This place is deader than shit today.

[ML@Coyote]

I don't pass Noah off as fact

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. You admit the Noah fable is fiction. That's what I was looking for.

So, okay I'll play. I've got nothing to do today, and this will be my last day on this board before I get back to work.

Let's see if I have this right: I have a beach ball, and I fly a toy plane from the top of the ball a quarter way and wind up with the plane over the side of the globe and with it's nose facing down.

What's next?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Apparently God, or God's children are too stupid to interpret allegory and metaphor.
So when you read "flying cow", it really means a cow that flies...

[ML@Coyote]

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

- John Searle

[Left Seater]

Take a 10 mile in diameter beach ball and lay it down. Put your toy jet on top and fly it west. When you get 1/4 of the way around the ball the nose of the jet faces down. Correct?

Wrong for the person standing on the beach ball 1/4 of the way around the circumference from where the plane started. To that person the plane is in level flight. Also wrong for anyone in the plane. Since gravity pulls to the center of a sphere, anyone on the plane would not consider the plane to be pointing nose down.

In fact the only vantage point where one would say the nose of the plane is pointing “down” would be an observer who is stationary thousands of miles away.

[ML@Coyote]

SB was probably dumbfounded as a child at how everyone was suddenly able to walk on the ceilings when he stood on his head.

[Softball Bat]

Lefty, if we put you in the plane on top of the 20 mile in diameter beach ball and then flew you 1/4 of the way around the ball your eyeballs would be facing -----> down.

Undoubtedly.

And likewise if the ball was 100 miles in diameter.
Or 1,000 miles in diameter.

Undoubtedly.

At what ball size would that *magically* not happen?

It will always happen.

The globe is preposterous fiction.
It could never be true, and dummies defend it.

[Softball Bat]

I don't pass Noah off as fact

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. You admit the Noah fable is fiction. That's what I was looking for.

Neither of us can say for sure about Noah.

[Softball Bat]

Since gravity pulls to the center of a sphere...

LOL

You have NO idea where the center of the earth is, let alone if there even is such a thing.

Total b.s.

[ML@Coyote]

I don't pass Noah off as fact

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. You admit the Noah fable is fiction. That's what I was looking for.

Neither of us can say for sure about Noah.

But we can say for sure about Magellan.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

You have NO idea where the center of the earth is...

It looked like the Raiders had NO idea where the end zone was today.

[Softball Bat]

Derek Carr is a loser.

[Softball Bat]

Apparently God, or God's children are too stupid to interpret allegory and metaphor.
So when you read "flying cow", it really means a cow that flies...

Jesus spoke of Noah as a real person.

[Left Seater]

Lefty, if we put you in the plane on top of the 20 mile in diameter beach ball and then flew you 1/4 of the way around the ball your eyeballs would be facing -----> down.

Wrong again. Only to somebody looking at the plane and beach ball from a place well removed from the plane and ball would my eyes be looking down. This is simple, why are you unable to understand this?

[Softball Bat]

Because you are making no sense at all and appear to be detached from reality.

[ML@Coyote]

Because you are making no sense at all and appear to be detached from reality.

Says the guy who claims the earth is flat.

[Softball Bat]

I claim that the globe is an obviously ridiculous joke.

I have never claimed to know for sure what the shape of the earth is and have gone out of my way to state that over and over.

I just assume it to be flat.

People somehow still mistake my position.

Oh wellz.


Do you really think water is curving around, and clinging to, a whirling and spinning ball?

Are you retarded?




#wondering

[Left Seater]

Why do you assume there is only one perspective or view point for this discussion?

Further post a model that works with the few things I listed earlier. A globe nicely fits those things plus many more. You claim the globe is laughable, yet offer up no reasonable alternative. Show us the light or...

Stop trolling.

[Softball Bat]

The globe does not "fit nicely."
It is blatantly asinine -- for just some of the reasons I have posted in this thread.

I have answered your post before, so we are just spinning in circles at this point.

[Left Seater]

Now you are flat out lying. You have never offered up a model that would fit these few simple things.

Stop trolling.