A month or two ago I wrote a post about conspiracy theories @steemychicken1/conspiracy-theories
Last night as I was roaming on YouTube to find something good to watch I stumbled upon a video of vice talking about a community of people believing that their flat they are called flat earthers. I always knew that people believe that but never really watched or read more about their actual beliefs and feelings and the most outstanding thing was how many people believe it. Just in Greece there are 3 Facebook groups for flat earthers having combined 20.000 people so I will assume that around the world there are millions .
What are the beliefs
As I wrote in my first post the exact layout varies some believe that earth is like a disc in the center you've got the Arctic circle, then you've got all the continents of the world sort of splayed out to fill the circle. And an Antarctica is like the edge of the disc. Some others believe there's Arctic circle in the middle and there's the land masses around it. And then on Antarctica is the ice around the edge, but instead of it being a discreet disc, some people believe, in fact Antarctica just goes on forever in all directions. And so they believe that the earth is actually an infinite plane in all directions. That bisect reality. From what I could found there is an ongoing debate inside the community about how the earth is exactly and it’s a really heated one 😂
How it all started
Various civilizations, such as those of Babylon, ancient Egypt, pre-Classical Greece, pre-Golden Age India and pre-17th century China. they had notions of a flat Earth. Beginning with ancient Greek Astronomy, the spherical earth paradigm gradually spread throughout the world underpinning the cosmological belief in a flat Earth.
What Wikipedia says about the theory ?
The false belief that medieval Christianity believed in a flat earth is referred to as the flat earth myth.In 1945, the Historical Association (of Great Britain) listed it in a pamphlet on common errors in history as the second of 20.The myth that people in the Middle Ages believed the Earth was flat entered the popular imagination in the 19th century, largely thanks to the publication of Washington Irving's work of fiction The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828.Although the flat Earth hypothesis has long been generally rejected, there are still occasional modern proponents of the hypothesis.
The Greek video seems like a parody
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/flat-earthers-what-they-believe-and-why/
I really enjoyed writing and searching about these post I will probably try to find more about conspiracy theories and enrich my posts