The late Dr Richard Buckminster-Fuller 1895-1983, Architect, inventor, designer, futurist, philosopher and poet, (Geodesic domes, dymaxion car and map, dome homes etc.) spoke and wrote often about how we have been conditioned to speak in 'flat earth' language. What do I mean by that? Well how about 'the four corners of the earth', 'wide, wide world'.
In his 53 or so lecture circuits of the planet his direct questioning of many large scientific audiences showed that scientists as yet realistically, "see," the Sun going "down" in the evening - though science has known for 500 years that this is untrue. More accurately we experience "Sun clipse" and "Sun sight"
"Scientifically speaking, (which is truthfully speaking), there are no directions "up", and "down," in Universe - there are only the angularly specifiable directions "in," "out," and "around."
"The first aviators flying completely around the Earth, having completed half their circuit, did not "feel up-side-down". They had to employ others words to correctly explain their experiences. So, aviators evolved the terms "coming-in" for a landing and "going-out," not "down" and "up".
Only a flat world could have a Heaven to which to ascend and a Hell into which to descend.
The power plays and politics of flat world vs spherical go back along way. The implications of our some of our 'flat earth' ways of thinking in regard to say, innovation and creativity, may be profound.
For more read "Critical Path" by R. Buckminster Fuller or "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" by the same author should do the trick. You can download this for free I believe from http://pdfdatabase.com/r-buckminster-fuller.html.
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