2016 Hangover

In 2016 Flat Earthers used as a proof, the absurdity of the sun traveling through space while our spinning globe orbits it while the moon orbits us.  The equations that accurately predict the locations of the planets projected in the Ephemeris take these motions into account.  Instead of taking college courses offered in mathematic disciplines so that they can actually debunk the equations they simply claim that the difficulty in wrapping your head around the idea makes it obviously absurd and therefore untrue. 

So if you don't understand how a combustion engine works then it must not work.  Yeah, that is absurd.

Once upon a time based on the same thought process math was considered witchcraft and scribes were considered sorcerers.   We as intelligent free thinking individuals consider this idea absurd.  The flat earth movement is not a truther movement it is a movement of common misunderstandings about our scientific knowledge base being used to push people back into the dark ages. 

The Dark Ages are coming, this is why I tried five years ago to create solidarity between alternative spirituality and ideological factions.  You know so we could stand as a political force to protect our freedom.  Of course it didn't work because humans tend to think that there is always time for that.  Time is up... 

I mean it is 2017 and not only do we not have flying cars but I am having to defend the science of Astronomy and the various disciplines of Math.

Posting about what is happening is not being negative, it is essential.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

The other most common proof sited is the idea that the flat earth is described in the Book of Enoch.   Actually that is just one interpretation of what it says.  And why do these white male christian alleged truthers gloss over the part where the countenance of Enoch described as a white male is also commented on as being in the likeness of the Watchers.   Don't take one part of the Book of Enoch to prove your Flat Earth if you're not going to accept that White folks are the Wicked children of the Evil Watchers.   Hmmm...

You can't use one part of a fairy tale and not include the other because you happen to be white.

One of the many shifts into the lack of understanding being protected as a form of understanding.   Equality does not make ignorance equal to knowledge.   Freedom does not mean that you have the right to institutionalize your ignorance so as to force it on others.

2016 was a shift from moving forward into sliding backwards in many countries and on many levels.  Those of us who survived and thrived anyway, did so through trial by fire.  We hold the line and once again it is the responsibility of the few to preserve the light of knowledge through the long dark night of ignorance and human suffering.

2017 is starting out great for me, but my concerns are not for me alone because we are in this together.

Blessed Awakening :)