I'm not messing with you Steve, you came into this conversation because you disagree with my viewpoints and wanted to let me know. That's awesome man and I do appreciate a good debate. My beliefs are seemingly fringe, I know that, but I don't care. I seek out truth. Provable facts. If I just trusted my belief like you are doing, then I might be a bible thumping Christian or something which I am not (no offense if you're a bible thumping Christian).
As for the shape of the world that we live on.. I no longer believe that we live on a spinning ball in an impossible space void/vacuum surrounded by evermore spinning balls, that's for sure. :)