• reverie@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 年前

    I babysat a girl who came to me and asked if atoms were really little crosses, like her grandmother taught her. She was confused because the teacher at school was saying something different

    I told her to listen to her teacher

  • borlax@lemmy.borlax.com
    16·
    1 年前

    This is layered… Not only will the kids grow up incorrectly believing that the earth is flat, they are also going to grow up resenting people that disagree with what their parents say, eventually they may even resent their parents for forcing their false beliefs on them and making them look foolish in front of their peers.

    • myxi@feddit.nl
      12·
      1 年前

      I have met a Flat Earth conspiracy believer mom who was homeschooling her kid, explaining how the sphere Earth model is wrong and so on, her complain was that despite her best efforts to indoctrinate educate her child, the child was not convinced that the Earth is flat. It goes to show that some children are just too intelligent to fall for this kinda shit. The child was eight or nine years old I think.

      • Ignotum@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 年前

        Reminds me of Aron Ra, he grew up in a mormon family, but in his case they waited with the indoctrinating until he was old enough, which was when he was eight

        But as he himself said “by then it was already too late”

        When his mother sat him down and started reading to him from the book of mormon, he just pointed out things that were wrong and stupid.

        Remember, if you want your kids to believe the stupid things you believe, start early and don’t let them see or hear too much about reality, or you’ll have a bad time

      • kwerks@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 年前

        The thought of a nine year old looking at a “grown” women with disbelief as the women tries explaining the flat earth BS is actually fucking jokes lol

  • Catsrules@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 年前

    Wait so flat earth thinks the earth is flat but the moon and sun are not?? How does that work?

    • Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 年前

      What do you mean? You’re seeing how it works right here.

      Sun and moon are spherical objects suspended by a coat hanger and constantly turned in motion by a higher being.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
    11·
    1 年前

    All of this effort just to teach your kids… flat earth?! Could’ve been spent to teach them gardening, electronics, paintings, literally anything else would’ve been more useful for the child’s future.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 年前

      If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.

      I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn’t taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS

    • buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      2·
      1 年前

      It’s not just flat earth, spot the mention of “verses.” It’s the whole young earth creationism belief complex.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 年前

      If it makes you feel any better, chances are the kids will learn pretty quick they were taught BS and will probably just disown Mom at some point.

      I knew a kid who was home schooled, and while he wasn’t taught anything as looney as flat earth, he absolutely knew that some of what he was taught was BS

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 年前

    I’ve tried this experiment in Blender by projecting a NASA earth texture onto a circular plane to see if I could even come up with something where the day/night solstice/equinox cycles make any kind of sense, couldn’t make it work.

    I do think that if you really wanted to upset these folks, though, you’d insist that Australia is actually at the center of the earth.

  • countdankula420@lemm.ee
    71·
    1 年前

    They’re purposely making their kid retard so she can collect disability all her life and not have to work

  • igorlogius@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 年前

    Omitting Great A’Tuin and simplyfing the 4 elephants to be “pillars". Now that’s just lazy parenting.

    • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
      01·
      1 年前

      This isn’t child abuse and even comparing something like home schooling to child abuse is completely unnecessary. Lots of countries allow people to homeschool their children, which of course will include spiritual stuff the majority of people of today will not agree. Some cultures lie to their kids about Santa Claus and other shit and no one cares, because kids aren’t as stupid as we often assume. Kids can change their perspective easily once provided with new information - something that a lot of adults struggle with due to cognitive dissonance.

  • GingeyBook@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 年前

    So how does night time exist in a model like this? It looks like the sun just rotates above the Earth?

    • Vitya@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 年前

      If i know right, they think the sun has much less power than usual, so it works like a spotlight. So its light wont reach the territories under the moon

      • FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 年前

        Of course. That explains why when day transitions to night you see the Sun zoom off into the distance until it diminishes to nothing, with the Moon zooming in from the opposite direction until it’s big enough to see.