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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Is refusing to accept an "obvious fact" a sin of lying?
« Reply #75 on: November 30, 2021, 04:59:25 PM »
Quote from: Marion on November 30, 2021, 03:30:38 PM
Fernão de Magalhães, by sailing around the globe earth, proved that globe earth navigaton techniques work very well. Including the fact that he counted one sunrise less than folks at home.

Circuмnavigation is as easily accomplished on a flat plane as it is on a globe.  And he would have counted fewer sunrises because of the directon of the sun's rotation over the earth.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Is refusing to accept an "obvious fact" a sin of lying?
« Reply #76 on: November 30, 2021, 05:03:59 PM »
As far as predicting eclipses, that was being done a long time before anyone had any conception regarding the size of the world or distance from the sun (which has been revised multiple times from about 2 million all the way up to 93 million miles) ... simply because eclipses appear with regularity.  You simply have to plot them in a table and you can easily calculate future eclipses to within minutes.  Ancient cultures predicted them.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Is refusing to accept an "obvious fact" a sin of lying?
« Reply #77 on: November 30, 2021, 05:05:06 PM »
Marion is more worked up about this issue than if I had blasphemed or been promoting heresy.  Why should you care so much?
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Offline Tradman

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Re: Is refusing to accept an "obvious fact" a sin of lying?
« Reply #78 on: November 30, 2021, 06:18:46 PM »
Quote from: Marion on November 30, 2021, 03:22:16 PM
Globe-earthers can predict eclipses, and have done so for thousands of years, while lunatic flat-earthers can't. And you obviously don't even have a clue why that is how it is.
This is false.  It's too bad globe believers fall for the most elementary falsehoods and repeat them over and over.  Mankind in general, has been able to determine the cycles of eclipses for thousands of years, to include the majority of civilizations that were flat earthers.
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Offline Marion

Re: Is refusing to accept an "obvious fact" a sin of lying?
« Reply #79 on: November 30, 2021, 07:21:01 PM »
Quote from: Last Tradhican on November 30, 2021, 04:49:27 PM
You'll earn a lot of friends with your attitude.

You ain't either. Also, I'm not up to maximize the number of friends. Thomas of Kempen explains in his book "Imitation of Christ" why it's better minimize friends. In short: every friend is a potential cause of compromise.


Quote from: Last Tradhican on November 30, 2021, 04:49:27 PM
Listen, I told you clearly, and I'll repeat it again, I don't give a hoot if the Earth is a globe or flat.

I knew you did before you repeated it.


Quote from: Last Tradhican on November 30, 2021, 04:49:27 PM
You didn't answer my question, so that's the end of that.

[The question: I take it that that means you have no pictures, moreover,]

Before you even asked this specific question, I told you that I don't think that the NASA has pictures which prove that the earth is flat.

I didn't deem it necessary to mention, that neither do I have pictures which prove that the earth is flat.


I don't trust "real pictures", like you said you do. They don't prove anything. Above someone posted eight "pictures of the earth". All flat. No reason for me to believe that the earth is flat.
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