Attention: This is a work in progress. I will probably delete this blog article in the future and replace it with a whole series of blog articles in which I refute various claims made by flat earthers or point out typical behaviors of flat earther.

I sometimes engage in debates with flat earthers on social media. Recently, I’ve observed a trend in these discussions regarding the flat earth topics. While the core belief of flat earthers used to be “The Earth is flat!”, nowadays it has shifted to a more common assertion of “The Earth is flat and motionless!”. While it’s logically consistent for a flat earther to claim “The Earth is flat!”, there’s a noticeable big(ger) emphasis on the statement “The Earth is motionless!” in these debates. Why is the notion of Earth’s motionlessness more significant than the flatness for most flat earthers? And why do they often opt to focus on the topic of “The Earth is motionless!” rather than simply asserting “The Earth is flat!”? I assume that flat earth supporters are more inclined to discuss the Earth’s motionlessness because proving the Earth’s motion is more difficult for spherical earth proponents than proving the Earth’s shape.

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