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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.
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.
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
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 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.
Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?
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This physically pains me.
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
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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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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So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
Everyone knows the sun is switched off during night time, DUH !
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Forgetting to model Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars” … 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?
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’m going to name it “the mooon”
I hear it's where the Flying Spaghetti Monster lives.
I’ve been wondering…
It's one of the meatballs, isn't it?
Man this is just sad
It's a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.
You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(
I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger
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.
Is there a badparents Lemmy group?
They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work
IRL Wimp Lo.
Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn't want us to know.
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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Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions
Turtles
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