>>>Since you didn't reply to a single point I made, I'm going to ignore most of what you said because it's obvious you don't want to have an honest debate. Your mind is made up, and I'm not going to try and change it, because really, I don't care.
I most certainly did reply, told I had seen certain phenomena - see attached for 1 of 3.
>>>I will tell you that I have NEVER observed anything in all my years doing this that has made me question what I was taught.
This is my point in all of this anon. You show a picture of a flat disk and and call it a sphere because you've been spoon-fed such information. Left to your own devices you would likely have called it a flat disk.
For example, see attached pic.
This is from an astronomer whose job is to follow the solar eclipse. Notice how he misses what is right in front of his face?
“Oh my God. Oh my God. Here we go. Look at this,” Kentrianakis says in the heady seconds before alignment occurs. “Oh my God. It’s coming. The moon’s shadow is coming!”
https://qz.com/635699/this-astronomer-watching-an-eclipse-from-an-airplane-is-the-happiest-man-in-the-world/
Is that really the moon's shadow or one of those translucent orbs in the pic?
We are ALL in the same boat anon, our perception has been comp'd.
Without careful cultivation of our attention, our perception is subjective and creates a false reality.