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Hi jack,
Thanks for your response:
I'm curious what your model of a flat earth looks like. The model your using has this large earth that extends out from the point where your feet are standing in all directions for a great distance, correct? But the only place where there will be an edge is far south of Antarctica? Can you provide me a link to that diagram? Where does everything end that is north of the point that you're standing? And east and west?
You then responded:
I don't doubt that their explanation is 'quite interesting', but my understanding of 'interesting' would be weird or strange. Let's just for a moment assume your model. So, you're saying that from the point where you are standing you can set out with a compass in your hand and walk due east forever and ever and ever and the horizon will always appear as some far distant point ahead of you? So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. You continue to walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and the horizon is always some far distant point ahead of you. That makes sense to you on a flat earth model does it? How many thousands or millions or billions of miles can you walk in a due east direction?
You see, the truth, I'm afraid, is that you're not logically questioning claims that your adherents make as 'truth'. Just as in this video, you're accepting without question that there isn't any way to make a space suit that could retain it's shape even with the outside pressure being zero. You listen to the narrator tell you that a space suit would greatly expand and there's no way to prevent it if there is pressurized atmosphere inside the suit and zero pressure atmosphere outside the suit. It's apparently beyond your comprehension to know that such a problem is not only easily solvable but is solved with billions upon billions of examples every day when we put pressurized air in reinforced rubber tires. You're merely accepting, without question, that the space suit 'problem' cannot be solved and then allowing the proof of this claim to be merely that no one wants to take this guy out into space so that he can see for itself that it works.
You see, a person like your narrator can't be convinced with visual proof through videos. He's always going to stand on the claim that such a video is faked. He can't be satisfied by someone showing him the evidence of the car tire, as I have done, because he's always going to want to see the problem resolved only and specifically with a space suit in space. That's the only 'proof' that he's going to accept. Mathematical formularies aren't going to satisfy his doubt. Examples, such as a car tire which solves the exact same problem, but here on the earth inside of our atmosphere, aren't going to satisfy him because the only thing he's going to accept is for NASA to send him into space with a space suit on so that he can personally experience how a space suit reacts in a zero atmosphere condition.
In short, while I'm confident that God gave your narrator a brain that is able to think and reason, he hasn't developed that ability to be able to use it to think and reason. You have established in your mind that this person knows the truth. Likely because your mind sees the world at large as foisting some kind of grand conspiracy upon others. That there is a set of people on the earth that play every day at deceiving everyone, although it's really only you and a few others that 'see' it. All the rest of us are sheeple being led to the slaughter of this great and grand conspiracy of this set of people.
There's not a whole lot that anyone can do to sway such thinking because the underlying 'proof' is that everyone else has been duped and are playing along in this orchestration of grand and global scale. I tried, but I now see that your intelligence is somehow unable to equate the lowly car tire as the proof necessary to dispel your understanding regarding the space suit. I've tried to explain that it's impossible that this expansive bit of dirt that we have our feet firmly planted on cannot be flat if there's nowhere that one can see that the distance of the horizon is growing shorter.
God bless you,
In Christ, ted
Thanks for your response:
but you would not see the edge unless, according to the FE model, you flew to the far south of Antarctica and kept going.
I'm curious what your model of a flat earth looks like. The model your using has this large earth that extends out from the point where your feet are standing in all directions for a great distance, correct? But the only place where there will be an edge is far south of Antarctica? Can you provide me a link to that diagram? Where does everything end that is north of the point that you're standing? And east and west?
You then responded:
Also, you should look into their view of why the horizon is always at eye level... quite interesting.
I don't doubt that their explanation is 'quite interesting', but my understanding of 'interesting' would be weird or strange. Let's just for a moment assume your model. So, you're saying that from the point where you are standing you can set out with a compass in your hand and walk due east forever and ever and ever and the horizon will always appear as some far distant point ahead of you? So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. So, you keep walking and the horizon is still some far distant point ahead of you. You continue to walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and the horizon is always some far distant point ahead of you. That makes sense to you on a flat earth model does it? How many thousands or millions or billions of miles can you walk in a due east direction?
You see, the truth, I'm afraid, is that you're not logically questioning claims that your adherents make as 'truth'. Just as in this video, you're accepting without question that there isn't any way to make a space suit that could retain it's shape even with the outside pressure being zero. You listen to the narrator tell you that a space suit would greatly expand and there's no way to prevent it if there is pressurized atmosphere inside the suit and zero pressure atmosphere outside the suit. It's apparently beyond your comprehension to know that such a problem is not only easily solvable but is solved with billions upon billions of examples every day when we put pressurized air in reinforced rubber tires. You're merely accepting, without question, that the space suit 'problem' cannot be solved and then allowing the proof of this claim to be merely that no one wants to take this guy out into space so that he can see for itself that it works.
You see, a person like your narrator can't be convinced with visual proof through videos. He's always going to stand on the claim that such a video is faked. He can't be satisfied by someone showing him the evidence of the car tire, as I have done, because he's always going to want to see the problem resolved only and specifically with a space suit in space. That's the only 'proof' that he's going to accept. Mathematical formularies aren't going to satisfy his doubt. Examples, such as a car tire which solves the exact same problem, but here on the earth inside of our atmosphere, aren't going to satisfy him because the only thing he's going to accept is for NASA to send him into space with a space suit on so that he can personally experience how a space suit reacts in a zero atmosphere condition.
In short, while I'm confident that God gave your narrator a brain that is able to think and reason, he hasn't developed that ability to be able to use it to think and reason. You have established in your mind that this person knows the truth. Likely because your mind sees the world at large as foisting some kind of grand conspiracy upon others. That there is a set of people on the earth that play every day at deceiving everyone, although it's really only you and a few others that 'see' it. All the rest of us are sheeple being led to the slaughter of this great and grand conspiracy of this set of people.
There's not a whole lot that anyone can do to sway such thinking because the underlying 'proof' is that everyone else has been duped and are playing along in this orchestration of grand and global scale. I tried, but I now see that your intelligence is somehow unable to equate the lowly car tire as the proof necessary to dispel your understanding regarding the space suit. I've tried to explain that it's impossible that this expansive bit of dirt that we have our feet firmly planted on cannot be flat if there's nowhere that one can see that the distance of the horizon is growing shorter.
God bless you,
In Christ, ted
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