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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 complaint 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

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          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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      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.

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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.

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    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 flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions

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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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        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

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        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?

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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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        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.

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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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      Earth is just special like that. All the other space objects are round(ish), but earth is special.

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      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.”

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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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      It’s not just flat earth, spot the mention of “verses.” It’s the whole young earth creationism belief complex.

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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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    Omitting Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars". Now that’s just lazy parenting.

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    But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?

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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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      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.

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      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.