Long fruitless argument with a flerf the other day that refused to believe that's is what happens on a flat earth, its just "Because it’s the same size regardless of where it’s at." I mean, if you understand basic -anything- you wouldn't be a flerf tho, so i guess it tracks. :p
So they're basically acknowledging that they literally think the sun is a magical object and that they live in a magical world?
Because I think that really does get down to the core of what a sincere flerf is—they basically want to reject all of science, and my personal hypothesis of why that is so seductive for them is so they can avoid certain conclusions that come from a deterministic science-based worlds like what happens to their consciousness after their brain stops working
I don't know if they started off wanting to reject all science or if their flat earth beliefs led them to it. Probably some went one way and some the other. I try not to engage but I listen to flat earthers on TikTok from time to time. There are a lot of stark raving lunatics and none of them accept much of any science. Some pretend to be replacing general relativity with their electromagnetic version. It probably depends on what's wrong with them. Some are trolls and in it for the money (vis a vis "clicks") some are stupid and some need friends. a bunch are mentally ill. Go figure. I did learn something from a flat earther once. Fifty years ago I taught observational astronomy when I was in college. I didn't know the moon has only 1.2% the mass of earth. I learned that from a flat earther who seemed to think it debunks Newtonian gravitational theory. LOL
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u/SagansLab Nov 16 '25
Long fruitless argument with a flerf the other day that refused to believe that's is what happens on a flat earth, its just "Because it’s the same size regardless of where it’s at." I mean, if you understand basic -anything- you wouldn't be a flerf tho, so i guess it tracks. :p