During my recent three days “in the hole”, serving my ban, I have been contemplating up my first few weeks researching this Flat earth idea.
It is still not clear WHY there is a flat earth society or WHAT its mission is. Vague ideas about “converting people”, “spreading the message”, “Fighting Globurist heresy” have been floated but no unified game-plan is obvious. The “recruitment” that Pete speaks of here;
https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=7256.20 maybe be taking place elsewhere as I see none of it on this forum and what these people are being recruited into remains unclear.Hypothetically “so what” if the FE society reached 1,000,000 believers; what would be the “next step?”
On point of the “flat earth idea” it appears as divided and differentiated as concepts such as; “how to lose weight”-sure there’s some consensus (FE says earth is flat and how to lose weight says eat less exercise more) but on the SPECIFICs……………..wow!
There are (at least) two map concepts. Ideas to explain sunsets, astronomical observations, gravity, satellite utilisation, tides, observations of the moon from different locations on earth are explained (or not) in any number of ways and here’s the real issue…….
The empirical rule,
the zetetic method is only applied to the RE model.
Any space exploration evidence, distances (New York to Paris or maybe Earth to the Sun), aircraft speeds etc are dismissed because we have not “personally” got out a tape measure and measured them or built a rocket and flown into space ourselves. This is in some ways noble and a great form of science; challenge everything! And why not, that’s how we move forward however………..
No FE’r has walked around the ice wall, measured the distances that prove either polar or bi-polar map, measured the distance to the sun/moon, demonstrated why/how the sun and moon rotate/orbit in the way they need to do to match observation with the FE model, measured the distance to the stars, seen or touched the dome and yet THESE “beliefs” seem above suspicion and the zetetic necessity to demonstrate.
They are offered as a response to the vast wealth of mutually supporting evidence across many disciplines that all point to the same facts (i.e. the Sun is VERY big and VERY far away and earth orbits around it to pick one example from the many available).
I am not sure if I actually believe that anyone here TRULY believes the earth is flat or whether this site/this statement/this identity offers those people something else. Either way it’s a right for us all to hold opinions and vocalise them and I would never want that to change.
I conclude with one question to any true believer that earth is flat;
“Do you have aspirations for the future of the world that involve everyone living here knowing that the earth is flat”?Cheers all
DA