[timeticker]

I have a few opinionated questions:

1. What are your favorite scientists/philosophers?

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day? Is this a day to celebrate brain-washing?

3. What needs to happen such that everyone will believe the Flat Earth Model? Does there need to be picture proof or perhaps some revelation?

[gizmo910]

1. What are your favorite scientists/philosophers?

Plato and Pythagoras

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day? Is this a day to celebrate brain-washing?

Columbus believed the Earth was a pear.

3. What needs to happen such that everyone will believe the Flat Earth Model? Does there need to be picture proof or perhaps some revelation?

For starters, a map that has merit and correlates to what is naturally observed.

[Dither]

Ahh great, I like doing these cause its all about me.

1. Who are your fave scientists / philosophers?
    Francis Bacon / Meister Eckhart

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day?
    Tell me your thoughts first, and I'll see if I agree

3. What needs to happen for everyone to believe in FET?
    God needs to remove the strong delusion, this most likely will never happen.

[Jura-Glenlivet]

1 Dr Bunsen Honeydew & Beaker/ Friedrich Nietzsche “We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.”

2 An abomination, should be Leif Erikson Day.

3 The “freedom” of US “democracy” prevails and the internet becomes our educator

[3DGeek]

1. Who are your fave scientists / philosophers?
    Richard Feynmann is "my fave scientist" - I believe that all philosophers are a waste of quarks...so no favorites at all there!

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day?
    We should be honoring Leif Erikson (the first European to discover America) and not "Christopher Columbus"...who's name was Cristoforo Colombo.  If we're going go to all the trouble to name a day after him, it would have been nice if we could at least spell it correctly!  The archeological evidence is VERY clear that there were Viking colonies in North America 300 years before Colombo got there.  Colombo was an idiot.  There was PLENTY of knowledge around at the time that his trip to reach Japan would require a 20,000km voyage - but he only had supplies for a 3,500km voyage - so it's just as well he hit America first!  Many of the people who agreed to fund his trip knew the true distance and that he couldn't make it with the ship technology of the day.   Even after four trips to the Americas - and despite mountains of evidence and expert opinions - Colombo STILL believed he'd reached Asia.

   It's ridiculous to keep up the farce that "Columbus discovered America"  or that he was some hero...it's nearly as bad as the nonsense that's said about Thanksgiving.

3. What needs to happen for everyone to believe in FET?
    I don't see how this is even remotely possible.  There is simply too much evidence against it and zero for it.

[devils advocate]

1) Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin
2) Silly, America was discovered tens of thousands of years ago by folks that bloody walked there from Africa
3) Full frontal lobotomy of entire human race and a BIG bag of weed each

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I have a few opinionated questions:

1. What are your favorite scientists/philosophers?
Peter Lankton and Thomas Cruise

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day? Is this a day to celebrate brain-washing?
It's a day to celebrate the slaughter of millions of native americans

3. What needs to happen such that everyone will believe the Flat Earth Model? Does there need to be picture proof or perhaps some revelation?
Pictures are scams and are products of the government.

[Roundy]

Clearly Columbus proved to a wide-eyed world that had up until that moment in history believed the Earth was flat that it's actually round, I mean, we all learned that in school right so it must be true.

[juner]

I have a few opinionated questions:

1. What are your favorite scientists/philosophers?
Peter Lankton and Thomas Cruise

2. What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day? Is this a day to celebrate brain-washing?
It's a day to celebrate the slaughter of millions of native americans

3. What needs to happen such that everyone will believe the Flat Earth Model? Does there need to be picture proof or perhaps some revelation?
Pictures are scams and are products of the government.

Refrain from low-content posting in the upper fora. Warned.

[gizmo910]

Clearly Columbus proved to a wide-eyed world that had up until that moment in history believed the Earth was flat that it's actually round, I mean, we all learned that in school right so it must be true.

Columbus didn't believe the Earth was round, he believed it to be pear shaped while the rest of the world believed the Earth to be round.

[StinkyOne]

Clearly Columbus proved to a wide-eyed world that had up until that moment in history believed the Earth was flat that it's actually round, I mean, we all learned that in school right so it must be true.

Actually, this is a myth. People of the time thought the Earth was round. In fact, the earliest proof of the Earth's roundness came 2,000 years prior to Columbus. It wasn't until Washington Irving, who also wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', wrote 'Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus' in 1828 that he added the flat Earth bit. C.C was trying to find new trade routes, which is what I learned in school.

[Pete Svarrior]

Columbus didn't believe the Earth was round

Actually, this is a myth.

So, I don't want to speak with too much confidence here, but I strongly suspect Roundy wasn't entirely serious when he wrote his post.

[Curious Squirrel]

Columbus didn't believe the Earth was round

Actually, this is a myth.

So, I don't want to speak with too much confidence here, but I strongly suspect Roundy wasn't entirely serious when he wrote his post.

Poe's Law takes another two victims. On the bright side, I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance!

For the record, the history and how it's celebrated all around the world (what?) is fascinating though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day Truthfully never thought much about the day before. It is one of those interesting lessons in 'two sides to history' though isn't it?

[StinkyOne]

Columbus didn't believe the Earth was round

Actually, this is a myth.

So, I don't want to speak with too much confidence here, but I strongly suspect Roundy wasn't entirely serious when he wrote his post.

Re-reading his post, I think you may be right. Apologies if that is the case.

[gizmo910]

I knew his post was of the sarcastic variety, I was merely providing a statement-of-fact.