“When the eclipse comes, leave the goggles alone. I’m a lie. See it with your own eyes and the truth about the flat Earth will be revealed: Glasses aren’t there to protect your eyes, they’re there to protect their lies!”. And also: “God is real and the evidence is everywhere!”.
This is just one of the many, many messages and posts that have been flooding in for days Twitter and TikTok ahead of the solar eclipse which today will be visible in some areas of Canada, the United States and Mexico. Obviously, the advice to look at an eclipse with the naked eye is crazy and should not be followed.
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It’s so crazy that, in reference to the tweet just mentioned, other users have used the function Contextual information (the same with which he came some time ago Elon Musk also correct) to explain how things are and help people not to fall into a trap: “By definition, glasses are for your protection, since too long exposure to the Sun will undoubtedly damage your eyes, at least temporarily. Please do not look at the Sun (during the eclipse or in general) just because someone told you on the Internet”.
“Someone” understood as many TikTok and Twitter users who are advising people to go against the basic rules of common sense. From what we understand, they do it mainly for two reasons: to disobey and to finally discover that the Earth is flat (which obviously it is not).
Il first reason it is somehow rooted in the human propensity for disobedience, exacerbated in recent years by the many rules imposed in the pandemic period, by the growing distrust towards science and in general by the distrust towards so-called experts: “If they tell us not to look at the eclipse, it would probably be better for us to watch the eclipse!”, we read on Twitter in a post that was later removed. In short: if those in charge tell us not to do something, perhaps we should do it. Because (it’s the theory) they want to hide something from us.
From here you get to second reason, because the something they would like to hide from us would be the fact that the Earth is flat: “None of the things above us are three-dimensional, they are all in the firmament. Read the Book of Enoch for further explanation,” said one TikToker, referring to the Bible. Always on TikTok (video below)other creators explained that the story of the glasses with which to watch the eclipse would only be “a scam” to push people to buy them, favoring the companies that produce them and sell them. Instead, looking at everything with the naked eye, “people will be able to see for themselves that the Sun is not 150 million kilometers away.” Because the Earth would be flat and the rest would just be a complicated projection, obviously.
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Those linked to disobedience and flat-eartherism are not the only fake news that have invaded social networks as the day of the eclipse approaches: there are others linked to the fact that the eclipse would finally put an end to the simulation that would actually be our life (as Musk also claims) and many connected to the Bible. In extreme summary, the solar eclipse of April 8th would trigger some events linked to the Apocalypse, to the prophecy of the Three Days of Darkness (which the conspiracy theorists had initially predicted for March) and in general to the ascent of the deserving towards the kingdom of heaven.
In the midst of all this there are the traditional liars, those who don’t say they don’t use glasses to watch the eclipse but actually sell them, even online. Except they don’t offer any protection. It would be better to avoid those too (e.g follow these tips instead), as well as avoiding staring at the Sun with the naked eye, although Twitter user @chantal75536402 says that “I have always watched eclipses and almost every day I look at the Sun with the naked eye for about 5 minutes: I’m not blind yet, we were lied to”.
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– 2024-04-09 08:32:34
