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GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Flat earthers have been around (heh) for centuries. It’s mostly a religious thing in order to rebuke science in order to keep people stupid. There’s a passage in the bible that refrences the four corners of the earth that gets refrenced by these people as proof. It’s a way to keep people in their cult, because the outsiders are the ones who are tricked into beleiving in round earth ftom scientists.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- trashboat@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m more of a dinosaur earth guy myself Image
  
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  - msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    As someone who once played with the Earth’s actual distancing math, fuck the both of you.
    
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andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I would say that it really became a thing in its current form in the 1800s. Lots of the weird Biblical “literalism” (and I think things like Salafism/Wahhabism) come from the combination of widespread literacy and direct access to the texts + those ideologies that deny that you need anything outside the text to interpret them yourself/solo scriptura.

What we’re seeing now is related to shitposting being taken seriously for sure (the “birds aren’t real” thing has also been making a slow shift from stupid joke to conspiracy therapy, I think that’s how “Helen Keller” don’t real started)

I trace it back a bit further than 4chan though. You start to see it all the way back in the 90s on Usenet, pretty sure that’s around when the Flat Earth Society Forums - which were clearly mostly Poes - started too.

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