Right.  When I said that it wouldn't affect how I live my life, I was just speaking about myself (and about others who have the Catholic faith).

But it matters tremendously for the general public.

Let's just assume for a minute that the Earth is in fact flat, and has a firmament covering it.  It would be nearly impossible to persuade any thinking person that it all happened by chance and without an Intelligent Designer.  When you have swirling balls coalescing into spheres as the basis of your cosmology, combined with "gravity", you can try to explain it as just swirling motion that creates order out of the chaos.  Big Bang and all the other atheistic science nonsense absolutely requires a globe earth.  And that's precisely why they've engaged in hiding FE ... in addition to the alien agenda that they've been planning.

There are a couple of notable Flat Earthers who had been atheists but came to believe in God solely due to their having become convinced of the Flat Earth.  How many millions have lost their faith, or at least natural belief in God, which would put them closer to the faith, due to the modern "science" that a Father Paul Robinson extols as some kind of idol.  So, yes, it does matter.

Youtube is bizarre.  In my own library history, it won't pull up any flat earth videos I've watched in the past.  It will only pull up debunker videos.  I have to remember the name of the video or the channel and search it out all over again.  Why?

Youtube is bizarre.  In my own library history, it won't pull up any flat earth videos I've watched in the past.  It will only pull up debunker videos.  I have to remember the name of the video or the channel and search it out all over again.  Why?


Anyway, here is the original video. 


1min 51 secs




It's not a reflection.  It's very clear and real life demonstration of something that can only happen on a flat plane and not on a ball.

It shows how the vanishing point perspective rises as you rise in altitude just like the other demo video with the rising balloon I showed.

Here, the graphics were improved in this one:
1min 4sec




On a ball, the horizon line would drop down lower and lower as you rise higher and higher. 

But that never happens.



Vanishing point.  Not curve.


The horizon line is not from the curve but from your visual limitations.

It rises as you rise which can only happen on a flat plane.

On a ball it would drop down lower.

Artists understand this.  The three drawings below are from a graphic design website.  What do you think is happening with the horizon line in these three drawings? 




The graphic design instructor explains:

https://graphicdesign2013.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/2013/03/06/perspective-scene/

On a ball earth, the horizon line would be the exact opposite.  The line for the person sitting on the ground would be low and the person on the roof top would be higher.


According to the ball earth Drop chart the horizon line 100 miles away should DROP down over a mile below you.  It doesn't.

Distance
Curvature

1 mile
0.00013 miles = 0.67 feet

2 miles
0.00051 miles = 2.67 feet

5 miles
0.00316 miles = 16.67 feet

10 miles
0.01263 miles = 66.69 feet

20 miles
0.05052 miles = 266.75 feet

50 miles
0.31575 miles = 1667.17 feet

100 miles
1.26296 miles = 6668.41 feet

200 miles
5.05102 miles = 26669.37 feet

500 miles
31.5336 miles = 166497.53 feet

1000 miles
125.632 miles = 663337.65 feet







This is also why you "level out" when you reach cruising altitude otherwise you would have to adjust the plane nose down

and after flying 500 miles the plane would have to adjust downwards

31 miles!!

Have you ever felt your plane going nose down?  Say a quick act of contrition if you do!




The horizon line RISES to eye level and doesn't DROP. 

That's the opposite of what would happen if you were rising above a ball.



I don't like calling people names, but the photos in this meme demonstrate it further.

You should not even see a horizon line in the top photo.  It should have dropped away below you as you look out over the ball.

In this illustration, the horizon line is where the blue sky meets the brown street.

Perhaps in the left hand drawing the viewer is sitting on the sidewalk, so the horizon line is low.  In the right hand drawing the viewer is standing on the roof of a building, therefor the horizon line is higher
https://graphicdesign2013.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/2013/03/06/perspective-scene/

Traditional Catholics have believed the earth was a globe for nearly 2,000 years. Particularly since the age of discovery, when it actually became a relevant and practical question what the shape of the earth is, the traditional Catholics of those times constantly portrayed the earth as a globe, and have done so ever since. And using this portrayal they were able to navigate successfully to the smallest islands in the most remote parts of the earth.

Flat earth belief among traditional Catholics is a historical anomaly peculiar to only the last ten or twenty years. I had never heard of trads thinking the earth was flat as recently as a decade ago, and the movement has particularly grown in the last few years. Of the flat earthers on this forum, I suspect almost none of them believed the earth was flat ten years ago.

From a historical perspective, the idea is an intellectual fad. None of the Catholic kings, scholars, explorers, or conquistadors in the age of discovery or after ever thought the earth was anything but a globe. So I don't think it's accurate to lump globism in with evolution, old universe, aliens, or any other pagan error.

Pretty decent argument against pursuing flat earth "truth" AND sedevacantism.

It's clear that the enemy is running rampant and we're living under severe chastisements...

Outside of recognizing these truths, making reparations and clinging to the traditional mass and sacraments wherever we can access them, does anything else really matter?

Not saying I'm 100% with you, but I certainly ain't against you.

I've just signed a new client, so have a little extra cash.

CathInfo has a flat earth thread so here is my challenge for $10,000 plus all their travel costs paid.

https://www.cathinfo.com/the-earth-god-made-flat-earth-geocentrism/the-earth-is-flat/

All commercial jets fly through the air and carry a maximum amount of fuel.  The maximum range of these jets are known and widely published.  The jet used to make every flight is easily established by looking at it from the outside and its serial number.  All such jets are tracked in real time.  Everyone on this forum and Cathinfo can follow it.

Cathinfo members discuss debate and agree on a flat earth map which is as close as possible to the flat earth they believe to exist and an impossible scheduled flight, such as Chile to Australia, which would require refuelling because the straight line distance on a flat earth is beyond the range of that or any aircraft.  Probably a southern hemisphere flight but they can pick any flight they wish that is impossible on a flat earth.

If the world is flat then for this scheduled flight to happen they either need to be refuelled in mid-air or land at a secret South Pacific location and re-fuel.  Otherwise the plane would run out of fuel and crash into the sea.

Cathinfo members take that flight and they make a timestamped video recording of the refuelling aircraft getting into position easily visible from the windows or their refuelling stop in the secret island.

If the video evidence is produced I will pay for their travel costs and give CathInfo $10,000 which Matthew can distribute as he sees fit.  If they cannot produce that evidence and the flight lands after a single take off and landing, then Cathinfo must admit that the world is a globe and pick up the cost of the flights themselves.

I'm banned from the website, for pointing out Matthew did not know how to read his water-meter, so someone who is not banned is welcome to post my offer on there.

If they don't take this offer up, then given that Matthew is always asking for funds to run the website, one can assume that they are not sincere about "seeking the truth", which is what Matthew CLAIMS to be in the opening post on the thread listed above.

If I've missed anything or this does not constitute a proof, then please feel free to point out the error.