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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Official Sports Thread

« on: July 04, 2018, 11:06:07 PM »

Abolish GSW

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Fuck Paul George

« on: July 02, 2018, 09:51:33 PM »

The only free agents coming to Minnesota are the ones that want the post-season off.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Fuck Paul George

« on: July 01, 2018, 08:07:50 PM »

This thread is heavily bordering on CN material. I’ll give it a few posts before I punt it down there for its sheer stupidity.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: But Why?

« on: June 30, 2018, 06:50:33 PM »

In the United States alone, NASA received over 20 billion USD from the United States Government. This funding, like funding for all space agencies, is contingent on Round Earth Theory being true.

1. I don't understand how or why two opposing forces (USSR and the USA) would conspire with each other in order to trick the world. This has no benefits for either side, since they both would have to use money in order to create fake footage to broadcast throughout the world.

It wasn't the entirety of the USSR and USA governments, it was the space agencies, both of which have a vested interest in promoting Round Earth Theory regardless of reality.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: June 14, 2018, 09:46:46 PM »

Really, that setting is like a condom. Lots of people will tell you to use it for your own protection, but in the heat of the moment, decisions need to be made.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: we are going to capitalism global warming to death

« on: June 08, 2018, 12:16:23 AM »

We power our paintball guns, obviously.

Also, I feel like it's still cheaper to just produce less CO2.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Mods on this forum are biased and rubbish

« on: June 04, 2018, 04:01:01 AM »

I agree all the mods are crooks.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Official Sports Thread

« on: June 01, 2018, 08:46:06 PM »

He's just taking the pressure off Hill for missing the second free throw. That's a real teammate right there.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Fallout series

« on: May 31, 2018, 04:07:43 AM »

It's going to trigger those with good taste in games.

lol you haven't even seen the game yet

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Fallout series

« on: May 31, 2018, 01:52:01 AM »

This might be my new favorite game without ever playing it. Not only is the idea cool and the game have a ton of potential, but it's going to trigger all the Fallout purists out there. Best game ever.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Why are most flat earth believers Christian?

« on: May 24, 2018, 12:18:41 AM »

More interesting question: Why do so many people associate Flat Earthers with Christianity? We get this question all the time, what's driving it?

The only tie I can think is usually in the ramblings of some of the more long-winded and, uh, perhaps not coherent ranters.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: May 19, 2018, 09:01:52 PM »

Some are more tolerant/less religious than others, I'd guess.  Explain how you can be pro-abortion and religious.  Pro-gay marriage and Christian.

No one, outside of a psychopath, is pro-abortion. And it's not about being pro-gay marriage, it's about marriage equality. People were not advocating for a separate "gay marriage", but for equal marriage rights. And Christ was really clear on that shit

Luke 6:31 ESV
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

John 15:12 ESV
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: May 19, 2018, 08:13:29 PM »

I'm using andchat on my galaxy s7. Which I've not had a problem with in the past.  I just get a "connection timed out" message before connecting.

Anastas told me he's also having issues connecting. "Yeah it still gets stuck on 'opening SSL connection' ".  Iirc he's using atomic irc or something.

Yeah I have no idea what the solution is I just figured that was the information the real nerds would probably want. I've never found a mobile IRC client that isn't ass, so I just use my computer and a web browser.

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Technology & Information / Re: The Flat Earth Society official IRC chat

« on: May 19, 2018, 05:32:58 AM »

I seem to be having trouble connecting on my mobile app! Any idea what the problem could be?

What app/what phone/what's the specific problem or error code?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Witcher 3 - Contains spoilers

« on: May 18, 2018, 05:59:38 PM »

Considering it requires that you make, unanimously, ALL of the wrong decisions. Most people couldn't get her killed by just outright playing, but I'm really glad you lived down to expectations and made it happen.

Yeah I got her killed too. Thork, we're not that different afterall. Just two good ol' degenerates trying to make it through life.

You want to drink some 40's and harass people on the street later?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Is it irrational to believe Flat Earth?

« on: May 18, 2018, 05:44:08 PM »

For what it's worth, very few modern Flat Earthers are religious.

Are you sure? Some of the most prominent certainly are.

I guess I can only speak for my decade or so of experience within the Flat Earth Society. Of course, there are other Flat Earth organizations or individuals that are religiously motivated, but at least the type around here tend towards agnostic/atheist.

Polling Flat Earthers in general is a difficult proposition. We rarely have large in-person meetings, and online polls rely on self-identification. When you consider that Flat Earthers are both a minority opinion, and one that is often mocked, it's easy to see the data as less than reliable.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Is it irrational to believe Flat Earth?

« on: May 18, 2018, 12:42:05 AM »

Can I suggest something?

If The Bible included passages which stated that the earth was spherical and it revolved around the sun, would we have the current situation with flat earth believers?

I think for most - for the religiously-motivated - it's less about an irrational belief in the shape of the earth, and more about being forced to perform mental gymnastics which appear irrational in order to support the notion that their holy book is literally word-for-word true.

Biblical Literalists would be just as against the flat earth theory as anybody else, if their holy book said the earth was a sphere (i.e., if those long ago Jews had figured it out and written it down, rather than either: a) not figuring it out; or b) not writing it down).

Conspiracy theorists, on the other hand...

For what it's worth, very few modern Flat Earthers are religious.

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Technology & Information / Re: Your PC specs

« on: May 16, 2018, 09:48:09 PM »

I'll actually contribute to the thread, but in the interest of keeping this as low-quality as possible, I'll just sorta guess at what I have from when I bought my PC a few years back.

980TI
Some i7, i dunno like a 4700 or a 6 something?
two hard drives, an SSD and a big old HDD,
12 gigs of ram. An 8 and a 4 stick because lol
An under powered like 500w power supply or something

A logitech g502, the only mouse worth owning
Generic Mechanical Keyboard that is really clicky clacky
Shitty second monitor
Amazing Dell gaming monitor with like all the best stats and it's not even close. this shit was like 600 dollars.
Really nice headphones that barely work from lots of abuse
Generic $10 walmart mic

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Debate Club: A fundamental change to how the public perceives the forums

« on: May 16, 2018, 02:35:07 AM »

I'd be interested in the views of longer term users of the site ... particularly those who use the upper forums.

I've been dabbling in and out of the upper fora for a while, and I don't have much new to add, but I think Tom Bishop has the best approach here.

It may be a side-effect of the split, or just time wearing down the Flat Earth advocates, but it used to be that those that "got it" would be willing to advocate for a Flat Earth. I haven't seen a new voice, at least on this forum, enter the Flat Earth side in a while and there's only so many times people can handle the same discussions and questions from Round Earth advocates who refuse to lurk moar. Also, when did we quit having "lurk moar" as an acceptable response?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Official Sports Thread

« on: May 16, 2018, 01:02:04 AM »

Also, in baseball news, I'm formally inviting all of you onto the Twins Bandwagon.

https://streamable.com/9iln7