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NastyRiffraff

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2. I dunno, but I never underestimate the capacity for stupidity

Reply to Calculating (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:26 PM

Nov 2017

There are people who don't believe in evolution, climate change, or the need for vaccinations.
There are people who believe in exorcism as a way to "cure" mental illness.
There are people who...no, I'm not going to get into the religious stuff, or this post would never end.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Lunar Eclipse flat-Earthers have never seen. [View all] kpete Nov 2017 OP

Are Flat Earthers even legit, or just a bunch of real life trolls? Calculating Nov 2017 #1

I dunno, but I never underestimate the capacity for stupidity NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #2

Those are slightly different though Calculating Nov 2017 #7

But if someone is anti-science NastyRiffraff Nov 2017 #8

Except you can see the proof in all of those cases Spider Jerusalem Nov 2017 #19

Evolution is obvious Egnever Nov 2017 #20

Too complicated to those in question. pangaia Nov 2017 #26

Up until recently, I understood they were just a bunch of eggheads.... Brother Buzz Nov 2017 #4

Thats how one of the orgs started Nevernose Nov 2017 #14

Oh they believe it. Look at the insanity on you tube, people are totally nuts Cicada Nov 2017 #12

They are VERY real... my mother is one of them. alittlelark Nov 2017 #13

I'm so sorry for you. lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #37

Biblical literalists and conspiracy theorists Nevernose Nov 2017 #15

Actually, I think rocket guy just wants to fly his rocket and is milking the Flat-Earthers for $$$. Girard442 Nov 2017 #28

I don't recall any verse in the Bible commenting on the shape of the Earth... Hekate Nov 2017 #31

There are echoes of earlier cosmology in bits and pieces Nevernose Nov 2017 #34

Columbus' departure from accepted truth was the SIZE of the Earth. lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #38

Yup, trolling is a thing Hop David Nov 2017 #24

The flat-Earthers lack the intellectual capacity to understand that photo, Mr. Tyson. nt procon Nov 2017 #3

How about THIS one? kpete Nov 2017 #5

"IT'S THE JESUS PENIS!!!!!!" lindysalsagal Nov 2017 #10

That's if the disc is perfectly edge-on. Nitram Nov 2017 #6

Now it's TYSON misusing an apostrophe to make a plural???? Jim Lane Nov 2017 #9

FE's think the moon isn't real and is just a projection of some sort sakabatou Nov 2017 #11

It is flat! central scrutinizer Nov 2017 #16

Please tell me you're just trolling! caraher Nov 2017 #17

Thank you! Bucky Nov 2017 #22

The how come we don't all just slide off? skypilot Nov 2017 #36

Can we use this image for the GoFundMe campaign for the expedition to L. Coyote Nov 2017 #18

Obviously faked by NASA Bucky Nov 2017 #21

You rang? hatrack Nov 2017 #25

Great A'Tuin blogslut Nov 2017 #29

Brilliant! Hekate Nov 2017 #32

Brilliant! demmiblue Nov 2017 #33

The problem with our society is that every opinion is treated as equally informed. Oneironaut Nov 2017 #23

So, if I'm on the phone in NY at 6:30 p.m EST and it's dark here... Girard442 Nov 2017 #27

The simple explanation is that your friend is on on the conspiracy... n/t whopis01 Nov 2017 #35

I knew that little weasel was up to something! Girard442 Nov 2017 #39

Really? This is what we've become? In what's about to be 2018??? Bleacher Creature Nov 2017 #30