Truth Seeking Pluralist

[Conspiracy theories are like potato chips, it’s hard to eat just one] INTRODUCTION I will express some preliminary thoughts. Then explain how the flat earth movement led me to take a firm stand that the Bible is not the Word of God, but instead the word of man. And finally, I provide further elaboration and reflection on the religious and philosophical ideas expressed, the first part being where I encourage people as individuals to develop their own unique life operating systems (worldviews) and stick by them as best they can and carefully modify them as they learn more with time, but to be especially careful not to get swept away by the many snake oil salesmen of our day. PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS It has taken me a lifetime to get out from under the control and influence that evangelical Christianity had over me having been raised in it and intensifying my practice of it subsequent to that. But I feel like I am finally unraveling aspects of it in the last year or so (2017...

Strebe, Azimuthal equidistant projection SW, CC BY-SA 3.0 STATEMENT by T Mark Hightower 9/11/2017 WHY I FEEL I MUST GET INVOLVED IN THIS FLAT EARTH THEORY CONTROVERSY AT THIS TIME INTRODUCTION Within the last 2 weeks or so I have started getting into researching this flat earth theory that has become so popular in the last few years on the web by starting to do some of my own research.   So far I have found strong evidence in favor of the spherical earth theory that relates to the spherical earth model being able to explain accurate navigation and land surveying in the real world whereas the flat earth model fails miserably in this regard.   Notice that I am not making a dogmatic pronouncement that “the earth is a sphere” based on my findings so far.   I simply want to report on the results of my analyses and experiments, and will continue to do so in the future, regardless of which side of the argument they support. DO FLAT EARTH ADVOCATES HAVE...