A reunification proposal in 2014 has withered, and Shenton’s Twitter feed went cold after he posted a cryptic photo of the Terminator in September. A dissatisfied group split away in 2013 and launched its own site. The Flat Earth Society revived in 2004 under the leadership of one Daniel Shenton and was opened to new members in 2009. And they’re turning on each other because there’s no unified theory.” And so, like the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, they often spend far less time discussing what they believe than they spend attacking each other. “It’s almost like the beginning of a new religion. Sargent compares the frenzy to the Monty Python film Life of Brian, in which Brian gains a following that immediately splits over whether to gather shoes, wear one shoe, or possibly follow a gourd. “There’s dissension in the ranks all over the place.” “ just the tip of the iceberg,” said flat-Earth convert Mark Sargent, who used his two decades of work in the tech and video game industries to create the site and a YouTube series called Flat Earth Clues. And they regard each other with deep suspicion – almost as if they can’t believe that anyone else would believe what they do. Their differences range from petty (who came up with which idea first) to shocking and offensive (whether Jewish people are to blame for suppressing flat-Earth thought). Such schisms are commonplace in flat-Earthdom, where at least three websites are vying to be the official meeting ground for the movement to save us all from the delusion that our world is a globe. 2016 is the year it becomes common knowledge the earth is flat, just like 9/11 became common knowledge, no stopping the truth now. “Next he says the Antarctica is not governed and protected by the Illuminati, that somehow any group deciding to buy and invest in equipment is free to roam anywhere by plane or on land,” writes a user by the name Chris Madsen. But for his community, he might as well have abandoned them altogether: He merely said flat-Earthers need a new map. That being said, TigerDan925’s admission was not a concession that the world is shaped like the globe.

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