I saw an ad for their conference said " celebrities from around the world global will be attending" thats what happens when you cut and paste lol

I prefer not to be disturbed or frightened if possible. It’s not worth giving much thought to those attention seekers.

Actually, the earth really is relatively flat in a lot of places, from a local perspective. The flat-earth model works well for local navigation and surveying. Earth as a sphere is needed for long-distance navigation while an oblate spheroid model is used for cadastral surveys over large areas. In all those models the earth can be considered fixed, with celestial bodies rotating around the earth. Of course for astronomical purposes the planetary model comes into play.

No one model is superior. It is important to recognize that all are nothing but models, useful for certain purposes. Actual ultimate reality is far beyond our ken.

Knowing very little about it, is it not a mocking, or rebellious response to religion more than science? Like the ‘flying spaghetti monster’ stuff? There seem to be various levels or abilities with regard to avoiding institutionalized religion. Even the ‘new age’ people I know are basically replacing one fantasy with another.

I view them as either attention seeking, or weak attempts to avoid mainstream religion/s. Deep down, nobody sane believes such BS, so it’s obviously a game. My hope is, after they’re tired of playing ...they’ll move up to our level

I haven't been keeping up with the news lately, so I didn't realize they were still at it. However I have noticed a disturbingly increasing amount of other anti-intellectual items in my YouTube feed, which is odd especially since I don't watch or sub to any of that.

Anti-intellectualism has always been, but the internet gives such people a platform. Unfortunately, lack of education (in the US, at least) contributes to the spread of misinformation.

We have people that value medical “advice” from a mid-grade model instead of doctors; we have people who insist Paul is dead and Elvis is alive.

I tend to subscribe to George Carlin’s philosophy... if you’re viewing life as anything but entertainment, you’re missing the point!

A bit fatalistic, perhaps, but I personally gotta laugh. You’re never going to stop the influx of stupidity.

I like to tell those people how I circumnavigated the globe once in four months. It was pretty amazing. I drove (north) west from Alabama to Vancouver BC, got on a ship, sailed west until I ended up in Florida, and then drove back to Alabama.

They have members all over the globe.

Sometimes it just boggles the mind how willfully uninformed people are. There’s been great points made by the others already. This issue comes up every now and then. I posted something I saw on FB that was funny, it just showed how stupid they are.

Sure, I am disturbed. I also suspect there is something other than stupidity behind it.