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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

...Here comes the Flat Earth Society!

I was using an old 486 computer in my brother's room when I opened the computer desk drawer and noticed a letter to my brother from a "Flat Earth Research Society". Inside (okay, so I was a bit curious) there was a membership form and explanations on what the society is. Read it for yourself: The International Flat Earth Society. The form show in the article is the same as the one I saw in the desk drawer.

Here are some more related links:

The Flat-Out Truth

A summary of Flat Earth "theory" if you don't want to read the entire thing

A parody of Flat Earth Society--Read the Flat Earth FAQ under "Platygean Information"

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

The Scary Thing is that I've actually seen this before.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Life is 2D.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Have you ever had the compulsion to go find a certain person and just beat them repeatedly w/ a painful, but not life-threatening device? I'm having that compulsion right now, after reading some of that... :-)

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[This message was edited by TSN on June 20, 1999.]

Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

A friend of mine had some Flat Earth literature back in 1981. Crazy then, crazier now.

Still, I appreciated the "Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" reference.

About ten years ago, I found in my local library an old book just jam-packed with Hollow Earth and UFO theories. Most of the Hollow Earth stuff was many quotes from different believers' books....all quoting the same few sources!! (If you repeat something stupid a hundred times, it's still stupid, guys!)

Astrology phone-lines, high-priced feng-shui consultants, magnetic-healing, the Flat Earth... We live in an age of the greatest scientific technology in all of human history, and some of the worst scientific gullability.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

I will have to say that that is the most interesting thing I've seen today (Other than that of a bunch of sheep.) I may look into it some more.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

What's the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead reference? I've only ever read the very beginning of that. I seem to recall something about one of them saying that someplace didn't exist, and the other suggested it was a "conspiracy of cartographers"... :-)

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

But I thought Earth was rolled up like a tube and we lived on the inside.

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