[Jo Freddie]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

So the edge of the world is Antarctica is it? and that is why all the water does not run off the edge?

But why don't the penguins fall off the edge?

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

Did you ever hear of scale? Grain of sand vs mountain... Hmmz. Well, you can see a semi from extremely far away right? The a mountain, a HUGE mountain, shouldn't you be able to see that from insane distances? These arguements are just... they don't make any sense. I honestly don't understand how anyone living in 2010 can actually believe the earth is flat, I mean, do you want to go back to the dark ages or what?

The Dark Ages had some redeeming qualities, such as fewer homers and atheists roaming around, but there were no Baptists back then, so no, the Dark Ages were aptly so called.

The first time the earth was proclaimed to be round, and they actually calculated it's size almost correctly with extremely crude methods. The way it was first discovered was that a man living in old Greece(can't remember his name), put a stick in the ground in Athens I think it was. The stick was of a certain hight. He then went to another place, Turkey if I remember correctly, and put an exact same stick in the ground there. What he did next was measure the difference of the length of the shadow of each stick at the exact same time of day. He knew how far the sticks were apart, and he was able to calculate the size of the earth from that, and it is actually pretty close to the size measured in modern times. Now, I'm sure you have thousands of rediculous counters on this, but it's still more scientific than any method you have described in this thread for proving the earth is flat.

Just how does measuring some shadows have anything to do with the size of the Earth? It sounds like you're making this up.

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

So the edge of the world is Antarctica is it? and that is why all the water does not run off the edge?

Yes.

But why don't the penguins fall off the edge?

Because, unlike you, they pay attention.

[JustEatIt]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

The earth is flat; infact my friend was sailing his yacht once and then plunged off the earth and into outer space.

According to the bible, Jesus made it flat so that people that didn't worship the lord could be thrown off the side of the earth into hell. Thanks Jesus, I love you.

[Plepple]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

The earth is flat; infact my friend was sailing his yacht once and then plunged off the earth and into outer space.

According to the bible, Jesus made it flat so that people that didn't worship the lord could be thrown off the side of the earth into hell. Thanks Jesus, I love you.

I have three special friends; one has been in outer space, one has sailed around the world a couple of times and the last one has traveled through the earth - confirming it's generally round and that there is no hell. Isn't it fun when we all start making things up? No? Then how do we make it fun and, at the same time, more credible? We present evidence. :3

[GOD=life]

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The a mountain, a HUGE mountain, shouldn't you be able to see that from insane distances?

No, because they're blurred by the atmosphere and perspective distortion.

Because of the way our eye works (projection on retina), objects that are far away are much smaller. The further away, the smaller it is. Until it blends with the horizon. Then a big mountain can be obscured by a little hill. This follows the 1 / x rule.

There is also some insightful information in this article:

http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/extinction/extintro.html

The term “extinction” means the loss of light in the atmosphere from a directly transmitted beam. Two different mechanisms contribute to extinction: absorption and scattering. Normally, most of the extinction in the Earth's atmosphere is due to scattering; absorption becomes important when the air is full of smoke — a situation that occurs frequently in brush-fire season here in Southern California. Extinction is responsible for the dimness of the setting Sun. At the sea horizon, it's not dazzling or hazardous to the eye — unlike its dangerous brightness higher in the sky

These arguements are just... they don't make any sense.

I feel sorry for you that you're unable to comprehend intelligent arguments. However, your ignorance does not invalidate them.

He then went to another place, Turkey if I remember correctly, and put an exact same stick in the ground there.

And did he take into account that it took weeks to travel from one place to the next? For that experiment, two people would have to make the exact same measurement as the exact same time.

Essentially, what he measured was a space-time warping of a flat surface.

Now, I'm sure you have thousands of rediculous counters on this, but it's still more scientific than any method you have described in this thread for proving the earth is flat.

That fallacy is called "poisoning the well". Are you trying debate tricks here or rational arguments?

Unless you can prove that there was faster-than-light travel in ancient Greece, your experiment is not scientific at all.

Check and mate.

[BelieverInGod]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

I have three special friends; one has been in outer space, one has sailed around the world a couple of times and the last one has traveled through the earth - confirming it's generally round and that there is no hell. Isn't it fun when we all start making things up? No? Then how do we make it fun and, at the same time, more credible? We present evidence. :3

If you bothered to read the entire thread, you would have seen our BIBLICAL PROOF that the world is flat, but since you're just so special, I'll re-type it just for you.

Isaiah 11:12

12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. (KJV)
Revelation 7:1
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (KJV)
Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? (KJV)
Jeremiah 16:19
19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ENDS OF THE EARTH, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. (KJV)
Daniel 4:11
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ENDS OF ALL THE EARTH: (KJV)
Matthew 4:8
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; (KJV)



Psalm 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.


Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.


Psalm 96:10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

All right, I lied, I can't be bothered to type things out for unsaved trash, this is just copy paste from another website.

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

So the edge of the world is Antarctica is it? and that is why all the water does not run off the edge?...why don't the penguins fall off the edge?

There are huge ice floes and icebergs in water that's that cold. They stick together and form a ring around the edge, like a beautiful, Heavenly necklace. Not only are the penguins too small to climb them....but animals often have a "Sixth Sense" about danger.

Try to picture it like this...
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[BelieverInGod]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

There are huge ice floes and icebergs in water that's that cold. They stick together and form a ring around the edge, like a beautiful, Heavenly necklace. Not only are the penguins too small to climb them....but animals often have a "Sixth Sense" about danger.

Try to picture it like this...
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Banana cream? Perhaps we should put some banana slices on it to show the continents in better context.

Talk about spoon feeding ~ literally.

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

Perhaps we should put some banana slices on it to show the continents in better context. Talk about spoon feeding ~ literally.

If these people had just gone through the Freehold School System, their eyes would have been opened a long time ago!

It makes me so danged mad that we're always having to spend so much time helping everyone else catch up.

[Brother Temperance]

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No. What I am saying is that the test he suggests is not scientifically correct, or even logically correct. Unless you manage to create an object with a gravitational pull that surpasses that of the Earth itself, the result will always be that the piece of paper falls down to the Earth due it's greater gravity.

Or due to Intelligent Pulling.

Side note to noone in particular: If such a thing as gravity does not exist, why do I fall back to the ground when I jump instead of floating off into the sky?

Because God wants you to. Pretty simple, really.

I have no idea what you realize or not I would however advise you, for the sake of argument, to not assume too much. Unless you have concrete evidence of what kind of medication I'm presumable on; I'd be delighted if you'd refrain from a false argumentum ad hominem.

Your posts are concrete evidence that there's something very wrong with you.

I can also assure you I've not said anything. What I've written is however quite arbitrarily valid.

It's certainly quite arbitrary, I'll grant you that much.

Why are you assuming that Critter's a Satanist?

Because they attack God.

Well, you can see a semi from extremely far away right?

Would it kill you to stop talking about tallywhackers for five minutes?

The first time the earth was proclaimed to be round, and they actually calculated it's size almost correctly with extremely crude methods. The way it was first discovered was that a man living in old Greece(can't remember his name), put a stick in the ground in Athens I think it was. The stick was of a certain hight. He then went to another place, Turkey if I remember correctly, and put an exact same stick in the ground there.

So an old Greek pervert attempted to sodomise the Earth. The only thing that proves is that the Greeks are not to be trusted in the slightest.

[Caeruleum]

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I can hardly believe the things I've read here. First of all it is hard to understand that someone can be convinced, anno 2010, that the earth is flat. With our modern transportation possibilities it would be an easy thing to see, if it was really the case. Satelites would also show us the earth is flat. People dive into the deepest oceans, they climb the highest mountains, so why shouldn't they travel to one of the four corners of the earth? If there was really something like that it would be a very popular destination for holidays e.g. If I had a travel agency, it would be in my personal top 3. So how comes all of this is no reality? Could it be the world is not flat after all?

But what really blows my mind, is how people can say they believe in God and the Bible and be so unloving and rude to others. We are not on this earth to judge other people. The Bible was not written to box one anothers ears. Jesus is loving and forgiving and so should we be instead of calling other people unsaved scum.
The majority of the postings handle about someone asking for a proper explanation of the "fact" that the earth is flat and all I see is a lot of beating about the bush, criticism and judging. Every now and then someone attempts to explain why the earth is flat, but couldn't convince me in any case.

And yes, I have read the Bible. Without trademark.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

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@ Caeruleum

If you had read the Bible you would know that God calls upon us to pass judgment many times.

Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Proverbs 31:9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

[Caeruleum]

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Are you out of your mind over here?
I see, that as far as you are concerned I am unsaved trash, under investigation. Off course I saw this mentioned before on this forum, but thought that was a joke from the one who posted the message.

I really can't believe this. What if Jesus posted a message here, would He also automatically be unsaved trash untill you investigated Him? To my opinion, God is the only One Who is entitled to decide if someone is saved or not.

[BelieverInGod]

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Are you out of your mind over here?
I see, that as far as you are concerned I am unsaved trash, under investigation. Off course I saw this mentioned before on this forum, but thought that was a joke from the one who posted the message.

I really can't believe this. What if Jesus posted a message here, would He also automatically be unsaved trash untill you investigated Him? To my opinion, God is the only One Who is entitled to decide if someone is saved or not.

Of course not, Jesus is already a full member.

And would you stop with the annoying script it makes your posts hard to read, and you're really not that special.