I'm still thinking about a response for you but your last one does you no credit.
You know as well as I do that the whole notion of a flat earth rests on lies, ignorance and a intertwined conspiracy of such complexity, that most flat earthers fail to follow its intimate conclusion.
The number of things they claim to be lies and a hoax would suggest that we would all be living in caves rubbing sticks together.....to read some of the posts on this site they may be well doing that. Forget trying to debunk small side issues think of the big picture. Why would millions of people conspire to hide the truth from you? That is the only question you need to ponder.
I think that the notion about a ''flatearth'' has started as a reflex towards the modern society that has many induviduals in a stranglehold....one way or the other.
Such ''reflexes'' have made Trump the president of the United States, while he is in
my opinion one of the last persons in the USA that would do anything for the benefits of all. But the same can be said about the Clintons en Co and their ongoing hungre for influence and power.
Trump is about himself, himself and more about him.
That having said,...i am a father of three, my eldest son is a major historian, my second son almost a graduated IT professional on a higher educational level and my youngest daughter is still in highschool, doing national top sports (trampoline) and doing extremely well.
I am a religious person (christian), but decided to give my children a less influential religious education than i initially was aiming for.
The less indoctrination the better,...... to give them their own choices in live without ''daddies deepest convictions'' clouding their observation.
Our communication at home is good, pleasant and sometimes on the edge, because my wife and i allow for it and support it !
What i did notice is, that contrary to my own childhood, they hardly question anything they were told at school.
Evolution, cosmology, politics, history...all are accepted and barely challenced. To busy, to ''lazy'', to ''unimportant'' , but foremost because ''they'' (professionals in the field) would ''surely know'' etc.
I think that is very unhealthy, because i have noticed more than once how indoctrinated they are about varying subjects they learned without ever needing to question such propositions.
Society agrees that they are ''succesfull'' induviduals (diploma's), while it is my deepest conviction that a lot is left wanting in their further developement as induvidual persons capable of critical thought..
When talking about the moonlandings or space discoveries, they simply accept what is presented, because ''those'' involved would know better than me...for sure ?!...
But changing my tactics by asking questions instaed of proclaiming whatever insight, it became obvious that
they do have questions, but don't realise it very often.
I blame the way ''we'' teach our children in schools, it is more and more about learning, implementing, collecting settled info instead of stimulating a deep process of intellectual thought.
I personally would never ever believed that i would doubt the moonlandings and be swayed towards a flatearth....
Why did it happen ?
Not because i live in a basement !, (therefor some background info about the status of my family life ....and btw happily married for over 27 years with my first girlfriend i felt madly in love with)
Not because it gives me some special feeling to know some secret knowledge the rest doesn't.
Not because i failed in modern society and need some special meaning in my insignificant life.
Not because i am to stupid to even understand basic science.
Not because i am to lazy to get myself informed properly.
Only because i became more and more interrested in modern society my wife, children and i participated in on a daily basis.
It became obvious that wherever humans organise, they also left the door wide open for some form of corruption.
Organised religion / church (don't go there ever !), politics and the industry lobby, financial clubs, sport organisations, scientific research and more.....
The higher organisations climb on the social ladder the more corruption....so it seems.
The pressure to be the best, more successfull, ''worth your government investments'', top the competition doesn't promote a healthy organisation either.
We have witinessed quite some ''revelations'' in the last decade where human nature (greed, powerlust and other forms of wickedness) hit the surface more than once..
When it comes to space exploration, we hardly have independent gatekeepers that are capable of checking the actual status apart from financial input.
Compartimentalisation is extremely effective and even ''errased NASA tapes'' seem to difficult to overtake. Something any other organisation would get into a lot of trouble and questioning. In Holland a single tape was lost/errased that COULD contain info about the genocide in Srebrenica and the whole country was in shock.
But NASA doesn't know how the tapes were lost and many pretend those things occur in any organisation once in a while.....which is simply untrue, a lie and a fabrication in favour of a cover up, as clear as you would ever see one.
I began to read more and more about NASA and i could hardly believe in what unique position they had maneuvered themselves through the decades.
Like the churh in ancient times they seemed above (literarely) other organisations and questioning NASA's accomplishments is like questioning the validity of the church as a gatekeeper of christianity.
Because the general public fancies ''discoveries in space'' more than ''research about the climat''(positive vs negative),there is little suspicion about NASA's achievements, because most see a future in which space travel and moontrips can be possible as a great prospect. Of course NASA (who will provide that) has a clear advantage based on positive ''wishfull thinking''. That is why positive promises by politicians ''work'' during the campaign, while everyone with half a brain knows those promises are made out of thin air, or even based on mantra's like ''hope'', ''together'', ''yes we can'', ''make America great again'', ''fantastic''. I have heard, seen many intellectuals fall for the Obama rhetoric....the same persons who accuse me of being an ''imbecile'' when doubting the moonlandings.....just a matter of perspective and critical thinking,...in my opinion.
Fast forward,........after three years reading all i could find, i came to the conclusion that i could no longer believe the manned moonlandings happened.
To many astronauts that rarely gave interviews and when they did something was not right in a way that lying politicians can hardly match.
I knew a lot about cosmology as a puber so the default paradigm of cosmology wasn't totally new for me.
I read about the string theory, the M theory and more.....
When i went outside a totally different experience of walking on earth ''happened''. Viewing the moon i could no longer believe that men went there influenced by all that i read.
I could no longer believe the sun was 150.000.000 km away and a lightyear 950.000.000.000 km.
Some stars i viewed where supposedly trillions of km away.
It didn't make sense whatsoever anymore.....
Of course i can still explain to myself about what i am seeing should be validated according to current cosmology, i understand it perfectly well !!
I stumbled upon some crazy flatearth articles and wondered how certain wacko's could still be around in 2013.
Then i gave it a few years and the whole idea began to make more and more sense.....
Am i a diehard ''flatearther'' ?,.... most certainly not, but the way many good videos about visuality beyond the curvature, gyroscopes, the invalid coriolis effect on drains, gunmen and the coriolis effect, the sun moving at the ''North pole'' made me a disbeliever of the total cosmological
big bang and expanding universe theory with distances beyond rationality.
Since CGI is presented more, my suspicion is growing and on tv a scientist explained (couple of years ago) how the ''far away universes'' captured by Hubble really looked on the initial Hubble ''footage'' before presenting it to the general public after some extreme window dressing. I was in total shock, because that was what this person said when he saw the raw data at first and the window dressing afterwards.
So i am in a sort of ''no man's land'', but it would take some real testing and modern set ups to re-install my believes in the current cosmological model.
I hope i have informed you a bit more about my own personal journey in all of this....thanks for listening