# Any Flat Earthers or Geocentrists **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720 "2010-10-10T21:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720/21 "2010-10-12T15:15:58Z")
I believe the Earth revolves around Jennifer Lopez’ bottom, but strangely it wasn’t an option. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720/22 "2010-10-12T15:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] [Catholic geocentrists are holding a convention in November.](http://www.catholicintl.com/galileowaswrong/index.html) [/quote] > [@](#): > > Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe. Holy. Shit. Words. Fail. They’re not satisfied that the Earth be at the centre of the WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE, it doesn’t even rotate. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720/23 "2010-10-12T18:25:30Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > [QUOTE=Der Trihs] > [Catholic geocentrists are holding a convention in November.](http://www.catholicintl.com/galileowaswrong/index.html) > [@](#): > > Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe. Holy. Shit. Words. Fail. They’re not satisfied that the Earth be at the centre of the WHOLE FUCKING UNIVERSE, it doesn’t even rotate. [/QUOTE] Just FYI, the guy is a nutter who has been both a Protestant and a Catholic throughout various stages of his life, and has been forbidden by the Church to use the word “Catholic” in his organizations’ name, an order he has refused to obey. His group is not at all representative of modern mainstream Catholic thought. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720/24 "2010-10-13T06:37:35Z")
I am the center; the universe revolves around me. When I cease to exist, the universe will collapse and all life forms will instantly become extinct. Send me large sums of money and I will promise to live forever. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720/25 "2010-10-13T19:45:27Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I like saying that the sun goes around the Earth just on principle. There’s no “center” to the universe. It’s all relative. And if I define a coordinate system where the Earth is the origin, then everything has to go around the Earth by definition. > > And of course, the Earth doesn’t really go around the Sun anymore than it goes around Mercury. The Sun and the Earth both go around an empty point in space somewhere between the two. Now sure, the Earth circumscribes and area that contains the Sun’s orbit, but it does that for Mercury and Venus too. > > The point is, when you’re talking about interplanetary distances, it makes no sense to say that anything “goes around” anything else. Are you the prof I had that made 1+1=2 a major, confusing issue? I don’t think it is a stretch to say that the Earth ‘goes around’ the sun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-flat-earthers-or-geocentrists/556720.md?page=1)