is the same as atheist theory. They both are like a rocket which fails to get off the ground because the engine is made of fantasies.

Atheist theory? What would an atheist have to theorize about?

How is atheism not a fantasy?

It's not a fantasy because it's not a belief. It's a lack of belief.
Eg: How is not believing in pink unicorns on the moon not a fantasy?

 

[Valjean]

One common thing about atheists and flatties is that they both don't have a good argument.

Atheists have no argument at all. They have nothing to argue.

 

[Altfish]

How is atheism not a fantasy?

Atheism is NOT a belief, it is a disbelief.
As has been said many times before "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"

 

[sovietchild]

Atheism is NOT a belief, it is a disbelief.
As has been said many times before "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"

Yes, you are right, both atheist and flatties disbelief.

 

[siti]

There lots of things that we can't see.

Apparently!

"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby"

I tried not collecting stamps once - I really can't understand what people see in it

 

[oldbadger]

Metallurgy was obviously a fake profession - camp-fire fuel can't melt steel ingots.

Oh yeah!
Listen..... you!......... oldbadger has cursed and sweated to melt down a lity-bity piece of gold to make the littlest tiniest weeny ingot....... and used every gas combo that he could find, and all that he could reach was the hot brittle stage.

And all that time he wondered about those beautiful bronze axeheads that we still find around here, just occasionally.

 

[oldbadger]

Those sound like technology, not science. Science is an investigative modality.............

Whoooaaaaaa!
Hold that horse, there....!
Scientific research produces knowledge that leads to production.
Much of our scientific research ACCIDENTALLY discovers facts not related to that individual target.

So if a stone-age bloke happened to discover a piece of mishaped metal after a forest fire, and though 'Ugg..... ummm.... me try that'. it's friggin' science!

Ug was a scientist.

And if you had been rude to him he would have eaten you (or somethin') after his spear thrower or sling had done it's work!

 

[Alan McDougall]

Fact or Fiction, did people ever believe the Earth was flat? Does the bible say it is?

Jesus said, "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

A belly is spherical and the heart lies at the center or core of something.

But a more metaphorical passage from Revelations describes the Angels standing at 4 corners of the Earth. But when someone says "Let the four winds blow" we get what it means.

Rev 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

That's about it though, flat earth is not given much thought in the bible. So why do people claim it does? Ignorance? Bliss?

THE EARTH IS A COLLOSAL 8 THOUSAND MILE DIAMETER ROUND HUGE BALL AND TO SAY IT IS FLAT IS JUST INSANE, INTRINSIC ENDOGENOUS FOOLISH INANE, IDIOTIC, MORONIC, IMBECILIC, ABSOLUTE STUPIDY, IDIOTIC RUBBISH AND GARBAGE, AND FALSE BELIEF OF COSMIC SIZE IMBECILIC STUPIDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NONSENSICAL RUBBISH THAT EVEN AN EARTHWORM KNOWS IS FALSE, AND I AM BEING POLITE WITH THESE IDIOTS, WHO LET THEIR BRAIN FALL OUT OF THEIR HEADS AND BELIEVE THIS UTTER GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Flat earth believe is the same as atheist theory. They both are like a rocket which fails to get off the ground because the engine is made of fantasies.

Your similes are like cow turds served for dessert.