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Comments by "Phil Aypee (Philip Potter)" (@philaypeephilippotter6532) on "The 10 Things That All Flat Earthers Say" video.

Popcorn.
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One upon a time, mayb.....nah, not even then.
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@jacobsecrist728 Well I believe it totally. Who's going to start an Icosahedron Earth Society?
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@petroleumalley Except on Tuesdays - then it rises.
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@PraiseTheFSMonster And none of their explanations actually explain anything.
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I give up. What's the answer?
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Inertial? I hope you meant impartial. Either way it's a meaningless word without a context - and you haven't given a context. Your first sentence is also meaningless. You are as meaningless as a melon - Edwin A. Abbott - maybe.
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Who?
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@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172 Don't be. Other people's stupidity, ignorance and arrogance are not generic to humans. They're quite a small percentage and most have been brainwashed by even fewer greedy stupid idiots - and that's where the blame lies. They're the ones who should be ashamed! None of that is humanity's fault. You particularly carry neither responsibility nor guilt for the shortcomings of others - nor does humanity, and I include myself here.
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Gice Rum No. I've proven that this earth is a globe to myself conclusively. No flaturtha can honestly say she/he/it has done anything similar for the flaturth.
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@rockkraken4548 I think it was more a misunderstanding. Standing (actually sitting in my armchair) on the outside it didn't seem to me there was actually a disagreement but a misunderstanding.
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@videogamee6037 The elephants are called Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen. The astrochelonians were Rincewind and Twoflower. The book is called The Colour Of Magic published in 1983 and written by Sir Terence Pratchett. It's a great read as are the other 40-odd in the saga.
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It is really fair. Flaturthism is really a religious-type belief. It puts the conclusion first and Flaturthas consider any evidence contrary to flaturth wrong. They are usually creationists and, although they don't seem to have a hierarchy, they have apparent leaders. Furthermore by saying Let's not sink to their level you imply that they're inferior. They're not and I hope you didn't mean to imply that. Anybody can be wrong, as they obviously are about science, but that doesn't make them inferior.
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@trollololol7882 Trolls have a very poor memory.
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But you forgot the ice-cream! 😖
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@petroleumalley Actually there is a real reason none of us could emulate a flaturtha - laughter. None of us would be able to stop laughing.
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@flookd5516 Logically, of course. 😈
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Gice Rum I doubt that anyone who has ever known me would agree - but you're as entitled to your own opinion on that as anybody. We're all entitled to be wrong.
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@MrQuaiven I'm sorry but you're wrong. Level does not mean flat. Wiktionary: The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity. That's quite certainly how Rock Kraken was interpreting the word.
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Rock Kraken I understood that. OMG GMO Yes, I read your comments. Rock Kraken & OMG GMO Each of you is talking about level in a different context. It seems to me that if you talked about it using the same context you'd agree. In one context it seems Rock Kraken is using level to mean flat, which it can mean (as in spirit level), and in the other context OMG GMO seems to mean in relation to the pull of gravity, which it can also mean. But they are different definitions.
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@boterlettersukkel Oh, that goddidit.
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What are the names of the elephants? Who were the astrochelonians? Are you knurd yet?
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@videogamee6037 Pterry, as Sir Terence is known to his fans, had Alzheimer's disease and if you buy any of his books a proportion of the profit goes to a charity researching the disease. Look at the relevant passage on his Wikipedia entry.
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We don't.
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Meaningless codswallop.
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@ericb3157 Were you surprised at that response? I would have been.
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They send messages to the Spaghetti Monster by heliograph, who passes them on, and receive them by pigeon-post - they use very quick pigeons.
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Indeed - but then they claim that scientists don't understand science as well as they do.
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Well, of course it is - it's sanity proof.
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On a flaturth they'd have to be flat cats. Science-fiction fans will have no tribble understanding.
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@trollololol7882 Googolplex.* The word was coined by Milton Sirotta at nine years old. He also coined the term googol.
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@trollololol7882 I'm off luxuries this month.
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@fauxmarmorer9544 What's a dynamic thermo?
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Wait for me.
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Ah, but the Discworld is real. I know, Bilious told me so himself.
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@guillermorobustelli2652 Yes, I'd been at The Mended Drum the night before - but I remember most of it. I wish I didn't.
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@cresenciozachary1011 Only when polluted with living organisms - which it usually is.
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@cresenciozachary1011 Only when polluted with living organisms - which it usually is. You really should learn to read. I'm sure you can find a remedial course at a school near you, probably free.
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@cresenciozachary1011 I know.
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@cresenciozachary1011 So you're a troll. Troll off.
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People don't seem to understand that flaturthism, a cult as you say, works like a religion. They start by knowing that the earth is a flat disk and they try to rationalize it but not for themselves. Some are evangelical and their rationalizations are for us, the great unwashed, to convert us to their belief.
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No, it's the result of people ignoring their education.
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@boterlettersukkel Really? I thought it might be teddy bears - but never a goddidit. What's a goddidit?
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You got it. I wish the others all would.
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@s-nonymous0273 'Tis indeed.
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Not if I've anything to do with it.
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@natetwitchell1969 Spaghetti.
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@quadsingularstudios5909 That's just a hyper cube earth society.
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@cesardepena7498 But you can eat a sphere - if it's made of marzipan.
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@cesardepena7498 Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal. It's never won any kind of race as far as I know. Of course I could be wrong, it's not entirely unknown.
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@cesardepena7498 The very short answer to your post is....... ........ eat! 🤪
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In effect he is - although very few 9 year olds think the earth is flat.
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@ButterFromDiscord It's not about any children with education, believe me. I never believed in the flaturth in my life and I knew about the globe by the age of three - in 1956!
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Pterry was an unabashed plagiarist as was the equally wonderful William Shakespeare. Flaturthas are unabashed idiots.
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@emilybarclay8831 I thought it was a flying saucer - with a nice cup full of tea on it.
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@emilybarclay8831 When will it be confirmed?
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@emilybarclay8831 Which Tuesday is that?
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@emilybarclay8831 I'll be out that day.
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@emilybarclay8831 I'll be out that day too. How about Wedaturday?
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Not dignify, ridicule and refute. They might convince some poor uneducated innocent otherwise.
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No, but it might mean that innocent people ignorant of science won't listen much.
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@cowforceseven7328 Just trying to tell them that the earth isn't flat will make them distrust us. Some are dangerously fanatical when told anything that might change their mind. Others simply refuse to see the obvious and still others cannot understand how stupid the rest of the world is.
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And getting it wrong!
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So stop trying to figure them out and save your sanity, that's what I did.
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Why?
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vladimir putin is andrei panin - russian actor The global nature of this planet has been proven many times over the past millennia. There has never been even a workable hypothesis for this planet being any other shape.
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@A_Keqing_main No, it's a triangle. Von Karajan used to play it.
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What is scientism in your opinion?
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@obiomajronyekwere4469 My point was Brian Printy saying Let's not sink to their level - by saying that he sank to a level below theirs. I have no problem with Dave calling them priests.
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@obiomajronyekwere4469 Why not? We consider their flaturth beliefs nonsensical but I'm sure we all consider other religious beliefs equally nonsensical. However unless their proponents are disrespectful and discourteous to us we should respect their beliefs and be courteous.
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@nebtheweb8885 I'm not talking about the idiots, they're incurably arrogant and ignorant. The idiots have earned the disrespect Dave, you and I have for them and how. I am talking about the ordinary flaturthas who are not disrespectful. Most of us treat them with courtesy unless they become disrespectful. Then they have earned contempt.
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@flookd5516 I suppose oceans must be hovercraft. Or maybe ballistic missiles. Maybe helicopters (when flying they don't appear to have wings). Can I go now, my brain hurts? 👉🥴👈
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It works like a religion. They believe and therefore anything that contradicts that must be wrong.
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Devilcorn123 Logic‽
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@phildavenport4150 Sure, but it's right nevertheless.
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@petspro3453 Wronger - it was already wrong.
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vladimir putin is andrei panin - russian actor You cannot prove otherwise and the nature of this globe was proven about 2,000 years ago and has been repeatedly proven since then.
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Why?
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@2luTube I wasn't - and my memory goes back at least to my second birthday (my birthday cake was made by my great-aunt in the shape of a 2).
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@flookd5516 I know, ain't I lucky!
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I'm quite sure that a few flaturthas have seen it. I'm equally sure that it hasn't changed any of their minds.
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@flookd5516 Correct.
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@rayopeongo I stand corrected.
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@ericb3157 Those dogmatic scientists do not deny the validity of the scientific method unless they have some reason beyond science, usually creationism. Evolution theory has been conclusively proven and no hypothesis about the origin of the universe has been proven.
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We live in hope.
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@asylumskp4391 But in most of the world this percentage is steadily decreasing thankfully!
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That depends.......on how you define gravity. Flaturthas have a number of mutually exclusive definitions as well as the denial of its existence. How they don't define it is using the scientific method. We do.
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@elissa4617 Pedantry has it's place but I don't think it's here.
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@emilybarclay8831 I give mine a little Lagavulin - still two wings but beating four times as fast.
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@mohammadbazzi3072 Single malt Scotch whisky. It makes far more sense than a flaturth.
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@Sarah-yj6lf Read Sir Terence Pratchett's Discworld books.
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b.
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@flookd5516 Correct.
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@aaronbredon2948 I don't think that's what they mean. They mean that flaturth is real however any tests turn out. Though some, even many, will deny it it's actually a religious belief.
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@aaronbredon2948 For flaturthas scientist means someone who is ignorant of the truth. The tests and proofs are irrelevant to them even when they do the tests themselves! In the normal logic that you and I are familiar with the route is vague idea - hypothesis - proof - theory. They start with what you or I would think of as the conclusion and they know that it's rock-solid fact. Any experiment that indicates otherwise is wrong. Few will ever accept that they even can be wrong let alone concede they are. I'm not criticizing. On the contrary all credit for you in both trying to understand them and being too logical to understand them. I don't understand them either but I've figured out how their version of logic works - and believe me, it was a hell of a stretch. 🥴
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. . . and if only they'd stop before the but.
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@captaing5166 Actually I was just shown a ship sailing over the horizon on the south coast of 🇬🇧. I figured the rest out for myself. So I actually know that I live on a globular planet. Where you live I have no idea.
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@captaing5166 The reason I saw a ship sail over the horizon is that this planet, the real earth, is a globe. No world is flat so - where you live I have no idea.
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@3p1ks Trolls don't believe anything except how clever they are. They're wrong about that.
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Yes, they are that stupid - and more.
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I don't want to know that.
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@Davide95933 Why would anyone fake a moon landing? What's the benefit?
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@peripheralzx11 You should have mentioned the four elephants too - Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen - they walk round on Great A'Tuin's back carrying the Discworld. Though of course it could be another Discworld altogether with differently named elephants on a differently named turtle.
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@peripheralzx11 It's not a religion. On the Discworld there are many gods. Their home is in the highest mountains. It's called Dunmanifestin - of course. One of the gods is Anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers. But you probably didn't want to know that.
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@peripheralzx11 The truly brilliant wordsmith Sir Terence Pratchett, known to his fans as Pterry, wrote over 40 books set on the weird and wonderful Discworld. The Discworld is carried on the backs of four world-elephants, Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen, who are walking in a circle on the back of the world-turtle, Great A'Tuin, who is swimming through the cosmos. There was once a Fifth Element Elephant. There are two principal hypotheses concerning this. Great A'Tuin is just swimming aimlessly at about the same speed. This is known as the Steady Gait hypothesis. But perhaps Great A'Tuin is swimming purposefully to a huge meeting of world-turtles for the purpose of procreation. This is known as the Big Bang hypothesis. There are four books in the Science Of Discworld series that are about both real science and Discworld science and are co-written with round-world scientists. You can get them on tnerrot as either epubs or audio-books but that should only be to sample them. If you like them you should buy them because a portion of the profits go to Alzheimer's charities as Pterry suffered from it.
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@peripheralzx11 One of Pterry's characters is the witch Granny Weatherwax. The witches don't have a leader and she's the leader they don't have. She doesn't believe in the gods. She knows they exist but sees no point in letting them get uppity by believing in them.
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If you're referring to me you ought to know that my IQ is actually a bit less than 7 million.
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@Kebo Vargas Nor do I. I can't stand beetroot either.
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