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Saw you on a video with Alec Zeck and Steve Falconer. Steve is a regular guest on Globebusters, the number 1 flat earth channel and understands we live on a flat plane.

Did you get a chance to talk with him about it? As well I sent you a video that shows a photo from Wales to Mont Blanc. Hope you saw this "globe-buster"

Namaste duderino!

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Jun 21, 2023·edited Jun 21, 2023Author

You will never get anywhere convincing an astrologer of what contradicts all of their measurements and all of the geophysics involved in a chart. The young ones may not understand it but the the older ones do, especially those who can work out the positions with a pencil and then behold, the planets are right there, rising and setting. The retrogrades and eclipses can be predicted to the minute, centuries in advance.

If anybody was going to find holes in the baller theory, it's the people who rely on it all the time — and find no problems. This is not merely theoretical; everything can be verified by direct observation. This can be done rejecting (what I feel is cheating) all photos from space. If the world were flat, I could not predict the exact moment and degree of an eclipse as it could be seen in New Zealand 10 years from now — flawlessly.

That whole system is based on a spherical Earth. Sidereal time is based on a spherical Earth. The equinoxes and solstices are based on a spherical Earth and the whole system, which works every day in the work-a-day world of astrology like a good solid pickup truck. Celestial navigation is based on a spherical, rotating Earth. It has existed back to time immemorial. Sailors almost always find their way home using nothing but compass and sextant.

I see the problems in many scientific theories, mainly because they cannot and are not verified observationally; it's turtles all the way down. We might not need "proof" of viruses if anything acted like a virus.

Well, the Earth acts like a sphere no matter what you do, and all the assertions that it's "flat" are based on claims that are taken on their face without demonstration; all references come back to YouTube videos and the same few presenters. If the shape of the Earth was not a sphere, this would be demonstrable with little to no effort.

Observationally, you can infer the shape of the globe and the cosmos and much else with a decent telescope purchased from Walmart. And your phone is relying on dozens of geosynchronous satellites to get you from here to somewhere you've never been. Then you take your phone to China and it does the same thing. Personally, I don't see the problem...

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What a gift, Eric! I will cross-post to my substack page.

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I’ve taken these and can testify that they are all great classes. I would love to see the Philosophy of Astrology course and the Geoffrey Cornelius course/talk (these might be one and the same, I’m not sure). Thanks Eric!

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