Rapper: You've Been Fooled, the World Is Flat

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"They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round," sang Fred Astaire—and Atlanta rapper B.o.B is still laughing. In dozens of tweets over the last few days, he has passionately defended what appears to be a genuine belief that the world is flat and says "sheeple" who believe otherwise have been deceived by Freemason fraudsters like Pythagoras and Galileo, reports Pitchfork. "A lot of people are turned off by the phrase 'flat earth' ... but there's no way u can see all the evidence and not know ... grow up," he said, posting "evidence" such as pictures of flat horizons and arguing that if the world were round, airplanes would fly straight into outer space if they didn't constantly adjust their course.

All of which led astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to jump into the fray. "Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn't mean we all can't still like your music," he tweeted, prompting the rapper to ask him if he was a Freemason. "Once you go flat, you never go back," said B.o.B, insisting that he isn't doing this to promote his music and he hasn't been smoking anything stronger than pot. "I'm going up against the greatest liars in history," he said. "You've been tremendously deceived." The Guardian reports that B.o.B isn't alone in his beliefs: A growing number of people claim to believe the Earth is flat, though the movement can't agree whether Antarctica is a continent or a wall of ice that keeps people from falling off the edge of the world.

http://www.newser.com/story/219530/rapper-youve-been-fooled-the-world-is-flat.html
 
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fraudsters like Pythagoras
You would struggle to pick a single person from history whose work has led to more practical applications, and thus shown to have been accurate, than Pythagoras. His theorem underpins so much that we take for granted in the modern world.

Mind you, if you're a flat earther, I guess you have to attempt to discredit the foundations of pretty much everything we know.
 
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You would struggle to pick a single person from history whose work has been applied to more practical applications, and thus shown to have been accurate, than Pythagoras. His theorem underpins so much that we take for granted in the modern world.

Mind you, if you're a flat earther, I guess you have to attempt to discredit the foundations of pretty much everything we know.

Agree

Now this is silliness in it's finniest....flat earth...what's next?
 
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I wonder what's the appeal? I guess the idea of a flat earth makes our world more "magical" or something.. lol.
i think the appeal is egotistical in nature and a way to demonstrate intellectual superiority. It is gratifying to one's ego to be the only one who sees the truth and then to explain said truth to all the simpletons around you who have been fooled.

I think it is also related to trollism. There are some people who just get a rise out of being trolls.

The other week I saw a 21yr old "boy" with a giant blown up photo on his shirt. The photo was a close up of a graphic inappropriate content scene that would make a sailor blush. He was standing in line at the grocery store. Someone commented on the inappropriateness of his shirt and then said "boy" went on a spiel about Free Speech and a free society and liberty yada yada yada. It was clear he was used to this argument-- that in fact he enjoyed this argument . More and more people started jumping into the fray and he relished this. I then said, "Will you guys please stop feeding this troll. He wore this shirt just so he could have this argument and there is nothing you can say to enlighten him. He is a jackass and he delights in being a jackass. In fact, I bet you he thinks he is the enlightened one and the rest of us are the idiots."

I find the above is most often the case when someone proposes to argue something insane
 
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