The truth, revealed.

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Fight the conspiracy!
mistery of the day, how does this even exist nowadays?

[okiN]

It takes all kinds.

[Kafein]

Teach the controversy !!!

[Bjord]

What the fuck.

[Sir_Hans]

History of the Flat Earth Society

The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham's Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. After Rowbotham's death in 1884, followers of his Zetetic Astronomy founded the Universal Zetetic Society.
Flat Earth theory spread to the United States, largely in the town of Zion, Illinois where Christian Catholic Apostolic Church founder John Alexander Dowie and later Wilbur Glenn Voliva promoted Flat Earth theory. Voliva died in 1942 and the church quickly disintegrated. Flat Earthism remained in Zion, gradually becoming less popular into the 1950s.

The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society. Shenton died in 1971 and Charles K. Johnson became president of the International Flat Earth Society. Johnson actively and charistmatically promoted the Society and, over time, its membership increased to over 3,000. His wife Marjory took an active role in the Society as well, often contributing articles to the Flat Earth Society Newsletter.

In 1995, a fire destroyed the Johnson's home as well as all of the Flat Earth Society's library, archives and membership lists. Following a long period of poor health, Charles K. Johnson's wife Marjory Johnson passed away in 1996. He vowed to rebuild the society. Sadly, Charles K. Johnson passed away in 2001 at the age of 76, leaving the Society's future uncertain.

After several years of inactivity, the Flat Earth Society was resurrected in 2004 and remains active today at theflatearthsociety.org.  The Society officially reopened to new members on 30th October 2009.

Crazy religious nuts... Why am I not surprised. 

[Xant]

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ

[Casimir]

In general, we at the Flat Earth Society do not lend much credibility to photographic evidence.

Every single\piece of evidence to do with faking the moon landings on their site is based on photographic evidence.

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[Xant]

The earth isn't pulled into a sphere because the force known as gravity doesn't exist or at least exists in a greatly diminished form than is commonly taught.

[Necrorave]

"People who can't afford to travel Society"

[Kafein]

I like how they explain why we are pulled down on earth by saying it is a constantly accelerating plane.

[Rumblood]

I like how they explain why we are pulled down on earth by saying it is a constantly accelerating plane.

Science is wrong! Except when we need it to make a point 

[CrazyCracka420]

That website is actually a parody making fun of people who believe in the literal interpretation of the bible. 

here's an actual writing by someone who believes the earth is flat:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm

If you haven't had your coffee yet today, or aren't prepared for rampant lunacy, you should tread very carefully. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

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Apparently Antarctica is an ice sheet that surrounds a disc shaped earth.

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Large "map":

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Look at the guys on the far right of the map "falling off" the globe version of the earth):
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[Christo]

What the fuck

[okiN]

That website is actually a parody making fun of people who believe in the literal interpretation of the bible. 

...

If you haven't had your coffee yet today, or aren't prepared for rampant lunacy, you should tread very carefully. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

You seem to have failed to notice that the website in the first post is run by the people this wiki article is about. The page is even linked there. It's not a parody.

[CrazyCracka420]

You seem to have failed to notice that the website in the first post is run by the people this wiki article is about. The page is even linked there. It's not a parody.

Haha I did fail to notice that...I just assumed it was a parody of the real flat earth society...my bad.