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This is layered... Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.
I have met a Flat Earth conspiracy believer mom who was homeschooling her kid, explaining how the sphere Earth model is wrong and so on, her complain was that despite her best efforts to ~~indoctrinate~~ educate her child, the child was not convinced that the Earth is flat. It goes to show that some children are just too intelligent to fall for this kinda shit. The child was eight or nine years old I think.
Reminds me of Aron Ra, he grew up in a mormon family, but in his case they waited with the indoctrinating until he was old enough, which was when he was eight
But as he himself said "by then it was already too late"
When his mother sat him down and started reading to him from the book of mormon, he just pointed out things that were wrong and stupid.
Remember, if you want your kids to believe the stupid things you believe, start early and don't let them see or hear too much about reality, or you'll have a bad time
The thought of a nine year old looking at a "grown" women with disbelief as the women tries explaining the flat earth BS is actually fucking jokes lol
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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
Gives off "my grandma said Cleopatra was black" vibes.
Strong "Waterboy" vibes
My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
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.
I have never through of that....how is day an night supposed to work on a flat earth? Like Minecraft they just...rotate around? What about the underside of the earth? The other side of the coin....do people live there too? Can we visit them if we dig a hole?
The flatearthers are gonna hunt you, better not ask those questions
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All of this effort just to teach your kids... flat earth?! Could've been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would've been more useful for the child's future.
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.
I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn't taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS
It's not just flat earth, spot the mention of "verses." It's the whole young earth creationism belief complex.
This physically pains me.
Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?
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.
Forgetting to model Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars” … that’s just lazy parenting.
Have these kids even read Discworld?
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But how would the flat earth get between the floating moon sun orbs to make an eclipse?
How dear you bring logic into this
They're purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work
It's a pretty sweet diorama though. So much easier to make than a globe.
Man this is just sad
Is there a badparents Lemmy group?
So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?
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.
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You mean to say this horror story has a part 2? :(
I just assumed, thats just too big of a cliffhanger
IRL Wimp Lo.
Serious question, what do the pillars stand on in this concept? Are there other planets? So many questions
Turtles
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Empty toilet paper rolls support the whole flat earth. Big toilet paper doesn't want us to know.
Can we talk about the "map" itself for a moment? They traced a map on a light board to cut out the continents and this abomination is the best they could do?
It seems like the kids did that, so I wouldn't expect too much of it
I always wondered...if the earth is flat then what's on the under side? Why haven't we need able to dig a hole all the way through? Is this all because these people can't get their heads around how gravity works? Why is earth the only flat planet?
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