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The World Is Flat! Are You Kidding? 15

Why The Flat-Earth

Movement Is The Best

Symbol Of The

Increasingly Diminished

Value Of Truth And

Intelligence

Continued from Page 13

“You want science? Open your eyes,” reads the
About section to a popular flat-earth support
group on Facebook. “Per the scientific method
(sic), science is proven through observation and
the faculty for observation begins with our
senses. I see no curvature; I feel no spinning
earth beneath my feet; I feel the warmth of the
sun close, not 93 million miles away (a distance
we cannot even comprehend).” Therefore, the
understand why people are seduced by the tenor ourselves from the 3D prison matrix for the
thinking goes, there is no curvature at all, the
of the message. The flat-earth movement, in its mind. We opened our eyes and witnessed the
earth does not spin whatsoever, the sun must not
own peculiar way, appeals to the arrogance of limitless magnificence of this realm we call
be many millions of miles away. The facts are
the ignorant, arousing a dormant sense of being Earth. All dimensions have opened up to us and
obvious. If the earth were spinning around and
meant for something special. It empowers you we are now the Pilots revising the map.”
around, wouldn’t you fly a few feet backward
to overcome confusion and conquer stupidity – Doesn’t that sound appealing? To have
anytime you jumped in the air?
It doesn’t help to point out that the very not the hard way, by learning and things opened up to you, to witness the world in
understanding, but in a way that’s much easier, its limitless magnificence? It is a kind of
purpose of science is to demonstrate the reality
by redefining the things you don’t understand as liberation – liberation from serious thought. []
of that which we cannot perceive ourselves; that
wrong in the first place.
plenty of things which seem apparent to our
It’s the same quick-fix attitude that’s
eyes and our ears are not at all as they seem and
besieging our political landscape: information
never have been, and that the process of this Celebrities Who Believe in
that doesn’t accord with your carefully
understanding is the very narrative of our
manicured world-view is “fake news,” opinions Conspiracy Theories
evolution as a species. These processes the Flat-
that don’t cohere with your own are offensive,
Earthers dismiss as propaganda.
everything you dislike or that frightens you can
Photographs of the earth from space –
be wedged between scare quotes and rejected
photographs which quite clearly show that it is Steven Seagal - The black-leather-clad
out of hand. Never mind the “expertise” of
round – are rejected, indeed practically laughed martial arts star has been a vocal proponent of
“professionals” and “elites.” You still matter.
off, as the product of a few spare hours and a the conspiracy theory that many mass shootings
You know everything you need to know.
copy of Photoshop. The simplest explanation are staged, telling Russian state-owned
The irony is that we have never before
that may account for an anomaly of perception propaganda network RT, "I believe, I hate to say
had readier access to the truth. It’s never been
– why skyscrapers don’t appear to tilt away this, a lot of these mass murders and all this
simpler to disabuse ourselves of misbelief. But
from us in the distance, say, or why we can’t see funny stuff that’s going on, I believe a lot of this
perhaps it’s precisely this deluge of information
the curving horizon while standing flush with is engineered.”
that has entrained our retreat from its power. It’s
the ground – are sneered at as disinformation,
difficult – frustratingly difficult – to believe a
fabricated wholesale to fool. Science is spin. Tom DeLonge - The Blink-182 frontman has
falsehood when five seconds of research is
Facts are “fake news.”
enough to refute the point. been vocal about his belief in aliens and their
Why would generations of scientists lie?
And sometimes what we want are spacecraft. He's also subscribed to a
Well, they are leagued in conspiracy against
falsehoods. We want the comfort of having our complicated conspiracy theory that American
God. Why else? “The number one reason (they
dearly held opinions confirmed; of thinking astronauts DID land on the moon, but the
lie),” explains a website dedicated to the flat-
that, say, Muslim immigrants pose a threat to government pushes theories that we DIDN'T
earth cause, “is a Biblical and gospel related
the security of our nation, or that gun control land on the moon to distract us from asking the
reason. The ball earth is the foundation for
does little to curb violent crime. So instead of real question we should be pondering: "What
evolution and the Big Bang, which both put
allowing the facts to dissuade us – instead of was there when we got there?"
God completely out of the picture (sic). If the
permitting the truth to challenge our ideas –we
world is run by the Satanic elite (which it is),
take the facts that please us and throw the rest Rosie O'Donnell - Rosie O'Donnell used her
then their primary goal would be to discredit
away. It’s not only specific evidence that show The View to chime in with her thoughts
and hide God, making us believe He doesn’t
becomes dubious: it’s the entire principle of about 9/11, saying, “I do believe it is the first
exist… Without the globe earth lie, all of
research, the entire scientific method that’s cast time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I
Satan’s deception (sic) are blown out of the
in doubt. Why defer to reason if reason risks do believe that it defies physics for the World
water.”
telling us something we don’t want to know? Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven,
But of course. It’s all so simple. NASA
“The discovery begins within,” which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for
– “which has ties to Satanism and/or the
proclaims a flat-earth Facebook group. a building to fall the way it fell without
Occult,” according to another reputable flat-
“Empirically, the human senses are the most explosives being involved.”
earth source – has manufactured this globular
powerful way in which we connect to source According to Popular Mechanics, it's not
chicanery for infernal gain. The Bible says the
and yet we’ve been taught to deny what they tell at all impossible for a building to fall the way
world is flat, or anyway says something to that
us. We’ve been programmed since birth to trust Building 7 did, as its structure had been
effect. We should open our eyes and see the
pseudo science (sic) over our own connection to severely weakened by crash damage and
divine truth.
source (sic)… We have awoken from the globe burning jet fuel. []
The particulars of flat-earth devotion are
illusion, a planetary confinement, and freed
easy to ridicule. But it isn’t difficult to