Quote from: Astargath on November 05, 2018, 12:47:53 PM

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Quote from: lightlord on November 05, 2018, 12:19:31 PM

However, proving any information to a flat-earther is nearly impossible if not impossible. If you send one on a rocket into space and tell them to look out the window, they will say the windows are screened/faked with a display. If you put in a spacesuit into space, the glass on the spacesuit or they have been drugged.

So true - but it's fun to explain elementary school knowledge to them and watch them get all upset.

Notaman wants me dead sooooo bad because I keep exposing his lies.

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His arguments are literally: ''some sort of effect/illusion'' always renders every measurement, observation useless. There is always some weird effect that always makes it look like the earth is a sphere.

Right. But our wish is for his betterment, isn't it? I mean, when he says that some sort of effect/illusion always renders every measurement or observation useless, why does he think that a sextant is more accurate? He really needs to get right down on the ground with a ruler so he can be sure that he's getting it right, right?

The point isn't to demean him. After all, look at everything he is trying to fight, especially in his own mind, right? First he has to fight all the proven science and observations. Then he has to fight all the people who know how to explain and use those observations. Then he has to figure out how to accept a bunch of FE observations by focusing on things that look like they are accurate. Then he has to fight himself, and his natural yearning to accept things that he knows go against common sense and standard science. Then he has to develop FE science to a point that fits reality, while not letting it slide into the realm of fantasy.

I mean, isn't a fighter like this some kind of a great guy? Who can hold his mind in place against all kinds of understanding like this? If he were a religious fighter, he would be among those who have the strongest of faith. No. I absolutely admire him.

Of course, it must be just as mentally draining for the interns at his funny farm. But, what the heck? He is still sane enough to get on the Internet and reply, right?

Bravo, nutbatman.

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