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.
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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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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.
Saiyanman Benjita
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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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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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