This is layered... Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.
I have met a Flat Earth conspiracy believer mom who was homeschooling her kid, explaining how the sphere Earth model is wrong and so on, her complain was that despite her best efforts to indoctrinate educate her child, the child was not convinced that the Earth is flat. It goes to show that some children are just too intelligent to fall for this kinda shit. The child was eight or nine years old I think.
Reminds me of Aron Ra, he grew up in a mormon family, but in his case they waited with the indoctrinating until he was old enough, which was when he was eight
But as he himself said "by then it was already too late"
When his mother sat him down and started reading to him from the book of mormon, he just pointed out things that were wrong and stupid.
Remember, if you want your kids to believe the stupid things you believe, start early and don't let them see or hear too much about reality, or you'll have a bad time
Me, after learning where Mormonism came from: "So you're telling me your entire belief system stems from believing a teenager, who was known to be a con man, had golden plates given to him by God that nobody else was allowed to see? Are y'all fucking dumb or something?"
How sure are you
I can assure you people really are this stupid. My fiance works at a public library in rural Ohio and young-earth geocentrism is alive and well.
I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different
I told her to listen to her teacher
Gives off "my grandma said Cleopatra was black" vibes.
Strong "Waterboy" vibes
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
I've tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn't make it work.
I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you'd insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.
I have never through of that....how is day an night supposed to work on a flat earth? Like Minecraft they just...rotate around? What about the underside of the earth? The other side of the coin....do people live there too? Can we visit them if we dig a hole?
...wait and how does it become night? Like the lantern gets turn off? What about when it's night in a place but morning on another?
It would rotate around, like in the model. Since it's more like a flashlight there would be no scattering of the light. There would only be day right under the sun. That's the only way this would make any sense at all, and even then That's kinda meh
What do the pillars of the earth stand on?
4 elephants and a turtle.
The elephants
All of this effort just to teach your kids... flat earth?! Could've been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would've been more useful for the child's future.
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
See, you first mistake was assuming the flat earth model is internally consistent. It doesn't work. It's just a collection of ad-hoc explanations and made up workarounds, none of which fits with the previous. All to make a few insignificant people feel special.
Reminds me of when I started going to public school and learned about evolution, something my Evangelical parents always taught me was a lie.
Thankfully my education broke me out of that, but it put me behind a little bit.
when in doubt: mysterious shadow object, lmao.
“According to flat-Earth conspiracy theorists, this astronomical phenomenon — known as a total lunar eclipse — was actually a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of a mysterious "shadow object" that orbits the sun and occasionally passes in front of the moon from our point of view here, on an allegedly pizza-shaped Earth.”
source: https://www.space.com/...
There's a wiki that lists "several" (read: 2) theories!
https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Lunar_Eclipse
These people are fucking lunatics.
I’m going to name it “the mooon”
You're not far off, the actual term for this in astronomy is close to moon, but instead of the extra 'o' in the middle as you have here, it's an 'r'.
I hear it's where the Flying Spaghetti Monster lives.
So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it's big enough to see.
I believe the answer to your question of “what do the pillars stand on” is a turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And it is turtles all the way down. Though I might be confusing two different beliefs.
I don't know much about religion, but it made me think of this.
Turtles
Four elephants, which stand on a giant turtle. I think.
It's a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.
As a geoscientist and someone who produces maps (and also just as a human who understands science), this particular flavor of willful ignorance blows my mind. It makes me sad for the kids who trust their parents and will eventually have to unlearn this shit or carry on fundamentally misunderstanding the Earth. I also can't help but wonder what jank projection is being used here to display the continents in 2D lol. Looks like a polar projection centered on the north pole which is why the continents are distorted around the edges ending up with a "wall of ice" all around which is really just a very distorted Antarctica. There's a reason we don't use polar projections to represent the Earth on a global scale.
I always wondered...if the earth is flat then what's on the under side? Why haven't we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can't get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?
IRL Wimp Lo.
I’m disappointed but not the least bit shocked
Can we talk about the "map" itself for a moment? They traced a map on a light board to cut out the continents and this abomination is the best they could do?
This really should be illegal.
We might need it when the GOP finish destroying education across the country.
Don't remind me.
I thought this was a joke.
Edit: I mean, the whole flat earth movement thing. I'm realizing now, that these people are serious...
The dude abides
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