thebalvenie,
for thousands of years people have just blindly trusted what people have tught them about the shape of the earth.
As a Zetetic, you need to open your mind, trust your senses, The earth is planar because it appears that way, and until there is real hard evidence we must go with planar.
i hope you are able to open your mind, I suggest you read Earth, not a globe, while there is mistakes in there it will put you on the right path to enlightment.
welcome