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RE: Understanding Cognition: The Dissonance Of Flat Earth

in #psychology6 years ago

It is amazing to think that the earth is flat. So the pictures from space must be gross fabrications then and the earth's curvature when looking at the horizon from a great distances is an optical illusion? The fact that we experience day and night in different times in different places is just the coin flipping? I don't understand. I need to sleep on this.

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I saw this youtube comment that sums it up beautifully:

Me: If the world is flat, why do ships disappear over the horizon hull first and sail last?
Flat Earther: Perspective.
Me: Okay. If the moon is small and close, why do people north of it and south of it see the same side and the same phase?
Flat Earther: Perspective.
Me: Interesting. If the sun is always circling over the flat Earth, why does it sink below the horizon at night?
Flat Earther: Perspective.
Me: Got it. If the stars are all on a disk rotating around Polaris, why do people south of the equator see them rotate around a southern celestial pole?
Flat Earther: Perspective. By the way, if Earth were really a sphere with no dome over it, what would stop the air from escaping out into space?
Me: Gravity.
Flat Earther: Oh brother. You Globe-heads think gravity is the magic answer to everything!

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Cg

😂 really everything is perspective. Very funny. People believe weird stuff though

@cryptogee,

Epic. And yet, these people have the right to vote.

Quill

It is amazing to think that the earth is flat. So the pictures from space must be gross fabrications then and the earth's curvature when looking at the horizon from a great distances is an optical illusion?

It's just your imagination - if you would be a flat-earther, you wouldn't see any curvature.

The fact that we experience day and night in different times in different places is just the coin flipping?

The sun goes too far away and it becomes dark.

I don't understand.

Neither do I - but actually there are people here on Steemit that believes in the flat-earth-dogma.

I've made two posts on this subject:

There are so may conspiracy theories out there ... and for many of them it can be quite difficult arguing against ... but not so with the flat earth, anyone ought to be able to see with their own eyes that the round earth theory is a more useful theory. I believe that's a good exercise in school: "use scientific methods to find out if the earth is flat or round".

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