Several teams of explorers have reached the South Pole on foot. Which is only possible if Antarctica is a continent. If they walked out that far on a ring of land ice they would have come to the outer edge of it.
See, I like a lot of people that believe things that I don't believe. Some of my best friends believe things I think are insane.
For starters I don't believe most of the people making claims about anything. Often I don't even believe a good deal of some of the things from people who seem to agree with me generally about particular topics.
Most importantly, I'd very much like to see the home video footage of your trip to Antarctica, let's say.. and others making such claims. I'd like to see aerial video, personal photos taken, would be good to have a friend along. Documentation is key, and if people have not went and have no documentation then I have to trust their intuition about people they are trusting, or organizations (far worse), and I just don't have the faith in humanity's pure gold hearts (sense the sarcasm please) to buy the ocean front property everyone is trying to sell me in Arizona.
I found more evidence of lies and liars than I found at all about what the world looks like. That doesn't mean I didn't look for the evidence and it doesn't mean I don't feel I've found the truth. What it does mean... is that there are a lot of people and there is a lot of money being spent to lie to you and you and you and to us all.
Now, reference experiences are great and I myself have had to use them to get where I'm at. But let me tell you that when I walk outside during the day or night I don't need those reference experiences to validate reality for me anymore. If you look long enough, and hard enough, and deep enough and catch enough of the lies, eventually you can quite easily discern without any effort at all that you were definitely lied to "in school," "in the media," "in fill-in-the-blank-here," and you are still are being lied to. It is the number one fact to be established, and if you haven't woken up to that, then you are simply still easy prey.
To boot, I've been doing this for many years, and the deception tactics have increased and with the "new tools" afoot in the world I'm keenly aware that it is much harder for the children today to get any kind of certainty about literally anything they see, hear, or read on the world's networks slash interwebs. Anyone who thinks they cannot be deceived, was deceived first by themself.
If I wasn't one hundred percent sure of what I know now, I wouldn't even whisper a peep about anything. If I was still on the fence and uncertain, I'd keep my happy little mouth shut. But I care about the people reading the things I write, the people on this forum, the people in the world. God cares for them. He doesn't like them being lied to and we have all been lied to, and since I know people have, I tell them. They don't like it, I don't put insane effort in trying to "prove" it (because there is still a LOT that makes it extremely obvious, people are crushing the lies for those searching daily) and I'm here to make one point... don't buy into things just because you think you "can't be lied to." You can. You are.
You don't have to break someone's arm to wake them up to truth. Just wake them up to the fact they are being lied to. They are smart enough to start to find the lies and discern the truth if they will just look. Many people just are absolutely not looking. Too many take reference accounts too readily and they underestimate the size of the lies.