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I like that your axes of comparison are roughly north-south aligned, which means the distances can also be determined via Gleeson's map. In that way, the distance calculation doesn't depend on the shape of the Earth like the 6-hour method does. If you know the moon's distance, you get to the...

Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. We know of this because another literate empire, Rome, existed at the time. If you had a literate...

I don't understand your meaning here. 1. The horizon is below eye level, but that can't be determined from the picture. 2. the ground between the observer and the horizon fills the bottom part of the image 3. the ground beyond the horizon is not visible there is no way you could see the...

maybe the folks at your local library can get you a copy of one of these books? the writing on the arrows looks like the names of the missing persons a nice version of the underlying map is at https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_states_wall_2002_us.jpg

it is in fact a missing411 map (used in their books?), and they used to sell it on their bigfoot store: North America Cluster Map-Version 2 Link to Purchase http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootstore.html This is a unique product for our organization to release. This has been a working...

Another hallmark of CT thinking is generalisation: "the government" is the bogeyman and can remain faceless in a narrative intended to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD). Does Trump lying about Covid mean Biden's EPA will lie about East Palestine? People and motivations matter if the goal...

my first guess is that it's branches, parts of which seem discontinuous due to shadow, and pareidolia. Obviously this depends on the direction of the light; if the only light source is a camera flash, that explanation can't be correct.

I would be very wary of anyone who commanded me to believe. That's a "no true scotsman" though. If you don't believe in the central dogma of a religion, you should leave the group, same as you shouldn't be in the Rail Workers Union if you don't work on the railway. It's not strange, abnormal or...

I disagree with this because the reason you know this is because it's still actively being taught. The church isn't buildings, it's the community of believers, and if you claim believers think otherwise, that sounds like bunk to me.

You don't need cell service for GPS, but you need to remember to download an offline map beforehand. The question is, does that have a measurable effect?

I wonder if the proliferation of GPS via smartphones has made a dent in that statistic?

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/lcYuQJe

From "we are fallible" it follows that "we can be wrong about the truth". This is a stance a religion allows, but a cult does not. You can have a theological argument in a religion, but not in a cult.

with a little more imagination, the Varghinha aliens are obviously the search party sent out to find their crashed brethren—or would be if we had a shred of evidence.

this kind of sequence is by necessity "conspiracy theoretical" because step 5 requires step 3 to be handwaved away with "the government covered it up" or similar. The people close to the original event want an explanation; the people who revive it want a titillating story,

not all religions are like that Christianity has its canonical doubter, Thomas; St Peter denies Jesus 3 times; the idea that you can sin and be forgiven, that people aren't perfect and still belong, that we all make mistakes and that's ok, those ideas are part of any serious religion, and they...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise The problem with the idea of a culture existing 10,000 years ago having passed technology to the Egyptians is that Egypt really only took off 3150 bc, aka 5000 years ago: the idea of...

exactly. if these policies were the start of a slippery slope, then, looking back on decades of similar policies in countries all over the world, shouldn't we have evidence for that slope yet? (See my post earlier, "At least 25,000 traffic filters ...") The question is, how would a policy to...

baseless propaganda, not worthy of metabunk why are you feeding conspiracy theories, deirdre?

I've never seen slippery slope used legitimately where the first step on the slope wasn't already objectionable. But more than that fallacy, this is about a complete lack of evidence, which is why this is a conspiracy theory.