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Offline Pax Vobis

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Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
« Reply #105 on: December 05, 2024, 05:18:50 PM »
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    But I am not responsible for proving your position.  You are.
    No, you have it backwards.  The prevailing model is flat earth.  It was held for 1,000s of years, by various civilizations, and passed down from Adam to Noah to the Israelites.  This view is religious in origin and is backed up by Scripture, ancient history, and our senses.


    The greek model (which is where copernicus/galileo got their models) is anti-Israelite, anti-scripture, and anti-Tradition/anti-Adam/anti-Noah.  The greek model was created by the same freemasons who exist today.  The same people who worship Nimrod, who built the tower of Babel and who tried to kill the God-fearing peoples of that time because they wouldn't go along with the hoped-for-ancient-NWO.  The greek model is based on sun/satan/lucifer worship.  It's an inversion of the truth, as lucifer does.

    This entire debate is a religious one, with scientific details.  But, at its core, it's a religious battle between God's story and satan's version.

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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #106 on: December 05, 2024, 05:45:57 PM »
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  • I tried to have a math discussion with you, but you kept arguing that the North Star moves, which goes against the entire basis for why it can be used as a navigation tool.  And then you were posting sources from google, which is obviously not even geocentric science.  Impossible to discuss with you.
    Here we go again.  :facepalm:

    I never said the North Star is the only navigational tool. Please provide proof.  Celestial navigation is based on the stars using a star map for the proper season and time of night.

    The North Star is not in the same place at the same time of night every single night, therefore something is moving.  I believe it is the sky.  Try it.  Go find the north star, now go find it every day for 30 days.  Did it move?  It looks like it did.  Ask yourself why?  Probably perspective.

    Your astronomy is not very good because you said the North Star is part of the big dipper. 

    The north star is part of the big dipper and does not move.


    Here is how you find the North Star:



    You complain about others dishonesty. What about your own?

    Discussions can only happen when people are honest and trying.  I think you like your position and are sticky to it.  You will probably say the same thing of me, but if you can scientifically prove some of the things that people who think the earth is flat claim, I will gladly consider the science.  Faith and scripture have not been clear enough on this matter to prove anything.

    Right now when I look at the night sky I see Orion's belt.  When I see Orion's belt, I cannot see the dippers. Why?  I haven't moved. My house is exactly where it has always been.  What moved?

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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #107 on: December 05, 2024, 06:21:23 PM »
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  • No, you have it backwards.  The prevailing model is flat earth.  It was held for 1,000s of years, by various civilizations, and passed down from Adam to Noah to the Israelites.  This view is religious in origin and is backed up by Scripture, ancient history, and our senses.


    The greek model (which is where copernicus/galileo got their models) is anti-Israelite, anti-scripture, and anti-Tradition/anti-Adam/anti-Noah.  The greek model was created by the same freemasons who exist today.  The same people who worship Nimrod, who built the tower of Babel and who tried to kill the God-fearing peoples of that time because they wouldn't go along with the hoped-for-ancient-NWO.  The greek model is based on sun/satan/lucifer worship.  It's an inversion of the truth, as lucifer does.

    This entire debate is a religious one, with scientific details.  But, at its core, it's a religious battle between God's story and satan's version.
    Both flat and globe earth models can be traced back to pagans with horrible ideas about all sorts of things.  One influenced the imagery of the Old Testament, the other was the scientific consensus for most of Catholic history.  Your understanding of the situation puts St. Thomas on satan's side of a religious battle between good and evil. That is just one of the reasons I do not find your unsupported counterfactual rhetoric especially compelling.

    Apparently you are unable to make good arguments from science so you turn to religious ones.  But these are even worse.  You have no Church teaching backing you up.  


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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #108 on: December 05, 2024, 06:37:51 PM »
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    Both flat and globe earth models can be traced back to pagans with horrible ideas about all sorts of things.  One influenced the imagery of the Old Testament, the other was the scientific consensus for most of Catholic history. 
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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #109 on: December 05, 2024, 06:50:32 PM »
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    I never said the North Star is the only navigational tool. Please provide proof. 

    :jester:  Of course you didn't, I did, because it's a historical fact.


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    Celestial navigation is based on the stars using a star map for the proper season and time of night.
    Navigation was done using the North star for centuries.

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    The North Star is not in the same place at the same time of night every single night, therefore something is moving.  I believe it is the sky.  Try it.  Go find the north star, now go find it every day for 30 days.  Did it move?  It looks like it did.  Ask yourself why?  Probably perspective.
    It moves in very small arcs; but that's missing the point.  Generally speaking, it doesn't move, which is why it's ALWAYS been used as a navigation tool.  In the northern hemisphere, it's the most constant celestial point in the sky.

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    Faith and scripture have not been clear enough on this matter to prove anything.
    You sound like a Modernist because "proving" something is the exact opposite of Faith and the authority of Scripture.  If you need proof, then you no longer have/need Faith. 

    Meanwhile, Scripture does offer some proofs/facts, which we must believe:
    1.  Firmament
    2.  4 corners of earth
    3.  Earth's foundation/pillars
    4.  Earth doesn't move.

    These are just 4, simple facts which we must believe, as part of the infallibility of Scripture.  The only model which can answer these facts is FE.  There is no globe model which does, therefore it fails right out of the box.

    Again, I start with the "non negotiables" of Scripture and find a model that fits.  You are starting with a model and then trying to make Scripture fit (or you ignore some Scripture altogether).


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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #110 on: December 05, 2024, 07:06:17 PM »
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  • Meanwhile, Scripture does offer some proofs/facts, which we must believe:
    1.  Firmament 
    2.  4 corners of earth
    3.  Earth's foundation/pillars
    4.  Earth doesn't move.

    These are just 4, simple facts which we must believe, as part of the infallibility of Scripture.  The only model which can answer these facts is FE.  There is no globe model which does, therefore it fails right out of the box.

    Again, I start with the "non negotiables" of Scripture and find a model that fits.  You are starting with a model and then trying to make Scripture fit (or you ignore some Scripture altogether).
    Give the sources of scripture you are talking about and then give the encyclicals that back you up. 

    If you won't I will look them up when I have time.
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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #111 on: December 05, 2024, 08:29:33 PM »
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  • Meanwhile, Scripture does offer some proofs/facts, which we must believe:
    1.  Firmament
    2.  4 corners of earth
    3.  Earth's foundation/pillars
    4.  Earth doesn't move.

    These are just 4, simple facts which we must believe, as part of the infallibility of Scripture.  The only model which can answer these facts is FE.  There is no globe model which does, therefore it fails right out of the box.

    Don't you find it strange that you were able to figure this out but St Thomas and St. Bede were not?  Somehow they managed to believe in the infallibility of Scripture while nevertheless believing the earth is a globe.  If they can believe both, then the rest of us can too.  

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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #112 on: December 05, 2024, 09:20:55 PM »
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  • Snow globe.


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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #113 on: December 05, 2024, 10:09:40 PM »
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  • This was taught by both St Augustine and St. Basil.  This was clearly accepted by all the medieval authors who wrote about the earth being a globe, since they would not have wanted to go against Scripture. Later, the St. Augustine passage was quoted by Leo XIII in the encylical Providentissimus Deus.  That makes it Church teaching. 

    I'll provide the quotes later. 
    Scripture is silent on the shape of the earth.

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    It is also frequently asked what our belief must be about the form and shape of heaven according to Sacred Scripture. Many scholars engage in lengthy discussions on these matters, but the sacred writers with their deeper wisdom have omitted them.  Such subjects are of no profit for those who seek beatitude, and, what is worse, they take up very precious time that ought to be given to what is spiritually beneficial.

    What concern is it of mine whether heaven is like a sphere and the earth is enclosed by it and suspended in the middle of the universe, [globe earth geocentric model] or whether heaven like a disk above the earth covers it over on one side? [flat earth model]...


    Hence, I must say briefly that in the matter of the shape of heaven the sacred writers knew the truth, but that the Spirit of God, who spoke through them, did not wish to teach men these facts that would be of no avail for their salvation.

    St. Basil of Caesarea:
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    Those who have written about the nature of the universe have discussed at length the shape of the earth. If it be spherical or cylindrical, if it resemble a disc and is equally rounded in all parts, or if it has the forth of a winnowing basket and is hollow in the middle; all these conjectures have been suggested by cosmographers, each one upsetting that of his predecessor. It will not lead me to give less importance to the creation of the universe, that the servant of God, Moses, is silent as to shapes; he has not said that the earth is a hundred and eighty thousand furlongs in circuмference; he has not measured into what extent of air its shadow projects itself whilst the sun revolves around it, nor stated how this shadow, casting itself upon the moon, produces eclipses. He has passed over in silence, as useless, all that is unimportant for us. Shall I then prefer foolish wisdom to the oracles of the Holy Spirit? Shall I not rather exalt Him who, not wishing to fill our minds with these vanities, has regulated all the economy of Scripture in view of the edification and the making perfect of our souls? It is this which those seem to me not to have understood, who, giving themselves up to the distorted meaning of allegory, have undertaken to give a majesty of their own invention to Scripture. It is to believe themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and to bring forth their own ideas under a pretext of exegesis. Let us hear Scripture as it has been written.

    St. Augustine's position is incorporated into magisterial teaching in Providentissimus Deus:

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    ..the sacred writers, or to speak more accurately, the Holy Ghost "Who spoke by them, did not intend to teach men these things (that is to say, the essential nature of the things of the visible universe), things in no way profitable unto salvation." Hence they did not seek to penetrate the secrets of nature, but rather described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were commonly used at the time...

    The encyclical even broadens the scope. This is not simply about the shape of heaven and earth, as in the original, but concerns "the essential nature of the things of the visible universe" in general.  The encyclical does not give examples of what it means by this, but obviously it includes the original context of the quote, the shape of heaven and earth.

    When something is taught by Church Fathers, accepted by Catholics (including Doctors of the Church) for over a thousand years, and incorporated in magisterial teaching, it is the teaching of the Church.  Trent condemns interpretting Scripture contrary to the interpretation of the Church. When people claim that Scripture is teaching something about the shape of the earth, they are contradicting the interpretation of the Church, receiving this condemnation.

    Catholics may believe the earth is flat and argue for this position from science, but we may not argue from Scripture because the Church has already given authoritative teaching on this: Scripture does not tell us about the shape of the earth.  The flat earther proof verses can only be figurative language.  As St. Basil said: "It is this which those seem to me not to have understood, who, giving themselves up to the distorted meaning of allegory, have undertaken to give a majesty of their own invention to Scripture. It is to believe themselves wiser than the Holy Spirit, and to bring forth their own ideas under a pretext of exegesis." 









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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #114 on: December 05, 2024, 10:10:53 PM »
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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #115 on: December 05, 2024, 10:24:29 PM »
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  • Snow globe.
    Show me the corners of a snow globe.
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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #116 on: December 05, 2024, 10:54:15 PM »
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  • It doesn't seem like I'm able to help.  Keep looking into this subject, there is a lot more to know. 


    She doesn't want help. She believes herself to be an expert, and we must all follow along. Gray 2023 is just the same. Both are arrogant, know-it-all women, and we must bow to their superiority. Or so they think. 
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #117 on: December 05, 2024, 11:13:02 PM »
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  • Your first line misrepresents my position, also known as a strawman argument. The second line is an attempt to discredit me as a person, which is called an ad hominem argument.  These are both logical fallacies.  You appear unable to make a logical argument for your position.

    Do you have a degree in theology from a novus ordo "university?" 

    Yes or no? 
    "It is licit to resist a Sovereign Pontiff who is trying to destroy the Church. I say it is licit to resist him in not following his orders and in preventing the execution of his will. It is not licit to Judge him, to punish him, or to depose him, for these are acts proper to a superior."

    ~St. Robert Bellarmine
    De Romano Pontifice, Lib.II, c.29

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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #118 on: December 06, 2024, 05:32:20 AM »
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  • Do you have a degree in theology from a novus ordo "university?"
    Why should I answer this?

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    Re: Best flat earth proof - celestial navigation
    « Reply #119 on: December 06, 2024, 08:06:02 AM »
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  • Jaynek, I hope you have fun with your fairytale that St Thomas and St Bede agree with you.  Somehow you’ve convinced yourself that you’re some type of historian on this topic where you can be the arbiter of truth.  It’s laughable. 

    The fact is, St Thomas’ globe model had a firmament.  As did St Bedes’.  Because they believed in Scripture and their model flowed from scripture as its origin. 

    Whatever model you follow is modernist, without any of the basic, 4 things pointed out earlier.  You can pretend that when Middle Age Catholics used the word “globe” that it means the same thing as the modernist “globe” but you’re just living a fantasy.  Carry on.  You’re too feminist to listen to anyone else.