Flat Earth Irony

Flat Earth Irony 

Guest contributor, Peter Wolf

When I was in High School some friends and I formed a Flat Earth Society. We were being ironic. We also formed a Ground Zero Club to counter the propaganda surrounding the cold War and the threats of H-Bomb annihilation. While the threat was real, however unlikely, we refused to buy the doom which was being peddled by the Military-Industrial Complex who stood to make billions from making warheads and missiles and B-1 bombers to deliver the ordnance on Russia and China.

Our Flat Earth Society was fun for getting together for all-night bowling marathons and the drinking of home-made wine while tobogganing in the local golf club golf course. We made up all kinds of theories about how the world was made and what the Cosmos looked like. Mostly, our theories were based on ancient Greek philosophers and latter-day scientists who struggled to make sense of what they observed versus what the Church of England and Rome declared from reading ancient texts older than the Greeks.

It was fun to introduce a new prospect, usually a sweet young thing, to the ideas we listed as facts. The Evangelical movement of recent decades had not yet felt so threatened as to need to fight Evolution and Secular governance in the courts and every legislative body from the State level all the way down to the local School board. Religion sufficed to be indoctrinated only on the Sabbath and for a brief recitation of the Lords' Prayer before classes along with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

As the popularity of being dominated by a dogma prescribed in an ancient book decreased, so did the blowback from the Church. So much of the pre-scriptures of ancient texts is predicated on it being true, complete and infallible. Any point conceded to logic, science, and discovery necessarily meant the entire story might be fake. Take the virginity of Mary for instance. Jesus can't be their messiah and Lord of All unless Mary was virginal. The problem as the scholars see it if Mary as not a virgin then Jesus could be a mistaken identity even though everything else about the man they point to fulfills the bill.

Noah's Flood must be an absolute truth where the entire Earth (however big it is or how it is shaped) was covered in some 21.000 feet of water (in order to submerge Mt. Everest.) The theologians cannot accept the story was told by people who had no idea of seven continents not the many varied cultures who lived there. To do so admits the biblical story is limited and thereby flawed.

So this bring us up to the Flat Earth concept. One does not have a FE in modern thinking an Earth without a Master Micro Managing God who fabricate it that way. It can be construed that every Flat Earth aficionado is likewise a Creationist of the Christian variety. Unless of course he or she is a life member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Flat Earth Society.

The flat earth geometry is far older than the Christian theology. Ancient Greeks knew the earth to be flat and riding on the backs of elephants on backs of turtles. That is until Atlas came along.

I'd say the NASA hoax of a global Earth predates NASA by about 2,500 years.

The idea that anyone is trying to deceive humanity about the geometry of the Earth is totally hogwash.

The aborigine population of Australia have in their culture that green ants dream the world into existence and to awaken the dreamers would end the world as they know it. Other cultures have similar notions of slumbering deities bringing the world into being by their dreams. Although the Christian God does not explicitly dream this world into existence, there is an implication that he does something like that to make humans real. The purpose of this treatise is not to substantiate God or any gods, but to say that any god who had it in mind to create a world for flesh and blood creatures to dwell upon, he would not make a Rube Goldberg creation like what the FE aficionados imagine from some ancient theologians' interpretations of Biblical texts.

Meanwhile EVERY physical argument applied to why the Earth must be flat is flawed in one or more premises and logical developments, too numerous to mention here. All FE devotees are willfully ignorant of the connection between what they do see for themselves and the globe that willfully refuse to acknowledge.

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