Pariprashnena — Q&A Archive

Please tell us what you heard.

Our senses are faulty and what we may perceive to be true might just be the opposite.

To understand the sunrise/sunset according to this model take a piece of
paper and draw a big circle (the flat earth). Draw another circle inside
this one from the same central point but half the diameter. This is the
equator. The northern hemisphere is the smaller circle and the central
point is the North Pole. The outside of this circle (the other side of
the equator) is the Southern Hemisphere and (as you have no doubt
noticed by now) is not a point, rather it is the circumference of the
circle. It is a rugged icy mountain range. This is what we refer to
South Pole. etc more here:

http://www.krishna.org/sudarsana/archive/msg00057.html

look this specially minute 11, from Sadaputa dasa, the devotee scientist
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-538297875584368796

Here ya go: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/

Enjoy!

Already discussed in http://www.pariprashnena.com/discussion/108/

if the earth is flat, why we can see it as rounded when going up out of the atmosphere?

The point is that you can explain some phenomena using a "flat-earth" model.

I couldnt go through the scientific explanation but that is what I understand.

This only shows the wisdom in the explanations used. So it is true in one sense because the model describes phenomena. Just like we can fulfill the phenomena of looking at a big round sphere and saying the earth is round.