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[-] produnis@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 years ago
[-] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 36 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] myxi@feddit.nl 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 complain 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.

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] kwerks@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

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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[-] mriguy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

This is, very simply, child abuse.

[-] aplomBomb@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago
[-] L0Wigh@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm not sure that is satire

[-] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

How sure are you

[-] animist@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago
[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] reverie@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] skomposzczet@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago

Gives off "my grandma said Cleopatra was black" vibes.

[-] ruck_feddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Strong "Waterboy" vibes

My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] mignochrono@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions

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[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?

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[-] Kaiser@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

This physically pains me.

[-] adude007@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Orban@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How dare you bring logic into this

[-] adude007@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yup that was foolish of me.

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[-] countdankula420@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(

[-] Orban@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger

[-] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?

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[-] dan@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

Is there a badparents Lemmy group?

[-] gonzophilosophy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.

[-] hlqxz@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Man this is just sad

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[-] someguy@lemmyland.com 4 points 2 years ago

Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn't want us to know.

[-] milktea@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions

[-] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I believe the answer to your question of “what do the pillars stand on” is a turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And that turtle stands on another turtle. And it is turtles all the way down. Though I might be confusing two different beliefs.

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[-] GingeyBook@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?

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[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

IRL Wimp Lo.

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