Follow up question One: This is regarding sun rise and sun set again, as while you have linked a page referencing the Law of Perspective, and while yes the references to a flock of birds or planes makes sense, but this still does not make sense for the sun. I say this because well, simply put clouds. Have you ever watched the sunset or sunrise on a day when there is clouds and the clouds get all beautiful and glowie? You'll note that on such days the light from the sun is hitting the bottoms of the clouds, this would be impossible if the sun were in fact above said clouds, as the light from the sun is always being emitted from the sun, which you've stated is always above the Flat Earth.
The answer to this is simple. This is what is known as atmospheric refraction. Just because you perceive the sun light to be below the clouds simply means that your brain, did it's best to create some sort of image, based on the assumption that light travels in a straight line. The truth is that, depending on many different conditions, light can curve which creates things like mirages or refraction effects.
Question Two: Through what means does the sun manage to light only a finite area around it manage to maintain the correct time zones? The graphic displayed on your wiki alone would not result in the correct real world time zones, as it does not illuminate enough of the world, or would illuminate too much of the world. You're use of the word Orbit is also curious as in order for something to orbit something else there has to be a force keeping it in place. You say that the sun is like a light from a lighthouse that is constantly orbiting around the north pole, but what makes it orbit the north pole, through what means does this magical sun maintain the correct illumination to maintain the world's time zones.
The answer to this question will vary greatly person to person based on the flat earth model they believe in. The image you have seen only represents one version of one flat earth model.
Here is another model demonstrating how the atmosphere, dome, firmament and other things can create a day/night cycle on a flat surface. This is a totally different flat earth model one which likely includes a dome or firmament.
Here is another one
The flat earth model I can best relate to is an infinite repeating plane flat earth model as shown below which shows the sunrise and sunset direction and time for anywhere on earth.
http://suncalc.net/Question three: The movement of the sun in the sky. In the first article you reversed me, it states that "Although the sun is at all times above the earth's surface, it appears in the morning to ascend from the north-east to the noonday position, and thence to descend and disappear, or set, in the north-west." But what force accounts for the June and December Solstice? On a Flat Earth your sun would have to change speeds and location in order to maintain 24 hour days and the correct movement of the sun through the solstices. On a Globe Earth its tilted axis is what would account for this movement, and also the Seasons.
Again this depends on your flat earth model. There could be a claim that the flat earth model in which the north pole is in the center is incorrect or inaccurate. There could be a claim that the sun does speed up/slow down with it's movement between the tropic lines.
There also have been claims that the sun does not move between the tropic lines in the seasons or that it only appears to based on seasonal atmospheric conditions.
Or with my model the sun does not move in the same way that it does in the way that you are discussing.
Question Four: So you're saying that Universal "Acceleration" is the force that keeps me on the ground? Okay, I'm still skeptical of that idea, because well, what controls the tides? Are you going to link me to a page about how the tides are somehow controlled through a magnetic field?(One theory I heard from YouTube), because if you are, don't bother, as anyone who's ever used at refidgerator magnet can probably tell you, water isn't magnetic, thus a magnetic field would have no effect on it.
Universal acceleration is only part of some of the flat earth models. I forgot what the exact phrase was but there was another view of gravity in which gravity accounted for things like the tides but didn't affect the shape of the earth.
There are also flat earth models in which gravity is real and does exist in the newton/Einstein way.
Well... I was going to make this a question... but you guys seem to not really understand how the Law of Perception works. The Sinking Ship Effect seems more like an attempt to explain something which you cannot explain, using the Law of Preception. The point at which parallel lines converge is known as the VANISHING point, do you know why its called the VANISHING point? I'll give you a slight hint... Its because things VANISH beyond that point, which means YOU CANNOT SEE ANYTHING BEYOND THAT POINT. Which means anything nearing the vanishing point of our vision will grow smaller until it well vanishes. But if the Vanishing point works as the Sinking Ship Effect would have me believe, the sails of a ship remain visible beyond the vanishing point of the hull? I'm not sure what to make of this. This use of the Law of Preception is laughable.
There are many posts which suggest that the sinking ship effect might be more optics, refraction, and chaotic atmospheric conditions instead of perception.
Notice in the video how, over the course of 15 minutes, the "sinking ship effect" has obscured entire buildings? 100% optics, refraction, and chaotic atmospheric conditions 0% curve.
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