I may have, but the subject never came up. I have met people who are certain that the moon landings were faked. I asked, "How the fuck did we get reflectors there?" Also to no avail.

Conspiracy theorists have a need to possess esoteric knowledge beyond the grasp of us mortals. To that end, they are more than willing to be convinced and convince themselves of the most ridiculous bullshit.

I have never encountered a flat earther, if they are anything like fox news fans I hope I never do. You can not reason with them, facts and science mean NOTHING to them.

I love the movie "Men in Black", but I'm starting to think that movie is based on facts the government is not willing to tell us about.

When encountering fox news fans I sometimes feel they are going to shed their skin and show their true self to be an intelligence devouring alien life form. I suspect flat earthers to be similar.

People like that are like playing checkers with a Pidgeon. The Pidgeon is just going to strut around the board , shit all over it, and then acts like it won the game.

They have infested Utube like some awful disease. Some of their videos are worth watching though for a good laugh. One enters into a 'dream cuckoo land' dimension.

Yes, I have encountered one of these people on FB. May have been a troll-- he was very insistent about the "staged" moon landing. And that John Glenn (who was not actually involved in said moon landing, but facts weren't his strong suit) was a communist. It was special. However, I do know a few anti-vaxxers in real life. And one chemtrails afficianado. Such fun!

Yes, I was raised my one. My dad convinced me from a young age that the earth was flat, dinosaurs never existed, and the earth was 6,000 years old. I caught on relatively quick considering I live in the Bible Belt.

I would say I'm sorry you can't listen to an expert in his field. Then walk away.

I have been fortunate enough to have not had that experience. My condolences to you, it must have been insufferably frustrating. Makes one wonder how these people live past the age of 10, or so, with such defective mentality.

I feel like most of these people are just punking us.

Yeah, the Greeks and Romans knew the earth was round, but Chrisians, and other religious folk. manaed to convince a lot of people otherwise as knowledge was supressed tha tled to the drk ages.

Hopefully knowledge is too widespread for another dark age to occur.

I have not enoucntered a flat earther myself. They are pretty rare in this part of the country.

Should there be a next time just say, "OK, but don't drive off the edge, you know insurance doesn't cover that ! " and go on about your day with your hair intact.

People will believe what they want to believe and sometimes we just cannot help/fight stupid. I wouldn't waste a single heartbeat on someone like that. They want to believe the earth is flat, hey whatever rock their boat, even when the boat mastil will get lost in the horizon as it sails away (see what I did there? ) ... Cheers !!!

Yes. And they are worse than religious folk. They cannot be dissuaded.

We have our fair share of weirdos in Europe, but that's one species of weirdo you generally don't see over here.

Only on Fb actually..lol

Yes...characters inthe Bible

I can imagine your frustration, and I have never met a flat earther. Some theists that I know sound about as rational as this nut you met.

No thank fuck

Yip, They Were Convinced NASA Were Lying

Totally. I’ve have similar training. People are stupid, but when they refute what you have studied and worked with for thousands of hours with a 17 minute YouTube video it drives one insane.

Yes, I know one and I really enjoy listening to him. I see no need to debate he has had a lifetime of facts and has made his choice and made up his mind. My favorite twist of logic. The greeks new the earth was round and a pretty close guess on how big around. He says the greeks thought the earth was round because they did not understand the higher math that proves the earth is flat. Instead of arguing I listen, I might learn a thing or two. Mostly how deranged folks can keep believing what seems obviously wrong, this might be usefull to understand in today's society.

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