Were we all flat earthers when we were children? - And did we question if people fell out of Australia?

[Alex Hogendorp]

Considering you're trying to understand what your surroundings were when you recently started existing. Before you saw that globe. Did you assume that the world you live in actually existed on a flat plane?

 

[Mr. Bung]

When I was really little I wasn't even considering the existance of a planet or its shape. My world was my parents, grandparents, and maybe just a little T.V. Someone had to eventually tell me that we live on this planet and that it is round. Only time I heard of a flat Earth it was because of the whole Columbus thing, and even back then the educated classes knew that the Earth was round.

I'm still not convinced that today's flat Earthers aren't just trolls.

 

[MadStan]

I would do anything to get Flat Earthers on here.

They are so much fun to poke shit at. They make retreads look like Paul Dirac.

 

[SacredBunny]

I don't think I ever thought the world was flat. The world was round was a concept I remember being taught pretty young? It was something that just always made sense to me, or I just accepted it when I was little and then as I continued to learn it just made more and more sense. Idk just never questioned it.

 

[Table Country]

Given my conception of reality when I was a little boy I would be considered a "no-earther".

 

[Skitarii]

Whoa I was based even as a kid??

 

[Medulseur]

When I was a kid I thought the world was a giant island floating in space. I think I came to that conclusion because whenever I heard people say "the edge of the world" I took it literally.

 

[Mr. Bung]

When I was a kid I thought the world was a giant island floating in space.

Close, it's sort of an island that's carried on the back of a colossal cosmic turtle.

 

[AMHOLIO]

I'm with others: I was too retarded and only thought of what was in front of me. The world just felt endless, you'd travel all the way to another house and it would feel like an hour even if it was 10 minutes. Sadly my parents always kept a globe in the house so I've been indoctrinated into the globepilled since baby.

 

[Begemot]

I would do anything to get Flat Earthers on here.

They are so much fun to poke shit at. They make retreads look like Paul Dirac.

Aw, is the little 'baller' scared? Next you'll pretend we live in a heliocentric universe.

 

[MadStan]

I drove for like, 18 years man, and like, I didn't end up where I started. It's gotta be flat bro.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Adults teach you dumb shit like "you can dig to china" and "why don't people on the other side of the earth fall off???" to fuck with your head for their own amusement. Kids don't have these thoughts normally. This was what crazy adults did back before they told you to troon out.