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Subject: Platygaeanism (Was Re: someone's sexual preference for sheep.)
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Date: 16 Feb 88 06:25:13 GMT
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In article <2970001@hpclskh.HP.COM> jsp@hpclskh.HP.COM writes:
>mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
>
>Now I have a challenge to you (or any flat Earther):  Can you put forth a
>way -- any way, practical or otherwise -- that _I_ could objectively
>verify that the Earth is flat?
>
 Take a trip to Australia. See if you fall off. No fair saying that "down"
means "toward the center of the Earth"; "down" already has a meaning. You
cannot just redefine it, anymore than I can redefine "up" to mean "north"
or "green" to mean "heavy". There are also other fallacies here that I have
pointed out previously but I don't have time to go into them now. In fact
I don't even have time for this article! :^)



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Bret Jolly (Bo'-ret Tro Ly)   Mathemagus          LA Platygaean Society
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