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Title: The wonders of the bozo filter
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Published: Jan 24, 2020
Author: Anthem
Post Date: 2020-01-24 20:34:50 by Anthem
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Views: 1501
Comments: 32

Just to let those of you who may be visiting and don't know about it. This site has a "bozo filter" which allows you to screen out comments from trolls. The great thing about it is that it cleans up the "Latest Comments" list, so trolls don't even show up there.

It helps when there are trolls like Liberator and FormerLurker who are determined to clog up the "Latest Comments" page with idiotic trash.

Got to "Setup" then clik the tab "Content Filters" then put in the name(s) of the troll(s). Shazzam! They no longer appear anywhere. Enjoy!

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#4. To: Anthem, FormerLurker (#0) (Edited)

I've done my share of challenging the flat earth myth almost all over at LF. Though he strongly advocates flat earth, Liberator is no troll. He honestly believes it.

Though it can be a bit frustrating challenging flat earth ideas as there is so much wrong with it and its arguments, it's also interesting, I think, to explore the thought processes of the advocates along the way, both as they defend of flat earth as well as their response to global earth evidence.

I'm satisfied in knowing that there are far worse things in life about which to be mistaken and for that reason, I can get along fine with flat earthers. Sure use the bozo filter as inclined. There's also an "Ignore Thread" feature for turning off all attention to specific articles. A good way to get away from flat earth discussions that get long winded.

And I think FormerLurker has spoken adequately in his own defense.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-01-25   3:01:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Though he strongly advocates flat earth, Liberator is no troll. He honestly believes it.

I can't believe any honestly intelligent person would believe such absurd nonsense.

These people deny there is such as thing as gravity. They know nothing about science, yet tell us all the scientists on earth are lying, for yet some unknown and undefined reason.

You'd have to shut your brain off to jump on the flat earth bandwagon.

No, I don't think Liberator believes what he says. He doesn't appear to be a rabid nutter to me.

The truth movement has been infiltrated by people such as him, all for the purpose of discrediting any real truth that is presented. 9/11 truth is just one of those movements that have been infiltrated.

Look up "Flat Earth Psyop" and see what you find.

FormerLurker  posted on  2020-01-25   22:48:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When I first heard that someone was promoting the idea that the earth was flat in our own time, on the internet, I was amazed. I watched a video or two of someone arguing the earth was flat just to see where the hell they were coming from. I remember one has this guy illustrating the our "supposed" heliocentric solar system with coins on flat surface, and in the middle of that presentation, he goes off on some tangent about coinage of the middle ages. But at the end, he concluded that it wouldn't be possible to see the same stars in the winter as the summer because the earth would be on the other side of the sun, conveniently ignoring the fact that space is 3 dimensional, not 2.

I decided either the guy promoting it was a loon, or he started this flat earth advocacy as a social experiment to see how many people he could start believing it. I still don't know which.

But.... one thing I come to believe myself, is that the power of the human mind to believe things that are not true is waaaay underrated. It's why we (people in general) have such very diverse and strong beliefs that vary so dramatically. We especially see it in politics in conservatives/liberals, and with what we call Trump Derangement Syndrome where people believe he's the anti-christ. Remember election day in 2016 where people are crying and news pundents are lamenting the end of the world. Rachel Maddow soberingly assuring us that, no, we didn't die and go to hell, that we were still alive, and Trump won the election.

Muslim extremists believe things so strongly they will blow themselves up thinking an orgasmic paradise awaits them for all eternity. And of course, as we know, countries of whatever predominant faith remain that faith generation in and generation out, as kids simply accept what their parents taught them as gospel.

We all have that defect in tendency to believe things that are not true. I don't exempt myself from the disease either. Certainly flat earth is a more extreme example, but... as I said, there are worse things to be wrong about in life than the shape of the earth.

I've conversed a lot with Liberator. He's most certainly a Bible believing Christian (a factor that I think contributes to his flat earth belief, though I think he denies that), and being the Christian I believe that he is, I think it safe to say that he would not advocate flat earth unless he honestly believed in it.

And... life goes on. Yes, being a scientists by nature, I see flaws in every flat earth argument I take time to consider. Yes, it's an amazing thing to behold, when someone presents it so adamantly, and I've certainly done my fair share of attempting to dispel it. But really, the primary force that shapes for us what we choose to believe is not logic. It is emotion. And I say that as a logically minded guy. For that reason, when someone is emotionally locked onto a particular belief, no amount of logic is going to sway that person. And that's true or all of us, not just flat earthers.

So I say, debate them as long as you want, but when you're done, live and let live.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-01-26   0:57:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#13. To: Pinguinite (#12)

Expanding earth is the proper model.

And also former lurker is most definitely a coinentel troll but he is OUR conintel troll and on rare occasion I even find myself agreeing with him on this or that subject. Earth aint flat and we can agree on that.

titorite  posted on  2020-01-26 06:18:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Muslim extremists believe things so strongly they will blow themselves up thinking an orgasmic paradise awaits them for all eternity.

I knew a guy that was at Khe Sahn, Vietnam. He told me a tank was leaving the base.

They had the perimeter cleared for 100 yards. When the tank got near a bunch of rocks near the road, a gook jumped up wearing a satchel charge. He jumped on the tank and pulled the cord for the charge.

The tank was worth half a million and the gook was worth 10 cents. :-O

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-01-26 09:36:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I've conversed a lot with Liberator. He's most certainly a Bible believing Christian (a factor that I think contributes to his flat earth belief, though I think he denies that), and being the Christian I believe that he is, I think it safe to say that he would not advocate flat earth unless he honestly believed in it.

Which Christian denomination preaches flat earth in this day and age?

I know 500 or so years ago the Roman Catholic Church used to torture people until they confessed to heresy for disagreeing with their teachings, and then they'd finish torturing the victim to death as punishment for their "crime".

Galieo was fortunate and actually given a mild punishment for his crime of discovering the earth was orbiting the sun. He was simply confined to house arrest for life.

Fortunately for the world they halted the practice and no longer believe the sun revolves around the earth and have opened their eyes to scientific facts.

Thus however are the dangers of fervent religious fanaticism, where facts be damned and you MUST follow their dogma or be condemned to suffering and death. If these folks had it their way this would still be true today, and we would still be living as peasants in the Dark Ages subject to horrific torture for having a different viewpoint as theirs.

It's one thing to have a religious belief and worship the God of your choice. If some people want to believe the little baby Jesus is sitting on a cloud in heaven somewhere, so be it.

But claiming the earth is flat is equivalent to claiming fire is wet and water can burn down houses. It's not just a false belief, it's an outright contradiction of reality.

I would compare a flat earther to a person who glues his eyes shut then claims that light doesn't exist, and that it's a lie fabricated by the Masons. The person CHOSE to glue his eyes so he would not be able to see, just as flat earthers CHOOSE to close their eyes to truth and instead believe wild and absolute nonsense they find on YouTube.

As is woefully apparent they have ZERO understanding of anything related to science, math, or engineering. Yet they claim all those things are lies.

For example, they don't believe gravity exists, yet they can't tell you why an object falls to the ground when dropped.

If gravity didn't exist neither would we, not in our current form at least. We wouldn't be able to walk as we'd be floating around everywhere. Maybe we'd have wings. But then again if there were no gravity there'd be no air either as it would escape into space. Neither would there be water as that would have escaped into space as well.

So we flat out (excuse the pun) wouldn't exist, neither would any form of life that required air or water.

But they refuse to understand that most fundamental fact.

FormerLurker  posted on  2020-01-28 16:46:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

One other thing about flat earthers. You say Liberator is a devout Christian.

If that were true, wouldn't he be breaking a few commandments out of the 10?

• Thou shall not bear false witness - Accusing all the scientists who have existed for the past 500 years to be liars and conspiring to fool people for some yet undefined reason.
• Thou shall not lie - Making false claims and willfully ignoring the truth is a form of lying.

FormerLurker  posted on  2020-01-28 17:19:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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