The general consensus was that anyone or anything you lose on your flat Earth journey is collateral damage. On one end of the spectrum there is mockery and ridicule, on the other end is the loss of relationships with family and friends - or job loss. How do you get by in a world that doesn’t accept or mocks your beliefs?Ī lion’s share of flat Earth believers have experienced some type of criticism for it. Join us through the looking glass armed with a skeptical eye and some of the most pervasive postulations about this puzzling movement.

So why hold their water? The resurgence of the belief is fascinating and compels attention, like a car wreck. Honestly, the experience ran between discomfort, entertainment and credulity depending on who was speaking. Many in the crowd said they are demeaned daily by friend and foe.Ĭonference attendees gladly dispensed their knowledge when asked. “I am not ashamed,” Hummer chanted to a crowd who repeated the mantra with vigor. But conference emcee Rick Hummer summed up attendees feelings on being mocked and ridiculed in one simple statement. Founder Robbie Davidson and Canada-based Kryptoz Media hosted the two-day conference which featured debates, workshops and presentations in veneration of their community’s theory.įor most people, being described as a flat Earther would be an insult. That was the case when hundreds of flat Earthers gaggled in Denver in mid-November for the second annual Flat Earth International Conference. When they do venture past the World Wide Web it’s by and large among their like-minded brethren. Not even the biggest names in science can dissuade them.

The growing droves of believers in a flat world convene chiefly online, their message often spread through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. If you thought flat Earthism was gone, think again. Picture the Earth as a flat plate sitting in a snow globe and that encapsulates their beliefs sort of. Some call it post-truth.įlat Earthers hold to a 14th Century understanding of our home world. Or is it? This is 2018 and nothing is irrefutable. The Earth, NASA’s blue marble, has been shown by a mountain of scientific evidence to be round, held in place by gravity and orbiting the Sun. He instead refers to himself as an observational scientist and considers the state of the world to still be an open question.įew things in life are as unassailable as the ground under our feet. Marine sergeant from Dallas, Texas, isn't a full-fledged flat Earther. Joella Baumann/CPR News Miguel Angel, a former U.S.

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