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Destroyed Atlantis = Menorah

King of the Americas

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Greetings JREF'ers,

Truly it has been too long...

I hope all of you are well.

The thing that brings me back, is that I'd like feedback on a particular "woo-subject" I was introduced to last week.

So...along the Spanish coast are remnants of 'half' of Atlantis...

http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/hierarchical-constraint-satisfaction/

There are some who postulate that the Menorah was misconstrued as a candle stick, rather than a symbol of the lost city, with half its concentric circles missing.

I've always found Atlantis to be the unfound Troy- a mythical city lost to our knowledge, trapped behind indecipherable passages, waiting to be found by someone willing to look where others have not...

Thoughts?
 
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My thought is that as appealing as the idea of an Atlantis is, it has never existed in reality as anything other than an all-inclusive resort casino in the Caribbean. I'd actually like to visit it for a weekend someday, if I'm in the neighborhood.

"Lost Atlantis" was an allegorical story. Full stop.
 
Plainly KotA, six years was not a long enough suspension to impose on us.

You should reinstate it... maybe ten years this time?
 
The Greater Fool said:
My thought is that as appealing as the idea of an Atlantis is, it has never existed in reality as anything other than an all-inclusive resort casino in the Caribbean. I'd actually like to visit it for a weekend someday, if I'm in the neighborhood.

"Lost Atlantis" was an allegorical story. Full stop.
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There is one in Reno, NV, too.
 
King of the Americas said:
So...along the Spanish coast are remnants of 'half' of Atlantis...

http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/tag/h...-satisfaction/

There are some who postulate that the Menorah was misconstrued as a candle stick, rather than a symbol of the lost city, with half its concentric circles missing.

I've always found Atlantis to be the unfound Troy- a mythical city lost to our knowledge, trapped behind indecipherable passages, waiting to be found by someone willing to look where others have not...

Thoughts?
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First thought: why would anyone make a symbol of half a city?

Second thought: Troy has been found, though.

Third thought: People are willing to look off the coast of Spain. Does that mean Atlantis has been found there? Or is it still waiting to be found somewhere else?

Fourth thought: Are there indecipherable passages off the coast of Spain

Fifth thought: I should probably check the link.

Sixth thought: Wait, that link says nothing at all about "off the coast of Spain." What you call "indecipherable passages" appears to be what other people call "a map of the Moroccan coast."

Seventh thought: That link also says nothing about menorahs, either. Or halves or a circle, or circles at all. At this rate, you wouldn't recognize Atlantis if it were right in front of your nose.
 
Hokulele said:
There is one in Reno, NV, too.
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I don't recall where that one sits, but I love how a few years back they connected the three most western on Virginia (nearest the hospital) with an enclosed skybridge. :p

(been there many, many times decades ago... not so much the last 20 years)
 
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Plato invented the story of Atlantis as an allegory. There can never have been a lost continent in the Atlantic because the sea bed is consistent with the mid Atlantic ridge forcing the continents of Europe and America apart. There was no extra land mass.
We have complete maps of the sea bed to prove it.

Madam Blavatsky said in 'the secret doctrine' that there was an Atlantis in the Atlantic which proves she was a fraud.
 
theprestige said:
First thought: why would anyone make a symbol of half a city?

Second thought: Troy has been found, though.

Third thought: People are willing to look off the coast of Spain. Does that mean Atlantis has been found there? Or is it still waiting to be found somewhere else?

Fourth thought: Are there indecipherable passages off the coast of Spain

Fifth thought: I should probably check the link.

Sixth thought: Wait, that link says nothing at all about "off the coast of Spain." What you call "indecipherable passages" appears to be what other people call "a map of the Moroccan coast."

Seventh thought: That link also says nothing about menorahs, either. Or halves or a circle, or circles at all. At this rate, you wouldn't recognize Atlantis if it were right in front of your nose.
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Thank you for your thoughts, all of them.

1. To symbolize it being 'wiped' away...?

2. Troy was once believed to be merely a 'mythical' city, until someone took Homer seriously.

3. Yes, people believe they have found Atlantis, as part of the Spanish coast.

4. History is made up of 'indecipherable passages.' Sifting thought the texts to find the truth is often a long and arduous process yielding few positive results. Plato's writings thereon are an example.

5. Damn... this was the intended link: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tsunami-atlantis-idUSTRE72B2JR20110312

6. My apologies for the error(s).
 
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