I had a friend pretty into mysticism. She kept it at bay enough it was harmless. Then one day at her place, had a conversation with her 18 year old son. The first half of the conversation he said I need to teach my son jow to deal with a break up. He had just been dumped and clearly had feelings about it.

The second half of this conversation with this young person, he spent trying to tell me why the earth was flat. He used a split screen tictok as his reference material. I was taken aback by this, he just graduated high school.. Another time not long after, he saw husband's car with a behemoth sticker on it. He was clearly distressed, and asked me why we would have that, didn't I know I will attract demons and negativite energy?

This was two years ago or so. Im not friends with her anymore, last I heard he was going to get a mining job down south. I was amazed and baffled by the words coming out this young person's mouth.

The new ones are different.

I had a brief phase on Instagram where I followed some flat earthers, and there did seem to be kind of a range of beliefs on it. There were the ones that would use pseudoscience to debate people, and then it would go kind of in a scale from that, to people using examples from scripture about the firmament and how God made the earth flat and NASA has been trying to hide God from the world and it's only 3462 years old or some shit like that.

It was weirdly interesting.