From The Edmonton Journal
It’s an event guaranteed to rock your world.Read more: http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/paula-simons-no-getting-around-the-absurdity-of-edmontons-flat-earth-conferenceCanada’s first Flat Earth International Conference is scheduled to take place in Edmonton on Aug. 9-10.
It will take place, fittingly enough, at the Fantasyland Hotel.
Tickets for the event went on sale Thursday. You can get the ball rolling by snapping up an early bird two-day pass for a flat fee of $129. For a more well-rounded experience, you can snaffle a $299 VIP pass, which gives you front-row seating and a chance to attend a dinner with the conference speakers.
The Flat Earth International Conference is the brainchild of Edmontonian Robbie Davidson, who bills himself on his Twitter account as a “Christian, husband, father, filmmaker, enclosed creationist, drummer, painter and media consultant.”
He’s hoping to draw between 300 and 400 people to the convention. From across — but not around — the world.
“It’s definitely going to put Edmonton on the map,” Davidson told me Friday, without a hint of irony.
This isn’t his first trip around the sun. Last year, he organized his first Flat Earth event outside Raleigh, North Carolina, which sold out and garnered national media attention.
It pains me to see such stupidity trying to gain a hold in my country. However I am confident these painfully bad ideas will fail on their own merit.
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