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Post by wiilyr on May 26, 2006 13:26:50 GMT -5
So, do you think there really was an eighth great continent known as Atlantis once upon a time or is it just a bunch of bullhonkery people have created to explain ancient cultural similarities from around the world?
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Post by Tyual on Jun 1, 2006 14:57:00 GMT -5
Fact, Fiction, a bit of both I believe.
I believe there was probably a scuss word-side region that fell into the water. Why not? I mean, they expect California to do the same thing eventually due to tetonic(sp) plate movement, right? So why couldn't ith have happened before.
Obviously, without the scientific reasoning we have today, they would have had mythological stories about the place, thus how we got our myths for Atlantis.
So there may have been an actual place, maybe named atlantis, maybe not, that collapsed underwater. However, the fables of people living there and such, I say that's fiction.
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Post by 2bfoundwanting(unused) on Jun 15, 2006 7:09:59 GMT -5
There really is so much controversy that surrounds this "mysterious" continent, or island, of Atlantis.
Though one small opinion counts little in the world of today, here is what I see in this mystery. I think a piece of land did exist at one point that was a city unto itself, one giant city maybe. Now whether it was called Atlantis or not, who knows? As things get told down to the next generations throughout history the story starts getting a little skewed. History is almost like that whisper game. You know the game where one person whispers something into someone's ear and it goes all the way around the room and by the time it reaches the last persons ear it's something completely different than what was started with.
Maybe this "Atlantis" was an advanced city of sorts and maybe this is why there are so many magical tales about it. I believe that if this place existed that a natural disaster plunged it under the ocean, and if that is the case it's probably already been found, it's just that no one realizes it. Or, another possibility is that ocean life has consumed it over the long years. And the last possibility is that nothing as great as a plunging to the bottom of the ocean even happened. Perhaps a natural disaster simply wiped the city away, and later on it was rebuilt into something different.
The real fact is that we may never know whether it is fact or fiction, but it's always fun to speculate what could have happened to such a great city or continent. History is a lot of speculation with very little fact to go on. Historians have tried to piece together our history, but we don't really know how old this earth is or how these people such as cavemen actually lived. All of that is guesses because no one lived with them.
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Post by seffy on Jun 26, 2006 18:23:15 GMT -5
Atlantis isn't the only disappeared continent story out there. There is also the story of Lyoness, which parallels Atlantis rather closely (except for the magical inhabitants). Could Lyoness and Atlantis be one and the same?
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Post by wowpower on Sept 15, 2008 7:02:29 GMT -5
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