Is the flat earth society for real?

Factual Questions
1

On a whim, I started skipping around the net via google and was looking for the infamous “flat earth society”. I’ve stumbled across a few, but they seem to be doing it entirely tounge in cheek.

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

http://www.flat-earth.org/

Is there a real “flat earth society” out there that seriously believes the earth isn’t round?

It came to mind whild reading “Dante’s Inferno”, which indicates that Dante seemed to believe the earth was round. I believe the greeks proved it mathimatically something like 1500-2000 years before him(I can’t remember who exactly).

2

Of course it’s real.

The late founder was a Biblical Literalist. The Bible says it’s flat (check their cites), therefore it’s flat.

Science, observation, physics, etc., all don’t matter. Their arguments are completely indistinguishable from other Literalists style arguments.

But clearly most people who join for their lovely certificate are just doing it for a lark.

3

I once knew somebody who claimed to be a member of the FES, he was a serial Society joiner so I accepted it as probable.

His best was the Pudding Club, that met quarterly in a top restaurant and had a seven course dinner, with wines, all puddings though. :slight_smile:

As a student in the UK he belonged to the “Sweep Over Channel Society”, dedicated to the reconquest of Aquitaine, Burgundy and Anjou. I thought that was pretty cool - he claimed the wrote a letter advocating their views to the British Foreign Secretary and got a polite letter back pointing out that “it had dropped somewhat on our foreign policy objectives”!

In fact I believe the UK gave up their claims in various historical Treaties…

Sorry. Hijack over.