Are you a flat earther ?

[Walter]

Eratosthenes, ippy.

well, well , what a clever chap. Just imagine how much more advanced we might be now if religion had not got in the way.

[Nearly Sane]

well, well , what a clever chap. Just imagine how much more advanced we might be now if religion had not got in the way.

Religion is us! We produced it! It isn't external, at least not if you are someone who doesn't have a belief in external things to humanity.

[ippy]

Eratosthenes, ippy.

In spite of how clever they were the Greeks weren't that good at short easily pronounceable names, I notice.

regards ippy

[Nearly Sane]

In spite of how clever they were the Greeks weren't that good at short easily pronounceable names, I notice.

regards ippy

Bill, Ted, and So-Crates would disagree

[Walter]

Religion is us! We produced it! It isn't external, at least not if you are someone who doesn't have a belief in external things to humanity.

it still got in the way though , wherever it came from .

[Nearly Sane]

it still got in the way though , wherever it came from .

What is 'the way' it got in of? How would something thst is part of the way, which is what an atheist would have to argue, get in the way?

[Walter]

What is 'the way' it got in of? How would something thst is part of the way, which is what an atheist would have to argue, get in the way?

sorry mate, can't be bothered today ; and you know exactly what I mean 

your sillyphosical rantings are too much to bear sometimes 

[Nearly Sane]

sorry mate, can't be bothered today ; and you know exactly what I mean 

your sillyphosical rantings are too much to bear sometimes 

I suggest a rich tea and a hot chocolate with marshmallows

[Walter]

I suggest a rich tea and a hot chocolate with marshmallows

bloody 'ell , I've just come back with tea and a handful of fig biscuits

[SusanDoris]

bloody 'ell , I've just come back with tea and a handful of fig biscuits

So how's the recovery process? Pain less? Doing the physio?  etc.

[Walter]

I've just read , the Head of The Flat Earth Society has said they are facing a Global conspiracy against them   

[Walter]

So how's the recovery process? Pain less? Doing the physio?  etc.

fantastic SD

 I'm walking without sticks , able to drive , sleeping through the night , swelling reduced , no joint pain only residual stiffness in my leg muscles now . Cant believe how quickly things have improved , . Thanks for asking 

[jeremyp]

"....half a millenia"?
More like two and a half millenia (and counting) since we first deduced that Earth was round.
Good to see America hasn't lost its' grasp on history.

Outrageous. It's half a millennium.

[jeremyp]

Eratosthenes, ippy.

Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth but he wasn't the first person to say it was round. Aristotle is, I believe , the first person to write down the arguments for the Earth being round, but that doesn't mean he thought of the idea.

[SusanDoris]

Walter #36

I've onlyjust seen this post so sorry not to have responded before. That is very good news and since it is now several weeks later, I imagine you are moving around even more confidently.

Depending on what your physio says, I can recommend a fitness ball to sit on. I use it quite a lot when sitting hereand I do think it has helped to keep core muscles stronger. It was only £27 and the chap in the sports shop inflated it properly for me. 

[torridon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43550327/flat-earther-launches-diy-rocket

 

[SteveH]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43550327/flat-earther-launches-diy-rocket

 

Bleeding idiot. Pity he wasn't on board it.

[jeremyp]

Bleeding idiot. Pity he wasn't on board it.

He was on board.


And he did survive. He got to as height of about 600 metres. Some sort of open cockpit plane might have been a better bet.

[SteveH]

He was on board.


And he did survive. He got to as height of about 600 metres. Some sort of open cockpit plane might have been a better bet.

Oh. I didn't actually watch the video, but the rocket didn't look big enough.

[Sassy]

Thanks to the Internet, belief in a flat earth is growing, apparently.

The 2017 Flat Earth International Conference in the US has just finished :

https://fe2017.com/about/

Nasa have been lying to us for years it would appear.

No, really.

Perhaps people forget, that for God nothing is impossible. Maybe everything is just not what it seems.

[SteveH]

Perhaps people forget, that for God nothing is impossible. Maybe everything is just not what it seems.

God lies to us, then? Also your statement that "for God nothing is impossible" needs a lot of qualification, even if you assume an objectively-existing God. Can God make a square circle, or a six-legged quadruped?

[SusanDoris]

If anyone has an hour or two to spare and is interested in the complete idiocy of the flat earthers, here is a link to over 200 posts on the subject:
http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?5,1140424

Plenty of fun along the way! 99% rational posts by the way!

[Maeght]

Perhaps people forget, that for God nothing is impossible. Maybe everything is just not what it seems.

People aren't 'forgetting' that that is a belief of some, they just don't share that belief.

[Anchorman]

Perhaps people forget, that for God nothing is impossible. Maybe everything is just not what it seems.

Including man landing on the Moon...?