Hello.
I'm currently researching the flat earth community and the effects discovering such a community can have on its member's psychological state. While going through all the available information online, I was disappointed to see the topic is always addressed by round earthers. It took me around 8 Google pages to reach an 'inside source.' I feel the image of the flat earther has been unjustly deformed into an uneducated gullible conspirator and I am much more interested in what the truth about becoming a flat earther is. I was happy to come across this discussion board and I'm hoping some of you could share your experience. Particularly I am interested in how you feel your life has changed since discovering FE and what effects it has had on your internal self and well-being, for lack of better words.
Looking forward to what you have to say!

Hello, my name is Edvaldo, I'm Brazilian living in Michigan, I'm new in this forum and I've been "studying" FE for 1 year now. I have a college degree in Mechanical Engineering and I work in a big automaker.
The first time I heard about it was from a friend of mine asking me if I watched that documentary in Netflix and I told him: "Don't even bother talk to me about this theory!"
Well, 2 weeks after that I was surprised with myself when I was searching Youtube about Earth's magnetic field reversal and I found a Brazilian GEOLOGIST, PHD in seismology, talking about the movement in the magnetic field and, also, how it makes MUCH more sense in flat earth than in an spherical earth.
That video turned my mind upside down and I started researching about FE, because I wanted to understand why a lot of people believe in it. To me it looked ridiculous and now I see how wrong I was.
There are a few things that need to be answered, like the real shape of moon, why we can see only one side of it, how it works, etc, but even with these things I think FE is much more plausible.
The main thing FE changed in me is that I became much more curious about everything than before. Now I don't just believe in everything someone tells me it's true, I question everything! This new way of thinking was the most important thing that happened to me and I think everybody should do that!
I never believed man went to the moon and I know it's impossible to do that, just look for information on Van Allen radiation belt and, also, look for information on our own thermosphere, in which its temperature varies from 500C (932F) to 2000C (3632F). There's no known material that supports Van Allen's radiation and that highest thermosphere temperature.
I am Christian, I believe in the Old and in the New Testament (I prefer call them Alliance and Renovated Alliance), I believe Earth is the center of the "universe" and all human beings are special, just like God created us. I can find FE in the Bible, it was always there and I guess I never payed attention. Did FE make any difference in my beliefs? Of course it did, for better!
Some scientists say that we're less than a grain of sand compared to the universe! To me, that's a big fat lie, just to make us believe we're nothing, we're just an accident, born from a worm in a primordial soup, billions of years ago in an event which its possibility of happening is trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions... That's our enemy's strategy, don't fall for that.
Question everything!