Do you believe the earth is flat?

[evenifigoalone]

I don't even care. lol If people want to believe the earth is flat, it has no bearing on me. And that alone won't hurt them...now, the mindset, maybe. But it's not like I can just talk them out of it if they truly believe it.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I don't even care. lol If people want to believe the earth is flat, it has no bearing on me. And that alone won't hurt them...now, the mindset, maybe. But it's not like I can just talk them out of it if they truly believe it.

This flat earth argument is the equivalent of the various contentious arguments that get leveled in the Apologetics forum. Just insert some of the commonly held contentions about God and the Bible in place of 'flat earth' and you'll understand what I mean. And knowing that, it becomes all the more apparent that the goal is to frustrate and irritate and draw your energies off into fruitless, dead-end discussions and rants to somehow destroy whatever it is they are trying to destroy and serve whatever selfish agenda it is that they are serving.

 

[YosefHayim]

This flat earth argument is the equivalent of the various contentious arguments that get leveled in the Apologetics forum. Just insert some of the commonly held contentions about God and the Bible in place of 'flat earth' and you'll understand what I mean. And knowing that, it becomes all the more apparent that the goal is to frustrate and irritate and draw your energies off into fruitless, dead-end discussions and rants to somehow destroy whatever it is they are trying to destroy and serve whatever selfish agenda it is that they are serving.

Dont be a flat earth denier

 

[YosefHayim]

I'm going outside. To walk on this flat earth.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Dont be a flat earth denier

Honestly, what difference does it make?

Answer that and you'll begin to understand the agenda, outside of just being contentious and troublesome, that flat earthers are serving. When they call NASA liars and deceivers that begins to tell me what they really want to attack. Conspiracy advocates seem to be all about being anti-power/ anti-authority. It's not about the earth being flat. It's about WHO is saying it's round.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Follow the trail back to the conspiratorialist and see what it means to them personally, then you'll understand why they're using the obviously absurd notion that the earth is flat to gather attention.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I'm going outside. To walk on this flat earth.

Remember what mama told you.....don't walk too close to the edge.

The edge that must exist in a flat earth but for some reason nobody has ever seen. At least UFO conspiratorialists have various eye witness accounts to draw on.

 

[evenifigoalone]

This flat earth argument is the equivalent of the various contentious arguments that get leveled in the Apologetics forum. Just insert some of the commonly held contentions about God and the Bible in place of 'flat earth' and you'll understand what I mean. And knowing that, it becomes all the more apparent that the goal is to frustrate and irritate and draw your energies off into fruitless, dead-end discussions and rants to somehow destroy whatever it is they are trying to destroy and serve whatever selfish agenda it is that they are serving.

Most of the subjects in the A&P forum I have pretty much the same attitude towards. Most of the time it really doesn't make much difference one way or the other.

The main problem with debates is they become a pride thing. You want to show everyone how much smarter you are than everyone. Even I get that way the times I do bother to debate.
And despite that, debate is a good thing, I really think that when done correctly it's healthy, in more ways than one.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

The main problem with debates is they become a pride thing. You want to show everyone how much smarter you are than everyone.

The problem with pride I have seen in the A&P forum is not being able to accept correction. But it has become apparent to me, like flat earthers perhaps, that they know they're wrong, they just want to challenge the way things are and any sense of authority that enforces it, in the interest of serving a personal agenda, not doing it for the sake of truth itself. Subjects like homosexuality, alcohol, and marriage are good examples. They'll fight you tooth and nail about those things, not because they're interested in the truth, but because of what it means to them personally.

 

[evenifigoalone]

The problem with pride I have seen in the A&P forum is not being able to accept correction. But it has become apparent to me, like flat earthers perhaps, that they know they're wrong, they just want to challenge the way things are and any sense of authority that enforces it, in the interest of serving a personal agenda, not doing it for the sake of truth itself. Subjects like homosexuality, alcohol, and marriage are good examples. They'll fight you tooth and nail about those things, not because they're interested in the truth, but because of what it means to them personally.

Being "different" is pretty interesting, yeah. I remember that being probably, subconsciously, the biggest reason I used to be a conspiracy theorist in my teens.
And then I took a big swing in the opposite direction and for a while conspiracy theories seriously bugged me, for a few reasons, most of them personal. They're still a pet peeve, but I'm much more likely to be "eh, whatever" about it now.

 

[Pizza]

What makes you say Canary Cry is not Christian? Ever listen to Canary Cry Radio? Or see Age of Deciet by facelikethesun?

You are throwing out strawman arguments. I referred to the trolls on FlatEarthSociety, not the screwballs you are speaking of.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Follow the trail back to the conspiratorialist and see what it means to them personally, then you'll understand why they're using the obviously absurd notion that the earth is flat to gather attention.

Go get 'em Jethro.
Round and round we go...

 

[YosefHayim]

You are throwing out strawman arguments. I referred to the trolls on FlatEarthSociety, not the screwballs you are speaking of.

Did you not say "The "Christian Podcast" you refer to is not, in my view, Christian"?

I'm not throwing out strawmans, I'm questioning your charges, as now you call them "screwballs". The "screwballs" interviewed a flat earther. They are not flat earthers themselves.

 

[YosefHayim]

The problem with pride I have seen in the A&P forum is not being able to accept correction. But it has become apparent to me, like flat earthers perhaps, that they know they're wrong, they just want to challenge the way things are and any sense of authority that enforces it, in the interest of serving a personal agenda, not doing it for the sake of truth itself. Subjects like homosexuality, alcohol, and marriage are good examples. They'll fight you tooth and nail about those things, not because they're interested in the truth, but because of what it means to them personally.

Wait, wait, wait. Do you really think I believe in a flat earth?

I believe that there are conspiracies which are lining up with prophecy, (prophecy, a thing that rick warren and charasmatics, and practically the whole modern church don't want a thing to do with).

But flat earth?

 

[YosefHayim]

Remember what mama told you.....don't walk too close to the edge.

The edge that must exist in a flat earth but for some reason nobody has ever seen. At least UFO conspiratorialists have various eye witness accounts to draw on.

Why do alien abductions end when people call on the name of Jesus?

 

[Cturtle]

The Bible says that the earth is round (a sphere) so that is good enough for me! Blessings!

 

[Mike S]

Why do alien abductions end when people call on the name of Jesus?

Why do aliens have such a distinct sexual preference for toothless hillbillies living in rural double-wides?

You might notice that I'm a little skeptical of alien abduction stories.

 

[gracenote]

Why do aliens have such a distinct sexual preference for toothless hillbillies living in rural double-wides?

You might notice that I'm a little skeptical of alien abduction stories.

My skepticism has been around a long while on that.
I like Chris White's take on it, over at YouTube and at his various websites.
The man's smart, and studies, and is a Bible believing scholar. I believe he would say that the alien agenda theory might be way out there (altho' he would admit life on other planets may well be possible, as long as it's God's idea), and that Sleep Paralysis issues can be resolved with Christ Jesus at the helm of one's life.
I'm not sure what to make of all that alien stuff.

 

[WalterandDebbie]

The Bible says that the earth is round (a sphere) so that is good enough for me! Blessings!

Isaiah 40:22

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...TF-8#q=what scripture says the earth is round

It has actually been known that the Earth was round since the time of the ancient Greeks. I believe that it was Pythagoras who first proposed that the Earth was round sometime around 500 B.C.

https://www.google.com/search?q=who...193427j1j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

 

[gracenote]

Isaiah!
Yes!
A fave book of mine for years.