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"B.O.B.'s Neil DeGrasse Tyson diss track" sounds like a Markov chain thing but it's real. bonus points for Holocaust Denial https://soundcloud.com/bobatl/bob-flatline-feat-neil-tyson
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:16:18 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:17:21 UTC from web
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@mrmattimation I saw the tweets and thought that was it but an honest to god kiwiing diss track promoting flat earth and a Holocaust Denier is just unreal
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:18:02 UTC from web-
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@scribus the best thing about flat earthers, as well as young earth creationists/those people that believe dinosaurs were biblical dragons saying "teach the controversy" is that there IS NO controversy. facts are facts.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:22:21 UTC from web-
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@scribus now aliens almost certainly exist, scientifically. we'll just never see them and they probably wouldn't be recognizable to us, i.e. carbon based
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:26:25 UTC from web
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Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 18:26:07 UTC from web
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@rarity You see, the thing I don't get about flat earthers is what exactly it is they're really trying to prove. What reason would anyone actually have to conceal the fact that the Earth is flat, what would keeping that out of the public eye accomplish? And more so, even if we hypothetically were to assume it was true, what would that even change? It feels like controversy and conspiracy for its own sake, tautological and not in any way meaningful. Reminds me of the "Shakespeare wasn't real" crowd.
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@northernnarwhal @rarity "(C)ontroversy and conspiracy for its own sake, tautological and not in any way meaningful." Very common.
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@takeFluffle Puffakenji Yup! The mindset behind these sorts of people comes from a mixture of paranoia and confirmation bias turned arguendo, unrequited fears of enemies that don't exist and contrarian behaviour in seek of a contrived truth.
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@northernnarwhal Reminds me of the infamous worst of Tumblr, too.
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@takebatcaveakenji Tumblr's a frustrating place in that for all the users there with a genuine understanding and articulation of important social issues there are also lots of users who are kids (or act like kids) that want to start witch hunts. It makes it difficult to hold genuine conversations about important social discourses because someone's gonna yell at you for being an "SJW" or some other ridiculous name for trying to establish a critical cultural conversation. If you ever wanted to convince yourself that regressive political conservatism is right you just need to find some out of context quotation from Tumblr and caption it about how much you hate feminists for saying something that doesn't make sense to you in the abstract.
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@northernnarwhal They just want to prove that they are right
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 19:14:04 UTC from web -
@northernnarwhal MOST Flat Earthers are extreme evangelical Christians and I think they see a heliocentrist worldview as anti-Christian, since the Bible does have some clues towards Flat Earth (but I mean, it was written before ANYONE knew what heliocentrism is). As well, the first people to say the sun was at the center of the solar system criticized and went directly against the church. I have no idea if B.o.B fit's the mold though, or if he'll just believe anything.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 19:16:22 UTC from web-
@rarity I don't think B.o.B is evangelical. If he were he wouldn't shut up about being evangelical.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 19:26:06 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation honestly, in his case and probably quite a few others, they're more of the general conspiracy type. Like, they believe in the NWO, Illuminati, reptilians, everything. Once you've reached that point, you're convinced that everything anyone in power tells you is a lie. So if world scientists say the world is round, and everything else is a lie, why wouldn't a round earth be a lie as well?
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 19:28:29 UTC from web-
@rarity I guess you're right. If George Bush put together a press conference about 9/11 and said "it was ME THE WHOLE TIME" all of a sudden 9/11 truthers would immediately believe the opposite.
Tuesday, 26-Jan-16 19:30:53 UTC from web
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@rarity I wonder if he'd be more in the latter, if I'm assuming best interests I'd rather believe he's just naive as opposed to being a genuine proponent of regressed evangelism. I don't really know anything about him so it's hard to say. I've hardly even seen much of his beliefs outside of a few posts I found hilarious. You're right about their very obstinate interpretations of text too, essentially since heliocentricity was never exclusively written about in the Bible (for reasons you outlined regarding understanding of the time) they construe that as heliocentricity being as anti-Christian as they proclaim it to be.
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