Stinky The Clown
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:02 PM
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The Earth is a 6000 year old flat disk. The sun rises east and sets west. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 04:06 PM by Husb2Sparkly
You see, the same person can lie and tell the actual truth.
Our job is to determine which is which.
This calls for healthy skeptcism and critical thinking skills.
As a good scientist deals only in facts and lets them lead him to the truth he seeks, so must we as political scientists.
Rank and rampant speculation helps no one.
I'm just sayin' ........
(edit to change 'Or' to 'Our' at the start if the second line)
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savemefromdumbya
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:04 PM
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1. they used to burn at the stake round earth supporters |
Jack Rabbit
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Sat Aug-12-06 05:33 PM
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10. I'm in a mood to nit pick. You're wrong. |
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They never burned round earth supporters. Thomas Aquinas made reference to the fact the earth is round in Summa Theologica. It was, as far as he was concerned, a trivial fact. Since few people traveled far from home in those days, and crossing the ocean was unthinkable, such knowledge was of no practical value, but it wasn't dangerous.
Eratosthenes first demonstrated mathematically that the world in round in the 3rd Century BC, even coming very close to giving its correct circumferance. Before that, Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle all speculated that the earth was round; Aristotle knew that if some stars were visable in Egypt that could not be seen in Greece, and vice versa, and reasoned that this could only be possible on a curved surface.
Ptolomy of Alexandria also knew the world was round. He was the authority for geography in the post-classical world. Therefore, as long as Ptomolmy said so, no one was going to get in trouble for saying the world was round.
Now, heliocentric theory supporters weren't always so lucky.
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savemefromdumbya
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:08 PM
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right, Bruno was a earth round the sun, not a round earth believer |
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:08 PM
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13. right, Bruno was a earth round the sun, not a round earth believer |
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Tue Aug-15-06 02:12 AM
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17. Since the earliest days of sail |
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Sailors could see the earth was rounded from the way other ships always approached as if they were climbing a hill toward them. The same effect could be seen approaching land. Some of the ancients had pretty good numbers for the diameter of the earth. It was only the Republican, er pardon me, the Church dominated dark ages that gave rise to all that flat earth stuff.
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:04 PM
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2. I used to be president of a skeptics' club in Texas |
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Way ahead of you there, man - only reason I'm not still president is because I'm now a precinct chair, and the club has 501(c)(3) status, and I want to avoid a possible conflict of interest.
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:34 PM
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"The Earth is a 6000 year old flat disk. The sun rises east and sets west."
Of course this is true, the Bible says so. All evidence to the contrary is the work of Satan to test your faith.
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:11 PM
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3. The earth IS flat, bub. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 04:11 PM by MrCoffee
Anyone who says otherwise is just a Galileo-lover.
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:26 PM
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4. Yep. Every map I have is flat. If the earth was round, |
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then atlases would be round. But they aren't.
Round-earth fuckers always get silent and change the subject when I give them that factoid.
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MrCoffee
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:27 PM
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5. Hit 'em with some TRUTH! |
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and if that don't work, hit 'em with your atlas. those things is heavy.
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Sat Aug-12-06 11:10 PM
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15. I can't speak about the whole world |
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Edited on Sat Aug-12-06 11:11 PM by NoPasaran
But if you've ever driven across the Texas Panhandle, that part of the planet is definitely flat. Pancakeville, daddio!
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:28 PM
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6. gravity is just a theory |
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Sat Aug-12-06 04:32 PM
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7. Gravity is a myth...the Earth sucks. |
leftofthedial
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Sat Aug-12-06 05:15 PM
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9. well, I know the wind blows from west to east in New Mexico |
KKKarl is an idiot
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Sat Aug-12-06 05:43 PM
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11. Don't forget the sun burns hotter in the summer |
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Sun Aug-13-06 10:34 AM
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16. those helium balloons and the trash bags that get stuck in trees |
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prove that "gravity" is a lie
To explain these little anomalies to their theory, "scientists" had to invent their own deities--the "periodic table of the 'elements'" and "wind."
Yeah right. Gravity is bullshit.
Don't even get me started on "time."
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Sat Aug-12-06 05:58 PM
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12. The Earth is NOT flat! It's shaped like a footstool |
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Because the Bible says Heaven is God's throne, and the Earth is his footstool. So there!
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Sat Aug-12-06 09:52 PM
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14. And, besides witches, what also burns? nt |
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