• reverie@lemmy.world
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    3 年前

    I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different

    I told her to listen to her teacher

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    I’ve tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn’t make it work.

    I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you’d insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.

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    Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?

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      What do you mean? You’re seeing how it works right here.

      Sun and moon are spherical objects suspended by a coat hanger and constantly turned in motion by a higher being.

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    But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?

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    They’re purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work

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      This isn’t child abuse and even comparing something like home schooling to child abuse is completely unnecessary. Lots of countries allow people to homeschool their children, which of course will include spiritual stuff the majority of people of today will not agree. Some cultures lie to their kids about Santa Claus and other shit and no one cares, because kids aren’t as stupid as we often assume. Kids can change their perspective easily once provided with new information - something that a lot of adults struggle with due to cognitive dissonance.

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      If i know right, they think the sun has much less power than usual, so it works like a spotlight. So its light wont reach the territories under the moon

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        Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.

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      Let’s not even get into how when I video call my niece in southern New Zealand her garden is covered in snow and it’s morning, while it’s a warm summer evening where I am.