FLAT Revival Magazine: Big CONTEST + Call To Flat Earth Parents

FLAT Revival Magazine is a print publication produced entirely from the flat earth perspective. It will feature art, philosophy, literature, poetry, reviews, interviews, humor and more created by and for those who have come to flat earth. To learn more about the magazine, visit the official site at: www.flatrevival.com

CONTEST

FRM is hosting a contest inviting all flat earth artists and writers to submit pieces with the theme of: "If you could express one sentiment about flat earth to the world, what would it be?" The winner of the contest will receive publication in the first printed issue of FLAT Revival Magazine plus their choice of two FE t-shirt designs from www.flatearthmerch.com

For full contest details, visit www.flatrevival.com/contest OR, watch the video:

Call To Flat Earth Parents

FRM is seeking three families willing to share their experiences as flat earth parents with the FE community via the pages of the magazine. For full details on this ongoing, ambitious project, visit: www.flatrevival.com/flatearthparents OR watch the video:

You can help make FLAT Revival Magazine a reality AND secure your first printed copy hitting in September of 2017 by contributing to the GoFundMe Campaign HERE.

FRM is hard at work ensuring that it's pages deliver the most in depth, thought provoking and entertaining flat earth content possible. Keep your eye on the FLAT Revival YouTube Channel (Subscribe!) for the latest news and opportunities to express your own passion about flat earth in the pages of a professionally produced publication.

—Ty Gorton

FEPE’s Armor Is Thick… But It Has To Be

I know all those at the tip of the beak get the reference in the title… but for the uninitiated: Robert Simmon created a “blue marble” depiction of earth used as the default image on the first iPhone. In reference to the production of the famous image, Simmon said, “It’s Photoshopped, but…. It… it HAS to be.” Many a ball believer has claimed that this is taken “out of context.” But I ask you, what context are they referring to?

 Are they referring to the context of NASA being unable, in 2017, to provide a genuine photograph of earth from outer space? Are they referring to the fact that—even though NASA claims to have gone to the moon multiple times circa the 1960s and 70s—they are still unable to show us the earth in real time, as a spherical mass, rotating on its axis in outer space?

But the story behind the much-admired image that introduced the world to the iPhone—known as the “Blue Marble”— is worth telling in its own right. Simmon, a data-visualizer and designer at NASA’s Earth Observatory, created the image in 2002. He told Quartz it’s not a photograph, but a sophisticated visualization.

Images of the earth may seem commonplace, but there are actually very few pictures of the entire planet. The problem, Simmon said, is all the NASA earth-observing satellites are in low-earth or geostationary orbit, meaning none of them are far enough away to see a full hemisphere. The most familiar pictures of the entire Earth are from the 1960s and 1970s Apollo missions to the moon.

So when I say FEPE’s armor has to be thick, this is why: because it doesn’t seem to matter how obvious NASA’s deceptions are, the majority of people will accept AND defend them as absolute truth. These are people who sincerely believe NASA to be a saintly educational organization that seeks to share the secrets of the universe with them. Humanity can no longer afford to be this naïve.

GOOGLE Syndrome

The problem is much deeper than the seemingly unbreakable faith the masses have in NASA. With the internet at their fingertips, people navigate their lives believing that the entirety of human knowledge is a few keystrokes away. What they fail to realize: most of that highly accessible information is—pardon my crass language—HORSESHIT. There is tremendous danger in convincing ignorant people that they have a firm grasp on the nature of reality. 

We are living in what is called the “Information Age”. Let’s break that down by looking at some definitions:

in·for·ma·tion (noun)

1. facts provided or learned about something or someone. "a vital piece of information"

2. what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.

COMPUTING: data as processed, stored, or transmitted by a computer.

  

(in information theory) a mathematical quantity expressing the probability of occurrence of a particular sequence of symbols, impulses, etc., as contrasted with that of alternative sequences.

Origin

Definition number one is the most common application for the word information; most people automatically associate the word information with “facts”. However, the subsequent definitions paint a very different picture. What I am driving at here is this: information and knowledge are not necessarily the same thing. I could produce 100 pages of drivel—absolute gibberish—and those 100 pages could technically be defined as “information”. That does not mean a single sentence on a single page contains a shred of actual knowledge.

By contrast, let’s look at the definitions for knowledge:

knowl·edge (noun)

1. facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information.

PHILOSOPHY: true, justified belief; certain understanding, as opposed to opinion.

2. awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. "the program had been developed without his knowledge"

Knowledge represents FACTS earned via real world experience. Knowledge is based on universally repeatable observations; it is not based on opinion. The words “information” and “knowledge” are NOT interchangeable. Information CAN be knowledge but it is not a requirement to fulfill the word’s definition. In other words, knowledge is always information but information is not always knowledge.

So proclaiming we live in an “Information Age” most certainly does NOT mean we live in an age of knowledge; it only means that there are vast quantities of information available that may or may not qualify as actual knowledge. And these are the word games the establishment plays incessantly.

CONCLUSION

When it comes to spreading awareness about flat earth, we are dealing with a worldwide citizenry who believes they have access to a vast wealth of KNOWLEDGE. This emboldens them. This has convinced them that they have all the answers… that they are all a mere keystroke away. This makes the task of presenting the truth of our flat and motionless plane especially difficult.

We must be patient. We must be persistent and dedicated. We must be unflappable.

And yes, our armor must be thick. The masses believe they live in an age of knowledge when, in truth, it is an age of informational noise as vast as it is empty.

—Ty Gorton

P.S. - The armored emperor penguin with wrench (FEPE) was created by Post-Globe Society.

MMM Series: Spotlight on Bea Flat PLUS Thoughts On Meme Making

For this edition of the Master Meme Maker series, we will be taking a look at Bea Flat's contribution to the ever growing FEPE gallery. 

Before we do that, I want to take a moment to analyze the often undervalued impact of the meme making community. The entire subversive culture of flat earth memes is something worthy of attention. At its most fundamental level, meme making is the act of sharing creativity with others. Memes are shared freely and, most often, the creator of the piece does not put their moniker on it; beyond the initial post, nobody really knows who made the meme. Others can take the file and repost it however, wherever they like. They can add to it, manipulate it, or simply take the concept and make use of it for something new. There are no copyright rules or restrictions on how memes get distributed, altered or mimicked. It is a completely open source, give and take community. 

Connecting with others via creative expression is an essential part of being human. The accessibility of making a meme removes the typical limitations found in many other art forms; and it is an art form. Anyone can produce a meme. Even if the visual presentation is crude—and sometimes that crudeness increases a meme's impact—it is all about how clever or unexpected the concept. Many of the best FEPE memes are those that make no attempt to present a polished design. 

There is a thriving community of individuals producing flat earth memes. To suggest that there is no value in it because you do not care for memes or feel they somehow harm flat earth's legitimacy is to completely dismiss the thousands of people who have found a way to express their flat earth awareness to others. FEPE memes and flat earth memes in general are another dangling thread that a certain type of curious mind is unable to resist... and when they pull that thread it will inevitably lead them to flat earth research, to Dubay's 200 Proofs or ODD's Strangers Guide to Flat Earth. Memes appeal to a certain cross section of people... they have a place in the flat earth community and I tip my beak to all those churning out these odd, fascinating—often hilarious and sometimes alarming—memes.

And now... on to a sampling of Bea Flat's work. Be sure to hit her Twitter Page to see the full gallery of creations.



  



     





—Ty Gorton

FEPE COMIC! Adventures of Wrench Squad No. 1 by Flat Earth Armory

This is another great entry into the FEPE comics arena.

Enjoy the comic!

Flat Earth Armory presents
Adventures of Wrench Squad #1

Flat Earth Armory also has some great FE products on tap... like this We Are Mark Sargent t-shirt. FEA specifies that the shirts are NOT FOR PROFIT — sales feed directly back in to materials for production. Check out Flat Earth Armory's Twitter page for more.

Hawking Exposes Willful Public Complicity with Deception

After watching Stephen Hawking’s recent “birthday” event on YouTube with my fellow penguins (and laying down some serious flat earth interference during the live stream’s chat), it occurred to me that the Hawking hoax reveals something fundamental about our society. I tried finding the full 75th B-day presentation online (hosted by Cambridge) but failed (no loss there). Hawking’s computer voice spouted global warming fear porn and some obligatory nonsense about black holes.

To believe the Hawking story is akin to insisting that Santa Claus is real your entire life. Any human being above the age of eighteen should be capable of discerning the impossibility of Hawking as presented by mainstream science and media.

NOTE: If you already understand why Hawking is a hoax/fraud, feel free to skip to the core of this essay by scrolling down to the CONCLUSION section.

1. Hawking Has ALS

Here is some information about the extremely deadly disease, ALS:

What Is ALS?
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

It is a progressive disease that affects the motor neurons reaching from the brain to the spinal cord, which controls muscles throughout the body. Over time, the brain loses its ability to control muscle movement due to the death of these motor neurons.

ALS Life Expectancy
The average life expectancy of a person with ALS is two to five years from the time of diagnosis. However, it varies greatly:

Over 50 percent of people with ALS live more than three years.
Twenty percent live five years or more.
Ten percent live 10 or more years.
Five percent will live more than 20 years.

Stephen Hawking is 75 years old. He was diagnosed with ALS when he was 21. Sure, mainstream science stumbles over itself attempting to explain why Hawking is so very  different from EVERY other documented patient with ALS in history… but this story isn’t about “science”, is it?

This is a story about BELIEF. What are YOU willing to believe? How far can scientism push the fairy tale and still maintain the trust and confidence of the majority (or at least their complicit silence)?

2. The Voice Synthesizer

The public is lead to believe that Mr. Hawking can use cheek twitches to formulate articulate sentences on complex subject matter, essentially in real time. Let’s take a moment and ponder that assertion. Imagine the real world application of such an efficient communications technology. Even the military could make use of it… imagine being able to cheek twitch communications during covert operations? It would allow for “radio silence” without losing the ability to instantly communicate.

Whenever we are presented something like this—with dozens of possible applications as well as a high profit potential—and you never see it broadly implemented or leveraged, that should be an automatic red flag.

Here is a Wired article from 2015 covering the entire timeline of Hawking’s voice: HOW INTEL GAVE STEPHEN HAWKING A VOICE. It is worth noting that the entire thing plays like an Intel commercial… the kind of marketing/publicity you cannot purchase with advertising dollars. Every time Hawking and his wheelchair are rolled out, that Intel logo is front and center… the tech that enables the world’s so-called preeminent thinker to express his ideas to humanity. As far as product placement campaigns go, it ranks as one of the best of all time.

I found this section of the article quite telling:

Before the Intel project, Hawking had tested EEG caps that could read his brainwaves and potentially transmit commands to his computer. Somehow, they couldn't get a strong enough brain signal. "We would flash letters on the screen and it would try to select the right letter just by registering the brain's response," says Wood. "It worked fine with me, then Stephen tried it and it didn't work well. They weren't able to get a strong enough signal-to-noise."

One has to appreciate the irony in one of scientism’s intellectual superstars being unable to generate a strong enough brain signal to register with the experimental hardware/software. We can safely assume that this is truth in plain sight.

CONCLUSION

The point of this essay is not to convince anyone that Stephen Hawking is a hoax/fraud. The point of this essay is pointing out that everyone already KNOWS Hawking is a hoax and a fraud, whether they openly admit it or not.

In many ways, the Hawking phenomenon is more disturbing than the spinning ball deception… because it reveals something alarming about our society: the majority is willing to “play along” with scientific assertions, no matter how absurd. The heliocentric model is relentlessly pushed on society… from near infancy, throughout education… and our entire lives. That people are convinced of the spinning ball is not surprising, considering the intensity of the indoctrination program.

But Hawking? A human being with ALS who has lived beyond his life expectancy by 50 years? A human being who can eloquently communicate via cheek twitches in real time? A human being who claims to know the beginning of “everything” because he worked out some math equations and thought about it real hard…?

This is a fairy tale too grand for even the most diluted to truly believe. It is my opinion that scientism has established such a powerful stranglehold on the hearts and minds of the masses that, for many, they have gone beyond the point of no return. In other words, society as a whole is too greatly invested, both emotionally and economically, in the scientism narrative.

Nobody “believes” Hawking is real. Not really. But the hoax is allowed to continue. The Hawking puppet show is allowed to roll on, year after year, decade after decade… and nobody in a position to call it out steps forward. Because to call it out would be calling out EVERYTHING associated with it, a decades long parade of gibberish. If Hawking is a fraud, then the entire spectrum of astrophysics, theoretical mathematics, string theory… all of it becomes dubious at best.

This makes people afraid, even if that fear is subconscious.

So people sit and they listen and the clap at the appropriate times, laugh at the sad attempts at humor sprinkled amidst the religious dogma. Audiences show up and they help maintain the Hawking fraud because the alternative is too difficult to consider.

That alternative is realizing that all of those “answers” science has claimed to give us about reality and our existence are WORTHLESS; nothing more than whimsical thought experiments elevated to scientific mysticism.  It is truly a sad state of affairs. Watching that 75h birthday event with Hawking gave me the most awful sense of disgust; this is how far humanity has let scientism lead them astray… so far away from truth, in fact, that it is easier to stay the course than attempt to correct it.

Hawking is dead. Long live Hawking.

—Ty Gorton