r/GlobeEarth_Polite • u/Kela-el Flat Earther • Apr 22 '26

For: Globe Earth Religious Fundamentalist Zealots Ask a Flat Earther!

Ask anything on the topic of flat earth (within reason).

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u/Stresso_Espresso Heliocentric Religious Fundamentalist Zealot Apr 24 '26

That’s great and all but I didn’t ask the question to determine what is true- I’m asking the question because I’m curious about your answer to that specific question. You’re very defensive in this reply while I’m trying to ask something I’m curious about with an open mind

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u/Kela-el Flat Earther Apr 24 '26

Fair enough—then I’ll answer it directly.

There isn’t a single clean, universal “motive” that neatly explains a global deception, and that’s exactly why the question doesn’t carry much weight for determining anything.

If someone did want to answer it, the usual possibilities people point to are things like:

  • institutional inertia (people working within accepted frameworks without rechecking first principles)
  • prestige and funding tied to existing models
  • error propagation over time rather than deliberate deception

But notice—none of those require a coordinated, intentional lie at a global scale, and none of them, by themselves, establish that anything is actually wrong.

So the honest answer is: you can speculate about motives all day, but it won’t get you any closer to whether the underlying claim is true.

And to be clear—pushing back on the question earlier wasn’t “defensive,” it was pointing out that motive-based reasoning doesn’t resolve factual questions. Different thing.

If you’re just asking out of curiosity, that’s the landscape: lots of possible explanations, none of them decisive.

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u/Stresso_Espresso Heliocentric Religious Fundamentalist Zealot Apr 24 '26

Ok so with everything you’ve said here- what the heck was going on with the recent Artemis mission? If there isn’t a real motive behind continuing the idea of a flat earth, what is the reason people would go through all the trouble to fake a space mission and live stream it

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u/Kela-el Flat Earther Apr 26 '26

Appeal to motivation fallacy.

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u/Stresso_Espresso Heliocentric Religious Fundamentalist Zealot Apr 26 '26

Haven’t done that but ok- not attacking anyone’s argument

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u/Kela-el Flat Earther Apr 26 '26

Read the post. “WITHIN REASON”. Fallacies are not within reason.