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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why the misinformation?

« on: February 11, 2018, 11:15:56 PM »

Just to avoid looking bad? It makes sense but it seems like a lot of work for little gain.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why the misinformation?

« on: February 11, 2018, 11:06:22 PM »

No one is covering up the shape of the earth directly. It's simply a result of misguided religious dogma combined with cold war propaganda. The short version is that Aristotle decided long ago that the earth must be sphere because the gods would only choose such a perfect shape for humans to live on. Eventually the Catholics picked it up many, many years later and ran with it. Then we reach the cold war, where each country is showing off just how much it can lie to its own people and the US won. The moon landing was faked, and since the popular belief at the time was that the world is spherical, the earth was depicted as a sphere.

Whats the benefit to keep this going?

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Flat Earth Theory / Why the misinformation?

« on: February 11, 2018, 10:00:00 PM »

The shape of the earth doesn't seem like the kind of thing anyone needs to cover up. I was just wondering why have we been fed the spherical earth for so long? What is the benefit to misleading folks on this?