Flat Earth or Globe?

[neonlyte]

Are you a Flat Earth advocate or content with the Globe?

Do you 'push to the edge' to see how far you can go, knowing too far might risk a topple?

or

Are you happy to stay in the comfortable loop repeating the paths of everyday existence?

neonlyte.

 

[Guest]

As long as there's a Venice (it should not fully sink in my lifetime) I don't care if the earth is flat, square or ovoid.

Perdita

 

[ABSTRUSE]

When the opportunity arises, I'm a pusher. It can be troublesome at times but if it werent' for pushers, we would still be in caves.

There are some times when I'm in a comfort zone in my life, but there is so much to learn and see and do, it would be a shame to waste it lying stagnent in the same day to day climate.

~A~

 

[shereads]

I don't like it flat, but I can't say I'm content with the globe, either.

Either way, there be dragons.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I don't like it flat, but I can't say I'm content with the globe, either.

Either way, there be dragons.

Okra looks like a dragon!

 

[Guest]

Are you a Flat Earth advocate or content with the Globe?

Do you 'push to the edge' to see how far you can go, knowing too far might risk a topple?

or

Are you happy to stay in the comfortable loop repeating the paths of everyday existence?

neonlyte.

I'm a Flat Earther.

Yeah, I know one day I might fall off the edge, but dem's the risks. Far better than going round and round, chasing my tail. I'd rather have others chase it, while I walk to the edge.

Lou

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Don't quite understand. You're equating believing in false myths with some kind of personal courage and innovation, and believing in what's true as being stuck in a rut?

---dr.M.

 

[curiousphantaC]

Don't quite understand. You're equating believing in false myths with some kind of personal courage and innovation, and believing in what's true as being stuck in a rut?

---dr.M.

Makes sense to me. It's very easy to believe in what's true, much more corageous to believe in something false.

 

[gauchecritic]

Apart from the fact that the earth was never thought to be flat except in some author's fevered imagination in the biography of Columbus then I see a lot more potential in a globe than a plane. Well, actually if they'd thought about it, it would be a bowl rather than a plane, being as how the horizon is always higher than your viewpoint.

Gauche

 

[minsue]

Leave it to Dr M & Gauche...

We would wander off the edge of the earth if not for the two of you constantly yanking us back into reality.

 

[minsue]

Makes sense to me. It's very easy to believe in what's true, much more corageous to believe in something false.

As much as I hate to join the realists here, I vehemently disagree with that statement. It's much more courageous to believe differently than the masses, be it true or false. Truth ain't got nothin to do with it.

 

[Guest]

Leave it to Dr M & Gauche...
We would wander off the edge of the earth if not for the two of you constantly yanking us back into reality.

Good grief, Minge. They're the last two people I'd ask for directions.

Perdita

 

[Liar]

"Why push the envelope, when you can open it?"
-Icingsugar


"My goal in life is to walk out over the edge, and forget to fall."
-Liar



#L

 

[neonlyte]

OK. The statement is a contradiction as the good Dr. M pointed out. The point of the statement was to ask you about the limits you set for yourself and the risk you might be prepared to take to move beyond those limits.

I guess the first thing you need is motivation, ambition, some kind of driving force that propels you. I got to thinking about this after reading something about Tchaikovsky and his first Piano concerto.

Tchaikovsky's mentor was the great pianist Rubenstein, the piano composition was written for Rubenstein almost as tribute for the support he had given to Tchaikovsky, who came late to music composition. Rubenstein's reaction on seeing the score was to dismiss it out of hand, he told Tchaikovsky it was impossible to play, accused him of trying to ridicule the great pianist.

If you have seen this work being played, you will have an understanding of Rubenstein's reaction, the last movement requires dexterity of hand coordination virtually beyond comprehension. Rubenstein later recanted and became the master of the concerto, but only after others had shown him the way, he was not prepared to take the initial risk upon himself, content with his status as the world's leading pianist and to stay within the sphere he inhabited.

Tchaikovsky had seen beyond the limits of what was believed to be achievable, he could never play what he had written, he wasn't good enough, but he had the vision to see over the horizon to what could be achieved.

Yes, there is a contradiction in framing the question, but the contradiction serves to identify perception barriers of our own construct, looking over the edge only goes part way, as Liar put it 'walk out over the edge, and forget to fall.'

NL

 

[Guest]

Ok, Neon, I get your point now. The Tchaikovsky was a good example; perhaps you know the same was said of Beethoven's and Wagner's works, that they could not be played. Tchaikovsky in fact dismissed Beethoven's late works, he hated the quartets.

A composer friend was always frustrated because no one played his music (chamber and symphonic) exactly the way he heard it in his head.

I've read enough AH posts now to know there are definitely flat and globel earth persons here. Me, I like to think I'm still going for the Big Bang.

Perdita

 

[snooper]

What a load of ...

Everyone who is anyone knows the earth is a hollow sphere. What is laughingly termed "outer space" is, in fact, inner space. The density of the basic medium through which all light, etc, travels is not constant and it is actually infinite at the centre of the sphere.

As to what lies outside, that is a matter for conjecture, since we have never dug remotely far enough to find out.

Every physical experiment ever performed to check this theory supports it, rather than the solid globe, and no optical experiments are inconsistent with it.

 

[neonlyte]

I've read enough AH posts now to know there are definitely flat and globel earth persons here. Me, I like to think I'm still going for the Big Bang.

Perdita

That made me smile, but will you go to the edge for it?

NL

 

[Guest]

That made me smile, but will you go to the edge for it?

Geez, neon, however else could I?! P.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Are you a Flat Earth advocate or content with the Globe?

Do you 'push to the edge' to see how far you can go, knowing too far might risk a topple?

or

Are you happy to stay in the comfortable loop repeating the paths of everyday existence?

neonlyte.

That would depend on who's with me while I'm repeating that loop and whether it's comfortable or just confining.

But then, I've reached that point in life where at least half of Hemingway's equation on inertia has come into play: "Success + age = inertia."

Rumple Foreskin

 

[sweetnpetite]

I change my mind most every day.

Sometimes more often...

Are you a Flat Earth advocate or content with the Globe?

Do you 'push to the edge' to see how far you can go, knowing too far might risk a topple?

or

Are you happy to stay in the comfortable loop repeating the paths of everyday existence?

neonlyte.