Flat Earth

[InbetweenDreams]

It is an interesting idea... It was a long interview. The guy also would talk over me every time I spoke. It was a shit show and in hindsight I could have avoided it.

Here's the thing that people do, whether it is flat-earth, or some other conspiracy theory and even when discussing politics. That is contextualism.

So prior to the interview I had no idea what he was going to discuss other than it was supposed to be about spirituality, religion, etc. If he had explained that he was a flat earther I could have either prepared for a discussion or simply turned him down, so I think it was a bit deceptive and similar to how an evangelist operates.

From https://flatearth.ws/contextualism#more-1222

Flat-Earthers love to shift the context to where we would no longer function as a normal human being because only in this context, most of us cannot possibly know the shape of the Earth.

And yes, they're right. I personally have no first hand experience in knowing what shape the Earth is other than all the evidence  (satellites, photos, astronauts and so forth) which flat-earther's simply shoot down anyway, so don't count own the mood landing as proof. The guy also said the North Korea isn't real either which I find ironic as this article mentioned North Korea as an example.

But in the matter of the shape of the Earth, they would shift the context to the extreme end where they would be able to defend flat Earth, and ask questions like “Are you certain the Earth is spherical and what is your evidence?”

We can surely answer the question from scientific standpoints. But we can also let philosophy do the work, and shift the context back to where it applies to our everyday lives: “Yes, I’m certain the Earth is spherical the same way you are certain North Korea is a real country.”

The truth of the matter I didn't really get to ask him very many questions, there was a lot of incomplete thoughts, rambling and talking over me. So if I do anything I would use the material to make commentary since I wasn't able to during the interview. I guess I'm kind of torn on what I should do with it.

To get an idea of what I went through I just typed up the first ~3 minutes of the interview...

I heard about the flat earth about a year ago and I guess to give you a back story… I didn’t want to think about it because it was it seemed so ridiculous right? I was listening to this guy talking about stuff and I was in the middle of playing a video game on my computer so I couldn’t really turn the thing off. So I just listened to this guy for and hour or something and I remember thinking I couldn’t really refute what he’s claiming you know?
And so, that’s what kind of started it for me but then it took me another 6 months to look into it properly because you know it was just like it just a crazy thing. And I think that’s the right assumption to make by the way, is that it’s crazy. Because, we all know we’re on a globe obviously right? This type of idea just wouldn’t make any sense you know like the flat earth kind of idea. So yeah, basically I decided you know that what I am going to do is just try and prove the globe because I kept hearing about this kind of idea and thought it was like nonsense so I just kind of wanted to put it to bed, be all and end all and just be done with it. But the more I looked, the less proof I found. And so I was like wow, like maybe it’s possible that this land is actually just flat kind of a thing and I mean it looks pretty flat. So anyway, that’s kind of what got my whole journey started. Do you have any questions about that?

Almost 300 words and hasn't really said much.

I would post a link to the whole thing but I don't want Google to pick it up here, at least not in its current form.

The other thing is, why does this stuff bother me so much? I know I'm not the smartest person in the world, but damn people like this just drive me up the wall...