@hillelslovak said:@krishnasprophet said:Its cool if you disagree. I just want to think and discuss. To answer your question about specialists being involved in a grand conspiracy - the grandest conspiracies are those which the majority of people believe in. If misinformation gets elevated to the level of commonly accepted truth, it becomes harder to even call it a conspiracy. To me, thats what makes discussing Flat earth realities so important. Society at large believes something that is inaccurate. I'm not calling anyone stupid. I once believed in the round earth myself. My hope is to wake people up and help them to see that their socially driven conception of the material universe is in error. At the very least I want to encourage people to evaluate their basis of knowledge. And again, I'm not trying to inflame our incite.
You mentioned that belief is nothing when facts are available. How do you know that your fact based system of belief is sound? I also think that knowledge should be based on what we can intuitively observe. A system of thinking that is based on facts is still as system of belief. How do we all evaluate that system and know that it is right? Anyways, as always thanks for the reply.
Recognizing facts is not a belief system. Where is this anti moon, why has it not been discovered by every civilization known to man, and how can it be measured? And how can a movement founded by a 19th century quack, whose main proponents are reality stars and never was rappers, possibly hope to counter all the astronomers and astro physicists?
Once again, I ask you, what would the millions of people who have done independent inquiries onto the nature of our solar system stand to gain from ignoring and obscuring an incredibly simple fact like the flat character of the earth.
Lastly, if the moon orbits the earth in a vacuum, and is spherical, how could it rotate around us in a vacuum right along our equator if the planet was shaped like a bowl? That makes zero sense, because a planet that was not spherical would have an extremely uneven magnetic effect on orbiting bodies. And no, please do not bring up an anti moon to explain this away. The more entities revolving around an gravitationally unstable object like our planet would increase the instability.
Thanks for the questions. How we interpret facts is part of our belief system. Perhaps you and I are using different senses of the word "belief"? I do not use "belief" as synonymous with "faith". A belief is a coherent part of our total understanding of reality. People can interpret the same facts in different ways. That interpretation comprises their belief given those facts. You ask how can Planar Theory counter the astronomers and astro-physicists? I does and has. Millions of people have inquired into the nature of the earth, but most accepted the prevailing notions of what the universe should look like. They approached their analysis of earth with the assumption that it was round. A minority of those inquirers did/have noticed that the earth is not round, but quickly got stymied by social stigma. Everyone believes (sometimes in a faith based way) that the earth is round because the specialists believe that the earth is round.
Regarding the moon, it is smaller and closer to earth's surface. It orbits above the disk, opposite the sun. Earths magnetic field is even, though not for the reasons spherists would claim.
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@arad96: The sun, moon, and stars are all spherical. However, they are all smaller and much closer to the surface of the disk. The sun is likely composed of some kind of solid substance (however, Planar Theorists do not pretend to know for sure what we cannot see) and does not emit light equally in all directions. This is called Variable Luminosity: imagine a the sphere on which only a specific quadrant emits light. Thats how variable luminosity works. It makes sense, if the sun was fully luminous we would see it at all times and from all places. At best the earth would experience only twilight. But as it is, it is able to recede from view as it orbits above the surface of the earth.
Thanks for your question. To me, even more important than the shape of the earth is questioning and understanding why we think we know what we know.
Come on now, look at this picture and decide. There is only one possibility. I can't even believes this is questionable. Too funny.
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