The Million Dollar Question

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The Million Dollar Question
« on: June 22, 2015, 11:43:05 AM »
I'm not one to pre-judge anything. And I make thorough examination of all things. Therefor I've been making an examination of this concept for a little while now.

So far, many things said about the flat-earth concept seem to be... rather difficult to argue.

I began to catalogue all the arguments FOR flat earth, and scientifically examine each one. I have papers which seem to prove flat-earth quite thoroughly and water tight (no pun intended).

But then I came upon one question which I can not get past. And I think this is the "make or break" answer. If it can not be thoroughly explained, then I can not whole souled adopt the theory. If it can not be demonstrated, then it breaks the flat-earth model. However, if it CAN be explained to my satisfaction, I believe it has the potential to win not only me, but many more.

Before I get started... If anyone calls me a shill, they are an idiot, and are unable to have an adult scientific discussion. My question is legitimate and my point is valid. You have to prove me wrong. And you will not do that by being a troll or a jerk. Sorry about this disclaimer, but I know how forums are [as a rule].




Here it goes...

To the best of my knowledge, the star Polaris is not viewable below the equator. It is especially not viewable from the south pole, because that would involve looking through the planet.

If the earth is flat, then Polaris MUST be viewable from the south pole, at least with a telescope.

However, from what I know, they use "the southern cross" in the southern hemisphere, to find north. The stars in the northern hemisphere rotate in a circle, and the stars in the southern hemisphere rotate in a circle, and the stars around the equator move over the earth in near straight lines. This seems in line with a round globe, and is impossible with a flat earth.

Where are photos of the north star from the south pole?

Again, this one argument could win millions of people to your view.




In addition, if this is true, the following argument would be usable against a spherical earth...

If earth is revolving around the sun in an elliptical orbit, and the earth is at a tilt, and the earth is wobbling… How is it possible that Polaris is [always] in the center above the north pole, with only slight variation??? …Considering Polaris is said to be some 390 lightyears from earth (trillions, of trillions, of trillions of miles away).

Can you see how this argument is a make or break as a basis for belief?




As it stands, I've only told two people that I'm even examining this theory. One person is very open minded; and the other is an engineer and a math wiz. At this point, I wish I had said nothing to the engineer. After thinking about it for a few days, she told me that she has concluded that it's not possible, and she doesn't want to hear any more about it... in other words, she cut me off from all further discussion.

So either I'm going to have to tell her that I take back what I said, admit I was wrong, and that I'm convinced of a globe... or I say nothing, and when a flat earth is proven, she will view me as the most intelligent man on the face of the earth. The thing is that all my friends already see me as the most intelligent man they know. Just last night a friend introduced me to someone by saying: "This is [so and so], He's REALLY smart." This is how people define me. I'm not saying this to show off. The point is that a belief like this has the potential to turn you from being a genius in the minds of others, into the biggest idiot, gullible fool, on the planet. And at least with one person, I may have already crossed that line... and it can't be taken back.

And so I come here to ask the big question. Show me Polaris from the south, and this will convince me, and anyone else with a logical mind. Don't prove it, and no one will believe.


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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2015, 12:09:20 PM »
There are multiple excuses offered. For example, atmospheric haze preventing us from seeing things a great distance away, or that stars are spotlights and so can only be seen from a certain angle.
Or some just deny that the stars in question exist.
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2015, 12:18:43 PM »
There are multiple excuses offered. For example, atmospheric haze preventing us from seeing things a great distance away, or that stars are spotlights and so can only be seen from a certain angle.
Or some just deny that the stars in question exist.

Sorry, I can't accept any of those answers. Here is my thinking on that (yes I considered these before I posed the question here).

a) Atmospheric haze...

The star is UPWARD from earth in a flat earth model. Therefor, no matter at what place you look up, it will be above. Remember, it's trillions and trillions of miles away, according to astronomy (and there are independent telescopes that aren't tied to NASA). A difference of a few hundred or thousand miles isn't going to make a difference regarding something straight up from the center, and trillions of miles away. The north star will always appear above, and it will always be close to center.

b) Spotlights?

This isn't The Truman Show.

c) Some stars don't exist...

One of the primary arguments for a flat earth is to "believe what you observe, not what you're told." Believing that some stars don't exist would be asking me to believe what I'm told, not what I see. This is unreasonable and unacceptable. Further, I know NASA didn't put Polaris up there, its documented in history, and sailors have navigated by it for ages.

I need a solid explanation. As I said, this one will make or break the deal for me.



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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2015, 12:26:30 PM »
a) Atmospheric haze... The star is UPWARD from earth in a flat earth model. Therefor, no matter at what place you look up, it will be above. Remember, it's trillions and trillions of miles away, according to astronomy (and there are independent telescopes that aren't tied to NASA).
Not true according to FET. They probably measure the distance to the stars in a few thousand km, at most. In that situation, the distance over the land would be greater.
And believe me, you don't want to get into the magnitude of the conspiracy.

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Spotlights? This isn't The Truman Show.
Well, spotlight shaped. It's how they say the Sun is, for example: light only coming from one face. Otherwise it would never be night.

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Some stars don't exist... One of the primary arguments for a flat earth is to "believe what you observe, not what you're told." Believing that some stars don't exist would be asking me to believe what I'm told, not what I see. This is unreasonable and unacceptable. Further, I know NASA didn't put Polaris up there, its documented in history, and sailors have navigated by it for ages.
This post goes into more detail on that idea.
There was one guy who said some stars were really planes though. Don't ask.
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2015, 01:10:15 PM »
Re: http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za48.htm

One of the problems I and others have with believing FE theory, is that no one makes videos demonstrating the experiments which purport to prove the theory. Most of the books where the experiments are demonstrated, are hand drawn pictures. This was good enough back then...

But we live in a society of modern filmography. Why aren't all the experiments duplicated on film?

It's difficult for me to picture what the man in the article above is saying, BECAUSE I LIVE IN AMERICA—I'm not familiar with the references he's using. A video would demonstrate the points better. Otherwise it comes out as gibberish.

Still, where are photos of Polaris from below the equator? This one thing would prove to the entire world that the earth is flat. But it also breaks the flat earth theory in the logical mind, without a damned solid explanation.
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2015, 05:48:38 AM »
A very good question, indeed.

“The astronomers' theory of a globular Earth necessitates the conclusion that, if we travel south of the equator, to see the North Star is an impossibility. Yet it is well known this star has been seen by navigators when they have been more than 20 degrees south of the equator. This fact, like hundreds of other facts, puts the theory to shame, and gives us a proof that the Earth is not a globe.” -William Carpenter, “100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe”



"For instance, Ursa Major, very close to Polaris, can be seen from 90 degrees North latitude (the North Pole) all the way down to 30 degrees South latitude. The constellation Vulpecula can be seen from 90 degrees North latitude, all the way to 55 degrees South latitude. Taurus, Pisces and Leo can be seen from 90 degrees North all the way to 65 degrees South. Aquarius and Libra can be seen from 65 degrees North to 90 degrees South! The constellation Virgo is visible from 80 degrees North down to 80 degrees South, and Orion can be seen from 85 degrees North all the way to 75 degrees South latitude! An observer on a ball-Earth, regardless of any tilt or inclination, should not logically be able to see this far."



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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2015, 06:14:54 AM »
A very good question, indeed.

“The astronomers' theory of a globular Earth necessitates the conclusion that, if we travel south of the equator, to see the North Star is an impossibility. Yet it is well known this star has been seen by navigators when they have been more than 20 degrees south of the equator. This fact, like hundreds of other facts, puts the theory to shame, and gives us a proof that the Earth is not a globe.” -William Carpenter, “100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe”
If Polaris can be seen 20 degrees south of the equator, then it isn't a very good reference for determining your latitude, is it?
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2015, 08:29:54 AM »
A very good question, indeed.

“The astronomers' theory of a globular Earth necessitates the conclusion that, if we travel south of the equator, to see the North Star is an impossibility. Yet it is well known this star has been seen by navigators when they have been more than 20 degrees south of the equator. This fact, like hundreds of other facts, puts the theory to shame, and gives us a proof that the Earth is not a globe.” -William Carpenter, “100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe”



"For instance, Ursa Major, very close to Polaris, can be seen from 90 degrees North latitude (the North Pole) all the way down to 30 degrees South latitude. The constellation Vulpecula can be seen from 90 degrees North latitude, all the way to 55 degrees South latitude. Taurus, Pisces and Leo can be seen from 90 degrees North all the way to 65 degrees South. Aquarius and Libra can be seen from 65 degrees North to 90 degrees South! The constellation Virgo is visible from 80 degrees North down to 80 degrees South, and Orion can be seen from 85 degrees North all the way to 75 degrees South latitude! An observer on a ball-Earth, regardless of any tilt or inclination, should not logically be able to see this far."



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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2015, 02:18:16 PM »
As much as I want to stay completely neutral on flat-earth subjects... Because [the crab] pissed me off, I'm going to give the flat earth society a piece of ammo. Maybe the crab and his cronies will learn not to piss me off.



EXPERIMENT 1

Take a marker and make a small dot on your ceiling. Place an object in the center of your room. Tie a small laser to the top of a spinning-top, pointing directly upward. Spin said top. Try to make it go in a circle around the stationary object in the center of the room (the sun) in an elliptical orbit. When the top is moving around the stationary object, in an elliptical orbit, and the top is spinning on a tilt, and when the top begins to wobble... try to make it point directly to the dot on the ceiling. If you can make this happen... (lol) ...now find a room with the highest ceiling you can find, and perform the same experiment—can you get the top to point at the dot even ONCE? What, you can't!!! Wow, it's pretty IMPOSSIBLE to make this happen [by chance], isn't it... maybe if there was a very large explosion it will help you (like a “big bang”). Now imagine performing the same experiment, except that the dot is trillions and trillions and trillions of miles away...

Amazingly, the star Polaris, which is the northern star, is said to be some 390 lightyears from earth—trillions, and trillions, and trillions, and trillions of miles away (this distance is no exaggeration, and is in fact a gross simplification).

Earth, which is spinning around at 1,038 miles per hour, is moving around the sun at a speed of 66,000 miles per hour! …in an elliptical orbit… and the earth is on a tilt… and the earth is wobbling!

Considering the above experiment, how is it possible that Polaris is ALWAYS in the center above the north pole, with only very slight variation???

Either you have to conclude that modern science is completely wrong... or an intelligent being/person designed and finely tuned the earth to the northern star.

(Note to the crab and his friends: Only an [intelligent] mind could cause this to happen... and [you] can not... get the point?)

Personally I don't believe the earth wobbles or tilts, because this simple experiment proves that impossible. However, if science wants to use stupid reasoning, I see no reason not to use it to prove God's existence.





"Answer someone stupid according to his foolishness, that he may not become someone wise in his own eyes."—Proverbs 26:5





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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2015, 02:20:57 PM »
Now we're going to show how truly IMPOSSIBLE this really is, because earth has to point at the southern pole-stars at the same time.


EXPERIMENT 2

1) For the next experiment, go to your local crafts store and get one of those foam spheres (this will act as Earth for our experiment).
2) Take a straight stick (like a skewer or a sharp dowel) and poke a hole through the top and bottom, perfectly center.
3) Take two lasers and push one through each end so that they are pointing outward (lasers are cheap these days and can be found at your local convenience store at the counter for a dollar or two).
4) With a marker, make a dot on the ceiling (representing Polaris), and another dot on the floor (representing the southern pole-stars).
5) Turn on the lasers and hold the sphere in the center of the room.
6) Make the lasers point at both points (stars).
7) While TILTING the globe, and making it WOBBLE, try to make the laser point directly at both points (stars) at the same time.

Note: It doesn't matter that the wobble happens slowly in "reality," any wobble will prove the point that it's impossible; For this experiment we have not even made the earth move in an orbit as if around the sun - which would increase the impossibility of the matter - as if "impossibility" can be increased.

I await the video of you making this happen.

With the two experiments above, one of the following has been proved (to people with brains).

a) There is an intelligent creator (God) who tuned the universe so well that earth points at two poles trillions of miles away in each direction, and it does this while moving in orbit, tilting, and wobbling - this is absolutely impossible by chance; and only possible by design and fine tuning.

b) The scientific community has lied to you and me; in which case they are liars and can't be trusted, and therefor you are trusting liars regarding things like evolution and flat-earth.

c) I have just proved science wrong. Now this makes me smarter than NASA and all your scientists... In which case I have to ask: why are you even arguing with someone smarter than all your scientists; and I must ask myself: why would I even bother to carry on a discussion with YOU?

(If you respond that science is wrong about this observable fact, then how can it be right about evolution, which has no observable evidence. You disbelieve what you can see, but believe what you can not see. Further, you have admitted that science is wrong about this simple matter, and now you have no scientific legs to stand upon - you have pulled them out from under yourself. Science can not be trusted - even in the most elementary matters. In choosing option c. that science is wrong, you can not do so without admitting that I am right, and that I am smart enough to figure out what they could not... and yet you're still arguing with me (I find this foolish to the nth). They are what Jesus called "Blind guides." And as he said, a blind guide can not lead another who is blind.)

How much does anyone want to bet that a responder will avoid discussing the experiments - and even more so, attempting to prove it wrong in a video presentation?





Let them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”—Matthew 15:14



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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2015, 02:21:55 PM »
And just to throw one more good monkey wrench into the scientific works...

If the speed of light is not constant, then Relativity can not be reliable.

http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/people/hau.cfm

The common argument against this is that because light can not be exceeded in speed, it is still a constant, regardless of whether it can be slowed down. Ok, Imagine you're using a measuring tape printed on a rubber band. The rubber band can not exceed a set length before it snaps. But would you still consider it to be constant and reliable? Would you use an elastic measuring tool to determine length? What, YOU WOULDN'T? Of course you wouldn't, because if it is flexible and tends to change lengths, it's unreliable.

Just think, years ago they THOUGHT light was a "constant." Today we know more, and we know better. What will we know tomorrow? Who's to say light can not go faster than recorded speeds, when it has already proven not to be a reliable constant? A thing is considered to be true... right up until it is proven untrue.

And for anyone who says something asinine like: "That's because people slowed it down. But it doesn't do that naturally." REALLY? So sure, are we? You were also sure light CAN NOT changed speed. Or are you better than God that YOU can do what he can not. HA!

In over 100 years, relativity has produced NOTHING. It is inapplicable in daily life. Tesla on the other hand has some 700 patents to his name, and millions are based on his groundwork. I can apply his inventions; but I can not apply E=MC2. It only applies to abstract concepts, like wormholes, string theory, black holes, and TIME TRAVEL (lol). Relativity allows large-headed men to give longwinded speeches about nothing.

Just deal with it!





Relativity is a hoax. Its purpose is to fill men's brains with meaningless fluff, to turn idiots out of "schools of higher learning." It's a lie to support other lies, that's it.

"No! GPS could not work if not for GPS."

Give me a break, and spare it for an idiot.

The GPS thing was devised as a last ditch effort to save a dying theory. GPS was developed without using Relativity in its early stages. Then they decided to apply relativity. But it did not fail to work before relativity was applied, and GPS would still work if relativity was removed from the equation.

Basically, if you apply an equation to a system that already works, and then say the system works because of the equation... That's tantamount to measuring your car with a tape measure, then stepping back and proclaiming: "This car runs BECAUSE OF this tape measure!"

Just let relativity die. And eventually, it will.





Modern Scientists Are Disproving Relativity, and Presenting New Theories

http://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/members/hatch/

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http://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2012/10/gps-does-not-require-relativity.html

http://www.worldsci.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6813.pdf

http://alternativephysics.org/book/GPSmythology.htm

http://www.worldsci.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6529.pdf

http://www.extinctionshift.com/SignificantFindings.htm

http://debunkingrelativity.com/special-relativity/



Argument Against Relativity’s Use In Gravitational Lensing

http://milesmathis.com/lens.html



Light is Not a Constant (therefor relativity can not be reliable)

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/01.24/01-stoplight.html



Tesla Vs Einstein

http://www.tomatobubble.com/tesla_einstein.html




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« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2015, 03:22:32 PM »
In order to be truly objective you must also consider both sides and look at the evidence in favor of round Earth.  Also, the best way to prove a theory is to try to disprove it and fail.
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« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2015, 03:38:58 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

And I'm going to build a house, and every time I put up a beam or a wall I'm going to knock it down to prove it can't stand before it's built.

I'm going to go to school and tell myself I'm not smart enough to graduate... and all the self confidence I've built up will make me a better student.

I have a business, and I'm going to work my hardest to build up my competitors, while blackballing my own business... and this will make me successful.

What kind of asinine reverse psychology is this? Is this the best you can do, make me doubt, and work against myself? You insult my intelligence... But the real sad thing is that you could get other people to insult their own intelligence by listening to you.

And here's the suspicious part.

I haven't even taken sides on the flat earth debate. But you people make me wonder why you're trying so hard to make sure no progress is made. Sadly, you sound like a shill. "A rose by any other name" is still a rose. Stop acting like a shill, and people won't think it. Why don't you just bugger off and go somewhere else.
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2015, 03:40:23 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

You know that's not what he said, right?

Try to prove something wrong. Try as hard as you can. If it's correct, that shouldn't be possible, ad you'll end up with a secure model. If you manage to locate a flaw however...
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2015, 03:50:19 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

And I'm going to build a house, and every time I put up a beam or a wall I'm going to knock it down to prove it can't stand before it's built.

I didn't say that you have to disprove something to prove it, I said that trying to disproving something and failing is a great way to prove it.

It's like attempting to knock down a house under construction and failing to make sure it's strong enough.

Just watch the video.
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« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2015, 03:51:23 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

You know that's not what he said, right?

Try to prove something wrong. Try as hard as you can. If it's correct, that shouldn't be possible, ad you'll end up with a secure model. If you manage to locate a flaw however...

And that's what people are trying to do with the spherical earth theory - prove it wrong. Are you afraid they may prove it wrong if they keep poking at it? If you're not, then go away, there's nothing to worry about.

Where are the people trying to prove a globe earth wrong?

...Oh yeah, they're here in the flat earth society.

According to what you just said, I believe they're "following your rules"? ;)
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2015, 03:55:51 PM »
And that's what people are trying to do with the spherical earth theory - prove it wrong. Are you afraid they may prove it wrong if they keep poking at it? If you're not, then go away, there's nothing to worry about.

I'm here because it's fun. Why would I go away?
If they successfully disprove RET, that would be great. I have doubts, given the level of scientific knowledge displayed here (see: air doesn't exist, fairies do exist, and clouds are just projections of... something). When serous science happens, that would be interesting. For now, it's just fun.
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« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2015, 04:01:01 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

You know that's not what he said, right?

Try to prove something wrong. Try as hard as you can. If it's correct, that shouldn't be possible, ad you'll end up with a secure model. If you manage to locate a flaw however...

And that's what people are trying to do with the spherical earth theory - prove it wrong. Are you afraid they may prove it wrong if they keep poking at it? If you're not, then go away, there's nothing to worry about.

Where are the people trying to prove a globe earth wrong?

...Oh yeah, they're here in the flat earth society.

According to what you just said, I believe they're "following your rules"? ;)

Proving something wright by attempting to prove it wrong and failing is the entire basis of the scientific method.
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2015, 04:05:08 PM »
Yes, I see your point. Prove flat-earth wrong in order to prove it right. Makes sense!

You know that's not what he said, right?

Try to prove something wrong. Try as hard as you can. If it's correct, that shouldn't be possible, ad you'll end up with a secure model. If you manage to locate a flaw however...

And that's what people are trying to do with the spherical earth theory - prove it wrong. Are you afraid they may prove it wrong if they keep poking at it? If you're not, then go away, there's nothing to worry about.

Where are the people trying to prove a globe earth wrong?

...Oh yeah, they're here in the flat earth society.

According to what you just said, I believe they're "following your rules"? ;)

Proving something wright by attempting to prove it wrong and failing is the entire basis of the scientific method.
I don't follow the scientific method because I am not a liar.

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #19 on: June 24, 2015, 04:07:14 PM »
I don't follow the scientific method because I am not a liar.

Please point out where this says "lie about the results":

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #20 on: June 24, 2015, 05:16:16 PM »
EXPERIMENT 1
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EXPERIMENT 2
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And just to throw one more good monkey wrench into the scientific works...


Would you mind bringing all this up in the Discussion forum; the mods say they don't want discussion in the Q&A forum. Maybe start a different thread for each, or one for the two experiments and another for the "monkey wrench", since that appears to be quite a different topic, but that's up to you. If Orbisect won't do this, maybe one of the mods can move it so it can be discussed.

Thanks!
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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #21 on: June 24, 2015, 05:24:32 PM »
I know a lot of their flat earth conclusions are wrong, and I can prove it - so can you. But I don't think working against them is the way to help. I'd rather encourage people to come to proper conclusions, and to be be comfortable with discarding dead-eld conclusions blocking their way to progress.

I don't "believe" in a flat-earth. But some of their conclusions ARE solid... solid enough to make me question why NASA and the Govt. are lying. Maybe they're not lying about flat-earth; but they've uncovered some lies, so they're hiding something greater... I'm just not sure exactly what yet (but I have ideas and intel I won't share here).

What I DO know is that a lot of modern science is a lie. What I wrote above proves earth wobble and tilt wrong. Relativity has produced nothing in over a hundred years. And evolution is a religion built on blind faith - if you take away every piece of "evidence" that has ever been debunked, it leave nothing on the evidence table—this is why they continue to use arguments that their own scientists have proven wrong or fraudulent, because if they remove them all, they're left with nothing. Some of the greatest foundations of science are lies... and they know it.

And we're not even beginning to get into the evidence for a world wide flood: shells on top of mountains, similar flood legends on every continent, mammoths flash frozen with food in their mouths or giving birth, mass amounts of animals and people found cowering together in caves, trees found upside down in multiple layers of rock, iron tools found in solid rock "dating to 10,000 years ago," etcetera.

MOST accepted modern science is a lie. And with the shear amount of lies, I find it difficult to believe the liars. I've been conned out of money before... but you wise up pretty quick afterward. I was conned out of thousands of dollars by a "friend." And NASA and the Govt. are not my friends. Just read my signature: Pronoia... if you want to believe proven con artists, you go girl!

And at the end of the day, should flat earth ever be proven, I'd rather I wasn't one of the people fighting against it. I bet you anything that you opposers would jump right on the bandwagon and say: "YEAH, WE ALWAYS BELIEVED IT!" Half of you would probably claim to have been flat-earthers. If it proved to be true, how many of you would come out and admit how much work you put into discouraging and suppressing the truth? If it proved true in the end, you wouldn't dare speak out, you'd just fade into the shadows.

I've learned this too: "Do not be misled, God is not to be mocked. For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap." ...Or as the world puts it simply, you reap what you sow. You think arguing like this is "fun," but you reap what you sow - it will come back and bite your ass.
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PRONOIA: “The delusional belief that the world is set up to benefit people … The confident and assumed trust that despite years of lies and oppression, government is secretly conspiring in your favor.”

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #22 on: June 24, 2015, 05:42:55 PM »
EXPERIMENT 1
...

EXPERIMENT 2
...

And just to throw one more good monkey wrench into the scientific works...


Would you mind bringing all this up in the Discussion forum; the mods say they don't want discussion in the Q&A forum. Maybe start a different thread for each, or one for the two experiments and another for the "monkey wrench", since that appears to be quite a different topic, but that's up to you. If Orbisect won't do this, maybe one of the mods can move it so it can be discussed.

Thanks!




I already know the way your minds work.

Regarding the two experiments, you or one of you will say: "that's not a scientific method." And to that I will reply: "Then you don't know how science is proven. It's not all mathematical. A lot of it is based on demonstrations like the one I put forth. I put forth the test, and it is easily demonstrated; therefor science has to prove it wrong."

But in the end, a lot of words will be spoken, and no one will even touch the actual experiments in discussion; they will skirt around them and discuss typos and similar word errors.

Then regarding the Relativity thing, someone will produce 100 links to pages that all say the same thing over and over in different words - believe me, I've read them all, and they all say the same thing. But you will claim that the shear NUMBER of links (saying the same thing) proves me wrong. I've been through this discussion before. You won't agree with me, and I won't agree with you. But at the end of the day, relativity has not produced anything in over 100 years.

So I don't see the point in posting it for discussion. I looked up your comments, and I know where you stand here.

I would LOVE to discuss those topics with open minded people... See what new conclusions we can reach together by challenging the status quo!

But open minded people are not people who just believe what they were taught, believe what everyone else believes, and what the status quo believes - if you believe that is open-mindedness, then you need to first get a grasp on intelligence.
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PRONOIA: “The delusional belief that the world is set up to benefit people … The confident and assumed trust that despite years of lies and oppression, government is secretly conspiring in your favor.”

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #23 on: June 24, 2015, 05:58:50 PM »
I would LOVE to discuss those topics with open minded people... See what new conclusions we can reach together by challenging the status quo!

But open minded people are not people who just believe what they were taught, believe what everyone else believes, and what the status quo believes - if you believe that is open-mindedness, then you need to first get a grasp on intelligence.

Well, good! So move them to where discussion is allowed. If you won't re-post them, maybe the mods will move them; they're not here 24/7, so let's give them a chance. If not, I'll quote the posts in new threads in the Discussion forum and go from there.

You can participate or not as you wish.
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Son of Orospu

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2015, 06:02:05 PM »
Oh, the hypocracy.  Roudies never try to prove the Earth is not round.  They simply spout out whatever they can find on Google that they could possibly try to manipulate into something that they try to pass off as proof of a round Earth.  What is wrong with you people?  Is NASA not paying you enough for your lies?  Has it really come to this?

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #25 on: June 24, 2015, 06:27:52 PM »
I would LOVE to discuss those topics with open minded people... See what new conclusions we can reach together by challenging the status quo!

But open minded people are not people who just believe what they were taught, believe what everyone else believes, and what the status quo believes - if you believe that is open-mindedness, then you need to first get a grasp on intelligence.

Well, good! So move them to where discussion is allowed. If you won't re-post them, maybe the mods will move them; they're not here 24/7, so let's give them a chance. If not, I'll quote the posts in new threads in the Discussion forum and go from there.

You can participate or not as you wish.



I don’t know your intentions; but I don’t like people who give me no options - “DO THIS! or else it will be done with or without your permission.”

My failure to put a circa symbol © on everything I write doesn't make my works non copyrighted. By law, the moment I put the idea in readable form, it's copyrighted. It wouldn't matter if I had written it on a napkin. Even if a work is not officially registered, it can be defended upon proof of ownership (a copy of a web page with a time-date stamp is proof).

I officially give no one here permission to copy my works in whole or in part. If a moderator wants to move the entire subject, so be it.

I have officially copyrighted works, so I make it my business to know the law.

http://copyright.gov/title17/

And believe me, every time I write anything about my ideas and theories, I copy the web pages... because someone's bound to take my ideas and cash in on them. :P

If I could read your mind, I may know your intentions. But I can't.
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PRONOIA: “The delusional belief that the world is set up to benefit people … The confident and assumed trust that despite years of lies and oppression, government is secretly conspiring in your favor.”

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2015, 06:42:52 PM »
I would LOVE to discuss those topics with open minded people... See what new conclusions we can reach together by challenging the status quo!

But open minded people are not people who just believe what they were taught, believe what everyone else believes, and what the status quo believes - if you believe that is open-mindedness, then you need to first get a grasp on intelligence.

Well, good! So move them to where discussion is allowed. If you won't re-post them, maybe the mods will move them; they're not here 24/7, so let's give them a chance. If not, I'll quote the posts in new threads in the Discussion forum and go from there.

You can participate or not as you wish.



I don’t know your intentions; but I don’t like people who give me no options - “DO THIS! or else it will be done with or without your permission.”

My failure to put a circa symbol © on everything I write doesn't make my works non copyrighted. By law, the moment I put the idea in readable form, it's copyrighted. It wouldn't matter if I had written it on a napkin. Even if a work is not officially registered, it can be defended upon proof of ownership (a copy of a web page with a time-date stamp is proof).

I officially give no one here permission to copy my works in whole or in part. If a moderator wants to move the entire subject, so be it.

I have officially copyrighted works, so I make it my business to know the law.

http://copyright.gov/title17/

And believe me, every time I write anything about my ideas and theories, I copy the web pages... because someone's bound to take my ideas and cash in on them. :P

If I could read your mind, I may know your intentions. But I can't.

Dude. This is the Q&A forum. Go post this nonsense in the discussion forums.

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Son of Orospu

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2015, 07:25:45 PM »
I tend to agree.  If you are trying to incite a debate, then please do not do it in the Q&A forum.

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #28 on: June 24, 2015, 09:43:22 PM »
Oh, the hypocracy.  Roudies never try to prove the Earth is not round.  They simply spout out whatever they can find on Google that they could possibly try to manipulate into something that they try to pass off as proof of a round Earth.  What is wrong with you people?  Is NASA not paying you enough for your lies?  Has it really come to this?
Have you provided details of satellite dish setup?

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Re: The Million Dollar Question
« Reply #29 on: June 24, 2015, 11:03:01 PM »
Orbisect, you have to consider arguments for both sides in order to make an educated decision.  Don't you agree?
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See the thread about it here.