Alarming Flat Earthers’ Conversation About A Preschooler’s Textbook Brainwashing Their Kids Goes Viral
Members of the Flat Earth Society claim that the Earth is flat. You know, because taking a walk on the planet’s surface is sufficient enough to deem all contrary evidence as false. Ships disappearing into the horizon? Satellite photos of Earth? Pff, nonsense! Lies! Fabrications of the “round Earth conspiracy,” orchestrated by NASA and the government.
Recently, one of these flat earthers shared a photo they took of their daughter’s preschool textbook. In it, the authors present another “hoax,” the Moon landing. Soon, the comment section was filled with people complaining about the system pushing its agenda, and you couldn’t make this stuff up.
After reddit user mynameisethan182 shared a screenshot of the conversation, it quickly went viral. The post has accumulated over 30K upvotes and 1.7K comments in a matter of hours, and people couldn’t believe their eyes.
Interestingly, did you know that flat earthers also believe that gravity is just an unproven theory? The movement, led by Californian Nathan Thompson, 31, has attracted tens of thousands of followers including a few famous ones, such as rapper B.o.B. or former reality TV star Tila Tequila.
Some flat earthers even tried proving their claims. One of the most notable attempts belongs to Mike Hughes, a daredevil who used a homebuilt manned-rocket in an attempt to see for himself if the Earth is indeed flat. His rocket made of scrap metal was estimated to cost $20,000 and using a mobile home as a custom launchpad, it climbed 1,875 feet with Hughes inside. The landing ended up being hard but the parachutes successfully deployed. The rocketeer wasn’t seriously injured, however, he’s still convinced that the Earth is flat. He claims that real evidence will come with “larger rockets”.
People thought the conversation was ridiculous
Tragic. What benefit do they think there is for such a conspiracy to even exist??? Confuses the hell out of me.
The benefit of this conspiracy would be "turning people away from God's word". The bible says the earth is flat, so the evil round earth satanists must be out to destroy the bible's credibility with their evil round-earth nonsense...
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Can we move all flat earthers and Anti-Vaxxers to their own island somewhere away from the rest of us? Blatant disregard for science halts beneficial advancements
Yeah! An island on the edge of the world, just behind the turtle head!
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how can there be so many of them??? I just can't wrap my mind yround this, how so many people can believe in somthing like this which has been proven bei sience over and over again (yes, I know, there are other examples of where this is happening)
The same way there are so many Christians. A lack of critical thinking
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"I'd rather be called an ignorant hippy THEN let them indoctrinate my children." "You're proposal is acceptable."
The writings by ancient, ignorant men in the bible very much describe a flat earth. Job 38:14 the earth takes shape like clay stamped under a seal, its features stand out like those of a garment. Clay stamped under a seal is flat. Think pancake. A garment is a piece of clothing. I don't know of any spherical clothing. And there are multiple passages talking about the 4 corners of the earth and the ends of the earth. Every time the bible talks about science, it gets it wrong. In revelations it says that the stars will fall from the sky and land on earth. Just to write that, you have to have no idea what the stars actually are, and how much bigger they are than earth. And look into the firmament. There is no such evidence that a firmament ever existed. The bible says that bats are birds. The bible says that the moon is its own source of light. But, moonlight is just a reflection of sun light. The bible says that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and it flooded above Everest. Not possible
God-f*****g-damnit... what a bunch of absolute f*****g morons... someone needs to end these f*****s, and give their kids to rational families. By the way, if my swearing offended you, please note this was me being polite.
Noted, an admirable effort. Not sure I could talk about those f*****g mor... Argh! See! It's just impossible to not swear when talking about these a**e... sorry. Well done Ryo.
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these idiots probably also think that upon death people become angels or are reincarnated
Ah, yes, but only them. The rest of us would surely not be considered worthy.
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Oh my god! I thought that this whole flat earth society was a joke like the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Apparently I was wrong. Please tell me this is a joke!
Are Flat Earthers a real thing, or just internet trolls? I always thought it was the latter... I'm so confussed.
Soooooo, where exactly does Greta Thurnberg go when she sails around the world ... shouldn't she have fallen off by now ...
What I can never understand is given there must be a lot of these people can they not get together and perform their own research? Would be better than just trying to debunk the whole of Youtube to prove their theory.
So many people to be minced, sealed in glass cubes, loaded into rockets, and blasted into the sun....so little time.
Dear Bored Panda: How about a post where a parent rejoices that the kid is getting an education?
I have to read it 3 time to understand where the problem was with this book.
Pfft. The Earth is not flat. It's obviously cubed-shape. Get it right. 😂😂😜
Maybe, but the sun is nature's most perfect shape: the toroid.
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For most of the dark ages the earth was commonly known to be round. For some reason lots of people still think that Columbus as the one who disproved the flat earth, but it predates him by many, many centuries.
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OMG. I rarely use posts to kinda slate peoples IQ. But ... really. Oh dear. It's worse than I thought.
It appers that in USA some people (how many?!) are pretty similar to talibans, as far as ignorance and fanaticism are concerned. I'm lucky to live in Europe, where the very rare people who think like this are the object of hilarity and in no way can prevent their children from going to school
Well, the one said they lived 100 meters from school, so I can guarantee at least they're not Americans.
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I just don't understand. It's scary how people don't believe experts who have spent years painstakingly researching a complicated subject. Then some rando on YouTube posts a rambling nonsensical video, that basically concludes; because magic/illuminati/person different from you!!! And that seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation. I seriously don't get it
I will never understand conspiracy theorists. Why in the world would you spend so much of your time denying what has been proven with scientific evidence and research. A flat earther will say a scientist with of study is lying, but they will believe something that has been debunked with scientific research and experimentation. If these people want to believe this c**p, they should unable to breed and keep passing on the stupid.
Here’s something people who believe in government conspiracies don’t seem to understand: conspiracies are best kept in small and very tightly controlled groups. Needing to involve too many people, who also have to keep extremely quiet about it, along with requiring way too much vigilance to keep going, makes a conspiracy that’s simply too ungainly to last very long. Someone on the inside will become sloppy and accidentally talk, or disenchanted and talk on purpose, or someone on the outside will stumble upon concrete evidence that gives it away. Once that happens, the whole thing crashes and burns from simple exposure.
Ok. First of all, why 2nd of why and third of all thats just so sad. I feel bad for those kids
It depends on the scale being considered. Classical physics describes light as reflecting off objects like the moon, but quantum physics has light being absorbed by objects and subsequently emitted.
Woah, the tables have turned. I always imagined reddit being all the stupid ppl and facebook being the smart/normal ppl, but the second something dumb happens.....
So wait... How do flat-earthers explain our day/night cycle? It makes no sense...
The Bible was written by flat earthers, just search about ancient Hebrew cosmology. A good and faithful fundamentalist should deny science and stone they "rebelling sons" at the gates of the city. Those people are being faithful. They deny evolution, modern cosmology, and even the form of the Earth. And you can't reason they out of this. They are vaccinated against reason, protected agains knowledge, forever ignorant of facts.
Yeah... we need to send flat-earth believers to space for proof and then just let them float in space endlessly (or live on the moon to see the earth every day) but either way, they would probably think that's brainwashing too *facepalm*
The smartest people I know are Christians and the most vile, narcissistic people who don't read past the first sentence are unethical heathens. And just for context I drive a semi, had kids out of wedlock, have always been independent, and love hard rock. Your glasses are foggy.
Dear conspiracy theorists: have you ever tried arranging a surprise birthday party and keep four people's stories straight for a week so that the "target" won't guess what's up?
John, you ignorant s**t! The writings by ancient, ignorant men in the bible very much describe a flat earth. Job 38:14 the earth takes shape like clay stamped under a seal, its features stand out like those of a garment. Clay stamped under a seal is flat. A garment is a piece of clothing. I don't know of any spherical clothing. And there are multiple passages talking about the 4 corners of the earth and the ends of the earth. Every time the bible talks about science, it gets it wrong. In revelations it says that the stars will fall from the sky and land on earth. Just to write that, you have to have no idea what the stars actually are, how much bigger they are than the earth. And look into the firmament. There is no such evidence that a firmament ever existed. The bible says that bats are birds. The bible says that the moon is its own source of light. But, moonlight is just a reflection of sun light. The bible says that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and it flooded above Everest
Load More Replies... Tragic. What benefit do they think there is for such a conspiracy to even exist??? Confuses the hell out of me.
The benefit of this conspiracy would be "turning people away from God's word". The bible says the earth is flat, so the evil round earth satanists must be out to destroy the bible's credibility with their evil round-earth nonsense...
Load More Replies... Can we move all flat earthers and Anti-Vaxxers to their own island somewhere away from the rest of us? Blatant disregard for science halts beneficial advancements
Yeah! An island on the edge of the world, just behind the turtle head!
Load More Replies... how can there be so many of them??? I just can't wrap my mind yround this, how so many people can believe in somthing like this which has been proven bei sience over and over again (yes, I know, there are other examples of where this is happening)
The same way there are so many Christians. A lack of critical thinking
Load More Replies... "I'd rather be called an ignorant hippy THEN let them indoctrinate my children." "You're proposal is acceptable."
The writings by ancient, ignorant men in the bible very much describe a flat earth. Job 38:14 the earth takes shape like clay stamped under a seal, its features stand out like those of a garment. Clay stamped under a seal is flat. Think pancake. A garment is a piece of clothing. I don't know of any spherical clothing. And there are multiple passages talking about the 4 corners of the earth and the ends of the earth. Every time the bible talks about science, it gets it wrong. In revelations it says that the stars will fall from the sky and land on earth. Just to write that, you have to have no idea what the stars actually are, and how much bigger they are than earth. And look into the firmament. There is no such evidence that a firmament ever existed. The bible says that bats are birds. The bible says that the moon is its own source of light. But, moonlight is just a reflection of sun light. The bible says that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and it flooded above Everest. Not possible
God-f*****g-damnit... what a bunch of absolute f*****g morons... someone needs to end these f*****s, and give their kids to rational families. By the way, if my swearing offended you, please note this was me being polite.
Noted, an admirable effort. Not sure I could talk about those f*****g mor... Argh! See! It's just impossible to not swear when talking about these a**e... sorry. Well done Ryo.
Load More Replies... these idiots probably also think that upon death people become angels or are reincarnated
Ah, yes, but only them. The rest of us would surely not be considered worthy.
Load More Replies... Oh my god! I thought that this whole flat earth society was a joke like the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Apparently I was wrong. Please tell me this is a joke!
Are Flat Earthers a real thing, or just internet trolls? I always thought it was the latter... I'm so confussed.
Soooooo, where exactly does Greta Thurnberg go when she sails around the world ... shouldn't she have fallen off by now ...
What I can never understand is given there must be a lot of these people can they not get together and perform their own research? Would be better than just trying to debunk the whole of Youtube to prove their theory.
So many people to be minced, sealed in glass cubes, loaded into rockets, and blasted into the sun....so little time.
Dear Bored Panda: How about a post where a parent rejoices that the kid is getting an education?
I have to read it 3 time to understand where the problem was with this book.
Pfft. The Earth is not flat. It's obviously cubed-shape. Get it right. 😂😂😜
Maybe, but the sun is nature's most perfect shape: the toroid.
Load More Replies... For most of the dark ages the earth was commonly known to be round. For some reason lots of people still think that Columbus as the one who disproved the flat earth, but it predates him by many, many centuries.
Load More Replies... OMG. I rarely use posts to kinda slate peoples IQ. But ... really. Oh dear. It's worse than I thought.
It appers that in USA some people (how many?!) are pretty similar to talibans, as far as ignorance and fanaticism are concerned. I'm lucky to live in Europe, where the very rare people who think like this are the object of hilarity and in no way can prevent their children from going to school
Well, the one said they lived 100 meters from school, so I can guarantee at least they're not Americans.
Load More Replies... I just don't understand. It's scary how people don't believe experts who have spent years painstakingly researching a complicated subject. Then some rando on YouTube posts a rambling nonsensical video, that basically concludes; because magic/illuminati/person different from you!!! And that seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation. I seriously don't get it
I will never understand conspiracy theorists. Why in the world would you spend so much of your time denying what has been proven with scientific evidence and research. A flat earther will say a scientist with of study is lying, but they will believe something that has been debunked with scientific research and experimentation. If these people want to believe this c**p, they should unable to breed and keep passing on the stupid.
Here’s something people who believe in government conspiracies don’t seem to understand: conspiracies are best kept in small and very tightly controlled groups. Needing to involve too many people, who also have to keep extremely quiet about it, along with requiring way too much vigilance to keep going, makes a conspiracy that’s simply too ungainly to last very long. Someone on the inside will become sloppy and accidentally talk, or disenchanted and talk on purpose, or someone on the outside will stumble upon concrete evidence that gives it away. Once that happens, the whole thing crashes and burns from simple exposure.
Ok. First of all, why 2nd of why and third of all thats just so sad. I feel bad for those kids
It depends on the scale being considered. Classical physics describes light as reflecting off objects like the moon, but quantum physics has light being absorbed by objects and subsequently emitted.
Woah, the tables have turned. I always imagined reddit being all the stupid ppl and facebook being the smart/normal ppl, but the second something dumb happens.....
So wait... How do flat-earthers explain our day/night cycle? It makes no sense...
The Bible was written by flat earthers, just search about ancient Hebrew cosmology. A good and faithful fundamentalist should deny science and stone they "rebelling sons" at the gates of the city. Those people are being faithful. They deny evolution, modern cosmology, and even the form of the Earth. And you can't reason they out of this. They are vaccinated against reason, protected agains knowledge, forever ignorant of facts.
Yeah... we need to send flat-earth believers to space for proof and then just let them float in space endlessly (or live on the moon to see the earth every day) but either way, they would probably think that's brainwashing too *facepalm*
The smartest people I know are Christians and the most vile, narcissistic people who don't read past the first sentence are unethical heathens. And just for context I drive a semi, had kids out of wedlock, have always been independent, and love hard rock. Your glasses are foggy.
Dear conspiracy theorists: have you ever tried arranging a surprise birthday party and keep four people's stories straight for a week so that the "target" won't guess what's up?
John, you ignorant s**t! The writings by ancient, ignorant men in the bible very much describe a flat earth. Job 38:14 the earth takes shape like clay stamped under a seal, its features stand out like those of a garment. Clay stamped under a seal is flat. A garment is a piece of clothing. I don't know of any spherical clothing. And there are multiple passages talking about the 4 corners of the earth and the ends of the earth. Every time the bible talks about science, it gets it wrong. In revelations it says that the stars will fall from the sky and land on earth. Just to write that, you have to have no idea what the stars actually are, how much bigger they are than the earth. And look into the firmament. There is no such evidence that a firmament ever existed. The bible says that bats are birds. The bible says that the moon is its own source of light. But, moonlight is just a reflection of sun light. The bible says that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and it flooded above Everest
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