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the myth of flat earth debunked again

We live in a fallen world, with fallen natures, not a paradise but a cesspool run by none other than Satan himself. Our enemies, the world and the devil, exist in complete opposition to everything that is holy and good and true.
Yes.
But that has nothing at all to do with the shape of the earth.
Our enemy the flesh is so easily tempted and corrupted that we must continually guard our hearts and minds against not only the world and the devil, but our own vain thoughts and imaginations. And yet, in light of these obvious spiritual realities, your average believer cannot even allow for the possibility that this evil and fallen world in which we live, just may be misrepresenting Gods creation,
I would say that 100% of Flat Earthers cannot even allow for the possibility that God created the world to be a globe. Nor that the shape of the earth has nothing at all to do with our faith or salvation.
Of course, some Flat Earthers may not believe in God at all. They would not be saved, even though they completely agreed with you about the shape of the earth - which proves my point.
Enemies sent by the devil himself to stir up division? No to all of these.
I don't believe you were sent by the devil. But I do believe there is nothing the devil likes more than an academic argument that does no good at all, and keeps people away from the cross.
How many pages - on all sections of these forums - have been used in discussing the shape of the earth?
How many times have Flat Earthers said, "well, I don't share your views, but let's celebrate Jesus ad what he is doing in our lives"?

I can't speak for anyone else, though I know enough people who share my views to confidently say, we are here because at some point in our lives we realized that this world is an empire of lies, ruled by none other than the father of lies, and that a great deal of what we have been told our entire lives served no other purpose than to distract and deceive us into accepting and believing even more lies which would eventually separate us from any knowledge of Almighty God,
But the shape of the earth doesn't do that.

I am a Christian.
I believe that God created the universe, as described in Genesis 1.
I also accept what I was told my science teachers, science textbooks, my parents etc etc that the earth is a globe.
I have already said this to another Flat Earther and been told, "you can't do." They, you and any other FE-ers have to accept that I do. I, and possibly, millions of other Christians, worship, pray to, believe in and serve the God who made the earth to be a globe. In his sight, we are just as saved, valued and loved as those of you who believe the earth to be flat.

Satan is corrupting, and has corrupted, Christian values. The teaching of the world is that "you are what you own/have achieved. That the first will be first. That if something feels right, do it." Sex before marriage is now seen as the norm. "Everybody" gets creative with their expenses, takes a "sickie" occasionally and so on. The devil has also promoted the outrageous lie that "little" sins don't matter. And that it doesn't matter if you don't believe; if you do good deeds, that will be enough to "get you into heaven."
All of this is a lie from the evil one - it has nothing whatsoever to do with the shape of the earth.
That what you call science, and established facts have already had this effect is beyond dispute.
There are scientists who are also Christians.
There are people who became Christians, discovered they had an interest in/gift for science and went off to study it further. And there are scientists who became Christians because their work strongly suggested to them that there was a Creator behind it all.
And the God given ability to question those things which we can observably see as unsupported by the commonly accepted answers provided by the so called scientific community and generally accepted by the indoctrinated public at large.
And God also gave people the ability to discover, to experiment, to make discoveries and conclude that the earth is a globe.
I suspect that the answer to some of your unanswered, Flat Earth questions is that what you are asking is not possible on a flat earth. That people can't find proof because there isn't any; that such a thing only goes to prove that the earth is, in fact, a globe.
But they won't/can't admit to it.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

Every one of his 'proofs' has been debunked, but what is most surprising is that you go to anti-christians for your sources, and then you have @Apple Sky liking your post, even though she claims she has sworn off using idiot Eric as a source for her own responses.
Proverbs 26:11
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Why do people hate ICE...

The American Immigration Lawyers Association warned that the administration's suggestion that people could more easily apply to reenter the country if they leave on their own is "deceptive." There is no legal process or category under U.S. law that covers those who "self-deport," the group noted.

The message "gives people the impression there are no consequences, such as being barred from returning in the future," the legal group said in a statement. "No one should accept this without first obtaining good legal advice from an immigration attorney or other qualified representative


."
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Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting

Okay. I will bite. Show me one of the videos that are "all over the internet" showing Mamdami calling Trump a fascist to his face. I will wait.
You saw the discussion after the meeting. Do you know what conversations took place during the closed door meeting between Trump and Mamdami?

True, it was the discussion after the meeting but you can tell they both got on together well. The text of the exchange was already posted, and I've already said i was being facetious, but I posted the full video of the presser. It's at the 12:30 mark.

If Mamdani had groveled, Trump would be insulting him, as he did Elon when he said he could have gotten him to drop to his knees and beg. Currently though he is posting bromance pics on his truth social account.

Don't get me wrong, Trump WILL eventually insult him, but right now they are still in their honeymoon phase.

Right now it's all loooOoooOooVVvve!

:sparklingheart::sparklingheart::purpleheart::twohearts::twohearts::twohearts::twohearts::purpleheart::sparklingheart::sparklingheart:

Lolllllllll
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Ambassador Mike Huckabee Invited Spy Who Sold American Secrets to Israel into the US Embassy for a Secret Meeting

Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Held Secret Meeting With Traitor Who Sold American Secrets to Israel

President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, held a secret meeting in July with traitor Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years in prison for selling American secrets to Israel.

According to a report from the New York Times, Pollard met with Huckabee at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in July for a discussion that was “kept off Mr. Huckabee’s official schedule,” and revealed for the first time on Thursday.

Pollard confirmed the rendezvous in an interview with the Times, telling the newspaper “it was a friendly meeting” and that “a lot of things that came up in conversation.”

Three unnamed officials told the New York Times that the meeting “alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel.” The White House was also reportedly unaware that the secret meeting was taking place.

(Spies usually have to work a little harder to get inside one of our embassies.)

Pollard was released from prison in 2015 and moved to Israel in 2020 – flying on a private jet owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson to Tel Aviv, where he was given a hero’s welcome by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2021, Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler who recruited Pollard to spy on the United States.
Well, that’s a thing.
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Why do people hate ICE...

As an immigrant, you should know that anyone who entered the United States unlawfully can never return to the U.S. through legal means. They can't even complete the immigration form if they previously entered the U.S. illegally.

What you're proposing isn't truly compassionate advice; it's insincere guidance that you know they won't be able to follow.
You frame it as though "they have to lie". Wouldn't honesty be the Christian approach here, even if it means being denied entry into the US? Or are immigrants are not bound by Christian moral standards?
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while

That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while alive.
No, no no. That's not true at all, since it's impossible for anyone to repent unless God first gives them the gift of repentance. You try asking a corpse to repent and see if they exercise their "free choice" and chose to repent. This is exactly what you're suggesting, is possible.

Haven't you heard that you were born dead in sin, how can a dead man exercise his human rights and choose the path to eternal paradise, instead of eternal torment in the lake of fire. Are you suggesting that the vast majority of mankind choses to spend eternity in hell???
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Why do people hate ICE...

If the sole circumstance that changed is that it is now you instead of me, or vice versus, then the problem is hypocrisy.
Circumstances are changing constantly.

Yes, that lie that it was about 'removing criminals' and the 'worst of the worst' is a large part of what's motivating the anger.
Nobody said only criminals.
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Who then can be saved?

It's almost amusing. You don't even attempt to perform the due diglence required in order to find out the truth for yourself, and then still endeavor to take the moral high ground like some kind of priggish Pharisee, while accusing me of your own fault.

Again, Insitutes is theology, systematic theology, and 2 Thess 1:8-10 specifically states, over and against your position, that those in hell will be "shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed."

Oh well, this discussion has descended into one of those rare moments when I'll express my distaste with the ignore button.
That's fine, you're welcome to hit the panic button. But it shows you can't defend your denomination's version of the gospel.
I have never expressed my private opinion about any doctrine, all I have done is defend the gospel of the Lord Jesus and it seems to have offended you.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

Popular scientific write-ups, are attempts to make the original article approachable to the general public, I can read the actual article why should I care about the popular version.
Then the same logic applies to your social media comments. Why should I or anyone care or take seriously someones coments on a social media platform.
May have been...
Once again the fixation on single words making the entire meaning. So if I find a word that means 'definite' then you are defeated. See how silly it is. Please read the word its context.

But evenso. If we take your word meaning. This still means we should be treating the findings as correct until proven otherwise. They are the first step towards confirming a hypothesis. You don't then reject the findings out of hand as conspiracy as some are doing.

I am pretty sure you said that there is no way the casing stones were cast. Or that the evidence in no ways shows this. Yet ehere we have preliminary findings that suggest we do. This is the kind of completel and extreme rejection that is not coming from science but persnal belief.
So link the experimentally verified results when they are done then.
Ok and in the mean time people should stop rejecting the preliminary findsings as conspiracy or psuedoscience.
I'm perfectly fine with anybody doing experiments. What gave you the idea that I would find that troublesome? I want them to publish thier results in scientific journals.
Oh maybe the language that people used to completely reject those experiments as quackery or just not treat them as science at all as part of the process. The experiments of those who happen to find a different answer are rejected as qauckery simply because they contradict the orthodoxy.
It refers back to the same 2018 simulation study, this is why you shouldn't take scientific reporting from the Daily Mail.
The daily mail is saying the same thing as Phy.org science news who is saying the same thing as the scientists. They just put it in everyday language.
Link that article then.
We have tests done in the Giza pyramid to determine the resonant frequency that is concentrated into the KIngs chamber. We have physical tests that show how certain stones and dimensions cause the Piezoelectric effects. This is fact. So modelled on a hypothetical structure is fact until proven wrong.

The Kings Chamber dimensions, which measure approximately 10.47 meters in length, 5.23 meters in width, and 5.81 meters in height, are also thought to have been chosen specifically to create a resonant frequency of around 117 Hz.

The precise frequency of 117 Hz has been identified through more modern methods, such as the use of sensitive microphones and spectrum analysers.

Flat out wrong. In the simulation study about electromagnetic waves they didn't.
I thought it was also the quartz in the stone and especially the granite was also what contributed to the resonance. Anyway other tests have shown this to be the vase. For example if you built the pyramid out of wood or plastic you will not get the same effect.
Don't mix up those who are talking about piezoelectric effects with the electromagnetic waves.
Ok, I am basing this on the material of the pyramid and stones. That certain material has a higher electromagnetic and piezoelectric effects that others. Either way it seems the pyramids have an effect on both.
Do you have an maps showing areas with "high electromagnetic"?
Why, what the science already tells us.
This is about the proposed plaster, why would you refer to it in this context about electromagnetic properties on the macroscale?
So a case of replying straight to the quote rather than checking what it was referring to. As we have been talking about both issues I assumed lol.
Relevant how?
Relevent to possible advanced knowledge and other ways the pyramids were used besides a tomb.
Link the journal article instead if you got it.
In 1952, Winfried Otto Schumann (1888-1974), a German professor of physics, discovered that resonating electromagnetic waves with a frequency of around 8 hertz could be measured in the Earth's atmosphere. This natural phenomenon is called the Schumann resonance frequency and mainly occurs when electricity discharges in the so-called 'closed waveguide' between the Earth's surface and the ionosphere. The predominant standing wave of this low frequency resonance effect has a frequency of 7.83 hertz.

Earth's resonance at Giza: The specific latitude of the Great Pyramid results in a fundamental Schumann resonance frequency of approximately
8.1 Hz. King's Chamber resonance: The King's Chamber was constructed to have a resonant frequency of 16.2 Hz which is the second harmonic (or octave) of the 8.1 Hz frequency.

2. SIGNIFICANCE The significance of the study and its relevance to the wider field of archaeology and acoustics can be summarised by the discovery of archaeoacoustic frequency signatures in multiple locations in Upper and Lower Egypt. For space to be designed and built and present specific resonance it would be not only require highly detailed construction, but it also leads to a level of understanding of sound frequency beyond even our contemporary levels today.
Read the article. Antenna construction is interesting but there was nothing new learnt about it from that study, how do you think they have constructed the program calculating the effects on the electromagnetic field?
I am pretty sure they said that now the findings from the reserach can be applied to nano tech. They learnt something from the simulations. Plus this is theorectical science and this is common in how theories are supported. Many hypothesis are based on theorectical tests that simulate the real thing. Its part of science.
If that is true then it usually gets picked up sooner or later.
Yes eventually and if we look at the history we will see proven ideas being rejected by the mainstream. Thats whats called a paradigm shift. It doesn't come easy and theres resistence. But eventually the evidence builds up that it can no longer be denied. That is exactly what all these investigations are doing.
No, your claim. You prove it.
Lol I am saying I am supporting this with the science. But you are denying it without the science at all. You can call the findings and words "maybe" and dismiss them. You can make a counter claim that its not proving anything.

But you never supply any scientific papers or even scientific articles published to9 counter this. Just your own opinion which you somehow have elevated to the status of peer review. As though just making a counter claim on a social media site is good enough to refute the scientific articles from those who have actually done the tests and analysis. .
Higher than what? Limestone? Limestone was assumed in the of the radiowave calculation. They didn't use granite in their calculations.
Ok but other tests have and they also support that the granite chambers and the particular makeup of the stones have high quartz content makes it more conducive of resonance under certain conditions.

When we put the reserach together we not only have an entire object supporting a concentration of electromagnetic effects but the specific material used in the object also supporting the piezoelectric effects material.
Yes, this known but it has zero to do with the pyramids.
Why. If some material holds a better piezoelectric effects like granite and there is granite used in specific ways then it stands to reason the materials are going to influence what effects are created overall. Especially within the granite parts of the pyramid.

Acoustic testing in the granite chambers has been found and it magnifies from chamber to chamber. It is the resonance for the granite as it has a specific resonance.
Now your mixing electromagnetic and piezoelectric again. This is just another simulation of the pyramids as antennas for electromagnetic waves. They also model the pyramid as a single monolith (they don't even use any chambers)
You honestly believe that the piezoelectric effect has no influence on how the electromagnetic waves are scattered within the pyramid under certain conditions.
Now your mixing electromagnetic and piezoelectric again. This is the same article we have been discussing for a couple of posts now.
It is shown that due to the strong dispersion of the refractive index of the pyramid material, there will always be a part of the spectral range, in which the refractive index corresponds to the condition of electromagnetic wave localization (the photonic jet phenomenon).
And the articles actually studied the piezoelectric properties of the pyramids? Who has actually measured the electric power generated by the pyramids?
Lets just work out what what has been found first. Electrical energy is one of the effects proposed. To what extent is the next step. But that forms of energy are being generated is enough for us to investigate further that the Egyptians may have harnessed this is some ways for practical applications.

Its that you and skeptics don't even believe than anything was generated is the first problem let along that there may have been specific applications.

But we do have some indirect evidence signatures that point to messing around with chemistry and physics.
There is no original research in this article, it is at best a speculative review.
Ok so we don't need verification to know that crystal oscillators are capable of producing electro motive force when vibrated and Quartz is a naturally obtained crystal. The pyramids and works are full of this material. When used in specific ways they will produce certain effects.

The generation of electricity requires the pyramid to vibrate always. Hence the location at which the electromagnetic waves are more on the surface of the globe are chosen to be the perfect sites for the pyramid. The very shape of the pyramid is an amplified receiver or resonator of various kinds of energy fields.

What about this is false. You do realise that there was a reference list to the science.
I'm critical about your claims. If you are critical about someone else's claims ask them for corroborating evidence.
I should not have to. If they are refuting the science then it stands to reason that the science must be refuted with science epistemically. Otherwise it defeats the whole purpose and we are mixing social media opinions with the science.
... were indeed consistent with with a reconstituted limestone.
Yes consistent and not inconsistent. Indeed consistent is defintely consistent with reconstituted limestone. If you want to play word games. Its as close as a scientists will get to saying abosutely the case.

Science just works that way where it never claims a truth. Its just consistent with observations and data. Thats as best as you will get for any science. Your playing semantics. You would never do this with any words that supported your views lol.
... indicates the Egyptians used...
Your fixation on words as being the truth has blinded you to the fact that diatomaceous earth was added to the mix. Its not a natural substance in limestone. Its impossible for it to be in the limestones lol. So yes in the context 'indicates' means definitely added to the mix.
I just point out that the peer-reviewed articles don't support your claims (some times even your claims about the articles themselves, such as that the permittivity of anything but limestone was used in the calculations).
No your playing skeptic games to the point of cynnacism. You look for loopholes to undermine the findings. Even use words are the complete meaning of the findinds. So long as it undermines the findings. The aim is to discredit the sources which included the good scientists and researchers and the sources they come from because they don't meet your approval of what a good source is.
There was no (statistical) hypothesis testing. So they can't say how likely or unlikely the observed patterns were. Which makes your claim of near impossible nonsense.
Wait a minute. If you then add the other bits of evidence such as the non natural substances added into the mix tested and the precision joins where youy can't fit a human hair into. Or the over spills of softened stone. The lack of credible evidence that the Egyptians actually cut and chiseled the stones and the fact that the logistically impossibility of getting massive stones some 450 feet in the air.

Then the findings start to look more likely that are on to something. What you are doing is fixating once again on specific like words. On this occassion one aspect of the whole investigation. But when we put it in context and include all the lines of evidence it takes a completely different context.
What do you believe that I am recognizing? What are you talking about? Why can't that be remains of abrasive cut?
Lol of course. They cut the same block to look like an overspill of leaking soft stone. Tell me on what basis would they make such a cut and overlap. Have you not seen the other overspills of softened stone I showed you. Are you going to rationalise every single out of place shape to the magic of sheer pounding and cutting as the go to cop out of explanation.

Now show me the scientific evidence that its a chisel or cut mark from a chisel or saw. Lets apply the same standard to your claim.
It is not even clear that the best explanation is reconstituted limestone yet.
Its a better one that everything is the product of pounding, using small primitive saws and rubbing stone in shape lol. It certainly on preliminary results supports stone casting than chiseling.
I'm perfectly fine with people investigating what ever interests them, but I want the rigour of the scientific process to be used and that includes peer-review.
HUm yet you never point out when others who attack the evidence presented without one bit of rigor. Its double standards I tell you lol.
So why do you claim that they are unfairly refused then? If you don't have any data.
Because they are using peer review as a sledge hammer to reject any alternative views. Its not that peer review is no a good/ Its that its elevated by some was almost a godlike status. Its not and its be known to gatekeep info and alternative ideas that threaten the orthodoxy. Or the reputations and funding of those who have spent a lifetime defending the orthodoxy.

Its because those demanding the peer review do not apply the same standards across the board. When people attack the sources even before the content is investigated you know its more than science but belief. .
Time will tell.
Yes as always. But in the mean time good science is being open to all ideas and giving them the same status as ideas that fall within the orthodoxy but may not yet be verified. Not just automatically reject them becuase they are different and may question the orthodoxy.

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B flat B♭

All films? Obviously some are. Nobody (I hope) would claim that "Santa Claus the Movie" showed real events, but what about films shown on TV that show things that are actually happening - films of natural history events, like a ewe giving birth, or birds' eggs hatching?

Any film shown on TV or other, proves nothing.
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the myth of flat earth debunked again

In regards to airplane windows, they are all convex, much like the lens on a go pro camera. In other words, you are looking out a curved window, not at a curved earth.

Ships don't disappear over the curvature of the earth, they advance beyond your visual perspective. Have you ever been on a long narrow highway lined with telephone poles on both sides? Look ahead or behind, the poles will grow closer together and closer to the ground from your perspective. Drive down the road a mile and those same poles will be at the same height and distance from one another as you originally perceived them. Aim a camera with a telescopic lens at the ship you watched disappear beyond the horizon, magnify the zoom and it will return to view.

You plainly stated "the fact that the earth is a sphere is not up for debate". Then why may I ask are you debating it here? If you are convinced that your view of the cosmos is the correct one, and all other viewpoints are " absurd", then what is the point of further discussion?

You mentioned that it was God who created a spherical earth. It was also God who created the first humans, Adam and Eve. He created them in His own image and placed them in the garden called Paradise. They were perfect and innocent and had the presence of God Himself with them regularly. And yet, these magnificent creatures who were blessed beyond measure, and created in the very image of Almighty God, were somehow deceived by nothing more than a few simple statements and suggestions.

We live in a fallen world, with fallen natures, not a paradise but a cesspool run by none other than Satan himself. Our enemies, the world and the devil, exist in complete opposition to everything that is holy and good and true. Our enemy the flesh is so easily tempted and corrupted that we must continually guard our hearts and minds against not only the world and the devil, but our own vain thoughts and imaginations. And yet, in light of these obvious spiritual realities, your average believer cannot even allow for the possibility that this evil and fallen world in which we live, just may be misrepresenting Gods creation, how such misrepresentations would obviously benefit them, or that ever falling victim to such a misrepresentation could ever be possible.

I have already asked, why are you here if there is nothing to debate?

Have you ever wondered why we are here? Do you think those of us who disagree with you come here because we enjoy the insults, being called idiots and wingnuts and repeatedly being accused of having no discernment or wisdom and many times even being told that we can't even possibly be true Christian believers etc etc? Are we masochists? Trolls? Enemies sent by the devil himself to stir up division? No to all of these.

I can't speak for anyone else, though I know enough people who share my views to confidently say, we are here because at some point in our lives we realized that this world is an empire of lies, ruled by none other than the father of lies, and that a great deal of what we have been told our entire lives served no other purpose than to distract and deceive us into accepting and believing even more lies which would eventually separate us from any knowledge of Almighty God, His creation, His divine purposes, and ultimately His very existence.

That what you call science, and established facts have already had this effect is beyond dispute. The theory of evolution being a prime example. How many people will never believe in God based upon that one scientific theory alone, how many others raised in the faith have abandoned that faith because of the things they were taught as facts during the process of higher education? God only knows.

We are here because at some point we realized that what we were told did not align with what we have observed. Do we claim to have all the answers, of course not. What we do have are a wealth insufficiently answered questions. And the God given ability to question those things which we can observably see as unsupported by the commonly accepted answers provided by the so called scientific community and generally accepted by the indoctrinated public at large.

God bless you.

I absolutely agree with you 100 percent, I couldn't have put it better myself, good work :thumbsup:
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