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Offline Neil Obstat

Why don't you believe the Earth is flat? (Think: Fun 4th Family Activity!)
« on: July 03, 2018, 06:47:31 PM »
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*NOTE* the following is a rough draft for a Family-Hour Skit you can do in your own home when you have overly-active-youthful-energy-types running wild, hopefully out of doors, since it's now officially summer time -- BUT TOMORROW IS THE FOURTH and no doubt there will be a vast demand for fun BBQ-in-the-park activities for the maddeningly energetic young people we have these days since spending so much time behind a computer screen most days makes for a great urge to burn off some of that hormones -- I mean, steam...TLDR...
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Question asked:  "Why don't you believe the Earth is flat?"
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Answer provided: Reasons, reasons, come to mind--How oft' you've gone and left behind--The clues profuse they'll do in time--But for the pres'nt we share your wine--As droves drive drunk they'll crash the line..............
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My ship never sailed off the edge!

We never even had to adjust course to avoid it (the edge).

None of the other sailors I’ve met have any stories of this either, and believe me...

...BELIEVE YOU ME, thousands of sailors would have tens of thousands of stories about it (Okay, for flattards, that means soldiers with an average of 10 stories each multiplied by a thousand soldiers answers in soldiers SQUARED stories when you keep track of units).

You couldn’t keep a secret like that for long.

The Default Seafaring Battle Tactic would be to drive someone else’s ship off the edge of the earth if you were anywheres near it!

The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be, trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it stinks - I mean sinks, people would be getting viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire and sent off the edge (that would be a lot of the pictures, I think), murders would be committed by sending people off the edge, hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it-this could go on forever ("Which, come to think of it, ain't such a bad idear, since the Chapter is next week all ready," said Bishop F.).

The point is, people are quick to proactively benefit from any guaranteed way of disposing of something they don’t want, and it’s hard to keep them quiet when something like that exists!

Besides that, there are orbiting satellites, airplanes, Physics, and other things I can directly observe to tell me it’s round.

Also my husband is a scientist and he laughs (like this: HE-HE--HA-HA--HO-HO) at the idea that you can convince thousands of people, who disprove each other’s work for a living, to all lie in unison (Now, for our next Exercise in Applied Linguistics, we'll all rehearse saying that entire sentence, Without the Laugh, in one breath. Then twice in one breath. Then, Adding the Laugh... *OUCH*!* WHY'D YOU HIT ME ON THE HAID LIKE THAT?).
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The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge
The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be

Trash would be falling off the edge
Trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it stinks - I mean sinks
(off the edge instead of floating around -and around -and around -and around -.......)

People would be getting Viking Funerals
People would be getting Viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire and sent off the edge
(that would be a lot of the pictures, I think)

murders would be committed
murders would be committed by sending people off the edge,

hijacked planes would be flown
(hijacked planes would be flown past the edge)
((hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were))

Hijacked PLANES would be FLOWN PAST the EDGE if they were NEAR it-this could go on forever
(if they were near it-this could go on forever)
((hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it-this could go on forever))

If they were near it-this could go on forever-this could go on forever-
(this could go on forever this could go on forever)
((Forever - Forever - Forever - Forever - forever - forever ............................))
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(credit and appreciation freely
offered to Winonah Drake )
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Offline happenby

Re: Why don't you believe the Earth is flat? (Think: Fun 4th Family Activity!)
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2018, 07:08:06 PM »
stupid
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Why don't you believe the Earth is flat? (Think: Fun 4th Family Activity!)
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2018, 07:59:58 PM »
Quote from: happenby on July 03, 2018, 07:08:06 PM
stupid
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You're getting your character mixed up with Meg, happenby! But that's okay, good writers can separate the two and even use the fact that you're merging roles, to add depth to the already-so-shallow characters that you could end up being if portrayed that way on stage, however, you would be far too noble to ever complain about being misrepresented by the script, would you?
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Yes, Fathers definitely did believe earth is flat, and Scripture describes a flat earth, and quite specifically not a globe, but Sungenis and Delano either don't know about the Fathers, or they aren't dealing with the Fathers.  And their objection to Scripture is incredibly weak.  Sungenis says that the firmament might be flexible or airy.  Well, his head is flexible and airy because the Father's teach that the firmament is not only a hard, impassable structure, but that there is water above it, not space.  Any reference to the air being the firmament includes the actual firmament but describes the air along with the firmament as things above us.  And what about the water above the firmament?  Sungenis actually suggests that it is out in space somewhere.    Augustine actually speculated about the water passing over/past the stars to get to the earth and because he couldn't account for how that worked, yet he admitted that it must be so because Scripture said it.  No surprise the people of today would rather believe unsubstantiated, highly questionable, pagan science than believe what God says--like St. Augustine.  The pagan model is patently guilty of twisting of truth and has less credibility than anything the Holy Spirit inspired, so without proof of their model, why do people choose to believe it?  Romans 3:4  Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be justified in Your words, and prevail in Your judgments.”
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Many thanks to happenby for providing fruitful material that young aspiring writers can use to compose skits their family can enjoy all polished up and ready for the Family Theater Night which is something great to do, in like, your backyard or a park while the sun is going down over the horizon of the spheroid earth and no telescope can zoom in and make it come "back" which would be a wonderful scene to have for anyone with a Celestron telescope or whatever it makes a great prop for the Family Fun Theater Hour before fireworks tomorrow.
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You Don't Have A Lot Of Time To Rehearse!
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Why don't you believe the Earth is flat? (Think: Fun 4th Family Activity!)
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2018, 08:24:14 PM »
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Outline of material for the Skit
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*NOTE* the following is a rough draft for a Family-Hour Skit you can do in your own home when you have overly-active-youthful-energy-types running wild, hopefully out of doors, since it's now officially summer time -- BUT TOMORROW IS THE FOURTH and no doubt there will be a vast demand for fun BBQ-in-the-park activities for the maddeningly energetic young people we have these days since spending so much time behind a computer screen most days makes for a great urge to burn off some of that hormones -- I mean, steam...TLDR...
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Question asked:  "Why don't you believe the Earth is flat?"
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Question answered:
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-- My ship never sailed off the edge!

-- We never even had to adjust course to avoid it (the edge).

-- None of the other sailors I’ve met have any stories of this either, and believe me...

-- Thousands of sailors would have tens of thousands of stories about it

(Okay, for flattards, that means soldiers with an average of 10 stories each multiplied by a thousand soldiers answers in soldiers SQUARED stories when you keep track of units).

-- You couldn’t keep a secret like that for long.

-- The Default Seafaring Battle Tactic would be:
To drive someone else’s ship off the edge of the earth if you were anywheres near it!

-- The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be

-- Trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it sinks

-- People would be getting Viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire

-- And sent off the edge in a big BALL of fire, no, wait, (that would be a lot of the pictures, I think)

-- Murders would be committed by sending people off the edge

-- Hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it

-- This could go on forever
("Which, come to think of it, ain't such a bad idear, since the Chapter is next week all ready," said Bishop F.).

-- The point is, people are quick to proactively benefit from any guaranteed way of disposing of something they don’t want

-- And it’s hard to keep them quiet when something like that exists!  Besides that, 

--There are orbiting satellites, airplanes, Physics, and other things I can directly observe to tell me it’s round

-- Also my husband is a scientist and he laughs at the idea that you can convince thousands of people

-- People who disprove each other’s work for a living -- they are professional disprove-each-others

-- To get them all to lie in unison (yeah, RIIIGHT)
(Now, for our next Exercise in Applied Linguistics, *OUCH*!* WHY'D YOU HIT ME ON THE HAID LIKE THAT?).

-- The internet would be clogged with pictures of the edge where another continent is supposed to be

-- Trash would be falling off the edge instead of floating around until it sinks

-- Or off the edge instead of floating around -and around -and around -and around -the great Pacific Plastic Patch Condition
(PPPC)
-- People would be getting Viking funerals in which their barge is set on fire and sent off the edge
(that would be a lot of the pictures, I think)

-- Murders would be committed by sending people off the edge,

-- Hijacked planes would be flown past the edge if they were near it

-- Hijacked PLANES would be FLOWN PAST the EDGE if they were NEAR it

-- If they were near it--this could go on forever--this could go on forever-

...........................PLAY STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER (Sourza)....................................
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(credit and appreciation freely
offered to Winonah Drake )
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Offline klasG4e

Re: Why don't you believe the Earth is flat? (Think: Fun 4th Family Activity!)
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2018, 09:26:38 PM »
Flat Earth Flat Wrong: An Historical, Biblical, and Scientific Analysis, the book that promises to be the "gold standard" for full comprehensive flat earth review and critique is now available through its website which has now become active: http://flatearthflatwrong.com/.
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