The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsis anybody other than me irked by the phrase, "the four corners of the globe"? WTEH???
For some reason, today it is really annoying.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)I guess it is reality to many idiots.
niyad
(113,344 posts)annoying than usual to me today.
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts)It might be a boost to your coping mechanisms.
niyad
(113,344 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)together.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)where people started using it when referring to the globe, since it was already a familiar idea.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Abrahamic religions werent the original flat earthers, but they certainly popularized the idea and still promoted it long after they should have known better.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)referred to the 4 directions of earth, long before they ever encountered people with Bibles.
It's just a human thing - front, back, left, right.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)While it's true that most ancient peoples envisioned the earth as flat, educated people have known the earth was round for well over 2,000 years. It's one thing to promote ignorance when you have no way of knowing better. It's quite another to become willfully ignorant of science when you could have better educated yourself or at the very least gotten out of the way of people educating society instead of trying to dumb everyone down.
It's just another example of religion making people dummer which still continues just as strongly today. The whataboutitst will say whatabout all the scientific knowledge believers have provided, which dodges the larger question of what could have been accomplished without the yoke of religion holding everyone back.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)Really? There is a religious conspiracy to maintain the expression "4 corners of the globe"? Explicitly for the pupose of making people dumber.
Who knew? Unaware of this vast conspiracy, I thought it was just a carryover of an old expression for designating directions. Since there are no corners to the earth, should we also eliminate the use of north, south, east, and west?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It was propagated by people who who were so heavily invested in the idea of an inerrant bible they attacked any and all critics up to and including torture and execution explicitly for the purpose of making people dummer (sic). That is the origin and history of the expression.
Really.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)the earth and its part of that verse.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)You're not one of those round-Earthers, are you?
niyad
(113,344 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)To Lowell Thomas'7:00PM radio broadcast of the news. He always had stories from the four corners of the globe.
ret5hd
(20,498 posts)I stop
realize that today must be a pretty damn good day if this is the issue that I choose to worry about!
Then I smile, maybe pop a beer, put my feet up, and think maybe if Im REALLY lucky later
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)but now I am IRKED!
rickford66
(5,524 posts)Who decides ?
Donkees
(31,418 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)There. Doncha feel better now?
niyad
(113,344 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)...makes you feel that way?
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Yeah, "four corners of the globe" is nonsense. Possibly perpetrated by people who are misquoting the original phrase?
-- Mal
niyad
(113,344 posts)travel ads, "every corner of the globe." Grrrr.