But at the same time you acknowledge that the sun rises east on the equinox, so you redefine east to mean visually to the equator, comparing it to a traversing observer rather than a tangent line extending out to a distant space

when everyone looks at the sun rising on the equinox they are looking at the equator

The sun isn't located on earth at the equator however, so no, it is so distant that each person looks parallel to each other as the point of intersection is unnoticeable from the earth frame of reference

Alright, @garfield the cat has been warned for '**Bad word usage**'.

what in the heckin gosh darn are y'all arguing about

@garfield the cat The Equinox and sunrise directions

day after day this east thing gets us nowhere

i love arguing with u though astral

I think it got somewhere

lol

When you said this,
*ur telling me ifthe new york guy and the guy in brazil walk straight toward that point their paths would never cross ?*
I found us getting somewhere

Oh yay, I'm verified

u are saying their paths wont cross i am saying they will though

But where will they cross?

Where they cross, that is where the sun is, right?

idk but u cant have 2 people in different locations walk to the same point and not have them meeting eventually

now im not even worried where the people will meet at this point lol

If they cross far enough out, they will appear parallel as if they would never intersect

so ur telling me 2 people in different locations walking toward the same point will never meet ?

is that what u are saying

No, I'm not, but,
Two people walking to the same point, if that point is far enough out, they will appear to walk parallel to each other as if they would never meet

Because it is too far out to immediately notice the convergence

but they will meet

Yes, but that is irrelevant to my point, the point is with how far away it is.

so the guy in new york and brazil will eventually meet

i dont even know what impact this has on the globe or flat earth i just wanna find out how east works lol

Eventually, but too far out to notice from earth, so it appears like this on the equinox

Rather than like this

The lines in the above picture would meet eventually but the point is too far away to notice, so it appears parallel in that vicinity.
The bottom pictures assumes the sun is right on the earth, which isn't the case here

the sunrise is at earth we can mark a spot on earth where we see the sunrise

yes its 93 million miles away (we will talk about that later) but we can mark a spot on earths surface where we see the sun

can we not mark a spot on earth where we see the sunrise ??

Yes, we can, and it looks like the first image above on the equinox

The directions of sunrise and sunset

ok so where we see the sunrise and the spot on earth we marked with the stop sign

right we got our spot on earth that is east for everyone on earth now

What do you mean you want to know how east works?

aech

lol ive been debating this east thing for days

i wanna know if u go east do u circumnavigate or end up at the equator

Just confused what you guys are talking about exactly i guess