Re: [CTRL] Flat Earth Society head Charles Johnson, dead at 76
-Caveat Lector- I'm sure there are quite a few different 'Flat Earth Societies' all over the, err, globe? I gave a quite succesful talk on this topic at the Speaker's Forum in Melbourne (Australia) a couple of years back. I think I convinced quite a few of the audience. One guy (who habitually has a big placard and is a campaigner against 'psychic groping') claimed that he knew the Earth was round because of the satellite photos on the weather report. I said "Everything else on the news is made up, why shouldn't the weather report be any different?'. You can often head of a heavily scientific argument by claiming that the other person's calculations/hypothesis is obviously flawed due to it's adherence to the spherical Earth model. On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:01:14 -0400 Yardbird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-Caveat Lector- > >I always thought the Flat Earth Society was based in New Hampshire, USA or >is it that an/the American adjunct of the Society is HQ'ed there? >Jamieson > >http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org >DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER >== >CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic >screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are >sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- >directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with >major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. >That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and >always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no >credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. > >Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. > >Archives Available at: >http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html > http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl > >To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: >SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: >SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Om > http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Flat Earth Society head Charles Johnson, dead at 76
-Caveat Lector- I always thought the Flat Earth Society was based in New Hampshire, USA or is it that an/the American adjunct of the Society is HQ'ed there? Jamieson http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Flat Earth Society head Charles Johnson, dead at 76
-Caveat Lector- > Sunday, March 25, 2001 > > Charles Johnson; Longtime Leader of Flat Earth Society > > "We have studied the Earth," he assured anybody who would listen, "and > found it flat." > > That plane Earth, he insisted, is of unknown dimensions, a disc with > the North Pole in the center and impenetrable Arctic ice 150 feet high > all the way around. > > The sun and moon, each 32 miles in diameter, circle the disc at a > steady height of 3,000 miles, with so-called rising or setting only an > optical illusion. > > Charles K. Johnson, irrepressible advocate and president of the > International Flat Earth Society for nearly three decades, has died. > He was 76. > > Johnson died March 19 in Lancaster, near Hi Vista, where he had moved > the iconoclastic society's headquarters in 1972 after he succeeded the > late Samuel Shenton of Dover, England, in the presidency. > > The ever-quotable Johnson also wrote and published the entertaining if > somewhat eccentric Flat Earth News, which once boasted 3,500 > subscribers. > > His Flat Earth Society has ambiguous historical roots but is in spirit > related to the Universal Zetetic (investigative) Society founded in > England in 1832 by Sir Birley Rowbotham, who wrote "Earth Not a > Globe." Advocates have traditionally used carefully chosen Bible > passages to substantiate their assertions, supplemented by purportedly > scientific observations of bodies of water. > > About 1888, England's Sir Walter de Sodington Blount and his wife made > a series of experiments on a canal called Old Bedford Level, proving, > they said, that the Earth had no curvature. Almost a century later, > Johnson and his late Australian-born wife and chief adjunct, Marjory, > checked the surfaces of Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea. Like the > Blounts, they couldn't see any curve either, thus reassuring > themselves that the Earth is flat. > > Johnson was 8 and living in San Angelo, Texas, when he made his > commitment to the flat Earth theory. He spun a globe in his class, > concluded that what his textbook said about gravitation was absurd and > gazed at a nearby lake, observing no curve. > > "Obviously water's flat, isn't it?" he said in a Times interview in > 1992. "They're trying to tell you this water's bent!" > > Asked why don't people fall off if the Earth if flat, Johnson would > patiently explain, "There is no edge. As far as we know, it's > endless." > > "Australians," he once elaborated in the Flat Earth News, "do not hang > by their feet underneath the world!" > > More: > >http://www.latimes.com/communities/news/north_san_fernando_valley/20010325/t25955.html http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
