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1. Reality does not care about your wishfuk thinking nor your precious little ego.
What the hell is wrong with you that you feel the need to diminish the Cosmos itself, this fascinating, complex, magnificient, wonderful universe, so grievously just to make yourself feel special?
The classical fallacy of arguing from the consequent.
"If that's smoke the whole city is on fire, if it's clouds the city is not on fire, therefore, just assume it's clouds."
The world is flat → whatever the fuck other crazy bullshit I believe in, the world is flat ⊢ whatever the fuck other crazy bullshit I believe in.
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But the world isn't flat, good job.
Is... Is this person trying to suggest that all of the "bad" things that are one the right are just caused by a matter of perception...? Because scarcity, limited energy, global warming, evolution, theft/taxation, and politics are all proven facts of life, for better or for worse. Is he trying to suggest that all of those would just go away if we accept a flat world? Is he trying to say that reality itself will bend itself to our benefit if we just believe? That suddenly evolution will be a myth, that perpetual motion machines will work, that we won't have scarcity (which I thought was a good thing because it made things valuable...), and that we'll suddenly be all equal and happy?
If anything this is proof that the Earth is round, because it's demonstrable that none of the flat-earth points there are true.
@Kanzenkankaku
It's common among conspiracy theorists to believe that there is a 'conspiracy of science' against them they believe scientists are actively suppressing 'the truth'. In the case of flat-Earthers, their beliefs are so ludicrous that all of science has to be thrown out the window for the Earth to be flat, so it's not uncommon for them to hold tons of other conspiratorial/psuedoscientific viewpoints.*
Coming from this perspective, I think OurJesuitPaymasters is saying:
1) The world is flat.
Obviously the initial premise is wrong, and even if it were right it would be a non-sequitur for it to imply any of their other 'points'. There's also the fact that some of the 'points' don't even have a sensible interpretation; 'cyclical energy,' what the fuck is that supposed to be?
*This may be considered part of a larger phenomenon known as crank magnetism .
@SomeApe
If you mean "The world is flat because I believe it to be so.", then maybe. It's really hard to pin down what goes through a person's mind in order to justify something irrational, so we are left to speculate.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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