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There are no "flat earthers", but there are different explanations for the eclipse than the one you believe.
The ancient indian astronomers recorded some "shadow objects" they named rahu and ketu. These dark objects obscure the light from the sun and moon periodically.
This explanation can accommodate selenelion eclipses, which yours cannot.
What is the explanation that you believe in?
I work hard not to believe. Belief is the enemy of knowledge and to objective study of any kind.
Instead i work to know, or acutely recognize that i do not.
In the case of the eclipse, or the workings of the sun in general - i do not know, though i am certain that what we are taught today about it is as stupid and unscientific as its first incarnation taught in the 19th century (that the sun is a giant fart, perpetually on fire in the sky).
The "it's all an astronomical coincidence" "theory" for the moon and sun just happening to be the perfect size to cover one another (especially in the belief system where they are astronomically distant and wildly different sizes) was always notably stupid and unscientific.
Pathetic
They've already stated to me their conclusion is that the known world is (at least mostly) flat (or at least, that all signs point to this being the answer), which is exactly how I would describe a flat earther.
I'm not sure why they don't want to describe themselves as something that they basically are.