In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. By sailing from Spain to the Americas, this storied man paved the way for others, claiming to be men of science, to dupe the human race into believing the world is round. This sensory defying statement, which is pushed into our brains from the moment we’re born, was just the start of a worldwide conspiracy by government agencies to steal power away from the church and God’s Word.
It’s difficult to believe that there are people that continue to believe the world is flat but, as luck may have it, I’ve had the opportunity to debate core beliefs with a man who asserts the world is just as flat today as it was when it was created 7,000 years ago. Although I only have a degree in computer science and have studied both the Earth and the Universe in great detail, the Flat-Earther felt obligated to disembowel every core scientific belief I hold dear.
To the man’s credit, he did choose to discuss the topic with someone who has an open mind and is willing to question ideas long-since held to be undeniable. Some may say this is the sign of a sucker. Perhaps they’re right.
The devout man, let’s call him Kenji, went on to educate me about how the world and universe around us actually operate.
24,900 km
This is the diameter of the Earth. And, while the Earth is said to be flat, this is really just a relative observation. Geological phenomena like hills, mountains and valleys clearly prove the world is not completely flat. Instead, the Earth is more of a disc. The North Pole is the center of this circular world. Antarctica is the frozen edge; its solidity ensures the oceans don’t pour over the edge, falling into infinity.
What about all those adventurers who have circumnavigated the globe? Kenji tells me they took a long circular route.
What about the mathematics of Aristotle, Eratosthenes, and Bede? Kenji says they’re wrong.
What about the moon landing, the recent Martian expeditions, the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station and the infamous picture taken from 1969, lovingly entitled ‘Earthrise‘? Fabrications.
Are black holes, quasars, extra-solar planets, galaxies, dark matter observations, gaseous nebulae, gravity, and highly elliptical orbits also fabrications?
Kenji just nodded and looked to be ready to deliver some grand wisdom, but my disbelief was just too great. I can explain, in excruciating detail, how gravity, black holes and quasars work. I can list off a thousand proven reasons that explain various phenomena on and off the planet. I can also accurately predict the effect of an action on a given object in various environs, all without the use of a computer. I’m no genius, but I know science. Has everything I’ve learned been nothing more than a grotesque ruse, perpetrated by the NWO and other shadow government organizations?
Kenji Speaks
The ‘science’ they teach in school is nothing more than science fiction. It’s no different than learning everything about Star Trek and saying the whole thing is fact. Have you been to Mars to confirm the machines are there? Have you seen the International Space Station with your own eyes? Have you witnessed a black hole, or anything else you think you know about space? You put so much faith in what other people tell you, yet you deny what your own senses tell you.
Where is the American flag Neil Armstrong claims to have planted on the moon? How can scientists understand things they can’t see or touch? How could something as massive as the dinosaurs be made extinct?
Show me the spot where humans first walked on the moon. Show me a black hole or a planet. Show me a real dinosaur. Until then, anything you say is just your denial of God’s Wisdom.
Ah … God’s Wisdom. How could I have been so blind!
Clearly the Bible is complete and true. It says so right at the end of Revelations. Nowhere does it talk about black holes, atoms, photons or even the Higgs Boson that the researchers at CERN are working so hard to find! I’ve read several variations of the bible through and through over the years, and had deep discussions with theological scholars while training to become a priest back in my youth. Never have they said that the world was round. Never have they said that man should traverse the heavens. Nowhere does it say anything that I’ve learned over the last two decades, aside from the lessons about humility (which I seem to have forgotten) contained in the New Testament.
Kenji and I spoke for well over an hour about this obvious truth and, at the end of it all, only one thought crossed my mind: Global conspiracies aren’t happening in the world. They’re happening in our heads.
Large Hadron Collider safety apears to fit with your blog’s theme of global conspiracy, but more about manipulating informtion to achieve a political goal… effective propaganda.
Are you aware of the history of LHC safety?
Former Nuclear Safety Officer Walter L. Wagner discovered flaws with CERN’s safety arguments. He believes that the Large Hadron Collider could create dangerous particles that might destroy Earth, so he filed a law suit to require proof of safety. [1]
In response, CERN scientists created a safety report in 2008 that argues no real chance of danger. [2]
After review, German Astrophysicist Dr. Rainer Plaga argues that CERN’s new report does not prove safety. Dr. Plaga proposes that CERN follow additional safety procedures to help reduce the danger, including proceeding slowly. [3]
On August 14th, CERN’s Dr. Jonathan Ellis stated that there is no real danger and they will not proceed slowly, collisions will begin in a few weeks. [4]
Another German scientist famous for contributions to Chaos theory and a visiting professor of physics Dr. Otto E. Rössler theorizes that if micro black holes are created in the Large Hadron Collider, they could grow large enough to destroy Earth in just years or decades. [5]
Dr. Rössler requests that an emergency safety conference be held before collisions begin. He is due to meet Swiss President Pascal Couchepin to discuss safety concerns.
[1] http://www.lhcdefense.org/lhc_legal.php US Federal Lawsuit Filings – Walter L. Wagner
[2] http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/lhc/Safety-en.html The safety of the LHC, Web Site – CERN
[3] http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0808/0808.1415v1.pdf On the potential catastrophic risk from metastable quantum-black holes produced at particle colliders – Rainer Plaga Rebuttal
[4] http://www.lhcfacts.org/?p=72 CERN?s Dr. Ellis tells only half of the story – JTankers
[5] http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/spiritualottoeroessler.pdf A Rational and Moral and Spiritual Dilemma – Otto E. Rössler Safety Counter Arguments
Your concern regarding the LHC and the potential for consequences far more grave than anything the human race has dealt with is admirable. That said, the safety of the coming tests was outside the scope of what I was trying to say. I’ll admit that the potential for danger is quite real, but the is the potential rewards of its product not worth the risk? We’re moving ever closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe, which will give us a better appreciation for God’s work, as well as open the doors to new realms of science.
If there’s no risk, there’s no reward.
The worst thing that can happen involves the destruction of Earth. However, the chances of this happening are about as infinitesimal as getting struck by lightning on a sunny day. Yeah, it can happen. But we shouldn’t live our lives hiding from things under our beds.
We’ll be alright. 大丈夫よ
You didn’t ask that gentleman how can he say that its denial of God’s wisdom & that even God exists?!
Isn’t he also putting faith in what others told him? I mean he couldn’t claim to have seem Jesus!!
Also, who’s to prove that Jesus really existed? Even if he did exist, how does it prove there’s god? If I were to turn up tomorrow at some gathering & claim that I’m god, would people believe? Would they believe if I show some magic tricks, like maybe pull out a bunny from my hat?
Its really amusing to see how deluded these religious zealots can be! They believe in something of which there’s no proof while they accuse others of doing it telling them they are idiots to believe things which they’ve not seen!
I asked this guy quite a few questions … this is the shortened version of the conversation. I also wanted to leave it open to the readers’ imagination to determine if I was a “sucker” and bought the theory, or if I continued to believe the world was round because I’ve been in an airplane and seen the arc of the planet with my own eyes
Thanks for commenting, Amit. I’m glad that I’m not the only one that finds some kinds of zealotism (if that’s even a word) a little hard to swallow.
Hehe, true about the airplane thing, eh!
If you told him that then he would definitely have said that the arc you saw was that of a disc & not sphere!
Also one can ask such people how can they possibly be sure that Bible(or the holy book of their faith/religion) is word of god or even real & not just work of fiction whose text corrupted over the centuries so much that people started believing it to be word of god!
As per the historical facts, the new testament of Bible was written after the debates of Nicea presided over by a pagan emperor. Mortals like us debated over the texts & then decided what should be in & what shouldn’t be, making it look like the whole religion was built from scratch on earth only & its not the word of god. If god is the supreme being who can do no wrong & utter no useless words then how can us mortals debate on his words & decide which to keep & which words are not worthy of keeping??!!
Sometime back I had similar kind of discussions with an islamic zealot who was hell bent on telling me that islam has existed since the dawn of life. When I told him that Prophet Mohammed was actually born in 7th century AD & nobody knew of islam before that he just said – “thats what you people think, but everyone was a follower of islam since life began”. I wonder why no one heard of it before when we have a lot of preserved textual records of centuries before coming of the prophet. And I wondered whether the dinosaurs were also followers of Islam? What about the first life on earth, those single celled beings?
That gentleman went as far as telling me that some holy man of islam stared at moon in anger & moon broke in 2 parts which we see between full moon & new moon!!
And then I wondered on which moon did Neil Armstrong landed – Moon A or Moon B?!!
It can really be pretty amusing talking to these kind of people!!
Wow! I would think that it would be hard to even have a conversation with this guy simply because there are basically NO agreed upon truths.
I like that last line though: “Global conspiracies aren’t happening in the world. They’re happening in our heads.”
Sometimes the conversation is just worth the effort. Besides, why not have some fun with these ideas and mock them openly online?
Ah, the beauty of blogging
Ha! Liked the discussion with Kenji! He scores 100 out of 10 for imagination at least! You end with ”Global conspiracies aren’t happening in the world. They’re happening in our heads” Hmm….have you heard of the High frequency Active Auroral Research Programme in Alaska? Designed for global communications interception, weather and natural phenomenon control through ionosphere manipulation? Also the ‘new’ Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio developed by the Sierra Nevada Corporation. V2K voice to skull bypassing visual area 1? You’re right. Global conspiracies are happening in our heads.
i’ve met jesus. i used to play football with him
P.S: god botherers are wankers