This must be true, after all who cant see the massive ice walls surrounding our little plot of land
The funny thing is that this is actual flat earth lore. And no, you can't just go there and see it, because the government won't let you, you'll die, you just turn around and just forgot what you saw. Depending on your local flat earthers.
I really like how similar to religion it is. Yeah, when you die you go to heaven, you juat have to trust me bro.
Flat earthers are so adamant about their beliefs BECAUSE of religion. They believe the earth is the center of the universe because why else would god put humans here, so they need to justify that with stupid, verifiably false claims.
If you show me the ice wall, I'll believe in an ice wall. Yet weirdly no one has.
Global warming sure is going to hit hard
They claim that's what Antarctica is. Although this is the first time I've seen any of them say what's on the other side of the ice wall.
That volume of ice wouldn't allow any sort of liquid water to be on the surface. Everything will be frozen.
Then again we're dealing with Flat Earthers...
Also, it's hilarious that their depiction of the megaplanet is spherical as well.
There are three subsets of flat earth believers.
The truthers: they legitimately believe in the flat earth. They generally haven't traveled much or at all and have no idea the scale of things. They aren't willing to test stuff themselves, but they will parrot anything that sounds decent.
The grifters: much like telemarket scammers asking about something antiquated (like TV boxes) they know their audience is likely going to fall for whatever they have to offer. They make videos online constantly, ask for people to join their group, squeeze whatever they can from people who want the echo chamber.
The "anti" 's who have become the Qanons: the flat earth isn't the whole iceberg, it's barely even the tip. It's all just a method of control that 'they' want you to believe in so that you are simple sheep to their new world order and anti religious rhetoric. They don't really care if the flat earth is real, it's just close enough to their beliefs that they'll assimilate it to spite 'the man'.
And the fourth group that aren't flat earthers at all: the trolls. They fan the flames, make the images that don't fit the models, and generally seem to ally themselves with the flat earthers, just to laugh about it later, while also getting people who notice stuff like this to so laugh along. Flat earth is the joke and their assistance is the punchline.
Flat Earthers have come full circle.
One might even say, full sphere.
Batshit insane, but honestly, trypophobia mega planet would be absolutely wild.
These guys should just accept their true callings as shitty sci-fi fanfic authors and stop pretending it's all true.
They say that they only believe what they see themselves and yet they make up things like that that have never been seen by anyone ever.
Ok. I get where you're coming from, but what's with the bathtub?
A large subset of flat earthers believe the world is surrounded by ice walls that THEY don't want you to know about and won't let you see. The bathtub is just representing that container of ice.
Because demonstrating solidity needs to happen, obviously.
I'm pretty sure this is trolling though. I refuse to believe the Ice Wall Mega Earth subset is real.
Watch the documentary Behind the Curve. All of these flat Earth nuts are sincere. To the point of spending a lot of their money on "proving" it.
And then proving that it's round and refusing to believe their own findings.
"That's interesting."
What a way to end the documentary.
My favorite scene is when the 2 flat earthers visit NASA. They are in a simulator making fun of it cause it won't start for them, and as they walk away the camera zooms in on a giant "start" button they both managed to miss.
NGL an ice world with isolated warm spots makes for a pretty cool (no pun intended) sci-fi backdrop.
Ah, I think I get it now; the universe was just a big bathroom all along.
So it's like Attack On Titan?
I haven't seen it, but it wouldn't shock me if they saw a clearly fictional TV show (I doubt they're bright enough to read a manga) and decided it held some great secret truth.
Is there any chance the emojis mean they're not serious?
But yeah, like others have said, it would be pretty wild if true. I'd definitely read a (fiction) novel with that premise.
No. No chance at all. See like every other post in this community.
Lmao fair enough
It appears that I am not genius.
Me neither. Why a bathtub?
If I was an alien, I would totally do this
To other species in the universe, we are aliens. Be the change you wish to see!
I'm working on it
Have you people ever heard of Poe's law?
Is this true?
Of course it's true. Read the Bible. Duh.
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