Comments by "Myles Platt" (@melsop54) on "Flat Earth "Science" -- Wrong, but not Stupid" video.

So basically, as a FE'er, if you have to think too much about a piece of evidence, then you should dismiss it as false. If you don't have the money to do an experiment yourself, you can safely assume anyone else doing the same experiment is lying if they get a result that disagrees with your presumption. Seems like pretty sound scientific logic.
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I just wanna know how this light emitting ball of energy called the sun somehow knows not to emit light past the center line of the earth at any given time. Further more, how it can emit light a short distance to the center of that dividing line on the plane...and an entirely much longer distance to reach the outer edges of the plane at the center divide...at the same time, so some light travels one distance, and other light knows it must travel a bit further before stoping.
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@trailbossdan1 As it pertains to a disk shaped earth, yes. As it pertains to reality, not at all.
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@warmachineuk Gotcha. It's just odd (of course), cause we know exactly half the world is day and half the world is night at all times. That, among many other things, has been observed countless times. So they still lose me on how the magic desklamp sun manages to emit smart light that knows to only travel so far before stopping so as to not keep most of not all the disk in perpetual daytime.
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Asking for evidence is 100% acceptable and what we should expect. It is rational. It is NOT rational then be given all available evidence and summarily reject it all because YOU didn't discover this evidence. If you tell me the color blue doesn't exist because you've never seen evidence and would like to see some...and then you reject all evidence that I provide to show blue exists as a color...you are involved in a self fulfilling prophesy. You both root your view on the foundation of having no proof otherwise...AND reject all proof otherwise. The only possible outcome is that your own point of view is confirmed no matter what. You can equate it to the idea that is popular on the political left that white people are inherently racist. For a white person to actually act racist is proof of this...but also any attempt for white people to actively disprove they are racist is further proof they are racist. This is cult think, and it is designed on purpose to hold one captive to an irrational idea.
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