Crazy people and the flat world they believe is around us

[RealmofOpeth]

This is unbelievable.
There are actually people who believe the world is flat still to this day. That's not so surprising you might think, given if it comes from some indigenous tribe somewhere in the wild that has not been educated at all.
But there are actually civilized (or mostly) people who are on the internet that think the world is flat.
I give the uneducated people some credit for being ignorant.
These guys are just amazing at pseudo science and cognitive dissonance. I hate to call people crazy, because I get plenty of it myself given my unpopular beliefs. But it's one thing to hold unpopular beliefs about easily debatable situations that a lazy society fails to examine, and quite another that 99% of everybody you know knows what is about something because it stands in our society as an a priori logic to know so.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum//

I would have to say what pisses me off the most is that it is the epitome of what I get conflated with despite I find it entirely insane. Mostly because it's sort of a one-way valve...believers in such craziness are likely to believe the same unpopular beliefs and tastes I hold...but I don't do so in the opposite direction. I guess I gotta thank society for that bit of commonly retarded logic that doesn't grasp the concept. (x person believes y. f person believes y. f person believes h. therefore x person believes h.)

[Zero]

I'm actually starting to sympathise with people like the bankers and other corrupt bastards... there's really only one thing to do in the face of a population this stupid - take advantage of them! :lol:

[RealmofOpeth]

I'm actually starting to sympathise with people like the bankers and other corrupt bastards... there's really only one thing to do in the face of a population this stupid - take advantage of them! :lol:

From time to time I've entertained the same thoughts. I mean when you get right down to the nitty gritty, the philosophy of the world's evils is really hard to detect as necessary in whatever conceivable way or something we can do without.

This sounds callous as ****, but it really wouldn't bother me too much if a majority of the ridiculously poor and ****ed over (mentally and physically) people would just die off. I would be happy to see them prosper, but to let them be in the same squalor to perpetuate that squalor is ****ing pointless. The result of them lessening the amount of shit we have to deal with that spawn from these conditions would also lessen the motive for the elite to do what they do. I mean, I'm all for abortion. We don't need extra under-privileged and inevitably stupid people infecting the earth. Sure, sometimes there are points where there are great minds and souls that come from such shitty conditions, Beethoven being a great example. But on the average, it just doesn't happen. However, I'm for abortion insofar it is the choice of the individual. That goes along with eugenics or sterilization. Not forced from external parties. If there is a great plague or some other disaster that wipes out a completely miserable 3rd world nation, I won't be too worried about it if it's entirely natural. I mean I will say it is unfortunate and really shitty to be those people, but it's hard to try to keep everybody alive and to enjoy the same amount of happiness as everyone else. It really sucks to think like that because then it invalidates my beliefs towards taking down the rich ****s that hold and ruthlessly abuse the reigns of power now. It seems even if the good hearted people rise up and usurp the corrupt bastards, the same cycle is inevitable to continue. It's a tough subject to fully deal with.
Sometimes the cold hard reality of purely natural evolution needs to kick in instead of being prevented or forced. I just don't think people should try to be the deciders of who stays alive and who dies.

[TheInsulator]

I'm not surprised by that at all. I've come across some incredibly uneducated people and it's impossible to argue with them. An old co-worker told me one day that he doesn't eat pork. No big deal, many don't because of religious tradition. When I asked him why, he told me with a dead serious expression on his face that it was because pigs don't have blood to clean the toxins from the flesh, leaving the meat unclean. LOL

Another example is my aunt from the kansas city area. She's a major bible thumper and adamantly refuses to believe that dinosaurs ever existed because there is no mention of them in the bible.

I don't know why people are so quick to believe in the intangible yet refuse to accept facts that are staring them in the face. It's very frustrating because you can't reason with these people.

Reality is what we individually perceive right? All of our senses tell us about the world around us. While most of us live in a kind of 'communal' reality maybe there are some that are just completely out of whack with the rest of us. lol i don't know. i just cover pipes for a living. I just know there are alot of ****ed up people in the world and it's best to avoid them.

[chainsnuser]

... he told me with a dead serious expression on his face that it was because pigs don't have blood to clean the toxins from the flesh, leaving the meat unclean.

Yeah, sounds quite like what old people here are telling about horse-meat. BTW, working with muslim-colleagues is special fun, if you like pig-meat. Not that they are always bitching, but you get to hear even more ridiculous stories.

Cheers!

[RealmofOpeth]

Religion has to be one of the prime engines of manufacturing stupidity that horrific.

Faith...in and of itself...to believe something regardless of whether or not there is actual reason to believe....goes without saying...is the repudiation of reason.
Pure faith is having the only reason be an emotional one. Rationality doesn't enter into it.


People often wonder how people can believe such stupid garbage. I think it's a bug in the system of human nature. Sort of like a vast 'memory leak' in which it can either still run or completely crash the program. But hard to patch and inconsistent.
I've noticed some well-meaning and actually intelligent people will believe the dumbest shit that's in some religious dogma. There needs to be more education on the fact that the human mind partitions out sections of thought. One can simultaneously hold an idiotic, unreasonable idea, and also function normally and have other bright ideas.
I think I would be a decent exhibit for that.