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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (19 children)

  1. About a trillion cubic kilometers.
  2. Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
  3. The circle within which the sun doesn't rise for at least one day per year in the northern winter.
  4. No

[–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (18 children)

Amazing! You've already watched that entire five hour video in less then one hour! I'm impressed!

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

It turns out I can answer the questions without watching the (literal) flat earth video.

[–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (16 children)

The point was to watch the video and decide afterwards. Not to come to a predrawn conclusion.

Lets say the video is fake. Don't you want to understand the opposition better by understanding their talking points?

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

The point was to watch the video and decide afterwards.

Those things are already known. We don't need to decide.

Lets say the video is fake.

Yes, let's.

Don't you want to understand the opposition better by understanding their talking points?

Opposition to what?

[–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

If you can convince people that the world is flat, you can convince them of anything.

Or:

If you can convince people that the world is a globe, you can convince them of anything.

Crater Earth postulates that both are true. From a certain point of view.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

If you can convince people that the world is a globe, you can convince them of anything.

I'm unconvinced that's true.

[–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Correct. As you are an individual, where as I am referring to social control, and influencing the general populous.

"A Person is Smart, People Are Dumb"

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

It's not just that. It's that there's a lot of convincing evidence that the world is an oblate spheroid in orbit about the sun, with the moon in orbit about it.

Because of that you could convince people of that, just with a basic education. But that doesn't mean that you could then convince them of something with no evidence, such as that gods exist.

[–]Questionable[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

All language and dialect has a knock on effect on all other statements. If I can convince you to use a set of words incorrectly, or use faulty logic sets, I can use these as tools, to shift logic across unrelated topics.

Say I redefined God, then I can convince you that God exists. Then at a later time, I change the definition of God back to how I see it. I have now manufactured your consent, and you now believe in my God.