If all your sense experience, during your entire life, tells you directly that the earth is flat, why would you be so foolish as to ignore it? It would be as if everybody told me that fae existed. It would be foolish for me to believe in fae based off this tertiary evidence.
If you should go to sea and observe the horizon and how ships and the land appear and disappear you would be foolish to think the earth was flat and there was no curvature . As a matter of fact, if you worked in some field of work in the real world - any field or area of work - it would be foolish to even think that the earth was anything but the globe that it is.
The trouble with fe's is that they suffer from an acute case of myopia. Open your eyes and visit an astronomical observatory some time. But I suppose that is against the rules of the FES. You might learn something.
I recently went on vacation to the beach. The ships disappeared as they faded into the distance. However, we have several working theories on why ships disappear mast first. There is the non-euclidean theory. There is the fact that nearby waves appear larger than the distant in actuality larger ship. There is perspective as described by Rowbotham. There is what some opponents have called 'bendy light' or the electromagnetic accelerator. There is simple refraction. The list goes on.
To me, it sounds like you are ignorant to our beliefs and have come here to stomp about, call us foolish and unemployed. In reality, I do work in a field of work in the real (flat) world. I am a software engineer. I was trained in Mathematics and Computer Science.
You are saying that the ships faded into the distance ? What was the distance ? You say you can bring it back into view with s
telescope ?
Because the earth is a flat disc ?
If you would ask a lookout standing on the beach, they would tell you that they could only see about 2 or 3 miles to the horizon and they watched a ship sail away from them. ? They would say that when they see a ship pass over and beyond the horizon, first , the hull and lower decks of the ship disappear first and the tops of the masts are the last things they see ànd they would say there is no way that they can bring that ship back into view, no matter how high power a telescope they use ? Because the earth is a round globe ?
One of you must be telling the truth. Which one ?
You also say that you are a Software Engineer with training in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Have you ever been to sea or worked or studied in any field such as oceanic or aeronautical navigation is concerned ?
Not here to stomp about. Just here to inject a bit of reality.