For egocentrism to be feasable the earth would have to be absolutely still with no gravity or spinning so fast that a feather would weigh hundreds of tons.
Flat-earthers Never Seem to Learn
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Why NO........hence the phrase.............."Bottoms UP!"
Flat earth pizza shop.
The Flat Earth Society purportedly has a turtle flat earth tee shirt on Amazon.
I think they're Satirical and in it for the money.
No one today could actually believe earth is flat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
Don't forget the elephants.
"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress.
Turtles all the way down - Wikipedia
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"References to the saying's mythological antecedents, the World Turtle and its counterpart the World Elephant, were made by a number of authors in the 17th and 18th centuries.[2][3]"
One of the fellow Engineers is such a conspiracy nut that he believes the earth is flat.
MM
Well I can empathise with the flatties because I do actually walk on a flat earth. I never seem to notice it being round and going upside down when I walk round it. Maybe that’s what they are on about.
Still, it’s not worth arguing about because of a belief. It’s when they start to make models and create systems out of it to base their beliefs on, that’s where they are gonna lead us into trouble. Then they may start to fill in the gaps with their own hypothesis and lead people down a never ending rabbit hole of confusion. And God help us if they ever get to that point.
They could even stop the younger generations in the future from actually progressing in anything because they will be stuck in a theory they believe without proof.
Here is Carl Sagan giving us an easy way of understanding. I hope this will help you flat earth folk before you get stuck down a rabbit hole
Still, it’s not worth arguing about because of a belief. It’s when they start to make models and create systems out of it to base their beliefs on, that’s where they are gonna lead us into trouble. Then they may start to fill in the gaps with their own hypothesis and lead people down a never ending rabbit hole of confusion. And God help us if they ever get to that point.
They could even stop the younger generations in the future from actually progressing in anything because they will be stuck in a theory they believe without proof.
Here is Carl Sagan giving us an easy way of understanding. I hope this will help you flat earth folk before you get stuck down a rabbit hole
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Engineer? Like one those little train sets some construct to fill a whole room of their house?
Plus, I've pages and pages filled on other forums debating the matter.
I always thought that's how we got a day /night (one complete revolution of the earth on it's axis. (travelling at 1000 mph=24,000miles in 24 hours.
(***Sorry, I was wrong in my previous posts stating 24,000mph)
So I am intrigued.
When and where did this flat earth conspiracy( or theory) begin?
When and where did this flat earth conspiracy( or theory) begin?
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Many ancient cultures believed earth was a flat disc or square.
Flat Earth | Theory, Model, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica
Flat Earth, the perception that Earth exists as a flat disk, either circular or square-shaped. This view persisted in the ancient world until empirical observations revealed that Earth’s shape was spherical or ellipsoidal. In modern times, however, the notion of a flat Earth has been revived and
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Thanks for the link ButterflyJonesMany ancient cultures believed earth was a flat disc or square.
Flat Earth | Theory, Model, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica
Flat Earth, the perception that Earth exists as a flat disk, either circular or square-shaped. This view persisted in the ancient world until empirical observations revealed that Earth’s shape was spherical or ellipsoidal. In modern times, however, the notion of a flat Earth has been revived and
I found the guy who started the conspiracy
what a mess that ended up being!I don’t know why, but I don’t believe the ancient civilisations thought the the world was flat. At least not the educated people.
All the images of their maps they created don’t really say the earth is a flat disc hovering in mid air but I kinda think they were, and at best, a description of how they just saw a small portion of what they saw. A bit like when you don’t know what you just don’t know yet, if that makes sense. So they made up some myths describing it until they came across some truth.
Thanks for sharing.
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Edit:The image of the Norse tree of life is fascinating. I think it shows how their ancients minds viewed the cosmos, and if it had any resemblance to a real physical world, then why only one tree?
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Many ancient cultures believed earth was a flat disc or square.
Flat Earth | Theory, Model, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica
Flat Earth, the perception that Earth exists as a flat disk, either circular or square-shaped. This view persisted in the ancient world until empirical observations revealed that Earth’s shape was spherical or ellipsoidal. In modern times, however, the notion of a flat Earth has been revived and
Very true. Most of them also believed in polytheism, somewhat similar to Mormons.
MM
Nope. He's an Electrical Engineer who has had physics classes and math, and yet he's VERY mathematically challenged, as well as not too knowledgeable about physics. I'm left wondering how he ever got through the wash-out classes for Engineering.
MM
Or, the sun is closer to the earth than first worked out.
It actually makes me very sad. Because I would not like to live in a 2 dimensional world with no depth
Or, the sun is closer to the earth than first worked out.
It actually makes me very sad. Because I would not like to live in a 2 dimensional world with no depth
Via, let's consider this:
That fellow Engineer of which I spoke who thinks the earth is flat, I challenged him to think outside the flat box. The flat earth model also assumes that the expanse of the sky is a mural, with little holes in it and light shining through the holes.
I challenged him to consider what manner of theft that is against God. If all the Lord did was poke some holes through a mural of blackness to simulate stars and galaxies, consider what manner of theft that is to, otherwise, what is actually an expression of His Power and His Grandeur. Why anyone would want to steal from the Lord the absolute magnitude of the universe, in all its vastness, that only makes Him out to some cheap trickster, no better than the magician who does slight-of-hand, cheap tricks to fool the crowds.
No. That expanse of universe we see out there...it's real, and it's an expression of just how much more powerful God is than some cheap, parlor trickster with nothing more than a few practiced tricks up his sleeve.
MM
The old religion never really went away working within and behind the veil of many religions & establishments
They believe they are the gods now MM.
Maybe that’s why He disallowed us from the tree of life. God knew how stupid we would become.
Can you imagine having immortality AND stupidity? Especially when one cannot escape their own stupidity?
Good heavens above.
Sorry, I’m rather cross today.
Maybe that’s why He disallowed us from the tree of life. God knew how stupid we would become.
Can you imagine having immortality AND stupidity? Especially when one cannot escape their own stupidity?
Good heavens above.
Sorry, I’m rather cross today.
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Judaism was panthestic at first, so I can't really judge early primitive people .
Some thought Christians were polytheistic because of the Trinity.
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