You just have to kind of believe that the powers that be - your government - is deeply involved in deceiving you. "They" is essentially everyone who is not them. So, who does this community see as "they?" We heard, you know, about the Quebec councillor in Gatineau wondering why "they" are hiding the information. NASA and all these other organizations are simply Photoshopping pictures of the Earth … it's a very, kind of cloistered, self-fulfilling thought process that gets you here. When you ask them about, 'what about the pictures from space,' what do they say? There was a certain degree of kind of anti-science or just distrust of science … and a really strong religious element. You know, I've heard mention of … the fake moon landing, and you know, false flags and Stephen Hawking didn't really have ALS and the astronauts are Freemasons. And I just almost immediately gave that up because … there was no arguing that was going to persuade anyone … These folks are all alike in the sense that, number one, they're very prone to conspiracy thinking. I kind of thought, initially, I might have to go in armed with all kinds of arguments about why the Earth is not flat. So this was … a tough thing to do, to listen to this. I mean I … didn't want to go into it with that kind of judgment, but I came out of it feeling like I was sitting in the middle, essentially of a mass delusion. There's this huge conspiracy out there to hide the truth about the actual shape of the Earth, and you know, if you're a free-thinking person … you'll stop and do your own research … and learn the truth.' Now, doing your own research essentially means watching all of the YouTube videos that everybody else watches, and essentially falling down the rabbit hole of of this, frankly, crazy thought. I heard pretty much the same thing in talk after talk after talk, which was … 'Wake up. The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti sat down with Burdick to talk about his deep dive into the world of flat Earthers. Duration 1:28 Several hundred people have gathered in Edmonton to attend the Flat Earth International Conference at West Edmonton Mall.
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