To: wastedyears
Kinda like flat earth theory.I wonder how many people ever actually believed in a flat earth? If you stand on the beach, you can see the curve of the earth. If you stand on the same beach, or on a plain, you can see ships/people/wagons/whatever making their way up from the horizon.
People seem to have the idea that generations before ours were stone cold stupid, and of course, they weren't.
21 posted on
04/09/2014 9:14:06 AM PDT by
mountainbunny
(Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens” J.R.R. Tolkien)
To: mountainbunny
It could be worse. People in Kansas believe in the flat state theory.
50 posted on
04/09/2014 9:37:07 AM PDT by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: mountainbunny
This isn’t just generations, this is far before our Founding Fathers’ time.
54 posted on
04/09/2014 9:39:37 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
To: mountainbunny
61 posted on
04/09/2014 9:43:16 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: mountainbunny
In all fairness, to a casual observer with very dark sunglasses, the sun does appear to revolve around the earth.
65 posted on
04/09/2014 9:45:33 AM PDT by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: mountainbunny
Apparently, some still do ...
Do a web search for “flat earth society” ... lots of crazies out there.
88 posted on
04/09/2014 10:05:02 AM PDT by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: mountainbunny
I wonder how many people ever actually believed in a flat earth? If you stand on the beach, you can see the curve of the earth.In the flat-earth days, science was the exclusive domain of men. And when men stand on a beach, the curves they study are not those the Earth....
145 posted on
04/15/2014 8:47:33 PM PDT by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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