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Flat Earth Theory / Do all stars on both equators revolve around the north star in FE?

« on: April 29, 2017, 08:49:02 AM »

I know there's several threads asking the question and many people writing in saying there's a south pole star grouping.  And it can easily be proved by just going to the southern hemisphere (I've spent 3 years below the equator).  My question is: do FEer's deny an opposing southern spin altogether or do they have an legitimate explanation for the southern hemisphere's opposite center point point in the night sky? 

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Flat Earth Theory / How does the sun get bigger if it's setting because of "laws of perspective"

« on: April 28, 2017, 03:02:00 AM »

I'm confused about the idea of the sun going under the horizon (or just disappearing) if the earth is flat. 
Two things strike me:
1) if the sun follows the laws of perspective it should get smaller and smaller as it moves towards the horizon. And because it's above the horizon, based on perspective, it should always stay above the horizon point but it should just get tiny until it is a point.  But it doesn't, it gets what seems to be twice as big as it gets closer to the horizon.
2) based on the concept that the sphere of light coming from the sun doesn't just shine in 360 degrees but is refracted downward into a cone shape - we get night and day on a flat earth instead of night-time just getting dimmer and dimmer.  Ok, got it.  But my understanding of a sunset is that if the earth is round, as it hits the edge on of the atmosphere it stretches the longer colors around the edge, making it look LARGER AND LARGER as it sets.  But based on the flat earth concept of light refraction, the sun isn't stretched at the edge, it's compressed!  Therefore, based on this concept, just like the sun gets BIGGER in round earth theory, the sun should get compressed and smaller and smaller as you reach the edge of day/night.   
So, not only should the sun get smaller and smaller as it sets based on perspective, it should also "look" even smaller, faster, as you reach the refractive edge.  It seems very counterintuitive to me to what I see at night and what FEers say is happening.  How does FE explain this?