Atlantis?

I've always found the story about Atlantis quite interesting. I've been reading quite a lot about it, there are plenty of speculations about it's potential location, but so far there is no sold proof for neither so far.

Here's just some basic information, if you're really interested to read more there are plenty of books published about it (both scientifical and pseudo-scientifical) and of course you can always find a lot on the Net.

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You can read more about Plato's Timaeus and Critias here

Possible locations (some of them are really a long shot): here

I even found a theory which relies on some old tibetan writings that say that Moon wasn't always in the Earth's orbit, and that Atlantis actually sunk when Moon flew into the orbit and became natural sattelite and raised the sea level.
Of coure there are no scientific evidence for this, but it's pretty interesting.



So what do you think? Atlantis, a bullshit that Plato made up or a lost paradise?

 

I've always found Atlantis to be very interesting, and read up on it a bit every now and then.

Not much scientific or historic proof for it though.

 

Well as far as I know, there's still some voyages going on trying to find the island.

I've been always interested too, it's very fascinating.
Of course, there's not a REAL proof about the "treasure" or anything about the island yet, but just old maps that some fanatics/scientifics have drawn.

Hm..

 

Yeah, but there was no proof that Troy isn't just fictional and they eventually found it.

 

It's one of those things that you can't really prove or disprove at the moment. It doesn't really interest me though.

 

i LOVE The Theory of it..it really is a interesting archaeological Tale

 

I heard a theory that I thought was interesting, don't remember where it was but it basically links the 'sinking' of Atlantis to Noah's Ark.

In reality, where else can stories of a sunken city come from but a survivor? And that survivor would be 'Noah.'

Of course the stories won't be exactly as told, but imagine it this way. The sinking of Atlantis correlates to a flood, while the tale of Noah's Ark stems from the one survivor who just happened to have a boat or some flotation device.

An actual incident taken by story-tellers of the time branching off into two different 'tall tales,' it's an interesting view on how one event can be interpreted into separate stories.

 

There is no way in hell Noah's Ark is a true story.

 

I never said it was a true story. It could be based on a true story though. I mean, take the human imagination, someone surviving a flood can go a long way.

Just like the flooding of a town can snowball into a sinking island.

 

I can't remember the exact timeline but I think that according to what Plato said, the Atlantis sunk some 4000 years before the flood even happened.

I like the theory that we are the third civilisation that inhabits the Earth, and that the two before us destroyed themselves. Atlantis was the second. People just reach a certain technological level and then it's inevitable that they destroy themselves, by war or some other means.

The great flood exists in almost every single religion or ancient culture as a story and is considered to be the oldest collective memory of the human race (of course if Atlantis is only a myth ). Maybe it didn't happen with Noah exactly as it was written in Bible but I'm pretty sure that some great flood did happen and that a small number of people really survived and brought a large number of animals in pairs with themselves on a ship. It's quite plausible, unselfish and a reasonable thing to do if you think that it's the end of the world and you're the only one to survive.

 

That is one of the most intrigeuing things I've heard in a long time... wow...

It must actually be that stories of the last time the ice caps melted have actually been remembered by humans... Thats extremely interesting...

 

there are TONS of different theory's and ideas of how 2 different stories can be linked together. it just boils down to what you WANT to believe and if you choose to

 

There is actually an area in the middle east/mediterranean where Mount Ararat was supposed to have been, but it hasn't been explored properly yet as it's dangerous for various reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ararat_anomaly

 

Mount Ararat is still there.

 

Even though I'm not christian the Bible really fascinates me. It's stupid cause I've been to christian schools for 12 years long and I never showed interest untill now. Anyway, Noah's always been my favorite story and somehow I refuse to deny the exsistence of Noah and the ark.

Actually, I believe alot of things that are written in the Bible, but I don't feel the need to be christian. I dunno.

 

Yeah, I tried to reword that post a couple of times and I still ended up wording it wrongly. What I meant was something along the lines of "Where the ark was supposed to have came ashore", I just didn't think of it at the time.

 

Yeah, I understood what you meant just wanted to make it clear for the others.

And concerning that article, I had no clue that there are parts on Ararat that haven't been explored yet. Fascinating. I can't even imagine what would happen if they really find something there.

 

What I like about the atlatis theory is that it is possible. It IS possible for an island to sink..