I have read both sides of this particular argument. It breaks down as follows:
One side has mountains of observations, data, and evidence gathered over centuries, backing up its model.
The other side has no working model, only unsubstantiated claims of a giant conspiracy.
Flat earth cannot come up with a working model, nor disprove any of the mountains of evidence that proves the spherical earth. All that its proponents can do is yell, "conspiracy!" and disparage the names of a lot of good people. It is fairly despicable.
I felt I had to address your eclipse nonsense. Here is a video that tries to model the flat earth eclipse:
The sun has to magically jump around to match the observations made at the same moment.
And here is the heliocentric model perfectly explaining the observations made:
Jump to the 5:50 mark if you don't want to watch the whole thing.
you ignored my previous comment, almost in its entirety.
and no, your eclipse videos do not explain the s curve of eclipse across the planet.
but the flat earth model does. it makes sense.
i honestly think now, given my experience, cannot go back to the heliocentric view.. unless i get to go up in a space craft.
you want to believe conspiracies couldn't exist... small imagination i say, or limited understanding of history.
Yes I did ignore most of your comment because I am not interested in conspiracy theories. I am interested in how facts and observations fit together to form a theory.
The first video is from a flat earth perspective which shows that for any moment of time, the sun has to be in a different position depending on from where you are observing the eclipse. This is clearly impossible. The sun cannot be in multiple places at the same time. Therefore, the flat earth model fails to explain the eclipse.
The second video shows how when looking from the perspective of the sun, the shadow moves smoothly across the globe and the United States in a straight line. Therefore, the heliocentric model explains the eclipse perfectly. what is more, it predicted it perfectly, and will predict the next one perfectly.
Your ability to ignore and deny direct evidence makes this a useless exercise. It doesn't make you special, it just makes you ignorant.