Just read this again. The third or fourth time. Strikes me as one of the most important take-downs of the FE Dark PsyOp out there. Can't thank you enough. Peace. Clarence
Very interesting and detailed piece which I am going to chew on and attempt to get my head around. I have been open minded about both possibilities and am not a scientifically minded person(!) but you seem to me to be someone arguing in good faith.
However, you may want to revise your Bible chapter/verse. Your quote is from Isaiah 40:22 and as far as I can discern was written in Hebrew as per the oldest version existent from the Dead Sea Scrolls which is highly concordant with the Masoretic text which was the basis for the King James Bible translation.
Chapter 40 : Verse 22
He is the one who dwells above the disk of the earth, whose inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is the one who stretches the skies like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
Translation: Professor Peter Flint (Trinity Western University, Canada) and Professor Eugene Ulrich (University of Notre Dame)
I love this post, JS. You even touched on what kept popping through my mind as I read through this extensive and thorough thrashing of the flat earth debate: ‘This is all such a colossal waste of one’s time’.
Sometimes in the past when I’d half heartedly participate in these debates I would offer up the existence of Foucault’s Pendulum at various latitudinal locations for a repeatable experiment to provide data for evidence of a spinning sphere... but you really went the distance. Cheers!
Thank you for laying this out so eloquently. This psyop needs to be destroyed and buried --- using logic and reason of course --- before it does any more damage.
I can only assume that you are psyoping. Pretending this is an honest, logical take that confirms the globe theory is just an insult to the reader's intelligence. I suppose you'll follow up with a joke about cats knocking things off the edge.
Firmament: What does it mean? The language and context does not support the notion that the firmament is a dome structure.
When there are exclusive senses of a word, we cannot cherry pick one sense (a vaulted ceiling, dome, that supports and IS the pinnical of the structure) when the other usage makes more sense in the context.
1 (flat) expanse (as if of ice, compare כְּעֵין הַקֶּרַח), as base, support
2 the vault of heaven, or 'firmament,' regarded by Hebrews as solid, and supporting 'waters' above it.
Genesis 1:14,20
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
Therefore the 'firmament' is the atmosphere, which supports the clouds (waters above).
Therefore 'solid expanse' refers to solid (3D) geometry (volume) and not a surface.
The firmament as an expanse extends beyond the atmosphere as it is the 'vault' of the heavens (the stars and planets that 'divides day from night' (the rotation of the earth) and the seasons (planets and constellations). The ultimate meaning of 'expanse' is the infinite expanse of outer space, the universe.
Zero gravity experiment above the firmament
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5-f4bOuh-H/?igsh=MW9uOGpnYzZmbjNwNw==
Just read this again. The third or fourth time. Strikes me as one of the most important take-downs of the FE Dark PsyOp out there. Can't thank you enough. Peace. Clarence
Tyson claims earth is pear shaped.
The promulgator of the Flat Earth NONSENSE was a confused, schizophrenic, charlatan.
youtu.be/8yfyWSs3wRI
Very interesting and detailed piece which I am going to chew on and attempt to get my head around. I have been open minded about both possibilities and am not a scientifically minded person(!) but you seem to me to be someone arguing in good faith.
However, you may want to revise your Bible chapter/verse. Your quote is from Isaiah 40:22 and as far as I can discern was written in Hebrew as per the oldest version existent from the Dead Sea Scrolls which is highly concordant with the Masoretic text which was the basis for the King James Bible translation.
Chapter 40 : Verse 22
He is the one who dwells above the disk of the earth, whose inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is the one who stretches the skies like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
Translation: Professor Peter Flint (Trinity Western University, Canada) and Professor Eugene Ulrich (University of Notre Dame)
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah#40:22
The mor relevant debate is whether flat earth is a psyop, a troll or a blend of both?
An even more amusing thought experiment puts ‘Q’ through the same process..
I love this post, JS. You even touched on what kept popping through my mind as I read through this extensive and thorough thrashing of the flat earth debate: ‘This is all such a colossal waste of one’s time’.
Sometimes in the past when I’d half heartedly participate in these debates I would offer up the existence of Foucault’s Pendulum at various latitudinal locations for a repeatable experiment to provide data for evidence of a spinning sphere... but you really went the distance. Cheers!
Seeing the invisible, knowing the unknown
https://godparticle.substack.com/p/synthetic-aperture-perception-ec3
A confused, schizophrenic, charlatan
https://youtu.be/8yfyWSs3wRI?si=XDMYVceVgN9oS1-B
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyDvO3eoc6k/
Thank you for laying this out so eloquently. This psyop needs to be destroyed and buried --- using logic and reason of course --- before it does any more damage.
https://godparticle.substack.com/p/conversation-about-flat-earthism?sd=pf
Flat earthers take note:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrUKXbwuSBl/
https://ohdevolvealready.substack.com/p/a-flat-pathway-to-spherical-thinking?r=74z9x
I can only assume that you are psyoping. Pretending this is an honest, logical take that confirms the globe theory is just an insult to the reader's intelligence. I suppose you'll follow up with a joke about cats knocking things off the edge.
Firmament: What does it mean? The language and context does not support the notion that the firmament is a dome structure.
When there are exclusive senses of a word, we cannot cherry pick one sense (a vaulted ceiling, dome, that supports and IS the pinnical of the structure) when the other usage makes more sense in the context.
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7549.htm
raqia: an extended surface, expanse
1 (flat) expanse (as if of ice, compare כְּעֵין הַקֶּרַח), as base, support
2 the vault of heaven, or 'firmament,' regarded by Hebrews as solid, and supporting 'waters' above it.
Genesis 1:14,20
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
"waters above"
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1-6.htm
'water' is literal and not a figurative 'ocean' (e.g. the vast ocean of space)
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/mayim_4325.htm
The waters above are the water-bearing clouds.
Therefore the 'firmament' is the atmosphere, which supports the clouds (waters above).
Therefore 'solid expanse' refers to solid (3D) geometry (volume) and not a surface.
The firmament as an expanse extends beyond the atmosphere as it is the 'vault' of the heavens (the stars and planets that 'divides day from night' (the rotation of the earth) and the seasons (planets and constellations). The ultimate meaning of 'expanse' is the infinite expanse of outer space, the universe.