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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.
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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.
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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?"
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The thought of a nine year old looking at a "grown" women with disbelief as the women tries explaining the flat earth BS is actually fucking jokes lol
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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The sun is apparently more like a flashlight than an orb. That would be the only way this could work, but even Terry Pratchett knew that this doesn't make any sense
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...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?
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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
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Burh I would honestly have even more questions,who holds the lantern? What about the sunset? And sunrise?
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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.
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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
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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
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It's not just flat earth, spot the mention of "verses." It's the whole young earth creationism belief complex.
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Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?
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What do you mean? You're seeing how it works right here.
Sun and moon are spherical objects suspended by a coat hanger and constantly turned in motion by a higher being.
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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.
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when in doubt: mysterious shadow object, lmao.
βAccording to flat-Earth conspiracy theorists, this astronomical phenomenon β known as a total lunar eclipse β 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.β
source: https://www.space.com/43086-flat-earthers-explain-lunar-eclipses.html
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There's a wiki that lists "several" (read: 2) theories!
https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Lunar_Eclipse
These people are fucking lunatics.
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Itβs not that I canβt workout how to make that work with some super massive object. Itβs that itβs so ridiculous to do so that I wonβt bother. All hail mysterious shadow object!
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'.
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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.
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Jeez man, i can only imagine. At least you were among the lucky ones who were smart and confident enough to resist their parents misbeliefs.
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Yeah, but even if they tried to stick to a faithful representation of reality, the whole "turtles all the way down" part would be problematic.
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So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
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If i know right, they think the sun has much less power than usual, so it works like a spotlight. So its light wont reach the territories under the moon
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Let's not even get into how when I video call my niece in southern New Zealand her garden is covered in snow and it's morning, while it's a warm summer evening where I am.
They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work
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Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions
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I believe the answer to your question of βwhat do the pillars stand onβ 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.
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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.