No, the earth is not flat

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kinda

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Not an airplane, a normal plane. A flat, level surface. If the diagrams I have posted so far are inadequate, follow the link I already posted to the Flat Earth Podcast site. It's where I get this stuff anyways.
It sounds like your done explaining, and whenever I get close to understanding, the story changes.

If you can do me a huge favor. Please explain your flat earth in your own words. If you notice my concave earth thread, I did this when asked. I didn't push people to a website, if I did is because people were calling me an astronaut. lol


Just explain this model the best way you know how, in your own words, without referring to your podcast. You should at least have a working understanding on what you believe? You have read books, spent thousands of hours on this study, so it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes...right?


 
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"A higher plane," hehe
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It sounds like your done explaining, and whenever I get close to understanding, the story changes.

If you can do me a huge favor. Please explain your flat earth in your own words. If you notice my concave earth thread, I did this when asked. I didn't push people to a website, if I did is because people were calling me an astronaut. lol


Just explain this model the best way you know how, in your own words, without referring to your podcast. You should at least have a working understanding on what you believe? You have read books, spent thousands of hours on this study, so it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes...right?


Been there, did that:
https://christianchat.com/conspirac.../a-biblical-cosmology-gods-flat-earth.203409/
 

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I appreciate that. Didn't really want to goto those threads, because I want to be a part of the team that helps put an end to the flat earth religion. Notice this is the "No, the earth is not flat" thread?

Here is another video to watch. I might ask Dave to destroy my concave earth model, think he would do it?




I see two real pitfalls for the flat earth believers.

1. Don't have a working model of the solar system, or how the sun, and moon work in relation to a flat earth. You already admitted, that team flat earth hasn't had enough time to do this in 8 years.

2. The actual flat earth map that you believe is incorrect. Not gonna debate this one, until point 1 is handled. You got to have the horse, before the cart can be pulled. :)
 

posthuman

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It's a combination of the perspective (up and down) and the fading out due to the sun moving beyond the distance that its light can push through the atmospheric dust, smog, humidity to reach the viewer.
nonsense. i can see stars, which are even further away than the sun.
light doesn't 'push through' dust -- it's scattered by it, in all directions, but keeps going, and not every photon hits a dust particle.
on cloudy days it is still light outside.

your model results in no such thing as night.

The sun also changes angular size throughout the course of the day (you can find many time lapse videos of this) and there are also videos of it clearly arcing across the sky - instead of taking a straight path - as it continues on its circuit around the Earth plane.
yes the sun changes angular size over the course of a day - but opposite what you would expect in FE. the sun is larger near the horizon, at dawn and dusk, instead of smaller.
the standard model predicts exactly this, because the sun's light is being diffracted through more atmosphere - more dust.

and of course it's apparent motion is an arc. the globe is rotating off-axis to the ecliptic.
but again, in your unworkable FE model, the sun should be travelling in a completely different arc - it should never be dipping below 30 degrees from horizontal, and be heading north instead of setting in the west.

and of course the most glaringly obvious issue is the full disc of the sun, larger instead of smaller, half-obscured at sunset over a plain or a lake or ocean as it rises or sets.

God put the sun and moon in the sky for times and seasons. we are supposed to watch them and understand our position in His creation from them. their motions absolutely without controversy utterly debunk FE, and confirm the earth is an orb a great distance from the sun, rotating and orbiting it.
 
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nonsense. i can see stars, which are even further away than the sun.
light doesn't 'push through' dust -- it's scattered by it, in all directions, but keeps going, and not every photon hits a dust particle.
on cloudy days it is still light outside.

your model results in no such thing as night.



yes the sun changes angular size over the course of a day - but opposite what you would expect in FE. the sun is larger near the horizon, at dawn and dusk, instead of smaller.
the standard model predicts exactly this, because the sun's light is being diffracted through more atmosphere - more dust.

and of course it's apparent motion is an arc. the globe is rotating off-axis to the ecliptic.
but again, in your unworkable FE model, the sun should be travelling in a completely different arc - it should never be dipping below 30 degrees from horizontal, and be heading north instead of setting in the west.

and of course the most glaringly obvious issue is the full disc of the sun, larger instead of smaller, half-obscured at sunset over a plain or a lake or ocean as it rises or sets.

God put the sun and moon in the sky for times and seasons. we are supposed to watch them and understand our position in His creation from them. their motions absolutely without controversy utterly debunk FE, and confirm the earth is an orb a great distance from the sun, rotating and orbiting it.
You should read "Kings Dethroned." It's all about the assumptions underlying modern astronomy, especially as regarding the distances of the sun, moon, and stars. Bad math and appeal to authority have resulted in the modern accepted figures. The fact is that we don't know exactly how far any of these bodies are.
 

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You should read "Kings Dethroned." It's all about the assumptions underlying modern astronomy, especially as regarding the distances of the sun, moon, and stars. Bad math and appeal to authority have resulted in the modern accepted figures. The fact is that we don't know exactly how far any of these bodies are.
i have spent around 13 years studying physics & mathematics in undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and more working in technical analysis roles related to the fields. i have many very well-informed objections to the assumptions in generally accepted science, but none of them make the earth flat.

the sky, which God made explicitly for us to pay attention to, 100% irrevocably overturns every FE argument.
 
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i have spent around 13 years studying physics & mathematics in undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and more working in technical analysis roles related to the fields. i have many very well-informed objections to the assumptions in generally accepted science, but none of them make the earth flat.

the sky, which God made explicitly for us to pay attention to, 100% irrevocably overturns every FE argument.
There's only one thing you have to do to convince me, glober.

Give me that full globe Earth HD photograph from space. People have been waiting for that one for decades. It's gonna be a longer wait yet, I guess, because NASA keeps sending crap cameras into space and designing space telescopes that cannot turn around to photograph the Earth.
 

posthuman

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There's only one thing you have to do to convince me, glober.

Give me that full globe Earth HD photograph from space. People have been waiting for that one for decades. It's gonna be a longer wait yet, I guess, because NASA keeps sending crap cameras into space and designing space telescopes that cannot turn around to photograph the Earth.
you've already seen them but you don't accept them. you shoot the messenger.
did you watch the sun rise this morning?
you can still watch the moon set, today. it's for every eye on earth to see.

God put a witness in the sky - turn youtube off, and go look at it.
 
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you've already seen them but you don't accept them. you shoot the messenger.
did you watch the sun rise this morning?
you can still watch the moon set, today. it's for every eye on earth to see.
God put a witness in the sky - turn youtube off, and go look at it.
I watch the moon quite often, because when it is mostly lit I don't sleep well.

And if by "the messenger" you mean NASA, yes I do shoot them. Go look up who the NASA administrator is right now. Tell me, are they in any secret societies?

I can tell you for a fact that the current one is. Bet you didn't know that. NASA: Freemasons, occultists, propagandists, liars.

"Book of the Snake" -- I think is the secret society the current one is in. Yeah, that sounds like a real honest and Christian organization.
 

kinda

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I appreciate that. Didn't really want to goto those threads, because I want to be a part of the team that helps put an end to the flat earth religion. Notice this is the "No, the earth is not flat" thread?

Here is another video to watch. I might ask Dave to destroy my concave earth model, think he would do it?




I see two real pitfalls for the flat earth believers.

1. Don't have a working model of the solar system, or how the sun, and moon work in relation to a flat earth. You already admitted, that team flat earth hasn't had enough time to do this in 8 years.

2. The actual flat earth map that you believe is incorrect. Not gonna debate this one, until point 1 is handled. You got to have the horse, before the cart can be pulled. :)

I actually just watched this video for the first time, and Dave agrees with me. Having a model is pretty important.

Dave seems arrogant though, wish he would bring his ideas across, without being so puffed up. Actually think the flat earthers in the video had some valid points, but with so many bad view points, the true things they were saying, got lost in the mix.

Dave seems like he is more on a science debate team, than a esteemed scientist. Just my view point. I heard a saying, if you can't do it, teach it. Dave says, he is a professor at the Bachelors and Master level, so maybe his messages will mature with time.

An actual scientist who has accomplished and invented things, typically have a much different demeanor, than put down Dave. Professor Put Down sounds more accurate, after watching a few of his videos. I seen Professor Put Down do his work on Kent Hovind and it was a train wreck. The lack of respect this man shows for the Bible is typical for secular college teachers.
 

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It sounds like your done explaining, and whenever I get close to understanding, the story changes.

If you can do me a huge favor. Please explain your flat earth in your own words. If you notice my concave earth thread, I did this when asked. I didn't push people to a website, if I did is because people were calling me an astronaut. lol


Just explain this model the best way you know how, in your own words, without referring to your podcast. You should at least have a working understanding on what you believe? You have read books, spent thousands of hours on this study, so it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes...right?


Well to me it looks like an egg, the earth being the yolk enveloped in the egg white, water above and beneath the firmament? You will also notice there is a white, thin filament between the egg white and the shell. That could also be the firmament? You can splice it in have though so you can set it on a foundation?
 
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Well to me it looks like an egg, the earth being the yolk enveloped in the egg white, water above and beneath the firmament? You will also notice there is a white, thin filament between the egg white and the shell. That could also be the firmament? You can splice it in have though so you can set it on a foundation?
A lot of ancient cultures held to a "cosmic egg" cosmology. From what I can tell, the Bible doesn't tell us the exact shape of the firmament. "Dome" is an interpretation from the portrayal of God spreading out the heavens "like a tent" in the Scriptures, but other shapes can be spread too. It could also be a plane extending in all directions, or something else. The Bible is clear that the Earth is fixed and it does not move... and there are numerous suppressed science experiments which have proven this. Like the "axis of evil" phenomenon.

But I'll say this. If you study NASA and their "work" you can see they are clearly lying to us about something. Based on my observations and studies of Scriptures, I believe it's the shape of the Earth. Maybe it's the location or existence of continents. Or something else.
 

VineyardsOfEngedi

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A lot of ancient cultures held to a "cosmic egg" cosmology. From what I can tell, the Bible doesn't tell us the exact shape of the firmament. "Dome" is an interpretation from the portrayal of God spreading out the heavens "like a tent" in the Scriptures, but other shapes can be spread too. It could also be a plane extending in all directions, or something else. The Bible is clear that the Earth is fixed and it does not move... and there are numerous suppressed science experiments which have proven this. Like the "axis of evil" phenomenon.

But I'll say this. If you study NASA and their "work" you can see they are clearly lying to us about something. Based on my observations and studies of Scriptures, I believe it's the shape of the Earth. Maybe it's the location or existence of continents. Or something else.
I have not read into what ancient cultures viewed the earth to be but that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw that image lol. And what is the shape of the Earth? I've looked into the Blue Marble and read articles on how NASA lies, even that the images taken of supposedly in space are really just in a huge pool lol.
 
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"A higher plane," hehe
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I have not read into what ancient cultures viewed the earth to be but that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw that image lol. And what is the shape of the Earth? I've looked into the Blue Marble and read articles on how NASA lies, even that the images taken of supposedly in space are really just in a huge pool lol.
Yup, definitely something fishy with NASA. Why all the CG fakery when they could just give us real pictures.... IF they can do what they say?

By the way, for any conspiracy skeptics out there, check out footage from other countries' space programs and compare it to ours. Their CG is much worse, so you can see the fakery even more obviously. And you can see the stories don't match. Compare JAXA's Earthrise from the moon versus NASA's, for example.

All liars.

I remember the upheaval when private companies wanted to get into space. "No, we can't let them do that! Liability, blah blah!" Then suddenly, in a very short amount of time, Elon Musk pops up from nowhere and EVERYBODY is privatizing space and it's all peachy-keen. Yeah.

The Establishment was just worried they couldn't control private space industry and they needed a bit of time to pull their strings and get their front man into place. Check into Elon Musk's background. He's from an Illuminati family, mother is a witch (literally), groomed to be a trustable man of the people. Blah.
 

posthuman

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I watch the moon quite often, because when it is mostly lit I don't sleep well.

And if by "the messenger" you mean NASA, yes I do shoot them. Go look up who the NASA administrator is right now. Tell me, are they in any secret societies?

I can tell you for a fact that the current one is. Bet you didn't know that. NASA: Freemasons, occultists, propagandists, liars.

"Book of the Snake" -- I think is the secret society the current one is in. Yeah, that sounds like a real honest and Christian organization.
your Rowbatham was freemason, i hear.
 

posthuman

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I watch the moon quite often, because when it is mostly lit I don't sleep well.
the moon has phases?
interesting.

and what does moonrise, moonset look like, on an unobscured horizon?
can you draw a picture and post it?
 

posthuman

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Then it would be strange that he wasn't pushing Helios as the center of all things like the Luciferian mystery religions often do.

Rowbatham was mocking the ignorant rabble whom he considered stupid enough to believe him.
Zeteticism was a private, scoffing joke among 'the self-proclaimed elite'
 

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Then it would be strange that he wasn't pushing Helios as the center of all things like the Luciferian mystery religions often do.
can you show me a picture of what moonrise/moonset or sunrise/sunset looks like on an unobscured horizon?
 
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Rowbatham was mocking the ignorant rabble whom he considered stupid enough to believe him.
Zeteticism was a private, scoffing joke among 'the self-proclaimed elite'
Ok, your turn in the hotseat. Scholarly source?

The only source I'm finding at a glance is a dubious and unprofessional blog clearly designed to discredit flat earthers. Their argument is that Rowbotham must have been a Freemason since he was knighted.

The site also implies that flat earth is a CIA psyop... despite the fact it long precedes the CIA and its predecessor the OSS.