When a flat Earther tells you that water cannot curve
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It is best to simply research the earth's shape directly - whatever it may be, ideally without such preconceptions/beliefs/biases.
In terms of evaluating other peoples ideas / conclusions as to the shape of the world - yes. I have evaluated/researched spherical and concave notions, as well as those that think it is flat.
I mean there are many more options than spherical, concave, and flat, of course. Have you done research into a cuboid earth?
Of course. In many gross depictions of flat earth it is depicted as hemispherical, and i've even encountered someone who thinks it is shaped like a ziggurat (i think an inverted one).
I've never encountered a vocal "cubist" outside the art world - have you? Again, due to the natural behavior of water and assuming the earth is 70%+ covered in it, if it were a cube, the world we know would be on the top face of it. Some think this is generally what masons mean by "on the square"
Again, if you seek to determine the shape of the world through research - it is necessary to eliminate such biases for objective study of any kind. You research the earth and its shape, not the "spherical earth" or the "cube earth" etc.
Of all the ones i encountered, the rectilineator was one of the more fascinating things i researched in regards to measuring and concluding that the earth is actually concave.
Nope, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do research into it, if you are keeping an open mind about the possibilities of what the shape would be. It seems by your actions that you suspect the earth is flat, if you choose not to devote time to research other shapes.
Exactly!
There is nothing to research if nothing about the "cube earth" exists to study...
As i said before, in order for the cube earth to be consistent with what we measure and observe - the known world would have to be on its topmost face. This is certainly not a possibility that we can or should completely rule out.
However, flatly transitioning from the spherical worldview merely juxtaposing/projecting the known world onto a cube would be nonsensical and against the laws of physics for the same reasons that the spherical earth is.
What actions? I have plainly told you that i work hard not to "suspect" anything (and excise such suspicions, aka beliefs), and to only deal with what i can know and thoroughly validate.
On a local level, the land and water are generally flat, but the earth is a LOT larger than that. Indeed, if we are wrong about the earth's shape - we could easily be quite wrong about its total size as well.
Exactly. That's why we don't research "the cube earth", or "the spherical earth", or "the flat earth". We just study "the earth" and its shape without such biases (ideally).