> You're telling me if I drop something there is no force pulling it down? Yes. You and the ground are being pushed upwards by a force. You can feel that force

> You're telling me if I drop something there is no force pulling it down? Yes. You and the ground are being pushed upwards by a force. You can feel that force--it's your weight. The dropped object falls relative to you precisely because it does not feel any force--it is weightless. This is exactly the same thing that would happen in a rocket whose engine was firing in deep space, far from all gravitating bodies. This is an example of the equivalence principle, which is a central experimental fact that Newtonian gravity just had to accept as being true for no apparent reason, but which GR accounts for naturally as an aspect of spacetime geometry.