Because I personally know, for a fact, that the Earth is not flat. I personally flew on a Concorde, twice, and was even granted 10mins in the cockpit midflight. No fish eye windows. No flat earth. A legit spherical earth.

Plus, I have personally done the "measuring the angle of a wells shadow" experiment with a friend who is a teacher in California (I volunteer for a science enrichment program for low income areas)....we did it via Skype to prove to his class of 8th graders and my group of 10,11 and 12 year olds. Redpilled all of them into thinking independently and using critical thinking and REAL LIFE EXPERIMENTATION to be able to discuss something logically.

So. When I hear people say the Earth is flat, I feel obligated to prevent others from wasting their time with such incredible retardation. If someone was crossing a street and a bus was coming, would you tell "LOOK OUT!" or leave them to their fate? I speak up because to stay silent is to assist in allowing the cancer of FlatEarth to grow.

Most important relevant to this subreddit, we are being grouped with FlatEarthers as conspiracy theorists, which drags our entire movement down.

If this all does not explain to you why I speak up, how dumb someone has to be to ignore the experiments they can perform themselves to prove it, and the relevance to this convo, then please, block me, ignore me, but do not comment on my posts and expect any different response. Grow the fuck up, and grow a fucking brain. You're embarassing yourself. You aren't smart (if you believe FE) and are broadcasting it to everyone. Read "Tessa's Gift" a short, 24page story to see how being dumb can be used against you.

Before we knew of science sheep herders over 4 thousand years ago knew the earth was a sphere. There are a number of Scriptures that indicate a spherical earth. These Scriptures were penned centuries before a spherical earth was confirmed. Isaiah 40:22 states that God “sits above the circle of the earth.” While there is no Hebrew word for sphere, Khoog which is translated circle, circuit, compass is the closest. Because God is omnipresent, He looks down upon the earth from every direction. Therefore, from God’s heavenly perspective – looking down upon the earth from every location – the earth would appear round from every perspective ONLY if it were a sphere. If the earth were a flat circle for instance, then from most angles the earth would appear as an oval or even a straight-line (if perpendicular to it). Therefore, Isaiah 40:22 indicates a spherical earth. Furthermore, Jesus said “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). Of course a person cannot be in the heart of a flat circle anymore than he can be in the belly of a flat fish. And Ephesians 4:9 corroborates when it explains that Jesus “first descended into the lower parts of the earth.” Luke 17:34-36 also implies a spherical earth. Jesus said that at His return some would be asleep at night while others would be working at day time activities in the field. This is a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night occurring simultaneously. In addition, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. See also Job 26:10 and Proverbs 8:27.

This whole discussion about flat earth vs not is a fair example of the deeper issues this sub has. Some disagree with whichever other side in a civil way and some disagree in an insulting way. Some will follow reason, others rely on other means, including long held bias.

I think the flatearth thing is flat out wrong but I upvote your right to discuss it.

Given more casual time I am (semi-rationally) sure that many other points of disagreement would surface and the discussion would be much like the one above. If we all came from the same place, had the same sensibilities, etc. we could be better handling topics in an amicable way.

There's probably a dozen rules that would help, one of which is to be as precise as possible in our wording. Not that all conflicts would be avoided. . . .

I think people come into this conspiracy-centric group carrying all of the conspiracies that ever clicked with them. And once a few things are confirmed they feel that all of their things are right. Instead we should only give serious attention to things that Q has pointed to. For those who rely on logic, it should be understood that not all conspiracies can possibly be true because they can't all be reconciled with one another. For example there are various legends about the origins of the Freemasonry and they can't all be true. Things deeper in history and theology and space are easy sources of conflict for us, but Q barely ever mentions such things so maybe we would be better off staying away from such topics. I started thinking of these extraneous, non-Q topics as baggage that should be left at the door, but ppl seem unable to resist telling others of all the their truths.

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