a facebook group worth laughing at

[Gorf]

Intellectual debate is something like throwing a bunch of old folk on the other side of the table to a bunch of teenagers, and the teenagers have to propose the motion "computer games are a waste of time". Debate isn't about whether you're right, it's whether you can argue convincingly. The people on the facebook page are trying to do this with a theory that has never really been accepted - for about 2.500 years there has been documented evidence that people accepted the world is a sphere. Apparently the likliest cause of the misconception that medieval people thought the earth was flat is the stylised account of Columbus's life by the Sleepy Hollow writer Washinton Irving.

[AndyB]

true, but for Intellectual debate to take place having at least an ounce of intelligence would seem to be a prerequisite, as would the ability to source facts like how long a canal is.

[Flip]

Maybe being able to debate convincingly about stupid and in-defendable theories is a proof of intelligence? Some kind of mental sport...

[Gorf]

Maybe being able to debate convincingly about stupid and in-defendable theories is a proof of intelligence? Some kind of mental sport... :)

Absolutely. I don't that "this forum thinks the world is flat" is a particularly bad thing to be debating for the hell of it - just that FB is not the venue for such a debate.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Well I can say for CERTAIN the earth aint flat.......

I have steps up to my front door............

So ner.......

[uvelius]

Thaniks for sharing! A real day-maker.

Can someone give us a TL;DR as it requires a Facebook login, and that will NEVER happen. Friends don't let Friends do Facebook.

Very VERY much appreciated, thanks. Facebook is quite a strange machine ... especially since they dare to enforce "real-name" policies for some quite Adam's leafy reason.
I also only used the abstract from Andy but even that was enough for a daymaker.