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Offline Nooseph Polten

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How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« on: August 21, 2017, 01:05:52 PM »
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  • Given the occasion of today's rare solar eclipse, I thought I'd ask the flat earthers how an eclipse occurs in their model of the world.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #1 on: August 21, 2017, 02:04:11 PM »
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  • There is none - the 'flat earth' theory is pseudo-intellectual asininity at its best and demonic at its worst.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #2 on: August 21, 2017, 02:12:04 PM »
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  • I am sure they are all scratching their heads for some fantasy.   :popcorn:
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #3 on: August 21, 2017, 02:47:15 PM »
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  • Given the occasion of today's rare solar eclipse, I thought I'd ask the flat earthers how an eclipse occurs in their model of the world.
    The eclipse can only occur on the flat earth. It impossible to view an eclipse on a globe spinning 1000 mph and jetting around the sun at 67,000 mph and orbiting the galaxy at 550,000 mph and jetting out from the Big Bang at 1,000,000 mph. Everything would be a blur.  Globe earth barreling 4 different directions, 4 different speeds is the official NASA mantra.  As Enoch explains, the earth is stationary with the sun and moon traversing across the plane and every so often, the two pass each other.  Being the same size, the moon and sun can eclipse each other as they pass at these times. Eclipses are fairly common, although its been 38 years since a full eclipse of the sun occurred over the US.        

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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #4 on: August 21, 2017, 02:49:21 PM »
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  • Stop trying to justify a flat earth, it's not real.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #5 on: August 21, 2017, 03:11:22 PM »
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  • Stop trying to justify a flat earth, it's not real.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #6 on: August 21, 2017, 03:30:10 PM »
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #7 on: August 21, 2017, 03:32:38 PM »
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  • The eclipse can only occur on the flat earth. It impossible to view an eclipse on a globe spinning 1000 mph and jetting around the sun at 67,000 mph and orbiting the galaxy at 550,000 mph and jetting out from the Big Bang at 1,000,000 mph. Everything would be a blur.  Globe earth barreling 4 different directions, 4 different speeds is the official NASA mantra.  As Enoch explains, the earth is stationary with the sun and moon traversing across the plane and every so often, the two pass each other.  Being the same size, the moon and sun can eclipse each other as they pass at these times. Eclipses are fairly common, although its been 38 years since a full eclipse of the sun occurred over the US.        
    If the moon and sun are both spinning around over the earth, wouldn't an eclipse occur every day or so?
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #8 on: August 21, 2017, 04:26:40 PM »
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse?
    « Reply #9 on: August 21, 2017, 06:00:00 PM »
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  • Given the occasion of today's rare solar eclipse, I thought I'd ask the flat earthers how an eclipse occurs in their model of the world.

    CathInfo's flat-Earthers have had plenty of time to prepare themselves for today's eclipse, which was announced to them, seeking some credible response, at least as early as July 11 (i.e., #737: the 3rd reply-posting on page 50) of the much-longer but still active topic "50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat"[×].  A quick glance will show that the topic has now extended to page 62; at 15 postings on each page generated for CathInfo members, the latest posting is #919.

    This past week, the full moon has been very low in the sky compared to the sun. [....]  Since there is a total solar eclipse coming next month, [....] there will have to be a dramatic change in these alignments during the next month in order for the eclipse to occur.

    This eclipse (like all eclipses of the sun) will occur on a New Moon.  That will be when the moon crosses the sky during the daytime.  The moon is very difficult to see when it's a new moon, since the brightness of the sun in our atmosphere obscures the moon especially when it is close to the sun.  Most people watching a solar eclipse have no idea where the moon is until it starts to move across the visible disc of the sun.

    The responses from the flat-Earthers, who have made a habit of self-righteously denying simple observations that can be made by alert adolescents with ordinary skills of observation, using low-tech or common analog technology, have not yet provided any explanations that are both literally
    ·  credible for a flat Earth, but
    ·  incredible for an approximately spherical Earth.

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    Note ×: "50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat", page 50: <https://www.cathinfo.com/fighting-errors-in-the-modern-world/50-plus-reasons-the-earth-is-not-flat/735/>.

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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #10 on: August 21, 2017, 06:21:46 PM »
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #11 on: August 21, 2017, 06:23:31 PM »
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  • If the moon and sun are both spinning around over the earth, wouldn't an eclipse occur every day or so?
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    For flat-earthers there is no difference between an eclipse and every day sunlight. It's all the same, and our observations of reality have no meaning. 
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    Flat-earthism is Modernism and Nihilism lowered to the level of pseudo cosmology.
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    Trying to be logical and consequential with flat-earthers is like trying to get a dog to type a letter or a pig to fly.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #12 on: August 21, 2017, 06:29:44 PM »
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  • To be fair, and not lose opportunity, the Cera unit seems to honestly try to bridge the divide.

    Besides, anyone with half a brain like myself knows the world is tuba shaped.
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    For flat-earthers there is no difference between an eclipse and every day sunlight. It's all the same, and our observations of reality have no meaning.
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    Flat-earthism is Modernism and Nihilism lowered to the level of pseudo cosmology.
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    Trying to be logical and consequential with flat-earthers is like trying to get a dog to type a letter or a pig to fly.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #13 on: August 21, 2017, 06:38:28 PM »
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  • The eclipse can only occur on the flat earth.       
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    False ------------- how many false propositions have flat-earthers made? Who can count them all??
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    It impossible to view an eclipse on a globe spinning 1000 mph and jetting around the sun at 67,000 mph and orbiting the galaxy at 550,000 mph and jetting out from the Big Bang at 1,000,000 mph. Everything would be a blur. 
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    Straw man. Geocentrism does not incude a spinning globe, so that's false. Nor does it "jet" around the sun, so that's falsehood #3. Nor orbiting the galaxy -- falsehood #4;  and Big Bang is falsehood #5. Five false propositions in one post! Is that all you can do?
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     Globe earth barreling 4 different directions, 4 different speeds is the official NASA mantra.  As Enoch explains, the earth is stationary with the sun and moon traversing across the plane and every so often, the two pass each other.  Being the same size, the moon and sun can eclipse each other as they pass at these times. Eclipses are fairly common, although its been 38 years since a full eclipse of the sun occurred over the US.  
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    Oh, wait. I guess not. Now you have the globe earth barreling 4 different directions (falsehood #6) and 4 different speeds (falsehood #7). 
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    Then you refer to the book of Enoch, which is not in the Bible, in other words, apocryphal. The sun and moon are not the same size, falsehood #8. 
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    Only eight false statements all in one post? Come on, you can do much better than that.
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    Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
    « Reply #14 on: August 21, 2017, 06:48:06 PM »
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  • Most basic problems, individual dispositions aside:
    1. Authority
     1. Application of principles of eisegesis
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    False ------------- how many false propositions have flat-earthers made? Who can count them all??
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    Straw man. Geocentrism does not incude a spinning globe, so that's false. Nor does it "jet" around the sun, so that's falsehood #3. Nor orbiting the galaxy -- falsehood #4;  and Big Bang is falsehood #5. Five false propositions in one post! Is that all you can do?
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    Oh, wait. I guess not. Now you have the globe earth barreling 4 different directions (falsehood #6) and 4 different speeds (falsehood #7).
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    Then you refer to the book of Enoch, which is not in the Bible, in other words, apocryphal. The sun and moon are not the same size, falsehood #8.
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    Only eight false statements all in one post? Come on, you can do much better than that.
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    "Lord, have mercy".