So unless it's some crazy spotlight, that has no sides and still manages to point down, without being seen from the lateral AND YET still lights the moon from a lateral spotlight, in monthly lunar cycles.....
.......................surely the zetetic philosophy of examining ALL possibilities to find the truth must swerve towards the the RE sun/moon combo?
If not then another PLAUSIBLE option must be offered.
Then of course we still have THIS problem with the bipolar map...when it's midnight in Africa and daytime in the USA and China - er...how exactly does that spotlight thing work again?
Hmmmm its almost as if the spotlight sun is another nail in the coffin for the flat earth theory, although that coffin is more nails than wood by now.......
So the sun can't rise or set on flat earth nor provide the day/night patterns we experience.
And all Tom has to defend this with is some utter tripe about perspective lines and a serious misunderstanding about what the word parallel means. Even the J-mans posts are starting to be more credible that TBs lately....
The "spotlight sun" idea works
somewhat bearably in the unipolar map. It's not perfect - and the shape of the spotlight isn't a nice circle - and the shape has to change with the seasons.
But according to Mr Bishop, the unipolar map was proven incorrect in 1911 and has been entirely superseded by the bipolar map. This is odd because it implies that the TFES Wiki is over 100 years out of date! So I suspect that many (most?) FE'ers didn't go along with that change.
The trouble is that much of what made FET work was BECAUSE of the old unipolar map. Evidently, when this bipolar map was adopted, and over the intervening 100 years - nobody ever stopped to re-think things like the flashlight sun idea - or even to reconsider the path the sun and moon would have to take across the Earth. In the unipolar map, it makes some kind of a weird double-spiral pattern - but on the bipolar map, it has to teleport from one side to the other or to be in two places at once...it's very weird and quite implausible.
As usual, FE'ers only have the ability to think one step ahead and not to consider the further consequences.