The Insane Cult Leader Who Lived Inside The Earth

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As the 20th century approached, our understanding of the natural world and of the cosmos was increasing at a more rapid pace than any time in the history of science. We were building on our knowledge of asteroids, the discovery of Neptune, and understanding the transit of Venus, and science fiction like Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was taking our imagination deep inside our own planet.
But one man rejected the long march of seemingly-irrefutable scientific progress. The cult leader Cyrus Teed was convinced that we weren't living amidst a complex solar system, and that we weren't on top of the Earth at all. Cyrus Teed thought that we were living inside the Earth.
Teed's Koreshan movement focused on the concept of a hollow earth, and he set out to prove scientifically that we were living on a concave surface inside of a giant hollow ball. From the religious awakenings of Upstate New York to Chicago to a swamp in Florida, Cyrus Teed gained converts who believed in his science and his religion. But did the rectilineator Teed built to conduct his painstaking measurements prove that we're really living inside, or did they just prove that Teed and his followers were insane?
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[@zabooka]

hi

[@Leftyotism]

Okay then, will do!

[@tacwolf4962]

Glad to have you back!!!!! Really missed your content and excited to see what you have for us all!

[@Ceastment]

Yeah okay, you convinced me

[@rybosan]

I'm in!

[@NoFace-jp6dk]

Teed isn't dead. He's just slow at resurrecting.

[@aelolul]

He hadn't done it before so it makes sense that his first will take a little time.

[@Ceelvain]

@@aelolul Well, one did it in a few days. Can't be that hard.

[@mostawesomeKingGeorge]

[@googooblabla100]

@@Ceelvain i do it every single morning. hes just doing it for attention

[@KinoIsFire]

He isn't dead, he would just not going back anytime **soon.**

[@BaronVonQuiply]

_"People used to not know that mental disorders were a thing"_ explains a lot more about history than anyone wants to realize.

[@Ceelvain]

But then again, it's very challenging or down right impossible to diagnose someone dead long ago. When no one alive has known them directly, when they had a strong control on how they were talked about, when they never shared their true feelings.

[@sebastianalegre7148]

They did, just used to call it "being posessed" though.

[@connorriley7511]

He’s gonna look like Billy off Hocus Pocus by the time he resurrects 😂

[@tyffanypoudrier2826]

Seems like some still do not 😂

[@RareAndDeeplyArchived]

All of yall are wrong , their was but little mental illness compared today ! From the microwave , processed food , junk food , little to no exercising, ppl staying on their phones all the time with little to no outdoor connection, I could on and on their is way more mental unhealthy individuals today even in modern day medicine! Just look at the modern day late 20 to 21 century today of genders magically turning into another is more laughable than the beliefs of astrology and alchemy combined atleast those were systems based on logic and not Muh feelings 😂

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Wait this guy turned a Flat-Earther into a Concave-Earther?

[@SynomDroni]

I shall henceforth attempt this same strategy myself.

[@arthaiser]

is easy to turn flat earthers into other things as long as that thing is not the real one. they are contrarians mainly. if 99% of the populations say that X is some way, then they have to say is the other way just because, but they are not set on the other way, as long as is not the way that the majority things they are game

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Hats off to him for achieving the impossible i guess.

[@alexcrouse]

It's easy to get - more - wrong.

[@tirthankarmishra1420]

at least now he got the curvature right

[@Pikero24]

"concave enclave" so good

[@artemo.shapovaloff5577]

was just about to say that :)

[@greenockscatman]

I was so delighted at that

[@Irondragon1945]

I thought he was gonna say "inside their concave heads"

[@TheMeatySurprise]

A decade ago I would have never thought Vsauce 2 would be the one to outlive the other two.

[@ieverhart]

vsauce 1 makes shorts now that's why

[@thatvolvoguy6565]

Thisss I'm happy for any vsauce tbh I still watch them all

[@JakeMatthews-OnLo]

Popular among women, so my first thought was “how long till he forms a Harem” and yup.

[@deparinge]

That and the fact that he called himself Koresh....

[@evershumor1302]

'I value you as individuals.' 'Nice, I like you' 'Wanna have sex?'

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

If you don't have a harem, is it even worth starting a cult? 🤷‍♂️ 😅

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@deparinge Makes me think of David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian cult famous for the Waco standoff.

[@spikenomoon]

Be serious dude. We all know that all the Magic Carpets have been destroyed.

[@typemasters2871]

Despite the leader being a grifter it sounds like most of the Koreshan community were less gullible/stubborn individuals and more so individuals that saw the Koreshan community as an escape from whatever life they had prior (May it be a loveless marriage, abusive marriage, escaping persecution, or any other valid reason)

[@elihuan4340]

Isn’t that the clientele of most cults and scams? From my understanding, Most of the people who fall for scams and such aren’t idiots, but rather vulnerable people who are desperate for an alternative. Think of those with incurable diseases who seek out alternative medicine for even the hope of a chance, or those in severe debt who fall prey to get rich quick schemes. The women who sought the Koreshan Community did so because they were desperate to escape their horrible circumstances yes, but joining the community also entailed assimilating its values and beliefs. By the end, I’d wager many were true believers, despite their original motives.

[@tiffanymarie9750]

I can only imagine how satisfying it must've been to be surrounded by so many other women working towards common goals and the appearance of independence. And to maintain their own community and businesses, too... It reminds me a lot of the Peoples Temple. A lot of people followed Jones because of his civil rights and community activism, and considering the world around them, who could blame them? Cult leaders are most dangerous when they convince people who need help or want to help to follow them.

[@-lijosu-]

Most likely they were both. As others have said, that’s just generally how cults operate. They take in people who are suffering and make them dependent on the cult’s community.

[@tommykarrick9130]

That dynamic is pretty common in cults. Usually people who join a cult don’t do so because they were simply convinced by the leader’s arguments purely on merit, but rather that they’re in a vulnerable state and just want something completely new and different to believe in

[@tw8464]

Many run out of the frying pan and into the 🔥

[@hassanrao470]

When you're in a giving existential crisis competition and your opponent is Vsauce

[@tenrudy]

which vsauce?

[@Kreppey_]

​@@tenrudyall of them

[@brainflash1]

I remember they used the "Hollow Earth" Theory in Kong: Skull Island.

[@nito_69]

ice age 3 with the dinosaurs kinda too if i remember correctly ( or was that just some ice cave? )

[@TheEnigmaticDeenTruth]

Using the secrets in plain sight. Hollow Earth.

[@simonliu-uw7tl]

so maybe we live on a flat earth, the other side is upsdow-down like the movie《Upside Down》，surrounded by celestial “eggshell”，looking as an egg hanging on a branch of Yggdrasill, with three "llayers like a wedding cake.

[@bunnygirl2448]

That’s from Jules Verne’s 1864 book, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

It's part of Monsterverse lore now. You didn't watch Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong?

[@OrionLoki]

"Bring out your dead!" "Im not dead yet..." 0:50

[@Peteypete98]

Kevin, thankyou for being the last remaining bastion of Vsauce

[@peterflatland4716]

The really insane thing is, he is right we all live inside the world.

[@aaronlosey7201]

No way! AAAAAAAA! I used to get popular science as a kid! I really missed it actually. This is huge. You're perfect for the role as well. Thank you so much!

[@archlich4489]

25:02 "We live inside the DREAM." -David Lynch (Twin Peaks movie)

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

Does Lost Highway take place in the same cinematic universe? Taken in isolation, it's a surreal experience.

[@john-wiggains]

I love popular science growing up. I’m so glad to hear you’re doing stuff for them. That’s awesome. Subscribed.

[@fernandoferreira6293]

Didn't expect the philosophical musings at the end. Nicely put.

[@attila0323]

Just a normal Vsauce video: fun stuff -> interesting stuff -> more fun staff -> more interesting stuff -> existential crisis

[@Xander081987]

This kid's not a philosopher, he's a coat tailer.

[@Codexionyx101]

23:06 And here I am, not just accepting it, but taking it in stride. Somehow, the enormity of existence sparks wonder, and a desire to expand our boundaries further. For me, existence can't get big enough. It might not be much of a surprise that my favorite stories are those set on incomprehensibly large scales, and still hunger for bigger. Perhaps I'm weird. Maybe I'm not as comfortable with such tremendous scale as I think. Whatever it is, I am tremendously glad to have it. Suddenly, so many problems feel surmountable, so many quarrels trivial, and yet I can take it all in.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

🤓

[@Codexionyx101]

@@TheBcoolGuy Correct!

[@SynomDroni]

Maybe if you squint hard enough every hammer starts to look like a nail.

[@Xander081987]

That's because you're a psuedointellectual.

[@bunnygirl2448]

Teed seems to have read one too many Jules Verne Books

[@SofaKingShit]

If only he had internet porn.

[@ShihTzuPosting]

Dr. Mike just uploaded a video interviewing a man trying to live forever yesterday too.

[@IvanTheVandal]

I remember imagining this kind of world shape to explain how the maps in early JRPGs worked(they connected the north-south edges of the map as well as the east-west edges).

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

Toroid world!

[@Xander081987]

Terrinigma, the video game. Because art imitates reality.

[@Lvestfold4143]

I live about a 15 minute drive away from the Koreshan State Park in Estero, FL. Quite a few buildings still stand today, and there’s a beautiful Victorian style bridge that connects the community to the Estero River often used by locals and tourists for kayaking. People can camp there and visit the hall and shops still standing, and see the concave earth model that Cyrus used. The local schools use it for field trips and arts go there for the scenery. I highly recommend visiting if ever in the area. There’s even lore regarding this cult that persists to this day.

[@IgotQuestions.]

Where exactly is the concave earth model ? Is it outside like a sculpture ?

[@Lvestfold4143]

@ it’s in a pavilion like building

[@MasterElements]

WE LIVE IN A CONCAVE SOCIETY

[@theresemalmberg955]

I visited Estero in 1991. The story I heard there was that Teed's body was placed on a plank to await his resurrection but while they were waiting a hurricane came and took the body away. Didn't know he was actually buried.

[@Monkerey]

Lol everyone who lives in his basement lives inside the earth

[@darkhobo]

Living in your mom's basement and trying to form a harem describes most redditors.

[@KarnBlueEarring]

If I see more concave earthers sprouting soon, I'll know who to blame.

[@BrandonBurch]

This cult was so outlandish I had to double check to make sure this wasn't uploaded on April fools 😂

[@moonvillage6399]

23:02 the of majority hollow earthers do not believe we live inside of the Earth

[@danthesquirrel]

It seemed odd to prioritize a theater but I looked it up online and apparently many of the followers were associated with the arts. The art hall eventually became a structure that also doubled as a place to hold religious services as well as a place for their orchestra, performing plays and holding art events to try pulling in more artsy people to join. I'm surprised that in 1905 Teed wasn't marketing his commune as a place with lots of women per every man (which Teed probably wanted to keep to himself). This would would have been a perfect segue into something funny here about Teed's invention but it crosses even my boundaries of online troll conduct. It's like Teed has returned to taunt me with "You know you want to but you can't, ha ha ha!!!".

[@seedlesspineapple7589]

I live like 30 mins away and have been to the koreshan remnants twice, its so worth the visit

[@Nikolas_Davis]

At least Teed was willing to put his Hollow Earth hypothesis to the test. That's more than can be said for today's flat earthers.

[@mysapphirestar]

Teed’s story is similar to that of Samuel Burley Rowbotham aka Dr Samuel Burley (or Burleigh) aka Parallax. He started as manager of an Owenite Community in England then sold patent medicines and other cures. He co founded Zetetic Astronomy and he was a flat earther. He had quite a few followers, some of them wealthy women. No one expected him to be resurrected, though.

[@Xander081987]

Ulysses G Morrow started out as FE as well, and worked under Rowbotham before going to work for Cyrus Teed and devloping the rectilineator. Nice to see someone here in the comment section did their research.

[@xinthralgaming]

We live inside ourselves, for I am imprisoned by my own perception, therefore I am both jailer and jailed.

[@brianmcsorley3229]

Ain't that the truth !?!

[@iknklst]

I bet that sounded really profound to you. All great thinkers are not bound by their own thoughts.

[@Xander081987]

All life starts from within. Earth is a Panopticon with "God" at the center. Teed was right.

[@brianmcsorley3229]

@@iknklst - Do tell .

[@Nooticus]

Really excellent video. Should definitely have more than 90k views

[@Buzz_Purr]

We all live in a yellow submarine. Or so I've heard.

[@detromaniac]

The bit on people who had faith healing more readily is actually pretty interesting ground. And by faith, I don't mean a specific religious faith as I'm sure he intended, but more of a motivation for continuing. Because we do know that a big difference maker with critically wounded or ill people is what happens when they completely lose the will to live. How many times has a spouse died shortly after their partner? In may ways having faith in something, often a duty to family, is able to preserve that perseverance. Speaking of soldiers in the civil war: it very well could have been that the belief that what they were doing was "gods work" did in fact recover more readily than those whose will to exist had been trampled by war. The matter of motivation is much different when all you see ahead is a pointless death vs believing that the suffering is necessary in some way.

[@D-me-dream-smp]

When I worked on a medical ward I was surprised at a certain phenomena. When a person was at the final stage of dying they would often have family members waiting with them yet they would linger on only to pass away half an hour after family left. It was like they kept hanging on while their loved ones were there.

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

Im sure there are caverns that span for miles under the earth. And I’m sure some people looked into those caverns and thought the whole earth was hollow. But of course then you just have the nutjobs…

[@Xander081987]

Right, and the ancient cartographers who were masters at map making just "accidentally" made maps depicting earth as an inside out sphere?

[@gaiusfulmen]

Drawing something doesn't mean it exists. You can find old maps with dragons and sea monsters in the margins. Besides, those maps you mention are in the vast minority; there are many more old maps that do not depict the earth as a hollow sphere than those that do. @@Xander081987

[@Zurpanik]

My dude! It was always the way!! I always had a thought that you would be a hell of a contributor to PopSci - and now you lead it on YT! Let's go!

[@armante4u]

We actually do live inside the earth if you attribute the atmosphere to be a part of the earth. You could argue that it's no different than that fish live in the water. The atmosphere is technically also a fluid.

[@Xander081987]

Sounds like cope to me.

[@taejoonkim5122]

Nah, just semantics

[@nicksothep8472]

Regardless of the messiah part, I read his book and researched his experiment on the Florida beach, fascinating stuff, and although a bit crazy they were good people. Edit: regardless of the actual shape of the earth, the data wasn't "garbage", it's all extremely intresting and the experiment was really well done considering the situation. I really don't like your attitude, as one thing is being realistic, another is being disrespectful for no good reason. Furthermore, this is not the hollow earth, but the concave, cellular earth, hollow earth claims there are pockets on our spherical earth that are habitable, completely diffrent theory, and one that has millenia of mythology behind, as opposed with Teed's that was born with him and died with him.

[@22fingers]

The truth never dies, it just gets hidden, just like the pupil is a black hole that allows light to enter your eye the black hole sun appears to us as the source of all light in the sky

[@Catastropheshe]

7:23 he inhaled too much lead 😂😂😂

[@crispy-k]

Crazy part is that people as sick as him are still around these days, and many not so smart people are out there, and they fall for this kind of sick stuff to this day. And it's not going to change tomorrow ;) Nice vid, funny stuff!

[@iamnickyj]

I heard inner earth homes are going to be big this year.

[@Xander081987]

It's called a Wofati, and when the community is built, yes, these will be the homes.

[@gocelotspice5766]

This reminds me a lot of a book from around the 50s my grandpa found secondhand. It was called ‘the hollow earth’ and it seemed to make a genuine argument that the earth was actually hollow and that the poles had deep holes in them where you could enter the inner earth, which was always warm and had giant fertile crops, as well as a giant race of people. Apparently this had all been reported by a pilot who flew into the core. It was nonsense, obviously, but it was strange to see how earnestly this was presented as scientific fact. I wonder if it was associated with this guy at all.

[@sontungnguyen5631]

It's been so long since I watch any Vsauce. It's like looking through old stuffs in the attic...

[@franimal86]

Please, don’t spread the myth that all bodies are smelly and decomposing and gross after 3 days. During the first few days after death, the body enters the fresh stage, and the odor is typically minimal and unnoticeable. Most cultures have some sort of practice of sitting with their dead loved ones for several days to say goodbye. Even in America we used. Only in modern day America/Canada, really, do we ship them off the second they die (mostly because people are worried the body will start to smell) to embalm/cremate the body. Sometimes people haven’t even processed what’s happening before they get it taken away, and I think that it’s sad because it’s due to a myth. I want to give people more time to process what is happening.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Somehow, this is almost the exact opposite of what I thought the "Hollow Earth Theory" really meant, lol. I thought it was about the Earth's surface still being the surface of a normal sphere, but the inside was hollow. The real theory is even more insane than I thought!

[@The_Not_So_Great_Cornholio]

I think a lot of the success of cults, and the appeal they have for otherwise rational people, comes from an existential boredom; the desire to be in the vanguard on the cusp of something heretofore undiscovered. They want to escape the dread of insignificance.

[@oliviawolcott8351]

wanting to be special or to know secret knowledge is part of it, but the cult or the leader promises to fill people's needs and that's what really draws people in.

[@Xander081987]

The people who are insignificance are the npcs like yourself who are so bought into the illusion, they identify with only it.

[@matthewford2532]

This commune is actually host to many great stories - some hilarious. Andrew Garfield's assassin, Charles J. Guiteau was a member of the Oneida commune.

[@VictorbrineSC]

There is this Australian youtuber years ago, his name's Steven Christ. He had the same ideas as Teed and made up his own "cult" with him as the messiah, calling himself "Lord Steven Christ". He also believed in this concave Earth, believed in the Rectilineator experiment. His version of the concave world is slightly different than Teed's Koreshan cosmogony, where the Sun and Move are instead connected to a gigantic heavenly octahedron at the center of the universe, orbiting around it closer to this "shell" as if they were headlamps. He believed that stars were actually created through sound in this cosmic ocean above, inside one of the spheres, through a process known as sonoluminescence. He believed that glass shards found in Lybia were not tektite from meteor impacts but rather bits of the glass sphere 100km above us that broke during the Flood. He believed himself to be the return of Christ, a new messiah, he made a seal for himself with intricate symbolism. His videos are sometimes laced with a layer of ASMR that just lulls you as he explains his crazy world to you. He made surprisingly good and really well thought 3D animated models of this concave world. I am not sure where he is now, apparently he was arrested for some shit, I mean people like him are destined (like Teed) to get into brawls or some other illegal activity and end up facing the justice system. His followers still believe he would return, be released from jail, but so far we know nothing of his whereabouts as far as I'm concerned. As a kid, while I didn't believe in his ideas thankfully, I still found them fascinating, it's such a novel way of "worlbuilding" a very interesting take on the universe and the way he showed it is just astounding... dangerously astounding... Search up "Lord Steven Christ" or his most popular video that introduced me to him: "Welcome to the Real World". He definitely followed in Teed's footsteps, albeit not going into this whole immortality thing, he predicted the end of the world and that he would save those who follow him: an eclipse would have occured above Australia but instead of moving it stayed there, slowly scorching the rest of the world while in the Moon's shadow, at Uluru rock, a "space" elevator would have been built to bring humans to the firmament and recreate civilization. I think the date he predicted was in 2017 so obviously that never happened.

[@jasonnewby4908]

Always a good day when I see a Vsauce vid, thanks for the content.

[@JimMedcraft]

POPULAR SCIENCE!!!! That is awesome man Congratulations 5:10!!

[@MttGaming904]

at 1:57 my brain jus DIED

[@Crow_Rising]

Maybe a few hundred years from now there will be people arguing over Hollow Mars vs Flat Mars.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

The topic of science cults reminds me of the Happy Science cult currently operating in Japan. The founder calls himself El Kantare, and the cult had commissioned both Kyoto Animation and CdawgVA, both familiar names.

[@nwavette]

The closing monologue for this episode was phenomenal.

[@moop2000]

That is my ancestor, my proudest family member! So awesome!

[@GodlikeIridium]

3:30 Sing "Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb" 😂

[@MikePuorro]

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

[@neptunite5973]

so that's why i suddenly got popular science vids recommended

[@christianminor-ov3pw]

Someone get this video to Sam Tripoli - and his cult of hacks who only choose to learn from the most rigorous selection of KZbin videos...

[@TheRKae]

Nutty... and yet, Teed didn't do 0.00001% of the damage that our official "experts" have done to the world.

[@jackbucher2049]

This sounds like a dogwhistle for something unsavory

[@ince55ant]

this guy reminds me of that one guy from the german netflix show Dark also the idea of inside out earth is a cool way to have both the sun and earth be the center of the universe

[@kriegsameise]

Which guy?

[@superdude5416]

I believe the earth is in the shape of a dinassaur

[@Xander081987]

That's because you're proof idiocracy is a documentary.

[@snarshmallow]

For the first half of the video I thought the “Cyrus Teed Hollow Earth” graphic said “Crusted Hollow Earth”

[@friendlyneighborhooddg]

Love this topic! Good video!

[@tranceemerson8325]

Koresh cult wasn't exactly a hollow earth cult, they would have believed that digging into the ground would lead you to outer space. Hollow earthers believe in the place called Shamballa which they believe exists inside the earth, and would have believed digging deep enough would put you inside Shamballa.

[@tranceemerson8325]

@@TylerMarkRichardson weird... lol

[@tw8464]

This cult leader make believe nonsense was an internet influencer before the internet

[@wpridgen4853]

"...we don't hear much about cosmogony..." Sir, you and I move in different circles..

[@jay429429]

Please for the love of god Keven, Ask Micheal to come back.... Since he left there has been a hole in my life.... The perspectives he offered changed my life :[.... Ill pay him per video what I can....

[@shmackydoodRon]

No, the world is a torus, with Antarctica as the inner ring.

[@ennard3866]

I watched “butler in a box” 5:21

[@piglava]

19:04 “Ms. Berthaldine Boomer.” That is a boomer name if I’ve ever seen one

[@jackiewdo]

Camping at the old compound is one of my favorite camping experiences of all time

[@Smytjf11]

I've looked up worse than the rectilineator

[@ericerpelding2348]

Is it OK to call him a nutcase?

[@happysmilesworldandgames8755]

11:13 wow, so much work for... whatever this is

[@DarklightSpirit]

thats why the rectilineator has never been done again, because its "too obvious" what would happen

[@Xander081987]

yes. Amen.

[@bagel29]

Oh shit I know where harmony, PA is

[@CravingBeatz]

You're only a view to me -Vsauce 2

[@zzzmatyzzz]

vsauce changed in looks so much

[@IgotQuestions.]

U miss to explain why we dont see the concavity on that model .

[@jerrylee7898]

Fascinating! Subbed!

[@cervinio]

Does someone know this song? 18:32

[@abishek786]

23:11 Does anyone know the name of this bg music?

[@simonpuech432]

Very beautiful conclusion as usual! Loved it !!

[@Dan-Simms]

Oh god imagine if this guy had twitter? He would probably be running for president if alive now. SMH

[@savage.4.24]

Dude was so nuts he predicted Florida. He was definitely insane.

[@darthgorthaur258]

6:35 yep it sprung up for EVERYONE else who couldnt make it as doctors even then 😂😂

[@AxatNarigara]

Last 3 minutes cannot be anymore accurate. Thanks for speaking what i think word to word. Thanks. And as always, stay AWESOME... 🖖

[@tiffanymarie9750]

What happens when hollow earthers meet flat earthers 🤔

[@sunderark]

they cancel each other out.

[@tiffanymarie9750]

@@sunderark oh how very atomic

[@ConcaveHollowEarth]

Concave Earth wins and is superior to flat earth

[@Catastropheshe]

But we are living in something concave - our skulls 😄💀😅

[@roeberdt-bT.1021]

..."an immune system response with the POTENTIAL for becoming jointly held womb." (That's the best working model to explain the "here" I've found.,...)

[@Xander081987]

Secret life of Plants. We live inside.

[@Xenronnify]

Cyrus Teed may have been a tad unhinged.. however, his followers - called Teed's Nutz - certainly didn't think so.

[@JoeSmith-cy9wj]

Even today many are afraid to live in a universe without control, a world without an emperor, a community without a leader. Just having a few natural laws governing all that is, is much too frightening, especially when you don't know or understand those laws. Thus god.

[@bobsponge1877]

He resembles Robin Williams.

[@FeralFBI]

Bro this is just how you would spit game back in the day. "Yea I am God so lets do this baby"...

[@ziggygunz2447]

It's kind of funny that KZbin would ban that photo of teed when it's so low quality that it looks more like a drawing of a slowly decomposing body rather than a picture.

[@pancakesandbacon2567]

I used to go to the Koreshan State Historic Site in Fort Myers, Florida. It is a beautiful piece of land where you can kayak and it has the entire cult preserved with the buildings and pseudo-scientific experiments on display. It is worth the trip .

[@Xander081987]

The Rectilineator, being a device made with EXRTEME PRECISION, .005" is the worlds largest "Contour Guage." and it denoted the same exact measurement of curvature found over 150 years later, 1000 miles away. Flat earthers use their eyes more than their brains. Heliocentrists use their mouths more than their brain.

[@Gianfranco_69]

When calculating trajectories over a long distance with cannonballs it matters not if you use the Concave or Convex surface model...the results are exactly the same

[@Xander081987]

The difference is that flat earthers will scream "THE HORIZON RISES TO EYE LEVEL" and then forget that in order for it to be true, the opposite must also be true. You'd think they would lie down FLAT and LEVEL and then take a look.... and see the horizon curving up infront of their very eyes. But nope... they choose not to UNDER STAND.