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Not sure what you are asking. But the topography of the earth does not matter as the solar altitude is measured from the average surface of the earth. The normal vector of this surface is called the zenith (straight overhead) and is basically the same direction as gravity. This average...

I was tempted to answer this point because I DID already answer this for BOTH a near and far sun. And I explained it several times ad nauseum . I just verbally explained the proof. Here's what I said for all to witness (with emboldened text to point out the critical points): SO we can see I...

Just for the record, since children are mentioned in this thread, in virtually even case a child typically asks how Friday evening until pre-sunrise Sunday morning constitutes 3 days and 3 nights. I asked it at one time, and children (and even adults) I talked with asked it. The church then...

OK, let's start with the last statement since this is a lot you answered and let's focus on one thing. Elctromagnetism. How does that make the sun go up and down and why not gravity with the earth going around? I can show mathematical proofs using the Kepler's law and spherical trig models to...

Hey Webers_Home: I remember when you were once a staunch Friday crucifixionist. LOL. I'm not making fun, but you'll find it interesting now being on the side I am on trying to convince the traditionalists that Friday just does not work. I am the gnomonist who used the sundial analogy to...

I don't think any true Christian believes they need a temple as we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. But the Jews think of the temple the way we think of the presence of Christ in our lives, i.e. Immanuel. This is why they believe if the temple is built it would be a place for God to dwell...

And I realized I never really answered the OP. The flat earthers and geocentrists (who BTW are not all flat earthers) use various scripture literally such as when the sun and moon stood still (implying it revolves around the earth) and Psalm 19 where he created a tabernacle for the sun that...

This is incorrect. While I understand making data fit to a model, the data does not fit for a flat earth model. Your statement (I understand you don't believe in a flat earth) cannot be plugged into a flat earth model and work. That was my point in the cotangent calculation of solar altitude...

Unless you are carrying a lot of extra weight or have some medical condition, I think you otherwise sound normal. Worrying excessively about weight is like the other myths like cholesterol, saturated fats and salt. It's based on FUD and stuff they push that you "need", be it (what I call)...

I just gave you the indisputable proofs. I was comparing radians and linear distance to degrees of solar elevation above the horizon, not airplane flights. I don't know what you were talking about seeing curvature as I was not talking about visually seeing that at all. So apparently you...

My point was not that the tidal locking was to prove the earth is round. I was merely explaining the phenomenon of seeing the same side of the moon. The point I used that the earth was round was the sundial. Even flat earthers must admit the sun is very far away, maybe not 93M miles, but they...

It's not difficult to disprove a flat earth. One indisputable proof is the sundial. I can make a sundial here in the states for any country in the world and it works perfectly. The calculations for a sundial are based on spherical trigonometry and circular geometric shapes. It would not work...

It's called Tidal locking,and there is a reason physics gives for that. Since the moon's orbit is not perfectly circular and its speed varies, it's rotation is such that we can see a little past each side of the meridian. Also,due to its orbital inclination we can see a little "north and south"...

There have been several theories where the temple once stood. To my surprise Dankenbring (once Church of God affiliation) adopts the northern theory whereas some of them including the late Herbert W. Armstrong adopted the Southern City of David Theory. The 5 main theories are the northern near...

I also like this summary, too. Thanks. I don't see a vast difference between this an ATP's summary of the book (other than the pre-wrath rapture which IMO is a 'timing' issue). At least not a big difference in the main events and their order. If I am wrong or missed something, let me know.

Greetings ATP. Yes, that's a very good summary of that book, and is similar to the way I see things. I guess I'm not what you call a pre-wrath, but I am open to see other's point of view. I'm not a pre-Trib rapturist either, but I'm glad another person (and author) can distinguish between the...

LOL this is a "converted" computer to Linux Ubuntu. But I agree that MS has the majority in those markets yet with desktop and laptops (which I already mentioned) but my point was that the computer as we know it is switching to the other types in which a good portion of the population is...

Actually, the idea that MS gets more viruses and spyware because it is used more is a 2-decade old misconception. Back then they predicted that when more and more people use Apple and Linux based operating systems, that they'd be plagued with just as many viruses. It never came to pass. And...

Yes, that's correct. I use Linux Ubuntu on this laptop and the one desktop. What I meant is there's no *single* registry file to "tune" but as you say text files that configure each program. My other desktop, all solid state, runs Android, but that's in effect what I call commercialized...

A lot of this software I would not use (nor would it work) since my desktop computers and laptop here don't even have a registry file; they also run fast. They never need a "tune-up"; something I'm not even experiencing the last few years. My iphone (my only Apple device-- my computers are not...