I've resumed the flat-earth debate in a reshare (same Community) so that DW can't delete my comments, because this kind of willful illogic really ticks me off: https://plus.google.com/+WoozleHypertwin/posts/BRBrSHNsnA5
@woozle Modern day flat-Earth cultists are a strange phenomenon to me...I used to think it was some kind of elaborate joke or troll that gained a life of its own. Now I'm not sure what to think.
what's Google Plus actually like? never used it for anything past its initial months, whence I got my account suspended for using a pseudonym
@kara_dreamer As for flat-earthers... I feel like there's an authoritarian-religious agenda at work. TLDR: get people to believe ridiculous things, and you can control them.
Belief in a flat earth has become a particularly good test of blind faith in that we're surrounded by evidence of its wrongness in a way that wasn't the case even just few decades ago. GPSs, satellite TV/internet, satellite weather photos, Google Earth, live feeds from the ISS...
flat-Earthism, politics Afficher plus