• EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I feel like it’s been memory holed, but I remember 00’s flat earth being genuinely smart people using it to illustrate the ridiculousness of teaching creation beside evolution, which was a push around that time. It was a Church of Satan style mockery, but I guess the arguments were too convincing.

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      5 months ago

      I thought it was primarily used to determine if you could convince them that after sleeping together that you had to leave on a secret mission to a Mars, but that there would be a reptilian disguised as you remaining on Earth.

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      It was a weird blend of that and true believers. Then the people there for the joke of it all got weirded out by the crazies and left.

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        5 months ago

        I’m kinda hoping for a Cthulu Church myself. Can you imagine how cool the aesthetics of the building would be?

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            I need to become an author, create a Cthulu religion, buy lots of boats, and an island with a giant Cthulu statue with no explanation to keep it a mystery. I’ll build a church and instruct everyone to stay away from the island. Inside the statue I’ll pay a person to sell merchandise…

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      5 months ago

      Poe’s Law

      Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.

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      5 months ago

      I member… i learned of it from a vsauce video i watched when it first dropped. Was mindblown years later when ppl were touting the flat earth society seriously. Their tagline was literally, “We Have Members Around the Globe!”

    • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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      I recall it being an argument in a high school debate club or someother which made it’s way onto 4chan and found supporters, who then proceeded to do what 4chan does best, and troll people/targets of their derision. Basically they assumed no one was stupid enough to believe it and were shockingly surprised.