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.
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 complaint was that despite her best efforts to
indoctrinateeducate 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.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?”
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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I would wager that 95% of kids are smart enough to know it’s wrong by age 18, it’s just such a crazy thing that believing it must require quite a rare mentality.
This is, very simply, child abuse.
It’s satire
Honestly, I’m not sure that is satire
How sure are you
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.
I wish
Humor at its darkest - at best.
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
Gives off “my grandma said Cleopatra was black” vibes.
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.
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?
The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions
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
…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?
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
Burh I would honestly have even more questions,who holds the lantern? What about the sunset? And sunrise?
I have no idea, and “they” prevent us from finding out
(/s)
Well the sun is in fact a flash light that is just hitting the right area of the earth. Of course it somehow isn’t circular it just hits the plane earth that it is like we observe.
The moon is on the same hight and glowing of course! There are no eclipses and moon cicles! This is all just a conspiracy
And like… they just accept there is an ice wall there? Why are we not trying to get to the other side? Aren’t they curious?
What do the pillars of the earth stand on?
4 elephants and a turtle.
What does the turtle stand on?
The elephants
What do the elephants stand on?
The pillars! Duh!
What does the fox say?
The Table of The Universe, obviously.
The pillars of the pillars of the earth obviously.
Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?
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.
I just thought it was interesting they think the sun and moon are spheres but the earth is not. What about other plants? Is the earth the only flat one if everything else is round?
The crazyness exceed expectations.
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.
Earth is just special like that. All the other space objects are round(ish), but earth is special.
If anything, I’d have thought they would have something to say about the moon. Like, “we only see one side of it because it’s flat.”
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.
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
It’s not just flat earth, spot the mention of “verses.” It’s the whole young earth creationism belief complex.
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
This physically pains me.
Omitting Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars". Now that’s just lazy parenting.
Have these kids even read Discworld?
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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.
But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?
How dare you bring logic into this
Yup that was foolish of me.
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Whenever in doubt: a wizard did it. 🧙♂️✨
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when in doubt: mysterious shadow object, lmao.
“According to flat-Earth conspiracy theorists, this astronomical phenomenon — known as a total lunar eclipse — 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.”
source: https://www.space.com/43086-flat-earthers-explain-lunar-eclipses.html
It’s not that I can’t workout how to make that work with some super massive object. It’s that it’s so ridiculous to do so that I won’t bother. All hail mysterious shadow object!
I hear it’s where the Flying Spaghetti Monster lives.
It’s one of the meatballs, isn’t it?
I’ve been wondering…
I’m going to name it “the mooon”
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’.
There’s a wiki that lists “several” (read: 2) theories!
https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Lunar_Eclipse
These people are fucking lunatics.
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.
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.
Exactly why school is so important
It’s a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.
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We were all taught propaganda from the dairy, meat and bread lobbies in place of scientifically backed nutritional information, and now we’re all dying of heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
This isn’t child abuse and even comparing something like home schooling to child abuse is completely unnecessary. Lots of countries allow people to homeschool their children, which of course will include spiritual stuff the majority of people of today will not agree. Some cultures lie to their kids about Santa Claus and other shit and no one cares, because kids aren’t as stupid as we often assume. Kids can change their perspective easily once provided with new information - something that a lot of adults struggle with due to cognitive dissonance.
Is there a badparents Lemmy group?
You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(
I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger
