Weiss’ preferred community is those who share his life-altering belief. This week, the businessman attended the third annual Flat Earth International Conference, held at an Embassy Suites hotel in suburban Dallas, Texas. Organizers told CNN that about 600 others went too. Previous conferences have taken place in Raleigh and Denver - while Brazil, Britain and Italy have also held flat earth conventions in recent years. The event’s schedule resembled any corporate conference, with some fairly noticeable twists. Speakers gave presentations including “Space is Fake” and “Testing The Moon: A Globe Lie Perspective.” Awards for the year’s best flat earth-related videos were handed out. And believers reveled in an opportunity to meet several of the movement’s most influential minds. “We’ve all been communicating online (but) this brings us together so we can shake hands and give each other hugs,” says Weiss. Because guess what, our old friends… we lost a lot of friends.” “We can collaborate, we can make new friends. On a clear day, the curvature of the earth can be seen from an airplane window. But remarkably, the hundreds of flat earthers at the Dallas gathering were just a small portion of the movement.
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