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{"id":2700,"date":"2018-04-22T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2018-04-22T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:20:18","slug":"mmem-vol-14-issue-2-flat-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol. 14 Issue 2 \u2013 Flat Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #ff6600; float: right; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 150px; text-align: center;\">HOW <span style=\"color: brown;\">is <\/span>this <strong>possible <\/strong><span style=\"color: brown;\">?<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: khaki; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 80px; line-height: 60px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 2px; border: 1px solid #bdb76b;\">W<\/span>hat is the reason or purpose of the Flat Earth Society way of thinking anyway? I mean seriously, what is the end goal here? Are Flat Earthers saying that the Earth is flat and there has been a more than 500 year conspiracy going on to hide this fact? If so, why? What would be the benefit to keep this a secret from, anyone? Why would all governments make sure that all high altitude pilots, astronauts, people with telescopes, and humans with IQ&#8217;s higher than 80 keep this a secret?<\/p>\n<p>Usually, there is some hidden agenda by a secret power-playing-organization to control such a huge secret for hundreds of years. But with this one, I&#8217;m coming up with nothin&#8217;. No reason.<\/p>\n<p>So, who are the Flat Earthers? Well, apparently they are largely composed of &#8220;Millennials&#8221;. I&#8217;m sorry, but recent surveys reveal it. I know it&#8217;s a shock to me too. I mean, the same generation that has brought forth the &#8220;The Cinnamon Challenge&#8221;, the &#8220;Tide Pod Challenge&#8221;, and most recently the &#8220;Condom Snorting Challenge&#8221;. Yeah the results surprised me too. I just don&#8217;t know what to say other than always being connected to an infinite amount of information is simply dangerous. While we first thought this was a recipe for extreme intelligence, it has instead proven to produce expansive vacuums of empty craniums (craniums, niums, iums(echo))) .<\/p>\n<p>YouGov.com asked the question of 8,215 US adults on Feb 6, 2018.\u00a0<em>Results are weighted to be representative of the US population.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2.jpg 754w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2-676x504.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short, &#8220;Just 66% of millennials firmly believe that the earth is round&#8221;. How, is this possible?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2b.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2b-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/MMeMv14i2b-676x423.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW is this possible ? What is the reason or purpose of the Flat Earth Society way of thinking anyway? I mean seriously, what is the end goal here? Are Flat Earthers saying that the Earth is flat and there &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=2700\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MMeM, Vol. 14 Issue 2 \u2013 Flat Earth?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-take-on","tag-flatminds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}