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Rittmeister64 wrote: Aragost02 wrote: I mean, mythical creatures haven't been found because they don't want to be found, and it should stay that way. I don't want people to imprison them in zoos.

But Atlantis is a CITY, unless its in deep, deep, deep, sno-i mean water, it should be easy to find. Mythical creatures exist, Atlantis I believe does not...but that's my opinion. Anyone reading this shouldn't listen to me if they believe it exists.

Plato mentions why not much is known about Atlantis.

Egyptian Priest: ''There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; at such times those who live upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore. And from this calamity the Nile, who is our never-failing saviour, delivers and preserves us. When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains, but those who, like you, live in cities are carried by the rivers into the sea. Whereas in this land, neither then nor at any other time, does the water come down from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below; for which reason the traditions preserved here are the most ancient. ''

''The fact is, that wherever the extremity of winter frost or of summer does not prevent, mankind exist, sometimes in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers. And whatever happened either in your country or in ours, or in any other region of which we are informed-if there were any actions noble or great or in any other way remarkable, they have all been written down by us of old, and are preserved in our temples. Whereas just when you and other nations are beginning to be provided with letters and the other requisites of civilized life, after the usual interval, the stream from heaven, like a pestilence, comes pouring down, and leaves only those of you who are destitute of letters and education; and so you have to begin all over again like children, and know nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or among yourselves.'' There are no primary sources for this story, nothing from Egypt, nothing from Greeks, Plato is the first and only source on it, and he wites about it almost 8000 years after the fact. And he describes the city as a typical greek city, not in the way we know cities in that time looked like. Sumerians and Chinese arose roughly at the same time and there is still a lot of bot literary and archeological sources on them. If Atlantis was such great power there would be more evidence of it's existence then one tale about the importance of morallity. Sure there is a chance(however minuscule) that absolutely all trace of it was somehow lost over the years(apart from Plato's stuff) but occam's razor dictates we go with the less convoluted option, especially since Plato in his Republic openly advocates for teaching false stories as if they were true in pursuit of what he sees as greater good.