Is the Earth Flat?

[Edwin Wright]

Of course, the Sun isn't the center of the Galaxy, let alone the Universe, but that doesn't make the Earth flat.

No but geocentrism does.

 

[Hans Blaster]

No but geocentrism does.

Actually there is nothing about geocentrism that makes the Earth flat. The traditional "geocentric" model is a spherical Earth with the "planets"* moving about it. The flat earth is really not a "geocentric" model but more some dome-and-pillars Babylonian nonsense.

*The ancient seven "classical" planets (literally "wanderers") were the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Here I've given then in the order of their co-named days of the week.

 

[Lost4words]

No but geocentrism does.

Where do you get your info from? Comics? Its all pure rubbish. Truly unscientific.

 

[Edwin Wright]

Where do you get your info from? Comics? Its all pure rubbish. Truly unscientific.

Your comment is unscientific rubbish.

 

[Edwin Wright]

Actually there is nothing about geocentrism that makes the Earth flat. The traditional "geocentric" model is a spherical Earth with the "planets"* moving about it. The flat earth is really not a "geocentric" model but more some dome-and-pillars Babylonian nonsense.

*The ancient seven "classical" planets (literally "wanderers") were the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Here I've given then in the order of their co-named days of the week.

The traditional geocentric model with the spherical earth is nonsense. It actually piggybacks off the (heliocentric) spheroidal earth and therein is its inherent downfall for the simple reason that the genesis of its (alleged) spheroidicity subsumes an (allegedly) rotating earth. Hence, geocentrism necessitates a flat earth. It's that simple. See Nota Bene: The Fallacy of Spheroidal Earth Geocentrism and Heliocentrism in the Early Modern Period.

 

[Hans Blaster]

The traditional geocentric model with the spherical earth is nonsense. It actually piggybacks off the (heliocentric) spheroidal earth and therein is its inherent downfall for the simple reason that the genesis of its (alleged) spheroidicity subsumes an (allegedly) rotating earth. Hence, geocentrism necessitates a flat earth. It's that simple. See Nota Bene: The Fallacy of Spheroidal Earth Geocentrism and Heliocentrism in the Early Modern Period.

I'm not going to take seriously any links to flerfer websites. Give me a break, man.

 

[Yttrium]

*The ancient seven "classical" planets (literally "wanderers") were the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Here I've given then in the order of their co-named days of the week.

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I don't think that's quite the right order. I like to use French or Japanese to help me remember.

Sunday - Dimanche - Sun
Monday - Lundi - Moon
Tuesday - Mardi - Mars
Wednesday - Mercredi - Mercury
Thursday - Jeudi - Jupiter
Friday - Vendredi - Venus
Saturday - Samedi - Saturn

Japanese copied the system.
Tuesday = Kayoubi, Mars = Kasei
Wednesday = Suiyoubi, Mercury = Suisei
Thursday = Mokuyoubi, Jupiter = Mokusei
Friday = Kinyoubi, Venus = Kinsei
Saturday = Doyoubi, Saturn = Dosei

Yes. Well. I think it's interesting.
Anyway. Carry on.

 

[prodromos]

Please grow up.

Please stop deflecting and answer the question.

 

[The Liturgist]

It is though, a ingenious satanic deception, that is built on partial truths that are used to actually create useful apples to take a bite of. So as to set the hook into the ones, who fall into the world of science belief.

This is utterly false. Jesus Christ is among other things Truth incarnate, and the things you declare as being falsehoods and deceptions are literally true. It is also literally true that according to Christ our God, the Old Testament is a typological prophecy of Christ, which is why no important church father interpreted it in a purely literal-historical manner but rather interpreted it using a hermeneutic that is literal where appropriate, and typological-prophetic where appropriate. I speak of course of St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. John Chrysostom, St. Cyril the Great, St. Ambrose, and many others.

Furthermore, the idea that the Big Bang is a satanic delusion is disproven by the fact that it was first conceived by a devout Roman Catholic priest in the 19th century, and the idea was resisted by many scientists because of anti-Clerical bias. Likewise the concept of the Black Hole was first imagined by an Anglican priest in the late 18th century. Since Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism are Christian churches par excellence, the fact that these important concepts originated with their clerics proves that they cannot be satanic delusions, for to quote Christ our True God, A house divided against each other.

I demand that you stop insisting that the Flat Earth concept is an essential Christian doctrine. This is untrue - no church teaches this, so far as I am aware, even those which embrace creationism, and in insisting this you are harming the faith.

 

[prodromos]

The "impossible task" (as you call it) was actually completed in the nineteenth century

That is the false claim you keep repeating. I looked back through your posts and found the link to your website "Plane Geodesy". Your so called proofs are anything but.

 

[Lost4words]

That is the false claim you keep repeating. I looked back through your posts and found the link to your website "Plane Geodesy". Your so called proofs are anything but.

Should be called 'Plain Goofy'

 

[Edwin Wright]

That is the false claim you keep repeating. I looked back through your posts and found the link to your website "Plane Geodesy". Your so called proofs are anything but.

I did not say that the proof in the case of the concept in question was on my website (but it will be). I was referring to a nineteenth-century writer. Once again, your presumptuousness consumes you.

 

[Edwin Wright]

Please stop deflecting and answer the question.

The question was answered in my initial explanation of the matter. If you can't accept that. Fine. Get a life.

 

[Edwin Wright]

I'm not going to take seriously any links to flerfer websites. Give me a break, man.

And I suppose that you should be taken seriously? Give a break, boy.

 

[Edwin Wright]

That what people think of flat earth believers my friend!

Just people like you.

 

[Lost4words]

Just people like you.

Which is 99.999999% of the worlds population!!!

 

[Edwin Wright]

Which is 99.999999% of the worlds population!!!

Don't be so sure ...

 

[Lost4words]

Don't be so sure ...

Lol, thats exactly how flat earth believers would comment! Lol

 

[Edwin Wright]

Lol, thats exactly how flat earth believers would comment! Lol

Keep laughing ...

 

[Lost4words]

Keep laughing ...

Truth hurts?!