I WAS BLINDED BY THE FLAT EARTH CULT!

I’ve spent a decade of my life organizing four Flat Earth International Conferences, a book, and a YouTube channel with over 150k subscribers—but the evidence from "The Final Experiment" team in Antarctica has shifted my view. I didn’t go to Antarctica, but I’ve dug into their observations, a mix of Flat Earthers and globe supporters, and I’m choosing to trust what they documented over wild ideas like they observed a plasma ball or some cosmic deception in the sky. It points to a globe, and it’s really hard to see how any Flat Earth model—especially a biblical enclosed model with a dome-like firmament, sun, moon, and stars all spinning around Polaris—can fit these 10 points:

24-Hour Sun: The team recorded the sun circling the sky for 24 hours in Antarctica, upside down and moving counterclockwise—opposite to what we see up north. I believe it’s the real sun, not a trick. On a Flat Earth, you’d expect a clockwise path or a sun that sets, so this is a tough one to square.

24-Hour Moon: The moon is visible for 24 hours, upside down and counterclockwise too compared to the north. Flat Earth voices have argued there’s no 24-hour moon down there, but the reality says otherwise. A flat map struggles to explain that motion.

South Celestial Pole: The team filmed stars rotating clockwise around a southern point in Chile, the opposite of the northern counterclockwise spin around Polaris. Flat Earth voices have doubted this exists, but I trust what the team caught on camera. A single northern hub can’t account for two poles.

Sunrise & Sunset Direction: South of the Tropic of Capricorn, they documented the sun rising in the southeast and setting in the southwest. I believe that’s the sun’s true path, not a fluke. A Flat Earth model has a hard time bending sunlight to match that, unlike a globe’s tilt.

The South Pole: The team had someone at the South Pole while others were at a nearby camp. Flat Earthers claim it’s not real, but I’m going with the team’s account. A Flat Earth doesn’t have room for one southern point; it’s all edges.

Distance Between Meridians: They measured longitude lines in Chile and Antarctica, showing them closer together south of the equator. I trust their numbers. On a Flat Earth, those lines would widen outward, not shrink—making this a real puzzle for that view.

Southern Hemisphere Flights: The team confirmed nonstop flights, like Chile to Australia, exist—Many have said they don’t, but the evidence disagrees. Flights from New Zealand, South Africa, and South America reach the South Pole in similar times. I believe they’re real. A Flat Earth can’t collapse those distances so neatly.

Crossing Antarctica: They learned from staff that people have crossed Antarctica, showing it’s a continent, not a wall. I’m taking the staff’s word over doubts from the community. A Flat Earth’s endless ice barrier or shoreline doesn’t align with that kind of journey.

Weight Variation: The team found things weigh differently in Antarctica due to gravity shifts, as predicted. I’m convinced it’s legit physics, not a ruse. A Flat Earth doesn’t vary weight like that—a globe’s shape does.

Shadow Measurements: They filmed 360-degree shadows from the 24-hour sun. I believe it’s the sun casting them, not some illusion. Flat Earth shadows wouldn’t circle like that—they’d stretch or vanish under a dome.

These 10 points make it incredibly tough to hold onto a flat earth, especially the literal biblical model with a dome where everything orbits Polaris. How do you fit a southern pole, a counterclockwise sun and moon, shrinking meridians, or flights to one spot from sprawling continents? I’m not saying it’s foolish to try—just that the evidence from Antarctica leans hard toward a globe, and reconciling it with a flat model feels like chasing a mirage at this point.

Once these experiments wrapped up, the majority of the Flat Earth community spun some of the wildest explanations to dodge the results. Some claimed the team never even went to Antarctica, others insisted they did but filmed it all in a CGI studio, and a slew of absurd—even borderline insane—conspiracy theories popped up to reject the reality of their boots-on-the-ground evidence. Some even went so far as to be convinced that it was Satan himself going around the TFE team as a deception rather than just admit it was literally the actual sun they observed on the continent! Many Flat Earthers now shrug and say it doesn’t matter, even though a core pillar of our belief—I was there from the start—was that a 24-hour sun in Antarctica couldn’t exist. We dismissed it as impossible, but the team proved it’s real. It’s time for a lot of Flat Earthers to face the world as it is, not as we imagined it.

I’m now convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was wrong about my worldview and cosmology. The evidence from "The Final Experiment" team in Antarctica has settled it for me, and I feel total peace with this shift. I’m excited for the next 10 years, free from that debate, knowing I’ve wrestled with every Flat Earth argument, every talking point, and even the hyper-literal biblical lens I once held—where a dome and circling stars fit so neatly up north. I’m no longer a hyper-literalist when it comes to the Bible and creation; the south, with its 24-hour sun and all the points above, unravels that view completely. We can agree to disagree on scripture’s approach—much works literally in the north, but it falls apart down south when you see what the sun truly does. People deserve to know why I’ve left Flat Earth behind, and I’ve laid it out above in those 10 points.

I wish everyone the best in their own search for truth.

-Robbie Davidson

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