Your Alt-Reality Is Boring......A plea for more interesting alt-realities than the Moon Landing Hoax, Flat Earth, and No Virus.
(barsoom.substack.com)
** THERE WILL BE A QUIZ **
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The only person "lacking imagination" in this article is the author. He literally believes his brainwashing through and through and accepts his brainwashers explanations for the topics he criticizes. What a surprise!
The most devastating mistake made when attempting to discern truth is ->>> listening to "my side of the subject supporters" explain the opposing side's argument. It's like doubling-down on lies. The establishment lies on steroids.
The mistakes and errors in this article are so numerous it's laughable. Basically he's saying, "the establishment might be lying to us about a few things, but not these things...because.... the establishment SAYS SO!" That's some next-level critical thinking right there. The fruits of a public education that taught him WHAT to think instead of HOW to think!
But I digress, the other side of the argument is censored here on GA so blowing holes in this guys article is off limits....
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You must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs and admit the possibility you are wrong. Intelligence isn't knowing everything. It's the ability to challenge everything you know.
If you're not willing to entertain the possibility you have been fooled, then you are the easiest kind of person to fool.
Questioning and doubting what's going on these days does not make you "anti" anything. Nor does it make you a conspiracy theorist. Actually, questioning IS and should be the place of reason. The fact that questioning has become taboo, should, in fact, send a chill up everyone's spine.
There's more that cut a little deeper, but I'll rest here.
Questioning is never taboo.
The problem is that those who believe in flat earth are totally unwilling to accept the very real evidence that their belief is entirely without merit. It is trivial to prove the earth is ellipsoid of some kind. I have explained on several occasions how this can be done with high school knowledge of spherical geometry and the interior angles of a triangle on a positively curved surface. All of which is available to anyone without going into space.
But flat earther's are intellectually lazy and do not want to understand how the math thoroughly discredits their illusion. So they continue insisting that 2+2=5 and pretend like questioning the answer of 4 is somehow "taboo". It's not. It's just plain and provably wrong to anyone who cares about the truth.
Without merit? Prove it because those are the exact words I used on someone when I lit out to prove his flat earth arguement is without merit. I got a rude awakening. Your own eyes are the way to do it and not looking at others opinions. Amd as far as the math, I've a daughter who is an aerospace engineer, she will tell you, theoretical math can prove both a flat earth and a globe. Because math doesn't care, you can prove any "possibility" with math but not thr actual fact without some other means of observation.
Funny the math is suddenly useless when it comes to the curvature of rhe earth and what should be hidden behind it. A simple telescope or laser can prove the curvature false.
Intellectually lazy is your problem.
I have proven it several times before. Here is the summary.
Use flight planning software. Draw a round trip, direct route triangle between any 3 points on the earth. Make sure they are at least 2000 nm away to get sufficient resolution. Add up the interior angles of the triangle formed by this route. They sum to more than 180 degrees. That proves mathematically the surface you are flying over is positively curved. And since this works for any 3 points anywhere on the globe, this proves the earth can only be an ellipsoid. Q.E.D
Your aerospace engineer daughter can clearly do this and prove it to herself. If she can't, she needs to find a new career. And if you feel the flight planning software is lying, feel free to hop in a plane and fly the route to prove it really is correct.
Laziness is not my problem. There is no opinion about what I say above. Only fact. It is the same as saying 2+2=4. Only someone who is either intellectually dishonest or intellectually lazy would say otherwise.