# Are Most Flat Earthers Trolls? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 2, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011 "2024-02-02T09:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/221 "2024-02-11T23:27:01Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > At least two on YouTube. I think we watch the same channels. We should get a life. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/222 "2024-02-11T23:32:32Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Annnd as I’ve argued here before until I am blue in the face, it doesn’t matter if they are actually “trolls” doing it for the lulz or are True Believers. In the end there ultimately isn’t any real distinction there worth splitting hairs over and/or as if the two groups cannot ever have any overlap. Yeah, “is that guy over there shitting in the jacuzzi _ironically_, or _sincerely_?” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/223 "2024-02-11T23:32:56Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [back to main topic] It just amazes me that there are people who do NOT have an open-ended mindset which could lead them to discover/confirm various awesome authentic phenomena, but come in with unshakable prior beliefs that no evidence can dissolve. I simply cannot even begin to imagine being one of these beings. Isn’t the former mindset simply a lot more FUN? My observation is that many of these people feel trapped in a world they don’t really understand, and it feels secure to cling to simple beliefs like God doing everything and that we’re special. They lock their mindset to protect themselves. I’ve heard many who have deconverted from fundamentalist Christianity say they are still petrified of hell. It must be very difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/224 "2024-02-12T00:01:31Z")
Part of the reason things like creationism and flat earthism are _sticky_ is that the arguments are really superficial; they are designed (or at least refined) to shut down further inquiry or discussion - to _make the questions go away_ as quickly as possible. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/225 "2024-02-12T01:25:08Z")
Ya know folks, they must almost all be trolls. Look what they have done here. NOT ONE response from a flat earther. And look what it did. We, and I am putting energy into responding to this. Though, I am kinda watching the Superbowl too. It’s kinda fun, but rather pointless. Sort of like the Superbowl. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/226 "2024-02-13T02:09:46Z")
It’s explained on Doctor Who. Trans-Dimensional engineering. > **[How Does 'Bigger on the Inside' Work? | The Robots of Death | Doctor Who](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ01T3_E6YQ%2F)** > > The Doctor explains to Leela how the TARDIS fits inside itself through transdimensional engineering!Subscribe to Doctor Who for more exclusive videos: http:/... ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-most-flat-earthers-trolls/997011/227 "2024-02-13T02:15:57Z")
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