In 2005 I posted this topic in a forum and it became the most explosive topic on the site. All I tried was to illustrate a point of perspective towards religions. How come this became a huge thing now? It has become such a great thing that youtube take down the videos. Did I give AI ideas? How many of the stuff we post here as normal everyday people is being used by technocracy to influence people's minds and beliefs? I myself quit the internet for quite some time. Being out of the virtual world for quite a while and coming back, I found the frogs in the pot already being boiled to such a point that they cannot escape! To "belief" is to doubt...once we know something by experiencing it, we do not need to belief, because now we know. I do not belief a word about the shape of the earth...I don't think ANYONE has a clue!...If our camera lenses were triangular, the earth would have been a pyramid and everyone would accepted it just because the school told you so, everyone belief it and science can "proof" it...how many times have the methods of science failed? Do you belief everything your being told on the internet, school and science?

So you are saying, that you as a layperson, should be believed more than science and photographic proof?
Facts are proof. You only offer opinion and hyperbole.
If the lens of a camera is triangle, the shape of the object being photographed will not be triangular. If so, by your theory, everyone building that has ever been photographed would be round. As we know by physical proof and actually contact, that isn't so.
But all in all, if it makes you happy thinking the world is flat, you do you. Just be careful when approaching the edge that you don't fall off!!!

Against a closed mind, no argument is sufficient.

The Earth is an oblate spheroid. It's circumference was accurately estimated by the Classical Greek philosopher Erastosthenes in 240 BC and also known to be spherical by the Chinese in the fifth Century BC, when they described the Earth as being like the yolk of an egg.

There is an ongoing topic on this already. Maybe join there?
It's under science & philosophy.

https://mingle2.com/topic/565850

I will sure do so.....science have been proved wrong many times. I do not really care what shape the earth is.....I am curious to know how many people just belief the mainstream instead of testing stuff themselves and think out-side the box. When I currently look at the world I see how even history is being re-written and most people just blindly follow what they are being told because of "education", when sometimes people who are not literate at all have more knowledge of the real truth. Take or instance folklore and myths....lately archaeology reveals that most stuff was in fact true ancient history, but just because we can not understand or comprehend it does not make it lies or myths. To try and look through another person's eyes can sometimes be very enlightening

Nope...In fact I observed that more people started to belief me on grounds of pure arguments and belief instead of testing stuff or think for themselves. Since google, many people became "experts" on just about every subject. Knowledge of science and fancy terms does not make something true.....take Zecharia Sitchin....in the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king

*Already in progress:
https://mingle2.com/topic/565850?page=1