Sitting here in the conference hall talking with a person who skipped the same classes I did, it’s hard not to believe him.

What is in front of us is a devil, I guess? “Look what comes out now,” one of the hosts says ominously, and the crowd quite literally gasps.

My personal favourite comes from a group called the Globebusters who tell us they are going to “absolutely blow minds.” On the screen comes the image of the blue marble (a “complete fabrication”) and the hosts rotate it and half and mirror it. And another, the smoke from the wildfires blazing in the west sets off the fire alarm in the Fantasyland Hotel, and an entire panel’s worth of speakers power through constant ringing and omnipresent voice telling us that we have to stay on the premises. At one point a radio station brings in a little person in a globe suit to argue with the flat earthers. The speakers themselves provide a few highlights that break the natural monotony of a conference. While science is scoffed at, the Bible is held as truth. At one point, one of the speakers tells us about how the voice of god talks to him sometimes. They fuse scientific jargon into their talks, but for the most part, we might as well be hearing the sermon on the flat mount. The group preaches that their audience do their own research and come to their own conclusions, which might be the reason for their mishmash of ideas.ĭavidson and a few other speakers base their videos on how the Bible proves there's a flat Earth.

Everyone is lying to us, they tell me, but there isn’t a solid answer of who is everyone-I hear the Illuminati, David Icke–style reptilians, and just good ol’ transnational corporations-and why they’re lying fluctuates as well: money, power, attempting to further us from God. They use similar types of arguments and conduct “experiments” in order to justify and rationalize their beliefs but come to different conclusions. Some ideas are accepted by many in the community (the globe is under a dome with the North Pole at the centre and Antarctica's ice surrounding the edges)-some by just a few (God put the planets and stars on the top of the dome as decorations for mankind). The theories of why it is the way it is seem to change with every theorist, speaker, and attendee. Even though flat bombs are dropping throughout the conference, I’m having a hard time figuring out what-other than Earth is flat-these people believe.

Flat earthers around the globe