FLAT EARTH
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This is a good general question to ask yourself in any situation where you want to know the real truth. However, I put it forth in the above quoted post with specific regard to watching a sunset.
Don't skirt the issue.
I have no reasonable hope of being able - any time soon - or possibly ever - to go up to a high altitude and look out at the horizon. All I have is available video to watch and discern what I may from that.
Anyone in most situations will be far more able to watch a sunset.
Are you willing to watch a sunset?
A fisheye lens can "pervert" a picture from a camera or a video recording; however, what you see with your "naked eyes" - not looking through anything that may alter the image you are looking at (an airplane window, for example) - is most often much more believable.
While I can have respect for whatever you feel you have obtained from your own experience, it does me no real good (where proof is concerned) if I cannot experience it myself personally.
Therefore, I must refrain from wasting time with things that I cannot put to the test - you know - real science - repeatable, observable, demonstrable, etc.
I do not know for sure whether or not your eyes were "deceived" (i.e. - by an airplane window, perhaps) when you experienced what you did.
I am not at all inclined to call you a liar - or any such similar thing - because, I trust and assume that you believe what you [at least think you] saw.
As I have said before, I believe everyone has the right to believe what they will. Of course, they also have the responsibility that goes with it.
Contrary to that which most people have been taught, you have the right to yell "fire" in a theatre; however, you are also responsible for your actions - and the outcome and influence of whatever they cause - in doing so.
In the midst of the illustration of this example is the benefit of knowledge concerning the difference between a 'right' and a 'privilege'.
But I digress...
I do not like or dislike it. It is your testimony.
Will I admit . . . simply because "you said so"...?
Don't count on it!
Don't skirt the issue.
I have no reasonable hope of being able - any time soon - or possibly ever - to go up to a high altitude and look out at the horizon. All I have is available video to watch and discern what I may from that.
Anyone in most situations will be far more able to watch a sunset.
Are you willing to watch a sunset?
A fisheye lens can "pervert" a picture from a camera or a video recording; however, what you see with your "naked eyes" - not looking through anything that may alter the image you are looking at (an airplane window, for example) - is most often much more believable.
While I can have respect for whatever you feel you have obtained from your own experience, it does me no real good (where proof is concerned) if I cannot experience it myself personally.
Therefore, I must refrain from wasting time with things that I cannot put to the test - you know - real science - repeatable, observable, demonstrable, etc.
I do not know for sure whether or not your eyes were "deceived" (i.e. - by an airplane window, perhaps) when you experienced what you did.
I am not at all inclined to call you a liar - or any such similar thing - because, I trust and assume that you believe what you [at least think you] saw.
As I have said before, I believe everyone has the right to believe what they will. Of course, they also have the responsibility that goes with it.
Contrary to that which most people have been taught, you have the right to yell "fire" in a theatre; however, you are also responsible for your actions - and the outcome and influence of whatever they cause - in doing so.
In the midst of the illustration of this example is the benefit of knowledge concerning the difference between a 'right' and a 'privilege'.
But I digress...
I do not like or dislike it. It is your testimony.
Will I admit . . . simply because "you said so"...?
Don't count on it!
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Gary,
I’m a little impressed by your efforts to keep beating a dead horse.
It’s fascinating to realize that you seem to actually believe that the earth is flat. At first I thought you was joking.
But I recognize your pattern of rhetoric. You’re fluctuating between sweet and harsh arguments, between begging and ridiculing. People arguing with you never know what to expect.
Why are you doing this, Gary? Why is it so important to you that others agree with your flat earth sentiment?
I’m a little impressed by your efforts to keep beating a dead horse.
It’s fascinating to realize that you seem to actually believe that the earth is flat. At first I thought you was joking.
But I recognize your pattern of rhetoric. You’re fluctuating between sweet and harsh arguments, between begging and ridiculing. People arguing with you never know what to expect.
Why are you doing this, Gary? Why is it so important to you that others agree with your flat earth sentiment?
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What you don't realize is that - modern science is in large part a systematic design-and-engineering of unproven ideas - or, theory - promulgated to the masses as factual truth.
This video is an example of a pot calling a kettle black.
It is modern science that is made up of "assumption upon assumption" and "adjustment upon adjustment" - and is, in fact, "poor science"...
(phrases in quotes taken from video)
A lot of the things put forth in this video are simply assumption without fact. There are also videos to disprove them.
This video is an example of a pot calling a kettle black.
It is modern science that is made up of "assumption upon assumption" and "adjustment upon adjustment" - and is, in fact, "poor science"...
(phrases in quotes taken from video)
A lot of the things put forth in this video are simply assumption without fact. There are also videos to disprove them.
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I’m open to change, but you are going to have to show how a compass works in your theory of a flat earth magnetism, how are both the upper and lower regions are always cold and the middle of the planet always hot, and whole lot of other things that these videos say cause they are making way more sense than anything you have posted so far. Sorry I need little science explanation, I can evaporate water by adding heat there is a science to that plain and simple. I need more than looking at videos of the sun and clouds I need explaination in theory as like boiling water, nuclear science there’s a power plant not far from where I am. the earths core is thermal nuclear ball, producing a magnetic field thus why a simple hand held device with no batteries like compass works