1/2/2024 0 Comments Flat earth theory psychology![]() photos and videos will never be accepted because they will be deemed as CGI or being fake.Īs Scroogie has stated above, "Technology is what has given us automobiles, trains, airplanes, medical tools, eyeglasses, telescopes, cell phones, televisions, radios and even IPods. It just isn't going to happen, no matter how much evidence is put forth. Debating Tom and trying to convince him to believe in a Round Earth is as likely as Tom being able to convince a Round Earther that the geometrically square and rectangular shaped ISS orbiting Earth is debris from space or that the moon landing was a hoax. When you are debating a Flat Earther like Tom, you have to realize that a big part of Tom's identity and (perhaps) livelihood depends upon propogating and selling the Flat Earth society / society beliefs. I refer to it as a Freudian slip given my assumption that Tom would never knowingly acknowledge that the things he was questioning were, indeed, true. It seems to me that such a situation would force one into an ongoing internal battle between one's intellect and one's belief system, (one's ability to rationalize and one's need to believe) a very difficult situation which would result in a great deal of inner turmoil. This caused me to wonder if that wasn't a Freudian slip - an indication that Tom subconsciously knows full well that what he is questioning is, indeed, true, believable, correct, testable - however one may wish to define it - yet continues the futile battle because his belief system forces him to do so. If it is believed to be true, or supposed to be true, it is open to question, but if it has attained the status of truth, it is no longer open to question. If a thing is true, then it cannot be questioned, it is simply true. ![]() It has, by dictionary definition, "the quality or state of being true". It wasn't set in quotes it wasn't stated that that FEers question "supposed truths" or "accepted truths" or anything of the sort. There is a single word in the passage above that gave me pause. ![]()
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