Unpopular Opinion

useralreadyexists

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The terms 'sunset' and 'sunrise' enable flat earthers.

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the only thing that enables flat earthers is their own lack of braincells

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That and their distrust in the government. Seriously, they may lie to us, buy I don't think they would that reluctant on information. Plus, it's just stupid.

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How should it be called instead?

useralreadyexists

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Good discussion. Earth up, Earth down?

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That's really counter intuitive. Sunset and sunrise are more what it seems like to the eye in my opinion.

afraid_of_zombies2

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It's a thing about humanity. Sunrise on a heliocentric solar system looks the same as geocentric. And yet every single culture put us in the middle. It could have been 50-50 but instead we were all wrong together.

My point is that we see what we want. No, don't change the words to suit them.

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