Entertaining the Flat Earth, its implications...
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:31 pm
I’m not sure how much homework anyone here has done, or where the common ground lies, but I wanted to air some ideas I had about this amazingly divisive thought construct:
Is there any information or even speculation from any coherent FlatEarthers about what they imagine/perceive is “outside the dome”, so to speak?
Does the flat earth concept imply a “level” of beings that created our environment, and therefore would be in a similar relationship position that a programmer would have to his computer generated “sims” or a scientist would have to her petri dish? If so, do they live in a “flat” world? Or do a majority of the FE-ers believe we are the entirety of existence?
I’m not looking for “evidence” or proofs or facts or whatever for one side or the other, I’m just trying to explore the implications of either belief system. I’m not interested in hearing on how you can live the same whether the earth is round or not, or that you don’t care about the idea and think it’s a distraction.
I think it is interesting concept, and it bewilders me how it is presented without hardly any (from what I can find) theories or ideas or speculations about reality…other than the top of the human hierarchy is lying to us. I understand that the emotional charge on the idea makes it difficult to discuss, that this charge is generated mainly by concepts so sacred to us that we have a hard time “unknowing”, no matter which side we choose take. It seems that lots of (FE...or even round earth) people WANT other people to believe that what they believe to be true...but I can't seem to find what they feel that means about the reality they are living in (if that makes sense?)
The world being flat (or round) has a significantly different meaning than it would have in the (Copernicus?) time we were taught it first came to a head, back then there was a lot of uncharted territory for the “civilized world” that we’ve evolved from, now it seems much more easily provable, in that to me it says a lot more about the understanding of information and mind manipulation than in the nature of reality…perhaps that’s the ultimate purpose of any “psyop”: prevent us from thinking clearly about the nature of the reality we find ourselves in? Even if it's a "trap" to block us at a certain point in our thinking, what is it distracting us from, and how is it so effectively divisive?
Is there any information or even speculation from any coherent FlatEarthers about what they imagine/perceive is “outside the dome”, so to speak?
Does the flat earth concept imply a “level” of beings that created our environment, and therefore would be in a similar relationship position that a programmer would have to his computer generated “sims” or a scientist would have to her petri dish? If so, do they live in a “flat” world? Or do a majority of the FE-ers believe we are the entirety of existence?
I’m not looking for “evidence” or proofs or facts or whatever for one side or the other, I’m just trying to explore the implications of either belief system. I’m not interested in hearing on how you can live the same whether the earth is round or not, or that you don’t care about the idea and think it’s a distraction.
I think it is interesting concept, and it bewilders me how it is presented without hardly any (from what I can find) theories or ideas or speculations about reality…other than the top of the human hierarchy is lying to us. I understand that the emotional charge on the idea makes it difficult to discuss, that this charge is generated mainly by concepts so sacred to us that we have a hard time “unknowing”, no matter which side we choose take. It seems that lots of (FE...or even round earth) people WANT other people to believe that what they believe to be true...but I can't seem to find what they feel that means about the reality they are living in (if that makes sense?)
The world being flat (or round) has a significantly different meaning than it would have in the (Copernicus?) time we were taught it first came to a head, back then there was a lot of uncharted territory for the “civilized world” that we’ve evolved from, now it seems much more easily provable, in that to me it says a lot more about the understanding of information and mind manipulation than in the nature of reality…perhaps that’s the ultimate purpose of any “psyop”: prevent us from thinking clearly about the nature of the reality we find ourselves in? Even if it's a "trap" to block us at a certain point in our thinking, what is it distracting us from, and how is it so effectively divisive?