I wasn't confused by !=, I was merely contradciting him. If I stand in panama west corresponds to left on the map he presented.
The trick in that projection is that the parallel wraps around the "top" or "bottom" of the map. So by following around the parallel and ignoring the position of the Sun, the distance traveled, temperatures encountered, and a few other facts, by going west you end up on the far side of the Earth again. One parallel, the Equator, doesn't seems to be able to do that. So he can't explain how the Sun on the Equinoxes gets back for the 'next day'. I think we can all agree that this model of FE is one of the worst, being unable to explain the motion of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, the confinement of the atmosphere, and the reason we can't find the edge (This model has no ice wall.).