You know, I, as well as you, think the earth is most likely an oblate spheroid right?
Cause a lot of the time it seems like you don't.
I know for sure that the earth is within a hundred metre or so of being "an oblate spheroid".
But, it pays to know as much as possible about "the other side" and I think I know as much about "Flat Earth Theory" as most FEers.
If you don't know this sort of thing you find yourself claiming the all the distances on the AEP are wrong, as someone pops up (like Junker did) and claims that the AEP is not "the official map!".
Or maybe you are claiming that UA is ridiculous and John Davis comes along and claims that he knows that, and then presents his "Infinite Earth model".
Or you try to prove that the sun is not 3,000 miles (or whatever) above the earth and Ski and/or jroa jump in to say that nobody believes that anymore!
I really don't think that anyone knows the "continental layout", the cause of gravity, the height of the sun etc, etc on the Flat Earth.
There are three or four "maps" and probably as many explanations for gravity including "
Objects simply fall."
Etc, etc ad nauseum! It is a bit like trying to debate an octopus with one arm not knowing what all the others are doing.
Yes, I know what I believe and why. The little bit that I present here is just the tip of the iceberg.
The heliocentric model came about from astronomical observations, not from observation on the earth itself.