One point that is usually brought up by globs to “prove” the earth is round is the notion that ships disappear over the horizon. According to Captain Raymond
Fraser, 3 seaman, some of them do, and
they don’t come back again either".
Captain Fraser has_been studying this'
alleged phenomenon and here is what he’s noticed: .. . .
“All boats once a reasonable distance out on the water appear to be on the horizon.
“Those that arefarthest away look smaller than those that are nearer. The farther a boat recedes from the eye, of the viewer the smaller it gets, until it seems‘eventually to disappear. Never have I seen a boat “sink over the horizon.” ”
f‘This phenomenon of an object disappear- ing when it gets far enough away from the
human eye is readily explained by a simple
experiment. -
“You need only take a tiny pebble or a pea and place it on an airport runway, then have someone remove it further from, you at ' intervals, and I can-assure you it will not be
long before you can no longer see the pebble
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“would your conclusion then be that the pebble (or. pea) disappeared over the edge of a globular runway?” - » .
In school we are taught that Columbus proved the earth to be a globe when he set sail West to reach the East - meaning India
and China. '
Columbus sailed West and therby proved I
that the World to be round - or. so the globs
say. ‘ . - I - . Yet Columbus never reached the East and
so obviously his voyage disproved rather than proved his theories. .
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He, himself, realized his failure and was so consciousof his defeat that he tried to c0ver it by a lie so “blatantas to be pitiful”. He said that the Caribbean Islands were the Indies and called their inhabitants, Indians.
Later this confidence man and adventurer was "disgraced and’ imprisoned, as he deserved to be -- but 'his lies continue to haunt us” -
‘- The globs “areindeed a brazen cre ”.
They celebrate Magellan as the first man to circumnavigate the globe, despite the fact substantiated by any encyclOpedia that he never came back from his voyage!
He left Europe with five vessels in August,- 1519, and was never seen there again.
The Flat Earth Society does not‘profess to know his fate, but the most obvious explanation is that he and his. followers plunged over the edge of the earth into the abysmal chasm —- as so many hapless or deluded beings had done before and have done since.
, The members of the Flat Earth Society * certainly have not been the only ones in
recent years to state their beliefs that the earth is indeed flat.
' Author. George Bernard Shaw has been A
quoted saying: “we aremore gullible and superstitious today than we were in the
.Middle Ages, and an example of modern
credulity is the widespread belief that the earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is. round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it- that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”
Another famous. author, W. Somerset
‘Maugham, states: ‘fI am aware that the
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earth is round, but I know that it is flat.” Dr. Leo Ferrari commented on one aspect of the theory that the earth is a globe. “If a person were to take time to mathematically figure out at what speed the earth was spinning, he-she would find that we are travelling at an average of 1,000 miles an hour, when we are standing still on the earth. To go even further, the earth is travelling at a speed of approximately 67,000miles an hour around the sun. And the galaxy of which we are a part is travelling at a speed of about 600,000 miles an hour.” All in all this speculation of the “globs”, is as absurd as all their other ideas.
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earth has been going through Ages. First there was the Age ofEarth with Copernicus’ theory of the spinning spherical earth. Next came the Age of Water with the attempts of circumnavigation. Then came the Age of Air with the Wright brothers invention of the flying machines. Now we are in the Space Age with the attempt to escape to other planets to get away from Mother Earth. Next, and finally will come the Age of Fire with us running into a hell of high explosives (George Bernard Shaw).
THE VISIT To THE EDGE
June 13, 1971 marked the Visit to the Edge.
Dr. Ferrari would not go into any detail on the Visit as he said .it was too terrifying to talk about. He did state however, that they have or had an official observer, one Alphonsus J. Pittman, who lived on Fogo Island, which is 9 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. \
It seems that being the official observer was such a disturbing occupation that Mr. Pittman indulged himself with screech quite frequently, and according to Ferrari, had to leave, because the Society found they could not afford to keep him (As everyone knows, the Liquor Control Board has a nifty Way of raising prices every time you turn
' around.)
AIMS OF THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY
1. To restore man’s faith in Common Sense. Seeing is believing. For more than fifteen hundred years western man has been blinded by metaphysics, brainwashed
‘by popular fallacies and bullied intc
denying the evidence of his very own senses! The Flat Earth Society stands for a revewed faith in the basic truth of sense experience. Seeing is believing!
2. To combat the fallacious deificatiOn of the sphere, which ever since the sly deceptions of Eudoxus has thwarted western thought.
3. To spearhead man’s escape from his
“metaphysical and geometrical prison by
asserting unequivocally that all science, like all philosophy and all religion is essentially sacramental and therefore that all reality, as we verbalize it, is ultimately metaphorical.
4. “Give back to the human race a human
Earth in a human Universe in which we can
once more live as human beings.”
So you see, in the beginning the earth was flat; it is flat today and it will continue to be flat tomorrow. '
one can see that! _
( or what do. y man who thinks the ea th isflat I)