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[JMO]

This link was posted it on another thread by Regicide. I'm not sure if it for real or not, but it is pretty funny.

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

Have a look and decide. Some of the stuff they say on there is fantastic..

[Ya-ta Boy]

There really is a Flat Earth Society, but the one I'm familiar with is satirical.

[caniff]

[JMO]

[On the other hand]

My understanding is that, contrary to popular belief, it was never really a widespread idea, at least in the west, that the earth was flat. The idea that people once believed this was made up much later on, to mock the scientific ignorance of earlier generations. So the people who today claim to be flat-earthers aren't the last remnant of some ancient tradition, they simply picked up the idea from the mockers and went with it.

That the sun and the stars revolve around the earth, however, was a widespread belief.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Yep, it's the same group. Note this in their mission statement: "...and relying heavily on a callous disregard for the lives and well-being of our members"

I think they're funny. I see them as a send-up of conspiracy theorists.

[peppermint]

Oddly enough, the Flat Earth Society is a bit of a marketing gimmick in Newfoundland, since some obscure nutter designated Fogo Island to be one of the four corners of the earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRFuguc7bk&mode=related&search=

That ad got an awful lot of attention last year when it came out, and then disappeared. Who knows, maybe there are real believers out there, who got upset.

[Justin Hale]

[JMO]

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

Here are their forums..some very funny threads in there, with my own personal favorite being..

"would we fall off the end of the earth"
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Apparently we wouldn't because it is infinite..