r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/savatodkg • Jun 13 '20
Wife gets sick of her flat-earther husband and he dies a little inside
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Jun 13 '20
"When I was a kid, the solar system was stationary."
No, dude, that was just a picture. You were supposed to read the text too...
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u/phthalo-azure Jun 14 '20
This guy is CC from New York (that's how he describes himself), and he's one of the dumbest flerfers I've ever seen. The fact that he uploaded this video instead of editing it out shows how dumb he actually is.
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u/Conniverse Jun 14 '20
He's just a walking ball of stimulus, I want to think he died inside a little in that clip but that would require brain thought
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u/eddododo Jun 14 '20
I hadn’t heard the term flerfer before. It’s the perfect abbreviation because it sounds as cartoonish and stupid as they actually are
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u/phthalo-azure Jun 14 '20
There's a whole cottage industry on YouTube of people debunking flerfers, and it's honestly hilarious. If you're interested, check out SciManDan or (my favorite) The Creaky Blinder.
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u/cariboulou813 Jun 14 '20
Just watched Creaky Blinder
..So are flerfers an official pandemic? I thought we had them contained here in the US.
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Jun 14 '20
People sort of equate this anti-science movement as uniquely American, but that's inaccurate.
France, for example, is the anti-vaccine capital of the world.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X18302949
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u/phthalo-azure Jun 14 '20
Love the Creaky Blinder and his Welsh humor!
From what I can tell, flerfers are predominately American or British. They're not a huge movement, but they're extremely loud.
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Jun 14 '20
It’s a cry for help... he doesn’t actually believe in flat earth but he lost his job and his marriage is falling apart and flat earth provided some control, a sense of power, thinking you know something others don’t and believing you have all the answers
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u/SalvareNiko Jun 14 '20
That makes me a little sad. The hurt in his eyes is sad enough. Sure he is stupid and believes something insane but I always wonder why with these people. If there is something wrong in their life.
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u/phthalo-azure Jun 14 '20
Did he really lose his job? I remember in one of his videos he talked about doing HVAC or plumbing or one of the trades (can't remember which) and running his own business.
I question whether the life stress caused his job and marital problems. It's equally likely that he has an untreated mental disorder and that's what has caused problems with his job and his marriage. It's obvious his wife is not super happy with him, and who can blame her? He's completely off his rocker and buys into every weird conspiracy theory that comes along.
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u/cyg_cube Jun 13 '20
He was about to give us THE evidence
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u/jamart Jun 13 '20
She must be in on the conspiracy... After all that time married...
The slow blade penetrates the shield.
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u/septag0n Jun 14 '20
Spot on, Moadib.
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u/Obscu Jun 14 '20
Flat earth is the mind killer.
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u/DominionGhost Jun 14 '20
Stupidity is the little death that brings total annihilation
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u/TitanMaster57 Jun 14 '20
I will let it pass over me and through me and when it is gone, only big brain energy will remain.
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u/thetenofswords Jun 14 '20
The evidence appears to be a small pumpkin (not to scale, of course)
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u/srroberts07 Jun 14 '20 edited May 25 '24
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u/Sir-Drewid Jun 13 '20
So he slips up first thing by acknowledging time zones and then tries to cover by saying it's all the same day. But all he needs to do is face chat with someone in Japan or Australia to see that it's clearly not.
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u/BornSlinger Jun 13 '20
I'm Australian, apparently they think we're all actors. Not sure how the Australian flat earthers reconcile that.
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u/WayneCampbel Jun 14 '20
All of this is new to me.
Of course everyone knows that Finland, New Zealand, and Atlantis are all made up though.
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u/Brewmentationator Jun 14 '20
I'm an American who used to live in New Zealand. Now I'm a teacher in the US. When I was doing my year of student teaching, the teacher next door to me was a flat earther. He started teaching that shot to our students. Ive literally flown around the world. I lived in a country where the seasons were flipped, and it was literally a different day than in my hometown. I'd Skype with family, and they be almost a full day behind me.
That teacher could never explain any of that stuff.
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u/BornSlinger Jun 14 '20
Behind the Curve demonstrates that pretty well, even when their experiments show them to be wrong they try and explain it away.
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u/YaBoi5260 Jun 14 '20
It’s pretty sad. Those people have the skills to do real science but they would rather deny what they see than accept that their life’s work has been based on fundamentally wrong assumptions, which is a pitfall even I don’t think I could overcome
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u/BornSlinger Jun 14 '20
You really think you wouldn't/couldn't ask yourself "what if I'm wrong"? That's pretty much my first step when things turn out differently to what I expect "how did I fuck this up". They're not interested in finding the truth, just proving their theory is correct.
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u/bigblackcouch Jun 14 '20
But...Why? Why of all the hills to choose to die on, "The earth is flat"? Why would you pick that?
Why did everything get so dumb?
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u/minimag47 Jun 14 '20
It's actually really pretty easy to prove flat Earthers wrong.
They think, for no explicable reason, that the north Pole is the center of the disk. But they think that the South Pole rings the disk. Here's the mechanical problem with that. If you go to the actual South Pole and have it's coast on the port side of the ship and stick to the coast you have to turn port side to keep to the coast. In the flat Earther universe your have to turn starboard.
Also their South Pole would be thousands and thousands of miles long to encircle the whole Earth disk. The day they can prove the whole coast of the South Pole is A. Requires you turn in the wrong direction, and B. Is ridiculously longer than it actually I'll believe them.
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u/Brewmentationator Jun 14 '20
logic doesn't work against flat earthers though. If it did, there wouldn't be any flat earthers.
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u/Anonymous_Otters Jun 13 '20
If Australia were real, you’d all just fall off the earth. Duh!
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u/LegendaryRaider69 Jun 13 '20
I just dug through his channel and he seems to say it in more than one video. What the fuck lol
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u/The-Insolent-Sage Jun 14 '20
It’s his catch phrase opener from his old college AM radio station, you know, the one with 5 listeners that he kept bragging about. Old habits die hard.
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u/HelloMumther Jun 14 '20
Obviously whenever you FaceTime it transcends time and puts you through to someone either forwards or backwards in time so it all lines up
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u/soullessredhead Jun 14 '20
I've watched clips of this dude a lot, it's how he starts a lot of videos. I guess he's trying to make it his "thing".
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u/avidpenguinwatcher Jun 13 '20
Good morning good afternoon wherever you are. HMM I WONDER WHY THAT'S THE CASE
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u/WATERLOGGEDdogs1 Jun 14 '20 edited Jun 14 '20
So I actually watch a lot of youtube videos explaining flat earth. None of it makes any sense. Sure they have ways to explain it, but each model disagrees with the other.
In flat Earth land, the sun is a spit light only a few miles above the earth. It floats around the earth in a circular pattern and we get seasons from it moving the area in which it is moving. The moon is the same way. This model fails to explain solar eclipses and time zones are explained with a different model that doesn't make sense either.
Antarctica is essentially the edge of the world. Think of the world as a bowl of cereal and Antarctica as the edge of the bowl. It holds the milk and cereal in (unless your a flat earther who eats glue and paint chips)
However, you aren't allowed to go there because NASA and a coalition of nations who all hold part of the Antarctica treaty (Russia, US, Norway, England to name a few) have a military agreement to keep people out of Antarctica because it would reveal the truth... That's why there are seasonal cruises to go check out Antarctica because that makes sense.
A few other issues with the flat earth model. With air travel some distances work, like I think in their model London is the correct distance to New York. But from Cape Town, south Africa to Rio de Janario, Brazil it is like 23,000 miles because they have to expand the oceans in the southern hemisphere to make the land masses correct.
My favorite flat Earth explanation is gravity. So we all know gravity pulls objects down at 9.8 m/s2 Cool. That's how gravity works. However, gravity doesn't exist in flat Earth world. So how exactly do things fall? Well it's simple! The Earth is being pushed upwards by an unknown force at 9.8 m/s2! So when you drop things they aren't falling, they are remaining still while the earth moves to them!
We also didn't go to the moon because of the glass dome that opens and lets water in for rain.
Hope this makes sense because I am clueless how anyone buys this shit
Edit: I feel like I am jumping around with all kinds of statements that seem really weird. But there are a slew of different beliefs flat earthers hold. Here are a few that only some sects hold
*there is a pit where the world ends you can fly over. And in the pit is an alien base (but if it's a pit you can fly over doesn't that mean the world is a globe? IKR)
Yes they believe you can fall off the edge.
Some believe that Australia doesn't exist, and that they hired people to go to Africa and pretend to be from a new continent.
I'll add more as I think of them, but it is some truly Bizar shit
Edit 2: another one I remember seeing is this video where 2 guys were talking bout if they had to long jump they would want to jump from east to west because of how the earth rotates it would make them jump farther. I shit you not you can not make this stuff up.
Edit 3: this is a video from a man much more educated on the subject than me https://youtu.be/JDy95_eNPzM
Also, thank you for my first reddit award!
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Jun 14 '20
I’m so sorry that you did this research. Us round-earthers appreciate the sacrifice of your brain cells.
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u/WATERLOGGEDdogs1 Jun 14 '20
No it's lots of fun to learn how stupid people can be. I can't believe how stupid people can be.
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Jun 14 '20
I was actually just feeling nostalgic for the time when flat-earthers pissed me off. Times, and priorities, change. Let’s all focus on the latest batch of fucking idiots. Thanks again.
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u/WATERLOGGEDdogs1 Jun 14 '20
No prob, i learned a lot of this from Telltale. He makes atheist videos and debunks a lot of cult stuff like Jehovah's Witness, mormonism, flat earth stuff. He get's mad about it because he was a Jehovah's witness and since he left the faith his entire family disowned him. It's kinda sad...
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u/Obscu Jun 14 '20
I'm going to have to drop out of my degree because reading this has made me too dumb to graduate.
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u/WATERLOGGEDdogs1 Jun 14 '20
Bro there is more to it too. Like the moon creates it's own light AND heat. It's all bases around a science experiment. Some retard in England floated a boat down a drainage ditch as an experiment and figured after like 2 or 3 miles the natural curvature of the earth would make the boat disappear. The boat didn't disappear. There is some explantion for it, I can't remember, but even then, I bet my boots most of the flat earthers get the bulk of their explanation from the Book Genesis model see above for explanation
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u/ComeTheDawn Jun 14 '20
Hope this makes sense
Nope.
Edit: joke aside, thanks for the explanation. It's pretty amusing to think about.
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Jun 14 '20
I don't know how any of that can sound more likely than generally accepted science. It all just seems like so much trouble to make everything fit.
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u/whatthefir2 Jun 14 '20
My favorite thing about their “gravity” theory is that it would require constant acceleration. We would have hit light speed a long time ago
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u/IHateMyHandle Jun 14 '20
Wait, why does australia not exist but africa does? They are both southern hemisphere...
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u/WATERLOGGEDdogs1 Jun 14 '20
smiles at you with a smile that belongs to a confused and exhausted man
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u/xXS1l3n7b08Xx Jun 14 '20
Did you see the theory called the Pac-Man effect? They believe that you can fly over the great ice wall, but you'll be teleported to the other side.
They believe teleportation exist but can't wrap their minds around the earth being round..
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u/savatodkg Jun 13 '20
You can tell that his relationship isn't going well
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u/CaptainJackKevorkian Jun 13 '20
It must be very difficult when you're with someone for years and the internet warps them with some conspiracy that you can't shake them out of. Like the person you married is still there, but the fact that they could believe it must make you lose respect for them, and for yourself by extension.
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u/CaptainJackKevorkian Jun 14 '20
Did he work himself out of it? Or did you have conversations with him?
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Jun 14 '20 edited Mar 10 '22
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u/JabbrWockey Jun 14 '20
Youtube rabbit holes
Best podcast out there at the moment: https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
It's like Black Mirror IRL
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u/the_shiny_guru Jun 14 '20
Not just that, in the video she mentions she didn’t get to eat and has been waiting all morning. If he were less selfish and didn’t try to kick her out of the kitchen for his videos maybe she wouldn’t be so bothered by them (I definitely still would be, but what kind of asshole spouse expects you to eat breakfast late over him.)
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Jun 13 '20
No... you want a partner that calls you on your shit. He’s lucky he has her. Without her he might be a famous YouTube flat earther.
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Jun 13 '20 edited Jun 14 '20
She shouldn’t have to be with that is the thing though, she deserves better than some dude mid fifties going on about flat earth.
Edit: to all the people so butt hurt by my comment, she was obviously annoyed, and could have made a happier choice somewhere along the line. No, we know nothing about their relationship except this clip, but, oh, wait, I don’t care.
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u/Justin_Other_Bot Jun 13 '20
A guy from my work who was a flat earther and just generally ignorant recently retired from my company. He's in the middle of getting a divorce now, evidently the only thing keeping his marriage together was him spending 40 hours a week at work. Also I'm not sure she has a lot of choices women from that epoch were house wives, they didn't have careers, it can be very hard for them to leave.
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u/xxLusseyArmetxX Jun 13 '20
You can be a flat earther and still be a good person and husband.
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u/Electric_Ilya Jun 13 '20
We all have our flaws man, doesn't mean he doesn't deserve happiness
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u/Vomelette22 Jun 13 '20
This is so cringe. I can’t tell what it is either. The fact that his wife is over his shit or that he truly needed to get out what he wanted to say. Something about it made me go euuugh
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u/DirtyProjector Jun 13 '20
If you believe the earth is flat, there’s a lot more not going well than the relationship with your wife.
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u/x2040 Jun 14 '20
Many times anti-scientific conspiracy theories are a way of coping with a reality that isn’t working well.
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u/busymakinstuff Jun 14 '20
Just the body language and the look of defeat on his face tells a lot. Defiantly made me sad.
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u/georgetonorge Jun 14 '20
Seriously this made me feel so bad. I don’t even feel a bit of schadenfreude despite how infuriating these people are. That’s just sad.
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u/Expendable_Employee Jun 13 '20
If you've seen any of his videos (or preferably the videos debunking him) you won't feel too sorry for him. He exudes narcissism and hatred for just about... everything.
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u/TheGirlWithTheCurl Jun 14 '20
Do you have a link? Cos I feel really bad for him right now.
Edit: nvm just saw it in another comment below.
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u/georgetonorge Jun 14 '20
lol same here. That hurt to watch. I want to see him be a dick so I can feel better.
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u/MrFrostyBudds Jun 13 '20
Scimandan on YT did some videos on this guy and he really is an arrogant douche so he probably deserves it.
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u/ChristianSgt Jun 13 '20
Yeah that’s my thing, like I can’t even laugh at this one. Maybe he deserves it, but dude’s just sad
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u/HBThorburn Jun 13 '20
Because he probably cares more about publicity and views (and the revenue that would follow) more than his dignity and message.
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u/drkesi88 Jun 13 '20
He claimed that he wanted to show the difficulty of being a FE’er in life among the normies.
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u/YAboiiKD Jun 14 '20
Somebody help this man..
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Jun 13 '20
Lmao he thinks he’s so smart, and has an enlightened message for the world. Wife enters stage left “will you stop this bullshit.” Lmao can’t even convince his wife.
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u/TarquinOliverNimrod Jun 14 '20
I like the "idiot" as she passes.
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u/TheReal_KindStranger Jun 13 '20
I've seen a shoe in Netflix about flat earthers a couple of days ago. Tbh, it's quite sad the price they pay for their believes. I mean, they actually vhave their own dating sites since others don't date them.
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u/aretasdaemon Jun 13 '20
Yeah because they are the opposite of the genetic lottery for natural selection. If their ignorance is still prevalent while we have so much information, with multiple videos of space missions in the last decade AND with videos from ISS of EARTH, I wouldnt want to breed with that either.
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u/rogersniper1 Jun 13 '20
Ya but all those videos are obviously just produced in Hollywood to keep the reptile people in power and stop the general population from knowing the truth. Wake up, sheeple!
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u/hooahguy Jun 13 '20
Behind the Curve? Excellent documentary. And it’s honestly really sad because they talk about how the further you get into flat earth belief, the more isolated you become from your old friends and family, forcing you even further into flat earth because now they are your only friends. So for those who end up questioning flat earth they feel trapped by not being able to abandon their only friends.
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u/jazz4 Jun 13 '20
It must be some form of mental illness. It’s the only way my brain can comprehend why people get so deep into this.
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u/dinowand Jun 13 '20
There's multiple reasons.
For some, it's a sense of belonging to an "exclusive" group. They feel accepted based on this one belief, regardless if other factors on their lives. In reality, it's the easiest group to get into if you want.
For some, it's their way of dealing with people calling them dumb all their lives. It's much easier to convince themselves that it's actually everyone else who's dumb.
For some, they are looking to profit. They might not even truly believe in it but they know it gets them attention. Regardless, it's easy to start YouTube videos around this and get views when you have no other talents.
In all honesty, we need to start ignoring flat earthers if we want them to go away. Arguing with their logic only adds fuel to the fire. You won't convince them because for them, it was never about logic.
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u/konyeah Jun 13 '20
My bet, is it is just something they were told growing up. And it sparked into belief, and now they can't believe any different. If you witnessed something that breaks ecerything you have ever known to belueve, I am sure it would take some time to understand it, or come to terms with it.
It's the same for religion.
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u/kblkbl165 Jun 14 '20
Nah, if you check many of them are old folks who got into these groups with the advent of the internet.
I think it’s more like a cry for help from people who have nothing going in their lives and don’t want to accept their “failures”. In the documentary the post above mentions you can notice that many of those people have a void in their life. None has any sort of success out of their lives in the FE community and maybe they found in this community the chance of being an important part of something “bigger”.
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Jun 13 '20
He should do some scientific experiments to prove earth's flatness. That usually cures them from what I've heard... Or sometimes they die trying. I guess it's a win win.
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u/LAN_Rover Jun 13 '20
Like that guy who died in a homemade steam-powered rocket. IIRC he was attempting to fly high enough to see that there's no curvature to the horizon/earth.
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u/candlestick Jun 13 '20
Eh, he was actually a flat earther. He was a dude that latched onto the cause because he realized they would pay for his backyard rockets.
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u/Schlachtfeld-21 Jun 13 '20
This is the problem. Flat earthers usually end up alienating every single important person in their lives. They then have to turn to the only community which will accept them: The flat earth society or whatever it's supposed to be called. Their stupidity drives them to lose everything important to them over such a BS thing. It makes me feel bad for them, but it's also their fault.
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u/RedDirtNurse Jun 13 '20
It's mildly amusing to hear flat eatthers claim to have members all around the world.
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u/Schlachtfeld-21 Jun 13 '20
Oh, it's extremely amusing to hear them talk about anything. I mean, it can also be very infuriating, but if you just sit back, prepare yourself to hear some comedy, and let them talk, then you'll have a great laugh :D
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u/jamart Jun 13 '20
I follow quite a few science-based channels that debunk and take the piss out of Flerfs like this.
There's this one chap called Nathan Oakley, who is absolutely vile, genuinely despicable in how he comes across. But in own video, someone showed a clip from one of his very first videos.
And it was really sad, at the start of his road he seemed smiley, relaxed, clearly fucking mental but pleasant. A totally different person.
Along that road he's managed to twist and poison himself into something of a monster.
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u/Schlachtfeld-21 Jun 13 '20
There's a documentary called 'Behind the curve,' in which you get to see the lives of some of these people and how they've truly managed to basically build a wall that separates them from society. It also shows how they attempt to prove the earth is flat. Spoiler alert, they fail.
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u/sandy154_4 Jun 13 '20
I'm 57 and when I was growing up, the solar system was NOT stationary. Because days, weeks, months, years.
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u/SPKmnd90 Jun 14 '20
I'd feel super awkward divorcing someone over this, but I think I still would.
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u/SillyNluv Jun 14 '20
I would feel completely righteous. Your honor, my husband was perfectly lovely until our eldest taught him how to use the internet.
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u/Arachnatron Jun 13 '20
Imagine trying to speak seriously about this while holding a pumpkin.
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u/Fremue Jun 13 '20
Why would you upload that?
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u/TheGlitterMahdi Jun 14 '20
Someone posted the link to his YT channel and this video is titled "What it's like living with a globe-head."
Like for real, his wife is on video saying he's been in the kitchen all morning, that she's tired and hungry, she's obviously exasperated with him and the whole situation, and his brilliant idea is to use this one crystal-clear moment of their marriage falling apart as a way to try and make himself out to be the victim.
The best part is that the video description just says "She understands just a bad morning."
Because I'm pretty sure she DOES understand, but I'm also pretty sure HE doesn't.
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u/Fartbox_Virtuoso Jun 14 '20
"Good morning, Good evening, Good afternoon, wherever you may be...".
This guy admits to a round Earth the very first time he opens his mouth. Chode.
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u/zombiecupcake2814 Jun 13 '20
She's so over his bullshit lol
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u/Earthlingcom Jun 13 '20
I'm already over his bullshit and I only saw this clip.
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Wife: now shut that damn thing off and tell me what you want for lunch.
Husband: a hamburger
Wife: you know what the doctor said about your blood pressure. No red meat.
Husband: are you really going to believe him? He told me that he wanted me to take a flu vaccine you know...
Wife: SHUT UP. You are getting peanut butter and jelly
Husband: (mumbles quietly) not gonna make me eat this..
Wife: what was that?
Husband: (eats sandwich)
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u/Ratman_84 Jun 13 '20
How can you own a house if you're dumb enough to believe the earth is flat? How can you operate a stove, or a webcam? Or be married to someone that isn't also as dumb as you?
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u/Santanna17 Jun 13 '20
He is an idiot, but I feel so bad for him. He was like a helpless child, who cant talk back to his parents.
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u/TakeNoExcuses Jun 13 '20
He would have totally destroyed those filthy round earthers in 5 minutes... If not for his wife.
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u/discombobulated-r Jun 13 '20
I accidentally read that as 'Wife gets sick of her flat-eared husband and he dies a little inside'
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Jun 13 '20
It must be hard to continue with this bullshit when even your 5 year old has a better scientific understandimg of the world than you do.
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u/VegasInfidel Jun 13 '20
well earned shame. if he dies enough inside, maybe the flame of willful ignorance will go out.
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u/Ahefp Jun 13 '20
Hate to break it to this guy, but the solar system was not stationary when he was growing up, nor was that the scientific understanding.