"And the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork." 

Cognitive Dissonance:

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent.^[1] The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein they try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.^[1][2]

In A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency to function mentally in the real world. A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable and is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance. They tend to make changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance (rationalization) or by avoiding circumstances and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance (confirmation bias).^[2]

Coping with the nuances of contradictory ideas or experiences is mentally stressful. It requires energy and effort to sit with those seemingly opposite things that all seem true. Festinger argued that some people would inevitably resolve dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe.

 This Cognitive Dissonance is what happens when ordinary human beings who have believed there entire lives (like I had) are presented with the irrefutable facts (below) that the Earth is a flat plain, not a round ball.  In your every life experience, experiments and common sense, when have you ever known water to adhere to the exterior of a round surface?   I do my best in explaining the flatness of the Earth to stay far, far away from rhetorical narratives (as the one I just presented) and stick to just factual information - but that's one of the simplest explanations of the flatness of the Earth.    

Had someone suggested to me back in 2014-2015 that the Earth was flat I'd have thought of them as very poorly educated person.  

Unlike many others who strongly believe the Earth is FLAT - for religious reasons, I have no such inclinations - as I'm religiously unaffiliated. My only interests is in factual information.

I came to the subject of the flatness of the Earth one day while listening to National Public Radio (NPR) and they told what was to be a human interests story.....a [pregnant] woman boarded a plane in Bali (Indonesia) for a non-stop flight to Los Angeles, California, USA.  Several hours into the flight her water broke at 30,000 feet (the alleged location was over the Pacific Ocean) and she delivered a baby (gender unknown).  The human interests part of the story was this child would get to fly on China Airlines for free until they were 18 years of age.

But, it was the details of the story that caught my attention.  I was aware that airplanes make emergency landings for just a few reasons, namely, for unruly passengers - threats to passengers/or the airplane itself from within, and for mechanical and medical emergencies. 

This particular incident was classified as a medical emergency, so, for the health & safety of the mother and newborn the pilot decided to make an emergency landing.  

If you know (or have a cursory knowledge of the world you live in) you'll know that the flight trajectory from Bali to Los Angeles leaves very few places to make emergency landings once the plane has cleared Indonesia (namely, Papua New Guinea, Midway Island, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands - with several atolls in-between). This China Airlines flight didn't land in any of those places however, it made its emergency landed in of all places, in Ted Stevens Airport - in Alaska. 

I was initially troubled by this, thinking to myself that the NPR announcer had made a simple mistake reading his notes, so, I googled the event. I found the related newspaper article, which I've attached (below). 

I spent an entire year of my life fully researching the subject (of the earth being flat) before I was fully convinced that I was indeed on a flat surface - not a round ball hurling through space.  The heliocentric /round earth theory is 'social proof,' it's not a factual/scientific proof - although it masquerades as one.  It's a truth accepted by society based entirely on commonly accepted word of mouth narratives over the last 500 years.  Very few people have done their own independent research on the subject.  Had there been jet flight in the eras of Pythagoras, Copernicus & Galileo - the primary purveyors of this fallacy - the human race would know they're standing on a flat plain that's perfectly still - not circling the sun at all (but is actually the other way around - the sun is circling us as you common sense observes daily).  

I have posted just 10 of the proofs that I've researched - which should suffice for the most cynical minds (I have 6 others).  To properly research/view the evidence you have to be on a laptop - it can't be accomplished efficiently on your cell phone. This isn't trivia - it a subject that is to be taken in seriously.

If you can't disconnect from what you think you know, from what you were told by adults when you were a 9 years old - leave it alone - don't even bother with it. 

Like you, I believed what was told to me as a child by adults without questioning it - and like you, I had no reasons to questioned it.  It's a 500 year old lie - that must be uprooted.  When this fable of the Earth being round came into existence the literacy rate was less then 7%, furthermore, to defy the kings of Europe and the Catholic Church's edicts that the Earth was round by saying otherwise one could (and would) literally be killed for doing so.

That was in 1514, you're not forced to believe what was forcefully imposed in 1514, in 2023.......you're modern, free thinking human beings who can decide for yourselves what is and isn't true.   

The Earth is FLAT.

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Albert Einstein was once asked, "how does it feel to be the smartest man in the world," he replied, 'I don't know, you should ask Nikola Tesla.'  

The Latest Flat Earth Emergency Landing - Feb 26, 2021

Non-stop flight from Hong Kong international Airport to Madrid (Barajas Airport), Spain makes emergency landing in Moscow's  Sheremetyevo Airport (here).  

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SDM4520/history/20210225/1615Z/VHHH/UUEE

http://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/air_age_1944.jpg  (this flight path makes perfect sense - the two flight paths below don't). 

This is the actual flight path on a round Earth from Hong Kong to Madrid Spain.

This is the flight path it would have had to have taken on a round Earth to land in Moscow - probable? 

Flat Earth no.1

(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/china-airlines-woman-gives-birth-to-premature-baby-girl-at-30000ft-on-long-haul-flight-a6692416.html)    

The links above are from "google maps," Bali to Los Angeles - you'll see what clearly is an implausible airplane trajectory that would take a airplane to Alaska for an emergency landing - airplanes don't just meander through the skies - airplanes travel in straight lines to their destinations when they are non-stop flights as this flight was.  So, how did a plane travelling from Bali (allegedly over the Pacific Ocean) to North America make an emergency landing in Alaska - some 4 1/2 hours further flying time north of Los Angeles? 

 By round Earth cosmology it makes no sense, but, by Flat Earth cosmology is makes all the sense in the world, since travel from Bali to Los Angles in a straight line you'll arrive in Alaska - first.  Alaska was the proper emergency landing location. 

Click on the first link below and draw a straight line from Bali to Los Angeles............be reminded, the [Gleason] map is a World War II map used by the military to traverse the Earth (as not to get lost at sea as Amelia Earhart did using a 1937 map of the world).