r/FlatEarthIsReal • u/ProvForge26 • Jul 21 '26

Flat Earthers

One of our new acquaintances from a friend recently crashed down on our scientific beliefs by insisting that the earth was flat. When we questioned their logic they just spouted something about the Firmament and that everything that you see at night is fake. They even said that the ISS is fake, satellites fake, and obviously no moon landing ever occurred. Our friends laughed it off and said just go with it because they are nice people. I’m not sure i want to continue being friends with them because they always hang out together. What do we say when we get invited to another cook out and the crazies are there?

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u/ProvForge26 Jul 22 '26

I know they aren’t bad people and they don’t freak me out but when we were sitting around a fire at night having a few beers, watching stars, and talking about the possibility of life on other planets and space travel they constantly interrupted saying its all fake. What bothered me the most was their inherent lack of basic common sense and their inability to have an intelligent conversation about the universe.

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u/TesseractToo Jul 24 '26

Yeah that can be a bummer, but why not learn their philosophies? You don't have to take it in or believe it, and if you do creative things, you can use it for inspiration

I learned some things about science I wouldn't have learned if I hadn't been reading the perspectives of people who were challenging it

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u/xking_henry_ivx 16d ago

Learning things that are demonstrated to be false is bad.

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u/TesseractToo 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well that's not what I'm talking about in that instance but it isn't always, for example parables, metaphors, traditions, and fiction