I'm beginning to notice this happening more and more as I watch closely now events unfolding for the many flat earthers. Regardless of what anyone says, this IS proof the sun is very close to us.
These "god rays" are one of the hardest things to get your head around. One of the valuable things I've learned here at TFES (possibly the ONLY thing!) is why this seems so bizarre.
I agree that they are possibly the most visually compelling reason to believe in FET.
There is one very large problem with human perception - we can't judge distances to things that we don't know the size of beyond a few hundred yards. Clouds are a classic example of that. They are too far away for our 'stereoscopic' vision to see a shift in position from one eye to the other. We can guess the distance to a tree or a house that's beyond our stereoscopic vision distance perception - but only because we know roughly how bit a tree or a house is.
We don't have personal "gut feel" for just how insanely big some clouds can be. Some of them are hundreds of miles across. By just looking at them, we don't know how far away they are because we can't use stereoscopic vision and we don't know their size.
They SEEM to be much closer than the horizon - but they aren't. Clouds can be visible for hundreds of miles beyond the horizon.
The truth is that those god-rays are almost parallel to the ground...as you'd expect if the sun is 93 million miles away...but they're not *quite* parallel to the ground.
So from where we see them, they are like the "train tracks" thing - they are converging in perspective. So they do converge towards the sun - but we mistake that for an object that's nearly vertical - and not something nearly horizontal.
This is an optical illusion that's so powerful that I cannot for the life of me 'shake it'. Just last night, my wife and I were eating out at a fancy restaurant with a view out over a large lake. As the dessert course arrived - the sun was 15 minutes away from sunset and above a layer of cloud. The god rays breaking through REALLY seemed compelling.
No matter what - it's not PROOF of a flat earth. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for them in RET...even though we have to resort to diagrams to prove it. (Ooohhh! Diagrams! Scary! The work of demons!)