Ultimately he realized that the path the ship was taking would be impossible if the earth was flat, based on the distance they were travelling vs their speed. Every day he would chart the ships location, speed, heading, etc, a few times a day so he could make a map of their path. I have an acquaintance I met in the Navy, who joined specifically so he could see that the earth was flat while at sea. It wasn't my mom's fault that science shows on Discovery and other educational channels taught me that the earth is round, over 4 billion years old, that there were no dinosaurs on Noah's Ark, and that antibiotics are good when used correctly.Įdit: Thanks for the award! Also I just want to be clear that I have nothing against Zionism, just against one single church that claimed to be Zionist/Evangelical for a while before re-branding into a non-denominational church while I was still a child member of said church. It wasn't her fault that the only teaching resource we had after briefly going through textbooks each day was cable TV. It wasn't her fault that her youngest daughter didn't know how to read when she was supposedly in grade 3. It wasn't her fault when she left me, the oldest child, to teach my siblings. It wasn't her fault that we were left to a scant few workbooks and textbooks which we spent about 30 minutes per day on. It wasn't her fault when she failed to get out of bed to teach us and slept in until after 1pm every day. One thing you need to know about my mother is that she's a lazy, delusional narcissist and nothing is ever her fault. Up to the time of starting homsechool I had been in Christian private schools which entertained young earth creationism and flat earth ideology. When I was 12, my mom (with her grade 11 education) decided to homeschool all her kids, which actually helped me to learn some important universal truths for myself. I drank the kool-aid from the ages of 3-12 ish, but came to my senses around age 12-13 and progressively learned that all of the above concepts are BS. Ideas that my mom either believed in for a while or that she still believes to this day include: faith/prayer-based healing, young earth creationism, spiritual warfare, anti-vax, Fit for Life, anti- antibiotics, anti-doctors (in favor of naturopathy and phytotherapy), and of course, a flat earth. I was brought up in a crazy Zionist-Evangelical-but-also-non-denominational Christian household. Not sure if this counts, but what the hell, I'll go for it.

How to argue with a flat earther