Did Atlantis Really Exist?
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Did Atlantis really exist? What do you think is the truth behind the #1 enigma (according to TLC <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> ) in the world?
You might be thinking to yourself, "Atlantis? Cmon, thats just a fairytale..." or you might say, "If we found Atlantis, all it'll be is a couple of no good relics, perhaps a few bits of pottery here and there..." But think about it...If we found Atlantis, to what signficance would it have on mankind?
Many people have surmised the location of Atlantis to be in the Arctic, Atlantic, South America's, and even in the pacific near the tropical areas of Cambodia...But only one person, who developed the first concrete description of the location of Atlantis made it clear to where its origions lay, and his name was Plato.....Towards the west of the pillars of Gibralter use to exist an empire of awesome power and in one day and night it was quenched by the water in a perilous disaster that cost the lives of a whole nation...The source of Plato's story was from his ancestor Solon, who then gained the knowledge of the acount of Atlantis from an Egyptian priest and the stone carvings engraved on a pillar in a temple at Sais.
Atlantis contained vast amounts of rare raw materials, exotic animals, vegetation, and maybe technologies, as Edgar Cayce said in one of his "prophecies." He also predicted the findings at Bahimi and many other things. IMHO he was a true "psychic."
If this event happened aprox 10,000 years ago, what evidence do we have today to prove its existence? It's a pretty ancient date for an "advanced" civilization to have existed.. I mean, the most we have found to be called advanced during that time would be a cutting tool or a bone fork..But perhaps there were technologies beyond our knowing or things we cannot comprehend yet...
There are also other forms of tangible evidence to show that the mighty empire of Atlantis could have existed...Just because we haven't found a piece of Atlantis doesn't mean it did not exist...For example: European eels are very odd creatures, they migrate across the ocean towards the Sargasso Sea near the Azores to mate, but the odd thing is its in the middle of the Atlantic; there must be some kind of explanation to this phenomenon.
The website at nasca.org explains says it very well.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>"By far the most fantastic of these of these Atlantic migrations concerns the European eel. Twice in its lifetime it migrates from the comparative safety of European rivers to the mysterious region of the Sargasso Sea, far out in the Atlantic Ocean.Why the European eel should even attempt to make its hazardous two year pilgrimage to this point is difficult to imagine. Some believe the answers lie ingrained in the eels mind as a genetically maintained memory; the instinctive belief that an island once existed here. In his book The Secret of Atlantis, German author Otto Muck makes the following observation: "Instinctual animals cannot learn from experience. Eels have been ruled by instinct since the Cretaceous Age. They are unaware that Atlantis no longer exists, that the current circling around the Sargasso Sea is broken. And even if they did know, they could not change their instinctual lifestyle." The author concludes: "The eel has, it seems, a better memory than man. It cannot forget the land in the east. Every larvae, every one of the courting eels, bears silent witness to Atlantis." </span>
There is also the pangea problem...The theory of continental drift can probably be put to rest, because it is plain ol' clear that all the continents were connected together in the very ancient past...But there is one problem, a piece of the puzzle is missing, many scholarly people say that something was indeed there, perhaps Atlantis?
<img src='http://www.nasca.org.uk/Atlantis/atlanmap/Atlantisdia.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Seeing is not always believing and hearing is the next best thing. Hearing the language of other nations and cultures is a very unique experience, but it is very odd that many similarites pass between the peoples of the basque and the tribes in the Yuchatan. One missionary, who spoke in basque went to the Yuchatan to preach the gospel, oddly enough, she could almost speak in exact similarity to the tribes people...There is also stone carvings and artifacts depicting ancient elephants and animals normally not seen in the south...Perhaps people from Atlantis immigrated to the Americas?
Nasca.org explains:
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>"Other Atlantean links are evident in dialects spoken either side of the Atlantic Ocean. On the Iberian Peninsula the Basque language is often considered unique. Heralded as the oldest language in the world it is widely credited as belonging to no other language group. Remarkably however it was found to bear an astonishing resemblance to a dialect spoken by the Otonu tribe in Central America. So close was this similarity that Basque missionaries had no trouble in preaching to the native Indians in their very own language"</span>
Not to make things long, let me say that there is a lot of theories and evidence, geographical or not, pertaining to the mystery of Atlantis. But the fact is that even if Atlantis did exist, who would fund the expidition to look for it and what would we do afterwards. Even if we did find Atlantis and started learning a thing or two about it in social class, that is if we found some sort of holycron explaining the government dynamics that Atlantis was made up of <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> , would it really make a difference?
Did Atlantis really exist? What do you think is the truth behind the #1 enigma (according to TLC <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> ) in the world?
You might be thinking to yourself, "Atlantis? Cmon, thats just a fairytale..." or you might say, "If we found Atlantis, all it'll be is a couple of no good relics, perhaps a few bits of pottery here and there..." But think about it...If we found Atlantis, to what signficance would it have on mankind?
Many people have surmised the location of Atlantis to be in the Arctic, Atlantic, South America's, and even in the pacific near the tropical areas of Cambodia...But only one person, who developed the first concrete description of the location of Atlantis made it clear to where its origions lay, and his name was Plato.....Towards the west of the pillars of Gibralter use to exist an empire of awesome power and in one day and night it was quenched by the water in a perilous disaster that cost the lives of a whole nation...The source of Plato's story was from his ancestor Solon, who then gained the knowledge of the acount of Atlantis from an Egyptian priest and the stone carvings engraved on a pillar in a temple at Sais.
Atlantis contained vast amounts of rare raw materials, exotic animals, vegetation, and maybe technologies, as Edgar Cayce said in one of his "prophecies." He also predicted the findings at Bahimi and many other things. IMHO he was a true "psychic."
If this event happened aprox 10,000 years ago, what evidence do we have today to prove its existence? It's a pretty ancient date for an "advanced" civilization to have existed.. I mean, the most we have found to be called advanced during that time would be a cutting tool or a bone fork..But perhaps there were technologies beyond our knowing or things we cannot comprehend yet...
There are also other forms of tangible evidence to show that the mighty empire of Atlantis could have existed...Just because we haven't found a piece of Atlantis doesn't mean it did not exist...For example: European eels are very odd creatures, they migrate across the ocean towards the Sargasso Sea near the Azores to mate, but the odd thing is its in the middle of the Atlantic; there must be some kind of explanation to this phenomenon.
The website at nasca.org explains says it very well.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>"By far the most fantastic of these of these Atlantic migrations concerns the European eel. Twice in its lifetime it migrates from the comparative safety of European rivers to the mysterious region of the Sargasso Sea, far out in the Atlantic Ocean.Why the European eel should even attempt to make its hazardous two year pilgrimage to this point is difficult to imagine. Some believe the answers lie ingrained in the eels mind as a genetically maintained memory; the instinctive belief that an island once existed here. In his book The Secret of Atlantis, German author Otto Muck makes the following observation: "Instinctual animals cannot learn from experience. Eels have been ruled by instinct since the Cretaceous Age. They are unaware that Atlantis no longer exists, that the current circling around the Sargasso Sea is broken. And even if they did know, they could not change their instinctual lifestyle." The author concludes: "The eel has, it seems, a better memory than man. It cannot forget the land in the east. Every larvae, every one of the courting eels, bears silent witness to Atlantis." </span>
There is also the pangea problem...The theory of continental drift can probably be put to rest, because it is plain ol' clear that all the continents were connected together in the very ancient past...But there is one problem, a piece of the puzzle is missing, many scholarly people say that something was indeed there, perhaps Atlantis?
<img src='http://www.nasca.org.uk/Atlantis/atlanmap/Atlantisdia.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Seeing is not always believing and hearing is the next best thing. Hearing the language of other nations and cultures is a very unique experience, but it is very odd that many similarites pass between the peoples of the basque and the tribes in the Yuchatan. One missionary, who spoke in basque went to the Yuchatan to preach the gospel, oddly enough, she could almost speak in exact similarity to the tribes people...There is also stone carvings and artifacts depicting ancient elephants and animals normally not seen in the south...Perhaps people from Atlantis immigrated to the Americas?
Nasca.org explains:
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>"Other Atlantean links are evident in dialects spoken either side of the Atlantic Ocean. On the Iberian Peninsula the Basque language is often considered unique. Heralded as the oldest language in the world it is widely credited as belonging to no other language group. Remarkably however it was found to bear an astonishing resemblance to a dialect spoken by the Otonu tribe in Central America. So close was this similarity that Basque missionaries had no trouble in preaching to the native Indians in their very own language"</span>
Not to make things long, let me say that there is a lot of theories and evidence, geographical or not, pertaining to the mystery of Atlantis. But the fact is that even if Atlantis did exist, who would fund the expidition to look for it and what would we do afterwards. Even if we did find Atlantis and started learning a thing or two about it in social class, that is if we found some sort of holycron explaining the government dynamics that Atlantis was made up of <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> , would it really make a difference?
Comments
Nothing. I don't much care for polytheism, though.
It's a little far-stretched, for now, I think they make interesting and fun stories, but other than that, I don't know.
They would believe crazy things, though, which is why I usually don't trust them--like, before science was known. "The flower grows because the goddess of planting came down and touched the seed", or, "We have thunder and lightning because the gods are angry", those were all proven wrong by science. I'm just saying, I think it's wrong, but who really knows?
dragging this back on topic, a little
Atlantis was one of those crazy stories. I don't think it exists, but I don't know very much about ancient history.
and on a side note hitler said all germans were decendants of the survivors of atlantis..
Like most things there would be an initial intrest then people would go start watching Big Brother series 10
The problem is when do we stop looking. With each lost city we discover, when do we decide that we've found "Atlantis"?
Although I highly doubt they're in a bubble on the ocean floor driving around in little bubble cars... ;)
Judging from that pic, it must have been one HUGE piece to go missing. We have several topographic maps of the ocean and that huge land mass isnt really there that I know of.
Well, why is it then, that in over 40 different nations, all far from eachother, the story came, all around the same time, INSURING that they couldn't have just told one another? I mean, sure, it could have been a big hoax. But what about the stuff that people have found washed up on beaches, or in the mountains(from when most of America was a ocean), that told how to go here and there in a city on a humongous island?
I mean, despite there is no definate proof, there is a lot pointing to it.
So...ya. I believe in it. And for all we know, it could prove much more than we thought about physics and mythicism, along with its theological bonuses.
Certainly there are many myths in many countries of lost cities/civilisations, not all of them are Atlantis, or refer to it. Not all of them agree on a time, or location, or even how it disappeared. I concede that it's possible, but am wary of the Von Danniken style theories.
I've never heard of the stuff washing up on beaches, linky?
Oh wait...! Troy does exist. We found it in the 1900th century.
There is so much evidence to suggest that it did exist, I do believe Atlantis is indeed a real possibility.
You either mean the year 1900 or the 19th century. The 1900th century would start in the year 18000 i think. (can't be bothered to work it out properly).
I just had to go out of my way to correct a little typo, didn't I? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anyways, Atlantis is one of those things I would like to believe is true.
I seem to remember some guy coming on some radio show who said that atlantis DID exist, and it was more advanced that our civilisation, except that they never went into space. He said that they had a technology that could generate huge amounts of power using crystals, and that atlantis was destroyed in some kind of big crystal-power-plant-explosion thingy.
But then, this is the same show where a UNARIUS (i think I spelt it right) representitive came on and said that aliens exist, and that they will land on earth once we build them an embassy (which is basically what UNARIUS is trying to do). Can you guess where the aliens supposedly want it built?
Jerusalem. Because that's where they first landed. Yep, UNARIUS claim the Jesus, Buddah, Moses, Methusalah e.t.c were all aliens. He also claims he has spoken personally to the alien who called himself "Jesus Christ" on Earth, who is alive and well.
It kind of makes sense (note the "kind of") if you think about it, Jesus "died" on the cross, got put in a tomb, and the body disapeared. Maybe he was "teleported" away?
And no-one even saw Buddah die, he just disapeared.
Don't know about the other prophets, anyone know what supposedly happened to Muhummad and Moses e.t.c?
I'm not saying I believe in all this, I'm just saying I would LIKE to believe it, because it would make the world a much more interesting place.