Root problem:

Drawing the false dichotomy between interpreting scripture “literally” or “allegorically”, so that it either tells us about the “physical world” or is a kind of moral fable.

Of course, this notion of the “physical world” is presupposes by both sides of the argument, whereby it becomes impossible for either to understand how the Biblical texts can be referring to the very structures of the cosmos without matching that of their imagined “physical world”. It’s either, for them, primitive astronomy or a nice bedtime story to relay a “religious truth” (religious in an entirely exoteric sense).

You’re both idiots.

But the flat-earthers, in particular, are the biggest idiots for imposing a modern materialistic view of the ontology and structure of the cosmos onto ancient texts. As if the ancients held to your crypto-materialist metaphysics, and as if, talking about planets and heavens and elements and forms thereof, they were talking about these things as you understand them with your naive physicalist idea of the cosmos that you ironically SHARE with your “opponents”.
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Subtlety is just lost on you crypto-materialists - on both sides of this “debate”.
The naïveté of how you must see the nature of reality as you go about your daily lives must be mind-boggling enough to those who are schooled in - and understand - what the ancients actually believed, but when you go out of your way to apply this bizarre and thoroughly modern mode of thought to their texts in order to concoct stories about a world so absurd that they - be it Moses, Plato, Trismegistus or whoever - would have laughed till their bladders gave way, that is just offensive to common decency.
Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha' arets.

Literally: In the beginning God created ALEPH TAV Heaven and Earth.

Literally one of the greatest sentences ever written on cosmology on every level and an indispensable key to understanding reality, and one that the rabbis poured over and do to this day.

And you people think it’s speaking of the ground and the sky as you understand them ...

No wonder books like the Song of Songs, the most deep and profound of the mystical treatises of the Bible, encoding an entire method of theosis that St. Thomas’s Aurora Consurgens only alludes to, is lost on you as a love song at worst or seen only for containing some references to the relationship between Christ and His Church at best.

Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing

Oh, the inadequacy of translating the divine Hebrew language. Those same deep waters of tohu and bohu over which the Spirit of God hovered, but what do you know of the meaning of Shin and Mem and Aleph between them?

Arguing over the “shape” of the Earth and whether there’s a “glass” dome in the sky, all the while PRETENDING to KNOW what the nature is of that which lies outside of your sense of sight.



Is the Earth round or flat? What does that even MEAN?

You’re arguing over the arrangement of apples in a presupposed basket, and I’m talking about what those apples really are, what it means for them to be arranged, the life of the tree they grow on, and whether there’s any basket at all.

What (false) religion are you? You are obviously not Catholic.

You seem to adhere to some sort of esoteric/gnostic/kabbalist crap.

Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha' arets.

Literally: In the beginning God created ALEPH TAV Heaven and Earth.

Literally one of the greatest sentences ever written on cosmology on every level and an indispensable key to understanding reality, and one that the rabbis poured over and do to this day.

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A square park has a running track around it where people come to get exercise most days of fair weather. On the north side there is a water fountain alongside the track located x feet west of the northeast corner of the park. Jill and Nancy are running counterclockwise around the track together, when Nancy stops to get a drink at the fountain but Jill keeps running along the track. The track measures 3x feet from the fountain to the northwest corner, where Jill turns left and heads south on the track. Nancy decides to cut across the park and runs diagonally toward the southwest corner where she meets Jill without stopping, and they continue running together, east along the south side of the park. The two girls run at the same rate in all these situations. How far east, in terms of x, was Jill from the northwest corner when Nancy finished her drink and began to cut across the park to meet her?

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("/" means "divided by" ; (x)(3) means "x times three")

(A)  (square root of 3x) feet
(B)  x feet
(C)  2x feet
(D)  (x)(square root of 3) /(2) feet
(E)  0.5x feet