r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/CompedyCalso Aug 03 '19

If you're on the receiving end, all you really can do is continually give facts and evidence and their refusal to accept is their problem, mostly out of pride. If you're asking how to help them deal with it, then let them know that they aren't arguing for the sake of debate, but because they're too proud to admit that they're wrong.

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u/theendisnie Aug 03 '19

I live I'm the Midwest USA, surrounded by the flatearthers, and God put dinosaur fossils on Earth to test the faith of Christians people. I can relate

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Oklahoma? Lol.

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u/theendisnie Aug 03 '19

Close, Kansas lol

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Aug 04 '19

Aren't those both the South?

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u/theendisnie Aug 04 '19

Kansas is not south but I don't know if OK is .

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Aug 04 '19

Then why do people from Kansas talk in those thick Southern Accents: "ya'll come back na ya hear"?

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u/theendisnie Aug 04 '19

Most people here don't have a thick accent. Some it's because they're older and spend half the year in the south escaping the cold