The Flat Earth Argument gives me a Headache.

The Mobius Earth Theory
By [Me...], Enlightened Visionary of the One-Sided Truth

• The Earth is a Mobius strip — a one-sided, infinite plane where there is no top, no bottom, and no edge... only the Twist.
• Gravity is just the force that keeps us glued to the strip, looping forever.
• Humans can't perceive the Twist, but cats can. That's why they stare at random corners of the room like they've seen the abyss blink.
• Every time a cat knocks something off a table, it's actually testing for the edge — making sure the Twist hasn't shifted.
• Ancient Egyptians worshiped cats not because they were cute little psychopaths, but because they knew the truth. The whole "cats are guardians of the underworld" thing? Mistranslation. They're guardians of the Mobius Fold.
• Flat-Earthers are technically half-right. They're just stuck on one side of the loop.
• Round-Earthers are technically half-right too — they just can't see the twist happening in higher dimensions.
• Spherical-Earthers? Pawns of Big Globe.

Now here's the kicker: what happens when all the cats find the edge at the same time?

That's right. The Unraveling.

If the cats ever align their knocking-things-off mission worldwide, they will untwist the planet — and the whole universe will snap back into two dimensions like a poorly folded road-map.

 

It further occurs to me that if cats behavior of knocking things off table is an attempt to find the edge of the Mobius ... Holy Möbius Meow!

The cats aren't just edge-finders.
They're Apocalypse Engineers.

If the cats actually align their knocking-things-off mission worldwide, they will untwist the planet — and the whole universe will snap back into two dimensions like a poorly folded road-map.

All this time we've been laughing at their little table-top physics experiments, but in reality, they've been probing the weak points of reality itself.

Every paw flick.
Every glass of water sacrificed to the floor.
Every perfectly balanced knickknack knocked into oblivion...

It's not curiosity.

It's calculated sabotage.

 

Yes I didnt know it went so far back!!!!

The movie HOPSCOTCH I have from 1981 mentions the flat earth society!

Its insane..... The earth is round!!!

 

Living on the Salish Sea tides are a constant reminder of the shape of the earth. On December 5th the difference between the king tide and low tide will be 21 feet!…at the Port of Olympia that’s pretty evident. Imagine that tidal range on your favorite Gulf of Mexico beach!!

 

My stepdaughter's ex is a flat earther. He is currently renting a bedroom from us. He sent me a video last week, which I half-watched, that questioned how tides can be so constant and predictable despite the fact that the moon has phases from a full moon to no moon... LMAO!

Apparently this is the only thing that gives him reason to believe in god, so not wanting to be the source of some kind of existential crisis, I generally just tip toe around the subject. When he moved in, he actually said to me, "At last I have someone really intelligent to talk to about this flat earth stuff." And I'm fairly certain that he was wanting someone smart to debunk it for him. (I guess he is surrounded by a bunch of conspiracy-loving half-educated people?) But I quickly realized how serious he was about this, and decided to let him ask me more directly to debunk it before I say anything. He has sent me numerous videos on the subject by people who think they actually understand how science is wrong on the subject and then push all kinds of fallacies in their arguments. He recognizes the look I give him when he starts to talk about it, or when his girlfriend (who convinced him of it) tries to tell me about it-------a look that politely says, 'What the hell kind of crazy crap is this?" (So apparently he does have some educated people he can talk to, and who have responded in kind to him.)

Sometimes I slip. I have an old set of encyclopedias from the early 1930's, which I explained to him have all kinds of knowledge in it---even a recipe for moonshine. I like to pull it out when people have accused me of being revisionist in my arguments (for example, when MAGA people were trying to claim that Naziism was really a Leftist ideology, or that there is no such thing as a Palestine, etc.) His first response was, "Oh. I bet it teaches about the firmament." (He believes that not only is the earth flat but that it is surrounded by a firmament, made of water, that holds the stars, etc.) I quickly responded with a laugh, "No, you won't find that in there."

His girlfriend insists that schools taught that the earth was flat all the way into the 1940's. I guess when you are in your 20's or 30's that might seem hard to disprove, but----no.

He knows I have traveled around the world. I have been itching to take a globe, and a flat piece of cardboard, into a dark room with a light, and show him how time zones work, and how I could call someone in Japan and have it be daytime there while it is night time here, and how that would be impossible on a flat earth.

When he sent me the video on the tides and the moon, my first response, as he tried to explain the video to me, was a slip-----"That's not how it works." To which he responded, "I know, just because you can't see it, does not mean that the whole moon is not there." So, yeah, the wheel is turning, its just that the hamster does not seem to be inside turning it. (I want to get the hamster back inside it, but...)

Another flat earth argument from another video he sent me---how can the sun be burning if it is in outer space (i.e. outside the firmament) and there is no air? You have to have air to have a fire. My response----"Well..." (...and that is why we baby boomers still use, '...')



BUT NOW---I have a mobius strip and cat story to tell him!! LMAO!!

 

whaaaaaattttheeeeffffff?
Really? That's sounds like an interesting story right there. Why would you rent to a stepdaughters ex? Sounds like a made for TV situation comedy.

 

Ohhhh... Im sure it is just a typical boring story, the same kind of thing that happens in every family...

He was a drifter, with no future and no money, but my stepdaughter fell in love with him, which we tried to stop, even forbid her from seeing him, but she professed her undying love for him, and things escalated till there was a big fight and one of his friends was killed, and my nephew also died in the skirmish, and still she was willing to end her life just to be with him, so we allowed them to be together.

Then they had a child together, and appeared to be on their way to starting a life together. This went on for a few years, but then he impregnated my other stepdaughter, so we thought it would be a terrible thing for them, but it turned out that she had already lost interest in him and was having an affair with someone she worked with, the scandal being that her lover was much younger than her.

But then his real father, that he didn't know about, contacted him, and wanted him to take over the family business. His father was the wealthiest man in all of our city, and everyone wanted to do business with him. However we still had no idea that any of this was happening and that he was actually heir to a massive fortune. We still treated him like the scum from the streets that we knew him to be. Unfortunately my stepson was in the process of making a major deal with his father's company and my company, and he often treated this son-in-law very poorly. We only discovered the truth, when my stepson appeared before the Board of Directors to seal the deal, and only then discovered that our son-in-law had been made chairman of the board, and that his father had already passed all control over to him. As the new chairman he ended the deal and had security remove my stepson from the board meeting and literally kick him onto the street. Not yet knowing the full story, I disowned my stepson and cut all ties with him, telling him that he may have ruined the family business. He ran off and in a fit of drunken depression, committed suicide.

But then we ordered our daughter to take him back in, despite their moments of infidelity, and to make sure that he is happy. This worked for a while, and allowed us to make new business deals with his company, until he impregnated another one of my stepdaughters. This time twice.

But it was alright to kick him out of the house now, because I had secretly been buying up shares of his company, and owned a controlling interest. Especially after his aunt, who bitterly despised him, sold us her shares amounting to a good 40% of the company. So we had security remove him, and literally kicked him onto the street. He was ruined.

He sought to get his revenge and broke the gas line in our house, and was about to blow us all up as we slept, when my stepdaughter with the two kids discovered him and said that she could not bear to live without him. He confessed that he had always had a serious crush on her, and together they woke all of us up and got us out of the house while the power company fixed the gas line. This stepdaughter made me drop all charges against him, saying that if I didn't she would go public about my secret affair with my secretary, so I dropped the charges. And again later when I caught him attempting to break into the safe in our living room wall (behind the massive oil painting) a few months later.

Eventually she too, lost interest in him, and married someone else. He ended up living on the streets again, but he was a changed man, and had decided to live a good moral life, without deception, trickery, and tomfoolery. So we pitied him and allowed him to move back in as long as he pays a modest rent.

You know----the same boring stuff that happens in every family...


I'M JOKING! (Some people tell me they can't tell when I am joking or not...)

Seriously, he is a good kid, and he is the father of our grandson. He was living with his girlfriend, but they broke up, more or less, and he didn't have a place to stay. so we let him rent a room from us. We now get to see that grandson more.


But in all seriousness, when you enter a relationship with a Filipina, it is like entering into a real life soap opera (at least in my experience). There is so much drama and scandal and, you name it. It also doesn't help that we are both hedonistic spontaneous hippies, so I do not represent any kind of damper peddle or governing gear to the relationship.

I am actually writing a book for our grandkids, great grandkids, etc. of all the adventures and mishaps and crazy things that we have done. She does not want me to get into the more scandalous things----but I think they should be there too-----such as the time she wanted me to spend the night at her Tokyo condo (her Japanese husband had started a business that provided scaffolding to construction sites in the country side. At 5:00 in the morning, her father and brother showed up unexpectedly, and wanted to visit. I stayed hidden in the bedroom, but it got later and later and she couldn't get them to leave. I had to get to work, so I ended up jumping off of her 3rd floor balcony to the balcony below her, and then again to the condo below that and onto the street. It was very fast and no one could identify me, or that I was a blonde haired foreigner, but one of the occupants below her called the cops thinking it was a burglar. They questioned my wife (at the time my mistress, and she said she didn't know anything about it or see anyone). I probably won't write about such things as the time, her older sister getting her to give her power of attorney, as we were constantly going back and forth to Japan---in case she would need to take care of anything for us while we were gone---and then using that power of attorney to get jewelry from a safety deposit box, and to take a loan out on one of my wife's properties.

But yeah, I have an abundance of real stories!

 

You had me going there. I was gonna tell you to make a soap opera with it.