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DetlefK

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6. Flat-Earthers are lonely people who desperately want to believe that the world is magical.
Sat May 11, 2019, 04:36 PM
May 2019

You want to be special? Not a generic anybody but someone who really matters? Easy: Believe that you have the truth and that everybody else is too stupid to get it.

I'm in a Flat-Earth-forum and it's really, really hard to talk to these people because they imagine themselves as critical thinkers and skeptics while lacking any ability to imagine that FE could be wrong. Their thought-processes are full of holes, because they consequently ignore anything that might conflict with their "truth".

For example, they consider Flat-Earth as the default-position that the rest of mankind must disprove, while having no idea how empirical proofs actually work AND while constantly shifting goalposts.

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