Is the Earth Flat?

[Jethro Bodine]

Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.

During the seventies, I was the 'Funk' in Wagnalls. If you catch my drift. :wink

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

During the seventies, I was the 'Funk' in Wagnalls. If you catch my drift. :wink

No, I don't.
What do you mean?

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Imagine the Earth is not only flat but square.
And it is spinning so fast that it gives the appearance of being round.
And if you look at it, it doesn't appear to move at all because you yourself are spinning even faster.
Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.

Oh, and I suppose next you're going to say time stops compared to everybody else not on the quickly spinning orb as if time was relative or something. Boy do you have a few things to learn about.....about.....whatever subject this is.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

No, I don't.
What do you mean?

Soul Train, brother, Soul Train. I was one of the few whiteys on that show. Getting down and getting funky!

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Soul Train, brother, Soul Train. I was one of the few whiteys on that show. Getting down and getting funky!

I thought you were talking about Grand Funk Railroad or something...

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I thought you were talking about Grand Funk Railroad or something...

No, but that's groovy, man, groovy!

I'd post a clip but you'd prolly have a flash back.

 

[TOG]

No, but that's groovy, man, groovy!

I'd post a clip but you'd prolly have a flash back.

Is this you?

The TOG​

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

No, but that's groovy, man, groovy!

I'd post a clip but you'd prolly have a flash back.

Here's what happens when someone from Grand Funk gets saved (Mark Farner).

 

[stovebolts]

This idea taken from the science lab forum.
When I look out into the ocean, the Earth looks flat.
Yes, there are mountains and deep pits, but overall, the Earth looks flat.

Now I am told that the Earth is round.
Some guy up in space took pictures of it.
But even with pictures, I have to "believe" it is true, because I have not seen it myself.

So what is wrong with believing that the world is flat?
We believe that Jesus is alive.
What's the difference?

The level of convincing it takes to accept what others tell you combined with your bent on what you want to believe which is generally based on your own bias which is more than likely a result of your world view and life experiences.
.02

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

The level of convincing it takes to accept what others tell you combined with your bent on what you want to believe which is generally based on your own bias which is more than likely a result of your world view and life experiences.
.02

I love long sentences like that!:wink

 

[stovebolts]

I love long sentences like that!:wink

Non sequitor

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Non sequitor

Yes, but who had the brainstorm, you or me?

 

[stovebolts]

Yes, but who had the brainstorm, you or me?

how is that relevant

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

how is that relevant

Well, you started it, "non sequitor".

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

how is that relevant

 

[Pizza]

I think you all need to register here:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

I'd join you, but they banned me for criticizing Islam.

 

[TOG]

The level of convincing it takes to accept what others tell you combined with your bent on what you want to believe which is generally based on your own bias which is more than likely a result of your world view and life experiences.
.02

I love long sentences like that!:wink

You think that's long??? That's not long. Take a look at the first sentence of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens:

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.​

Now, that's long. The second sentence is no better:

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literature of any age or country.
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There's no way Dickens would have made a passing grade if he'd had my English teacher. According to him, run-on sentences are a no-no.

The TOG​

 

[reba]

A NEW rule in the TOS we do not talk about grammar right jasonc?

 

[Pizza]

Well if that aint just the dumbest wrewal, Reba.

 

[Pizza]

"Proper Grammar" is just so "yesterday".