Posted on 02/17/2017 11:52:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Maybe Kyrie Irving would have benefited from a few more years of that pricey Duke education.
The Cavaliers point guard, who has established himself as one of the premier players in the NBA, caused a stir by saying he believes the earth is flat, not round, while participating on the podcast “Road Tripping with RJ and Channing.”
“This is not even a conspiracy theory,” Kyrie said. “The earth is flat.”
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A circle is no more a sphere in Scripture than it is in geometry.
You didn't read the link, did you?
Phil, you claim to have answered my questions, but that’s only partially true. You’ve responded to my questions with counter questions, or with chapter and verse from the Flat Earth Society handbook for true believers. You’ve actually ignored most of the questions I’ve posed to you.
Here’s one that you conveniently sidestepped:
Are you saying that all heavenly bodies, including stars, are flat disks?
If so, how is it possible that astronomers have never captured an image of any heavenly body edge-on to our angle of view?
Are you saying that every body in the observable universe is oriented in a perpendicular angle to our view? How is that possible?
It would mean that our planet is the center of the universe.
Please explain this.
I don't know where you got that information, but it's pure bovine excrement.
Humans have explored every region of Antarctica, from coast to coast. There are literally libraries worth of documenary reports and photographic evidence of these explorations. The continent has also been photographed from space. It's a solid land mass, surrounded on all sides by ocean - not a ring encircling a disk shaped body.
The idea that humans throughout history would have never ventured beyond the geographical center of that continent, is ludicrous. If it's a band of ice surrounding a flat disk, you know good and well that some humans, at some point in our history, would have ventured to the very end of it. Their stories would be legion, and every person on earth would be well acquainted with their findings. The Edge of The World would be the most well known region of The planet.
It's not, because it doesn't exist, Phil.
We jest, but in actual fact, I feel sorry for our friend. It’s not like he’s some kook who just showed up out of nowhere, and is destined to ride the lightning.
He’s a long time member here, which leads me to believe something’s gone very wrong in his world.
Dunno, man, but it’s kinda scary to observe.
Are you saying that all heavenly bodies, including stars, are flat disks?
Are you saying that you know they are globular obects? Or have you only been told they are globular objects?
If so, how is it possible that astronomers have never captured an image of any heavenly body edge-on to our angle of view?
I'm not an astronomer. Why don't you ask one your question?
Are you saying that every body in the observable universe is oriented in a perpendicular angle to our view? How is that possible?
Have I stated such? Do you have evidence that they aren't?
It would mean that our planet is the center of the universe.
Don't you believe our planet is the center of the universe?
Science seems to be in a bit of a quandary on that question too lately.
Now, your turn. How can I see something, according to current mathematics on curvature, that I'm not supposed to be able to see?
You have damn sure avoided answering that question.
We can play this game as many times as you want.
You can't get to the end of a band! How stupid is that!
When you have one finger pointing at someone else you have more than one pointing back at yourself.
Its hard to believe that we have been fooled for over 500 years. Round ball that flies, hahaha. Planes fly sideways and upside down, gravity bends water and makes it stick upside down.
The earth is fixed, motionless and the sun, moon and stars rotate around us.
I can agree with that!
Do you believe we're in the Orion spur or the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy?
My zodiac sign is Sagittarius so it made what I was taught in school very easy to remember. 
What were you taught?
And waking up to that is hard to take. I know. Nobody likes being made out to be a fool, including me.
I'm doing what I can as gently as I can.
Then again, most Americans believe our form of government is a democracy instead of a Constitutional Republic so maybe they would rather believe the lie.
Responsibility is a bitch and having a democracy removes that sense of responsibility.
Bread and circuses, as it were.
You're not a retard, are you Phil? Of course you're not.
You know like I do, that you can simply cross the band, just like you cross a street.
So, what's on the other side of that band of ice, old buddy?
Phil, I think I’m done here. You’re not actually conversing with me. You’re dishonestly dodging every question I put to you.
Your ‘logic’, such as it is, is circular. You’re not proving your theory, because you’re studiously avoiding the elementary conclusions my questions naturally lead to. That’s simply evasion on your part.
I’ve been patient with you, but enough is enough. You’ve fallen for one of the most cockamamie cosmological theories in history - one that no intelligent person would even consider in this day and age.
Like I said early in this thread, the flat earth nonsense belongs in the same realm as fairies, werewolves, vampires, and unicorns. Its a long dead belief of ancient people, resurrected out of some uneducated dopehead’s fevered imagination.
And here you are, a Freeper of sixteen years, buying into this utter bullsh!t. I don’t know whether to pity you, or laugh, but I’m done with this silliness.
Oh, so you’re one of those who insist that we ACTUALLY went to the moon. I feel sorry for you.
And now I suppose you’re going to tell me it’s NOT made of green cheese that gets nibbled away over about 30 days, then another one takes it’s place, aren’t you? \;-D
BTW...
This leads us to believe that you’re just here for witty repartee.
Who is “us”?
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There are a few people on this site, who apparently have no sense of humor, and are angered by humorous posts. Laughter serves a very necessary purpose to both our minds, and our bodies. When we laugh, endorphins are released in our brains. Endorphins give us a pleasant feeling of well-being, in both body and mind. They relieve stress, lift our moods, and help relieve both physical and emotional pain. I like to make people laugh. Unless the moderator tells me I can’t, I’m going to continue to make humorous remarks, when I feel so inclined. Of course, not everyone will think my attempts at humor, funny, but that’s ok.
Have you ever read the book, “The Man Who Thought His Wife Was A Hat”? It’s written by the late Dr. Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist featured in the movie, “Awakenings”. It concerns several case histories about actual patients with actual neurological conditions, which cause them to have perception dysfunction. The case referenced in the book’s title is one in which a man had a malfunction in his brain, which caused him to perceive objects and people as something different than they actually were. He knew his wife was not a hat, of course, but that’s what he saw when he looked at her. I’m not being facetious. Every word in this post is true, and I am wondering (if you are not having us on), if you may be suffering from some sort of brain problem. None of the people in the book are insane, they simply have serious neurological disorders.
Lol...
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