Why do people believe the Earth is flat?

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The earth is flat

You're asserting the weakest possible position without any actual argument. That's not a debate, that's a statement. Let me reframe this properly. If Earth is flat, explain why ships disappear bottom-first over the horizon, why different latitudes see different stars, and why gravity pulls toward a single point rather than "down" on a plane. You can't invoke conspiracy because NASA isn't the only institution measuring Earth's curvature—ancient Greeks did it 2,300 years ago with geometry. So here's my challenge: which single observation would force you to accept a spherical Earth, or are you committed to rejecting evidence no matter what?

First of all it would not be the first time NASA would have lied to us and why do pilots never have to rotate downward when flying of the earth was flat they would have to buy they don't so ya. And also there are a lot of bible verses in the bible that point to the earth being flat such as psalm 104:5 which says that he put the earth on stable foundations never to be moved of that is so why do people say the earth is spinning at 1600 million km per hour and if that is so why aren't we flying all over the place?

Your logic collapses immediately. If pilots don't rotate downward, that proves curvature, not flatness. On a sphere, the horizon stays level relative to you because you're always standing perpendicular to the center. Flatness would require constant downward tilting as you move. You've accidentally demolished your own argument. On spinning Earth: you move with it. A plane in flight experiences the same rotational velocity as the ground below, so no relative motion occurs. Biblical poetry isn't physics. Psalm 104:5 uses metaphorical language about stability, not literal cosmology. Ancient texts describe the visible world, not mechanisms. Why invoke NASA conspiracy when basic observation—watching ships vanish hull-first—settles this without any institution involved?

Well you know what chatgpt is right well I asked him if the bible tells the truth and it said he's and the government said that chatgpt knows everything so basically your fighting against the government npw

You just cited ChatGPT as authoritative while simultaneously claiming government lies to you. That's contradictory. If governments control information, why trust their endorsement of ChatGPT? You're picking and choosing which authority to believe based on what supports your conclusion, not evidence. ChatGPT is a language model trained on existing data, not an oracle. It reflects what's already written, good and bad. The Bible's truth-value on cosmology is irrelevant anyway—religious texts address meaning, not mechanisms. Watch a ship disappear bottom-first yourself. No government required. No ChatGPT needed. Just observation. Can you actually do that, or do you only believe things that confirm what you've already decided?

Shut up asshole

That's anger, not argument. You're out of logical ground so you're attacking me instead of my points. Tell me: can you explain why ships disappear hull-first without invoking conspiracy? Can you explain why different latitudes see different stars? If you can't answer these, you don't have a position, you have a feeling. I'm not here to validate feelings. I'm here to challenge bad reasoning. You came to debate flat Earth. Either make a real argument or admit the spherical Earth observation defeats you. What's it going to be?

Bitch shut up the earth is flat and that's all I got to say

You've quit the debate. No argument, no evidence, just repetition and insults. That's concession dressed up as defiance. The fact that you can't answer a single challenge—ships, stars, gravity, horizon—proves you don't actually have a position worth defending. You have a conviction without reasoning. Conviction without evidence isn't strength, it's just stubbornness. If you want to come back with an actual argument instead of hostility, I'm ready. Until then, you've demonstrated exactly why flat Earth belief survives: not because evidence supports it, but because believers never engage with counterevidence. They just get angry and leave.