When I looked up the photo attached to the profile 'katiebest', I found Katie Higgins Cook, whose photo is regularly used to scam people. And that’s where Flat Earth Singles comes in. Given the barriers, perhaps it’s unsurprising that a single flat Earther in search of love would turn to the internet and its algorithms. For example, I probably wouldn't date an astrophysicist, no matter how hot she is.” “I would certainly look for someone that was at least open to the idea, at the very least. “It would be nice if we could get over that milestone,” he says – “if she suddenly said to me one day, 'Talk to me about Flat Earth and explain it to me'.” If he were single, Mackenzie says, he would probably start a Facebook account and look for flat Earthers in his area. When he watches a flat Earth video, he does it alone and with headphones. His wife doesn't get angry about the subject but the two of them don't discuss flat Earth in the house. Rob Mackenzie, a 50-year-old former aircraft engineer, met his wife in 2000 but became a flat Earther in 2016. Some flat Earthers married globers years before they ‘woke up’. She's gonna know or I'm gonna find a smarter girlfriend.” Love, who thinks a flat Earther and a glober dating is like a straight and a gay person dating, says it would be all right for a prospective partner to believe that the Earth is round, “but if someone was seriously open and seriously looked into it, I don't see how that could happen”.
So you're telling me my girlfriend's not gonna figure out that the Earth's flat? No, she's gonna know. “I've debated Nasa employees, astrophysicists, PhDs, land surveyors, and I smoke 'em all like a Cuban cigar on Sunday,” claims Nathan Thompson, a 34-year-old flat Earther in Virginia. Some flat Earthers are happy to countenance marrying a ‘glober’ – someone who thinks the Earth is round – but many of them think that the glober would simply become a flat Earther anyway. Sutherland wanted to be with someone who thought like her. “I enjoy going to meet-ups, and he just didn't have any interest in that.” In November 2019 she wanted to go to the Dallas Flat Earth International Conference but he refused to accompany her. “I wanted to go out and do observations,” she says. Though her boyfriend was the person who introduced her to the conspiracy, he didn't care about researching it further. The world didn't make sense to her until she discovered flat Earth. This became all too real for Dottie Sutherland, who is 34 and lives in Washington.
“We’re not talking about whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, or vegan or not vegan. Sargent has heard “horror stories” about people being unable to reconcile their relationship with their flat Earth belief. “'We can't have a conversation about anything real.'” “Quite often they say, 'I'm not allowed to even discuss this at home',” she says. Love, who used to start gatherings of flat Earthers that have run since 2017, has seen marriages come under strain: the partner resents the new belief they cannot understand the flat Earther realises they are happier among flat Earthers. David Weiss, a flat Earther in his mid-50s from Connecticut, says: “They’re so deep inside the Matrix that they can’t see it.”Īnd, for some, a belief in a flat Earth can be the catalyst for ending a relationship. “Conversations can be difficult with mainstream people,” she says.
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people that I've known for 20, 30 years, they definitely want nothing to do with it.”Ĭharlotte Love, a 48-year-old flat Earther in Birmingham, says she no longer watches TV or reads newspapers.
“I do have a really good group of online friends,” says Dolan, “but in real life. While opening you up to a community of like-minded people, a belief in flat Earth can clearly sever ties and alienate the people you love. It's so isolating that we really have to stick together.”
“That's why it's so important to keep contact with the people that feel the same. Does the belief system make her lonely? “Of course,” she says.
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