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Why you don't think it's reasonable that the same gravity pulling the earth's own mass inward could not possibly also allow for things on the surface of the earth to also be pulled toward its center, creating an "up" and "down" that is relative to the earth's center rather than a flat plane.

The ball earth theory involves so much mental gymnastics you had to put scare quotes around such basic words up and down, because the ball worldview precludes those concepts. Anyway, I'm not a scientist but I suspect it's density.

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It really, really doesn't, and I think I explained it fairly reasonably. What part exactly are you having trouble with? Massive objects becoming spherical under their own gravity, or being able to walk on the surface of such an object? I will gladly come back to this thread every single day and explain anything you're having trouble with.

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That is certainly very generous of you. And while there may be some areas of ball earth theory I'm not as honed in on, I've had a normal mainstream education and I basically know the main line on it.

Right, right. We're all on a ball that's formed by a force where things tend to pull together. And we're floating through a big vacuum with lots of other balls. And it all came from a ball, in fact, that exploded and expanded. And oh yeah, this universe of balls we've come up with doesn't work the way we say it should based on our own gravity theory, but don't think about that. Don't think about the "dark matter" that would need to exist to make the models work but nobody can find. The ball scientists are all working on it.

Don't trust your own eyes, just think about the balls. 😏

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This is not an argument and you’re doing the same thing that every other flat earther does by avoiding engaging with the discussion itself and just sayiing “nuh uh ball stupid”. Maybe we can try a different approach. Explain how a flat earth fits into your idea of the universe.

  • Is your flat earth an infinite plane or does it have finite dimensions?

  • If finite, do we live at its center? What are the edges like? Are they round like a disc? Rectangular? Is it infinitely tall or is it bounded vertically as well?

  • If infinite, what happens to the sun and moon as they disappear past the horizon? Are they going through the ground? Are they fake?

  • If they’re fake, how are they being faked? How large and distant are they actually? Given that their apparent size and orbit are consistently measurable and plottable regardless of your position on the earth, does every everyone get their own fake sun and moon that only they can see?

  • Regardless of its outer boundary, why have we seemingly never made it to the inner boundary?

  • Why does the earth appear to curve away at high altitudes? Shouldn’t a flat earth allow you to see everything by simply going high enough? Or is big globe at it again with their magical vision altering tech?

  • Are the moon, sun, and other planets in our solar system flat as well? Or do they get to be round because they aren’t the earth?

Don't trust your own eyes, just think about the balls. 😏

This is hilarious btw because you can with your own eyes see and test the earth’s curvature a number of different ways, but to pretend that it’s flat you need to handwave what your seeing as just optical illusions or Big Globe projecting fake evidence at you.