Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-209.0.138.91-20190331150627/@comment-4568826-20200122122004

Samoja1 wrote: Come on guys Atlantis is a myth, it never existed. If it did in the place it is supposed to have existed at the time it was supposed to have existed it would have been a lint between Europe and Americas, Columbian exchange would have happened thousands of years earlier and our history would have been completely different, also with their position they would have been able to spread their influence out to all corners of the globe, such a powerful civilization would surely have been remembered by more people then a single greek philosopher. Atlantis is a story Plato made up, nothing more. I find it quite despicable that you accuse one of the most distinguished writers and historians ever - Plato - of not only being a liar, but abusing the honorable name of several family members (eg. Solon, Critias, etc.) and involving them in a made up lie. The main reason people still do this is because they know sh1t about the subject really - other than what some idiots in the 70's wrote about it in an attempt to smear and discredit everybody who uses the "A word". I have above posted the link to a podcast series with Randall Carlson, that you can watch if you want to clear your silly ignorance on the subject, or you can go on knowing sh1t about it and being dumb kids. Plato explicitly mentions not once, but several times in fact that this story is not made up but real history.

''Tell us, said the other, the whole story, and how and from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition.'' ''Critias: Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the seven sages. He was a relative and a dear friend of my great-grandfather, Dropides, as he himself says in many passages of his poems; and he told the story to Critias, my grandfather, who remembered and repeated it to us.'' Plato has never been caught lying about anything. This is outrageous.