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[Aaron112]

To almost everyone in history through to today,

the Earth looks flat.

 

[d taylor]

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Yes, especially where i live in the Delta of Ms

 

[Yttrium]

I'm on a tall hill with mountains in the distance, so no. From my current perspective, nothing about it looks flat.

 

[Didier1]

I will rather say that it´s flat because the accurate word of God says it´s <<It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; [It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.>> Isaiah 40:22

 

[Bradskii]

My garden is flat.

 

[Estrid]

Hong Kong is anything but flat

 

[AV1611VET]

To almost everyone in history through to today, the Earth looks flat.

"Looks" being the operative word here.

As the diameter of an arc increases, so does the flatness of its points.

A person standing on top of a roller coaster track will readily see that the track is elliptical.

But as the radius of the arc increases, the flatter the track becomes.

 

[ViaCrucis]

To a tartigrade on my basketball, my basketball looks flat.

That doesn't mean my basketball is flat.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[NxNW]

The eclipse happened on Saturday right on time! I'm wondering how the flerfers account for that.

 

[rambot]

Not all the time

 

[prodromos]

The highest peak to the deepest part of the ocean is still smoother than a billiard ball at the same scale. Does that make the earth "smooth"?

 

[prodromos]

Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.

Science, modern science that is, has engulfed nearly our entire gaze. It has become the transparent self-effacing tableau on which we experience the world, the glasses we wear to judge the truth, t…

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[Chesterton]

Most of the time, my jokes fall flat.

 

[Estrid]

Most of the time, my jokes fall flat.

Thats caused by flat affect

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

To almost everyone in history through to today,

the Earth looks flat.

It also looks like where ever you are, you are at the center of a circle.

 

[prodromos]

It also looks like where ever you are, you are at the center of a circle.

The higher your viewpoint, the wider the circle.

 

[Bradskii]

The higher your viewpoint, the wider the circle.

You, personally, are right at this moment at the exact centre of the observable universe.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

You, personally, are right at this moment at the exact centre of the observable universe.

And you can look up and see infinity.

 

[prodromos]

And you can look up and see infinity.

That used to do my head in when I was a child. I'd look up at the night sky, and just thinking about it just going on and on without end would start giving me a headache.
I now see it as a reflection of the infinite nature of our creator, just as the flat earth snow globe reflects a finite creator. I don't believe in the God of the flat earth because he simply isn't worthy of glory. The God of the observed universe, with its planets orbiting stars, which themselves orbit their galactic centre with millions of other stars, with innumerable galaxies spread out over the vastness of space, now that is a God worthy of glory and worship!

 

[Bradskii]

That used to do my head in when I was a child. I'd look up at the night sky, and just thinking about it just going on and on without end would start giving me a headache.
I now see it as a reflection of the infinite nature of our creator, just as the flat earth snow globe reflects a finite creator. I don't believe in the God of the flat earth because he simply isn't worthy of glory. The God of the observed universe, with its planets orbiting stars, which themselves orbit their galactic centre with millions of other stars, with innumerable galaxies spread out over the vastness of space, now that is a God worthy of glory and worship!

I always saw it the other way. I imagined a small rock on the dark side of a small cold planet circling a dying star in a non descript solar system in the outer limits of a small galaxy well outside the observable universe. Forever out of our reach. It serves no purpose. It has sat there while life arose here and evolved into intelligence. It will still be there when all known and future civilisations on this planet are dust.

It's like God built us a planet but we're not allowed out of our bedroom. If we were all that was, if the stars we see really were just pretty lights and the heavens were centered on us then I might think that we were special in some way. As opposed to being lucky. But there is too much. Way too much.