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This has been a pretty solid week for this platform.
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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She's back, and has added Flat Earth nonsense to her repertoire:
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Philosopher
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And I've been following him around for decades and got a couple of autographs. Doesn't talk much.
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Penultimate Amazing
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I've seen those explanations. They do not, under any sane circumstances whatever, hang together logically. Or even illogically. It is just a child-like fantasy that things work like in self-created unicorn-rainbow-fart fairy stories. There really is a door to Narnia at the back of the cupboard (or wherever).
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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"You have done nothing to demonstrate an understanding of scientific methodology or modern skepticism, both of which are, by necessity, driven by the facts and evidence, not by preconceptions, and both of which are strengthened by, and rely upon, change." - Arkan Wolfshade |
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Maledictorian
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I'd like to hear a flat earther explanation about why you see the sunlight on the tip of a mountain/tall building first at sunrise and last at sunset.
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Penultimate Amazing
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If the globular Earth is a vast conspiracy of all scientists, historians and a brainwashed population, would you trust your mother? Buy her a bus ticket to a city a few thousand miles away, phone her at noon and ask her where the sun is in the sky where she is. Would she lie to you?
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Penultimate Amazing
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The fact that this nut job is a GOP district chair says so much about today's GOP. The insane asylum really is being run by the inmates.
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Michael McDonald 1967 - 2021
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"In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996 RIP |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Globes, and indeed maps and atlases, show that other countries exist, full stop. Places she has never heard of, like Canada and Mexico. And Africa and Asia and Australia, and more besides. And so many oceans! Why, there's a whole imaginary world that she never knew existed!
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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The former is because the Illuminati/shape-shifting alien reptiles/Girl Scouts of America maintain constant patrols around the Antarctic ice wall, sinking anyone who gets too close, harpooning the survivors and feeding them to their ferocious, GMO guard penguins.
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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It is nice to be reminded that I still don't miss Warp12.
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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Flat earthers, sure why not. ~~~~Trump and Desantis arguing this point.~~~~ Ah fantasy my friend.
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.. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me. Carl Sagan |
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Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal (Molière) A pedant is a man who studies a vacuum through instruments that allow him to draw cross-sections of the details (John Ciardi) |
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a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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Hostile Nanobacon
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:Seth Meyers voice: Oh we love our flat earth, don't we? We have the best flat earth, much better than those other flat earths of the **** hole countries. When I was President, we made it the flattest earth on Earth. Don't believe Ron DeRoundEarth when he says he can make it flatter!
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¡No pasarán!
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It really comes to something when you have someone in your party even more idiotic and despicable than Trump and DeSatan.
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Naturalism adjusts it's principles to fit with the observed data. It's a god of the facts world view. -joobz When I give food to the poor, they call me a Saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. - Hélder Câmara |
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