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Post by preciousjewel on Apr 29, 2015 22:47:57 GMT
I'm only a newbie to the FE (a month into it) and I am wondering how others felt when they first realised that their world is false!!! I found it mind blowing, but exciting!!!! I was walking around thinking- Wow, wow, WOW!!! It changed everything, but then really nothing, lol. I felt like shaking people and yelling- the earth is FLAT!!! But knew I'd be locked away if I did. So far, my friends have been quite opened to it....well, they didn't ridicule the concept. .... and you could see them thinking about it. Most even said- It makes total sense! No such luck with my parents though. They think it's the craziest thing ever!!! And they warned me not to tell anyone! I'm banned from discussing it too!!! It's not like I went on about it either. ... just mentioned it once, and they reacted badly. I'd love to hear your experiences, please share.
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Post by heathen on Apr 30, 2015 4:31:52 GMT
I've looked at flat earth off and on for the last couple years or so. Last year I was imagining how the world would be if it was concave but I wasn't really a believer. I've also considered that what we call atoms are similar to pixels.
Mark Sargent's flat earth planetarium creeps me out but I still think it's a fun and interesting idea. I think though, that possibly how the ancients experienced this world, a flat world, would have made life have more depth than living in a minuscule dot in an accidental universe. I get the idea they had more chance to experience their life as heroic or meaningful. Humans were center stage. I think that heroism is quite possibly a psychological need for humans to thrive in this world and I think we lack that today and wonder if part of the reason is heliocentrism. I wonder if humans adapted this heroic and cosmic view of their importance because they were adapting to something real about the world we live in.
Basically, where I am at now is simply a significant lack of belief in heliocentrism. And I think I have seen videos where it is stated that heliocentrists first had the belief and then set out to prove it. I'd like to see about any books on the first heliocentrists and their beliefs, and if that is the case.
Although, I like science, I have been skeptical of science for a long time and I believe that science has paradigms where the anomalies that don't fit it are ignored or rejected. An easy example are how paranormal tests and experiences are considered pseudo-science because it is not materialism. And science is equated with materialism. You could say we are in the heliocentric materialist paradigm right now.
I don't really talk to anyone about this but one family member and I don't particularly want to spend too much time debating.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 4:59:05 GMT
I have had negative experiences with family, friends, colleagues. It is the same as sharing my 911 research, but to the power.
They superficially discarded my theories, and I have had to hear disappointing comments such as:
1) since most people do not agree with your theory, then it must be false
2) since scientists do not agree with your theory, then it must be false
3) it it were true, it would be all over the news
Also, some friends didn't reply to my emails. Then, when I realized that, by telling people you believe in flat earth, you could lose friends, I made sure to tell as many people as possible, to find out who were my real friends. So I lost a few more "friends" that way.
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Post by sceptimatic on May 2, 2015 8:21:27 GMT
What we have to remember is, most people do not give much thought to anything other than the snippets of mainstream media spin that they see. It's natural to understand that one of us telling them that the world isn't what they think - or, this didn't probably happen like they tell us. They will look at us like we are simpletons or taken leave of our senses.
It takes a hell of a lot to wake a person up; especially one that's placed their entire life's trust in anything authority wise. I had no thought on most things. Do you know; at one time I didn't even know that there was more than one supposed Apollo moon landing. I seriously thought it was just Armstrong and crew. That's how much notice I took.
I also remember arguing with someone over nuclear power...me saying it was ulra dangerous and blah blah. I was arguing against coal. Me...I thought I knew it all. " no, no, coal isn't worse for us than nuclear power." this is what I'd say. Now I realise that nuclear pwer and weapons are most likely a big lie but that's anotehr story.
Someone once mentioned that I'd be one of those that believed the Earth was flat. What did I say? I said, " ermm, no...I might have my thoughts but I'm not loop the loop yet."
Why did I say all of this?...because I had my mind made up by reading into different things without taking time out to sift through what is potential truth and what was clap trap.
I started with the moon landings. It didn't take me long to realise how seriously we were duped and how pathetic I felt when I looked at the footage and the contraptions supposedly sent there. To think I frigging bought into it, even if it was half hearted.
Anyway from this point on I started to trawl the sites and came across the flat Earth society. I joined with a mindset of a stationary globe with the stars and such going around us.
As I started to read through the stuff on there I was intrigued as well as puzzled. Some of it looked extremely good and to this day it still does interest me. I don't follow it all but essentially they are sort of right. It is sort of flat. I just don't follow the exact way in which they say it is. I respect the work that's gone into it though.
I have to thank that site for making me evaluate a lot of things. It made me start to do my puzzles before I chime in with thoughts. My thoughts may be way out to some and that's fine because we all have them and that's what makes free thinkers a force...because they can and should bounce their thoughts of each other. Nobody has to agree but by looking into stuff and using a clear, logical mind...things can piece together, however small.
For me, the world is a cell. Probably among trillions of cells. We literally could be part of a body of some kind but I won't go down that path. Our arrogance makes us believe we are more than we are. We walk and talk and communicate and build. We make electrical components and build cars, ships and what not. We have the capability to do what most creatures can't, which is, control our environment in terms of deciding who's boss.
The thing is. Do we actually know this world or just the part we live on? We could be living on half of it and the other half could be inhabited by stronger/bigger, more intelligent similar beings as us. A part that we are not allowed to ever see. Makes sense when you consider the fact that our fellow human beinmgs have decided we need passes and clearance to travel on what should be our Earth.
Imagine it in your new well equipped ship. " ok people where are you going." "Ahhh, we've decided to explore the Earth to see what we can find."
"Oh, ok, but you do realise that if you go into this water or that water you are tresspassing and will be sunk or arrested."
Think about it. Just something to think about and nothing to take as any truth. I think the sensible people among us can understand that living on top of a spinning ball or even a stationary ball (as I once went with) is utter nonsense...right?
For me...anyone who can grasp this much to start with, has one hell of a chance to start using their logical minds and having the ability to deeply think about what each of us are putting forward, because even if a snippet can be taken form a mass of thought, it's progress and one small step closer to potentially figure out just what it's all about in its entirety.
Many of us dismiss giants of old. We dismiss them because we believe we are big and arrogant enough to think that we are the basic giants, which we are descendents from.
Here's something for you to ponder. Go and look at ants in various countries. In England we have tiny ants. In some countries, their ants are humongous. Put one beside an English ant and you have a literal giant, yet they're both ants.
Think about this when you think about humans over time and also think about the pyramids and such like - that nobody can fathom how they were built and teh stones moved.
It may sound silly or outlandish to people. All I say is, think about it with a serious mind and you may start to change your opinion.
Remember one major thing. Whenever you're trying to think over this stuff, there will always be a small army of dis-info people or brainwashed people who will try to coax you into other avenues. If you can get past this, you have a real chance of gaining a better potential reality to your life's history to present day.
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Post by preciousjewel on May 2, 2015 9:07:03 GMT
Cool post Sceptimatic, agreed mostly with you there. :-D
My *like* button has vanished, so can't do any liking- grrrr.
Are you hinting at giant humans? If so, that was my absolute favourite subject before arriving at FE. Might have to start a thread on them soon. ;-)
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Post by sceptimatic on May 2, 2015 10:53:20 GMT
Cool post Sceptimatic, agreed mostly with you there. :-D My *like* button has vanished, so can't do any liking- grrrr. Are you hinting at giant humans? If so, that was my absolute favourite subject before arriving at FE. Might have to start a thread on them soon. ;-) Yes, I'm hinting at giant humans. The problem with modern day us is, we have had to rely on people who profess to be experts on stuff they really know little about, except for reading a few books. Basically we're fed a long line of Chinese whispers that come out as gobbledegook at the end and are adhered to like limpets to a rock. We get told about all these places with huge carved stones that modern day machines can't move. We're then told that men with ropes and pulleys managed to sort it all out in record time. It's bullshit. The thing is, giants and the mere mention of them to people, will be met with scorn and giggles. Ignorant people who simply believe Jason and th argonauts movies and Gulliver, plus David and GOLIATH...not to mention the film 300 where you see men against large enemy. Yeah of course they're fantasy films to us...but are they really? Look at the nazca lines. The drawings that are kid like but can only be made out from the air. What's to say that they are kid like because giant kids or people of that time weren't just doing what we would do on the beach. What would carving our name into sand look like to a mouse running along the beach? Of course, it sounds laughable but there's skeletons found that are giants and we have the remnants of the odd giant, as in Robert Pershing Wadlow who was 8 feet 9 inches tall in the late 1920's. No way can we imagine people being 20/30 or more feet tall. It sounds ludicrous, right?....is it though. Is it really that ludicrous. How ludicrous is it when a shark meets a blue whale. Huge sea creatures that are basically similar in look and design, just different in scale. We live under atmospheric pressure of around 15 psi. That wouldn't have always been the case. Depending on where people lived on this Earth as in further into the Earth as in down into the deeper depths of land that is now no longer seen due to floods caused by atmospheric changes upon it, forcing people up the slightly concave bowl or plate, changing size and shape as they do so to acclimatise to the environment. Many, maybe dying early in the process of it until those that are born become accustomed. It's still happening now. It's just a slow process and we do not live long enough to appreciate what's going on because we are fed that many lies about it all. We are born. We play. We grow and eat. We create new life and work to feed that life to keep going. That's basically our life. Nothing special. No different to the life of a bird or a fly, except for the methods. One thing we do possess for ourselves though. We possess the ability to explore. To find out what it is and was all about. We as humans had the capabilities to pass on the knowledge and the word of Earth and it's riches, etc. The problem is, the bullies and bullshitters took control of that pass it on word and stored it. What was given out is the bullshit we read today. They don't want us knowing that this Earth is a paradise and we are all entitled to the spoils. They want us as slaves to cater for their every whim and to control us in all manner of things...yet toss us a bone every now and then to keep us happy and in the belief that we are free and not caged animals. Is it possible? They even have us send money to places where we believe they are worse off than us. Seriously? We've been given hutches to live in and crap food to gorge on to the point of us being choosey. We've been given a set of bills that cause brain clots and a saturation of scare tactics about our health. What do the uneducated ones have in the so called third world countries? They have each other. Love. No bills except to hunt and grow your own food. To eat what's needed and not to cry and whine when your belly rumbles. To play free and not worry about material things. The tribes have it the right way. We are the ones to be pitied. People willing to sell their own granny for a position as manager on the top floor of a skyscraper working 14 hours a day behind a desk in a room that is barely 12x12 feet if they're lucky, then to finish work and take the tube home to their apartment up some height, to settle down with a glass of red wine and a bath before bed to go and do the same thing again. Who's the idiots?
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Post by LIT on May 2, 2015 12:29:11 GMT
@sceptimatic
You write very well, but you tend to mix everything into one big conspiracy pot. I don't think this is right and appropriate. When it comes to flat Earth, sometimes people almost believe that everyone else is trying to hide the truth from them. If you really feel that way, you're already self-isolated.
Think about it, there is 7 billion people on the planet, and most people are trying to hide the truth from you. You call this a conspiracy? If the majority knows the truth, but you're told lies, it is not a conspiracy, but you're just an outsider who doesn't deserve to know better. Being suspicious and paranoid of those who you depend on for you development certainly won't help you understand the world, realize yourself or do anything with your life.
Just saying how one can interpret your suspicion of everyone. In fact, claiming that the scientists know nothing, but you know better, without being a scientist, makes you extremely arrogant and at the same naive. You might feel that way, but you will be left out.
A good indicator of how much you know and how well you understand the world is your social position and your relations with others. Apparently, if someone is an outsider he doesn't have a clue how to understand the rules of this world and help himself develop in it, so it is very unlikely he would be right about any conspiracy either, because obviously he doesn't understand even the world he lives in with its basic rules. If he is right, then it is unclear why he prefers to be outside of everything. Is it fear? If it is fear, then what is the point? You would be paralysed and helpless.
I seriously doubt most conspiracists have a clue of what is going on. It is an unhealthy aspiration to debunk everything, because you can't participate in the real life and you want to rebel against those who somehow managed to make it, and you didn't.
Anyway, some conspiracies are indeed real, but being aware of them is absolutely not equivalent to being awake, because it is none of your business anyway.
You need to first prove in your personal life that you have a clue how to operate and function within the small group of people you live with and only then if you're at a higher and more responsible position it is your job to understand how the other layers function, otherwise it is just a waste of time and you might spend your whole life being an outsider, and you won't have any impact on anyone.
Those who you would have an impact on would be the other outsiders who no one pays attention to. So knowing about a conspiracy is not some sort of prize for being smart and very insightful, because it doesn't give you absolutely anything unless it is your business to deal with it, but it is clearly not if you're renegades and have no say on anything that happens around you. It might give you some relief though that at least you know how the others achieve their goals, however, it is extremely abstract. It is like studying the theory of sex without ever planning to do it.
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Post by sceptimatic on May 3, 2015 15:44:14 GMT
@sceptimatic You write very well, but you tend to mix everything into one big conspiracy pot. I don't think this is right and appropriate. When it comes to flat Earth, sometimes people almost believe that everyone else is trying to hide the truth from them. If you really feel that way, you're already self-isolated. My philosophy in life is to believe nothing and question everything. This doesn't mean I'm isolated or paranoid of everything. Learn to differentiate between me putting thoughts into a forum and my personal life. We are here to pass time as (what I believed was a free thinkers forum) individuals pouring out our thoughts. It seems that now this is not the case and I'm actually some retard. Make your mind up you people. Do you want to question stuff or just select stuff that suits just you?
Think about it, there is 7 billion people on the planet, and most people are trying to hide the truth from you. You call this a conspiracy? If the majority knows the truth, but you're told lies, it is not a conspiracy, but you're just an outsider who doesn't deserve to know better. Being suspicious and paranoid of those who you depend on for you development certainly won't help you understand the world, realize yourself or do anything with your life. You're reading into my thoughts all wrong. I don't think that people are hiding the truth from me. I believe that people in higher places have instructed certain people who pose as genius scientists to lie to me. To skew our history and what we live in as well as the space junk. I could easily call you naive for simply thinking there's only a small amount of conspiracy and everything else is above board. As I said before, my so called paranoia is not spread into the public. I use places like this to have my say and I talk to people outside who I know have a interest on this stuff. I don't go shouting it from the rooftops. I'm well aware of how people are programmed. You'd do well to start thinking a bit deeper if you think you're not getting shafted.Just saying how one can interpret your suspicion of everyone. In fact, claiming that the scientists know nothing, but you know better, without being a scientist, makes you extremely arrogant and at the same naive. You might feel that way, but you will be left out. Are you working intanden with aliveandkicking? am I paranoid?...lol..who knows, eh? Let me get something straight with you because the globalists used to do this regular when trying to dig at me. Ill put it in capitals and colour. I DO NOT CLAIM THAT SCIENTISTS KNOW NOTHING. I BELIEVE THAT "SO CALLED SCIENTISTS" ARE SPINNING US A YARN ON MANY THINGS ABOUT OUR HISTORY TO PRESENT DAY EXPLOITS. NOW NOTE THIS: THERE ARE MANY GENUINE SCIENTISTS IN THIS WORLD. SOME GENIUS PEOPLE. MANY WHO ARE DEDICATED TO THEIR JOBS. I ADMIRE THESE PEOPLE...BUT LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO YOU JUST SO YOU UNDERSTAND POTENTIAL HERE IN DUPING. A genius, dedicated scientists who spends 20 years of his life finding cures for diseases won't have time nor the inclination to look at the dark sky and think anything other than rockets work in space and stars are what's told. They are the easiest to dupe and have as backing. Why? Because the science world will be close enough knit as to simply accepting each others fields as being true to form...even if it's a theory.A good indicator of how much you know and how well you understand the world is your social position and your relations with others. Apparently, if someone is an outsider he doesn't have a clue how to understand the rules of this world and help himself develop in it, so it is very unlikely he would be right about any conspiracy either, because obviously he doesn't understand even the world he lives in with its basic rules. If he is right, then it is unclear why he prefers to be outside of everything. Is it fear? If it is fear, then what is the point? You would be paralysed and helpless. This depends on what you mean by outsider. Let's put it my way. If my thoughts on the Earth and space are different to what's been put out and my gravity is atmospheric pressure, then I'm a natural outsider by mainstream choice, not mine, because I'm a nut case for mentioning something that a few people deem ridiculous backed by peer pressured masses who simply follow the leader. I can explain gravity in a realistic way for people to grasp...if they have a clear mind to undersand the simplicity of it, yet I will be jumped upon and ridiculed by people who believe they are stuck to a ball in space with oceans of water with all planets orbiting each other of all sizes ranging from 1000's of miles to millions pon millions of miles in dimeter and yet gravity is what keeps it all in place. Gravity is measured so accurately that men jumped about on the so called moon and guess what?....these so called boffins cannot explain what gravity is. They can tell you what it does, just not what it is as a force...yet it's accepted no problem.
I seriously doubt most conspiracists have a clue of what is going on. It is an unhealthy aspiration to debunk everything, because you can't participate in the real life and you want to rebel against those who somehow managed to make it, and you didn't. I'm not rebelling against anyone. I go about my life like most do. However, when I see the news, I tend to bypass it because I've seen enough media bullshit to make me think twice about buying into any of it, because it's difficult to sift out the truth from the lies. I don't go walking down the street looking at people or taking to people and thinking they're naive or stupid for telling me about the news that day. Nor do I think people are stupid for believing we live on a spinning ball in space. I'm old enough now to see things differently and choose to do so. I used to be like most people. I accepted it all for what was sold. I have no problem with people typing to me beliving in mainstream stuff as long as they're open to possibilities that what they're told is always the truth, which is what this site is about...so I believed. Let me know what this site is because I'll happily vacate it and set my own up for real free thinkers with shills discarded as soonm as they show their hands.Anyway, some conspiracies are indeed real, but being aware of them is absolutely not equivalent to being awake, because it is none of your business anyway. What kind of crap is this? None of my business? Ok let's use your line of thought. You spend X amount of £$ a year on taxes. Some of it is for space. Some of it is for all other manners of things, including nuclear deterrent and arms, etc. You name it, it's taxed. Imagine in 10 years you were to find out that no man made craft has ever went into space. As well as the come down and th blatant lies. Aren't you bothered about your wasted tax money and where it really went? Everything in this world is my business and yours and everyone elses, because we all share it and are entitled to the truth of it all.You need to first prove in your personal life that you have a clue how to operate and function within the small group of people you live with and only then if you're at a higher and more responsible position it is your job to understand how the other layers function, otherwise it is just a waste of time and you might spend your whole life being an outsider, and you won't have any impact on anyone. You worry about your life and I'll worry about mine. You're trying to judge me on mine whilst trying to tell me about how to go about being a conspirator. What are you? Once you learn to operate and fuction within the same group, let me know and I'll take tips.
Those who you would have an impact on would be the other outsiders who no one pays attention to. So knowing about a conspiracy is not some sort of prize for being smart and very insightful, because it doesn't give you absolutely anything unless it is your business to deal with it, but it is clearly not if you're renegades and have no say on anything that happens around you. It might give you some relief though that at least you know how the others achieve their goals, however, it is extremely abstract. It is like studying the theory of sex without ever planning to do it.
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Post by preciousjewel on May 4, 2015 8:18:18 GMT
I use places like this to have my say and I talk to people outside who I know have a interest on this stuff. I don't go shouting it from the rooftops. I'm well aware of how people are programmed. -------------------- This above is so funny to me, as I wrote this text below a few mins ago to a likeminded FEer friend. Lol. . Sitting here at dance class and trying to refrain myself from mentioning that we live on a flat earth!!!! Over hearing such boring dance talk! Makes me want to scream- flat earth peoples!!!!!!! --------------------
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2015 8:38:06 GMT
Yes, in many ways this place should provide psychological and emotional support for people, "conspiracy theorists", who cannot speak their minds with those around them. The good thing is that here we are a circle of friends, whereas in the other forums, if you open up, you are going to get hurt (IFERS) or ridiculed (TFES).
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Post by LIT on May 4, 2015 9:12:28 GMT
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Thanks for the reply. It was just me being pessimistic. I do feel sometimes that it is none of my business, and I am interested in this stuff just to satisfy my own curiosity. I wouldn't really call this being awake or even learning. It doesn't have any practical aspect whatsoever. That is what I meant by 'none of our business'.
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Post by sceptimatic on May 4, 2015 12:18:11 GMT
I use places like this to have my say and I talk to people outside who I know have a interest on this stuff. I don't go shouting it from the rooftops. I'm well aware of how people are programmed. -------------------- This above is so funny to me, as I wrote this text below a few mins ago to a likeminded FEer friend. Lol. . Sitting here at dance class and trying to refrain myself from mentioning that we live on a flat earth!!!! Over hearing such boring dance talk! Makes me want to scream- flat earth peoples!!!!!!! -------------------- The thing is, in everyday normal walking life and meeting up physically with other people - as in - family and friends, as well as the odd chin wag with people at the pub/club/supermarket/haridressers or whatever - we have to remember that most (nearly all) people are in robotic mode. Their lives revolve around shopping or hair or nails or work or reading a magazine and newspaper as well as travelling to and from destinations. Most people are glued to their phones, texting each other. Most people do not possess the time nor the inclination to think about conspiracies or what shape the Earthy is they're walking about on. Until you put a person in potential harms way, that person will simply go about their life in the programmed manner they've been accustomed to. Give a person the time to think and things change. That's why those at teh top do not want people who think. They want people who do. They want people to do as they're told and to know what they need to know not what they want to know. Every person is a potential genius. A potential scientific genius and inventor for the good and bad of their species and Earth. It's just a matter of having the time and material, plus innovative mindset to set it into motion. Most people can't put a straight shelf up. Most people struggle to wire a plug properly or fry an egg properly. Why? Because they mostly never need to do it and are busy doing one specific thing in their work and relaxing after it. Imagine what would happen if you take away that person's liberty. Put them away for 23 hours a day in a 8 x 6 foot cell with nothing to do but think. Now throw in various bits of materials. Anything you want to. It's amazing the things a person can invent/fashion out of basically nothing useful to the ordinary Joe in the street. Imagine affording those same people the time to be a scientist in that same environment. Imagine what we could have if it was allowed. Now then. Can you imagine their minds being channelled into figuring out what we are living on. What space is? what are truths and potential lies or mis-info to basic fibs, to fantasy Hollywood projections pushed as reality. Imagine having enough people in an environment with nothing more to do than to put their brains to use. The biggest geniuses in the world are those that are incarcerated. Guess what?....scientists are also incarcerated in their rooms at university, or special rooms set out for them at secret facilities. They are no less a prisoner than those who are locked up for crimes. The problem with all of it, just like us on th street. If we think too much and look to be talking common sense, we lose our chance to speak out and be taken serious. In jail you can invent or think something up that those at the top dislike and lose your privileges. A scientist not following protocol will follow the same path. The person on the street will be the same. All will be ridiculed as well. But then again, I could be just paranoid or simply making up what I believe to be the case and all is above board in reality. This is true. I could be. the issue is...am I ...and if so, that means that no lies are told to us...ever. Is this the case, because even the staunchest person who trusts authority must know they tell some lies. The issue is...are they small lies which leave them incapable of selling big lies, or are lies simply lies and once a liar, always a liar? I suppose it depends on who's telling the stories, as to how deep we all go into a belief system to make us refuse to question authority. You can walk up to the dullest, slowest, dimwited person in the street. This person could have came out of school with nothing. In fact, this person would be known as dumb as hell. You can walk up to that person and say, " hey, did you know that the Earth is flat." The response you get could easily be, " don't talk stupid, it's a ball you dummy." Imagine that. Imagine that happening. Now why would this person go into this mode? the very same reason that this person would go into murderous mode when told that TV's are 90% off at the superstore. Their minds are coaxed into a focus, whether that's a fictional ball Earth due to seeing pictures of it and hearing it time and time again, or jumping in a car and driving like a raging bull to the superstore, knocking people over to get to the TV, only to find that they went hours before as there were only 30 or so on offer. Imagine if that store wasn't the one doing the sale. It's easy to stone to death a person for their thoughts, as long as mass opinion accept that the stoning is warranted. It's hard to stone to death a mass of people if you're the minority because you do not have the right. Think about it.
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Post by LIT on May 4, 2015 12:48:45 GMT
@sceptimatic
Your post rings true to me. I especially agree with you on how we're not encouraged to think and invent, but instead to operate like robots and follow procedures.
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Post by preciousjewel on May 5, 2015 5:49:09 GMT
@sceptimatic
Yes, great posts! So true, programmed robots is what most are!
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