Kyrie still doesn't deny world is flat, gets defensive

[Big333223]

I've clicked every link in this thread and listened to everything and I think I've heard everything he's publicly said on the subject including a few different Road Trippin' podcasts. I have heard nothing that leads me to believe he 100% thinks the Earth is round and nothing that sounds like he was intentionally trolling when he said it.

This is my theory:

He's trying to make a broader point. I'm not an astronomer or an astronaut. I haven't done the work to understand that the world is round, aside from understanding the basic principles. I believe that the world is round because astronomers and astronauts and other educated people I trust have told me it is. But because I haven't done the work to understand it myself, it would be incorrect to say I know this to be true. Really, I just believe it to be true.

I think Kyrie is trying to make a point about the information we take for granted. There are a lot of things we talk about like he know them to be true but really we just believe them because people we trust have said so. I've never seen an atom but I believe they are the building blocks of the universe. I don't know that gravity exists but people a lot smarter and more educated who have done more work on the subject have explained to me that it is.

I think Kyrie is just more apt to think of these things as more flexible rather than take it for granted that it is 100% true.

Thats my theory, anyway.

It's a good theory, but it just seems like a strange topic to make that point on.  Perhaps he chose it because it's such an obvious thing.

Minor correction on gravity:  You KNOW gravity exists, just not why.  People a lot smarter than you have not shown much to explain why, but you didn't need them anyway to know it exists.

On your point about gravity: yeah, that's probably a more accurate way to say it.

As for the flat-Earth business being a strange topic for which Kyrie to make his point, don't forget that this is just one of a number of cooky things he's said and conspiracy theories in which he's expressed belief (or at least interest). The flat-Earth stuff is just the one the media ran with.