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| '''Flerfs''', or '''flat earthers''', are people in modern times who believe the earth is flat. The purpose of this wiki is to document flerfs, along with their claims and actions.
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| "Flerfs" are distinct from historical flat earthers, because flerfs are adherents of [[Rowbothamism]] — a distinction which is neglected in this description on [[Wikipedia:Flat Earth|Wikipedia]]:
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| <blockquote>'''Flat Earth''' is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the [[Wikipedia:Figure of the Earth|Earth's shape]] as a [[Wikipedia:Plane (geometry)|plane]] or [[Wikipedia:Disk (mathematics)|disk]]. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth [[Wikipedia:cosmography|cosmography]], notably including [[Wikipedia:ancient near eastern cosmology|ancient near eastern cosmology]]. The model has undergone a [[Wikipedia:modern flat Earth beliefs|recent resurgence]] as a [[Wikipedia:conspiracy theory|conspiracy theory]].</blockquote>
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| In reality, the Rowbothamist model is '''radically incompatible''' with ancient cosmologies due its [[Rowbothamism|denial of sunset]].
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