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Originally posted by iori_komei
I was recently thinking about Atlantis, and all the stories and such about them being a highly advanced technologically sophisticated society.
Originally posted by warpboost
I have wondered this too, but my question is let's say they were so advanced the had computers, microchips etc.. Wouldn't we have found one by now somewhere? I know the world is a big place and all, but wouldn't there be some visible evidence past technology?
Originally posted by merka
And if we would assume that Atlantis really is a reality, their technology would be underwater, wouldnt it?
Originally posted by merka
And if we would assume that Atlantis really is a reality, their technology would be underwater, wouldnt it?
Originally posted by Cicada
Improbable maybe but not impossible. Since we're discussing hypothetical cultures we have no idea about what types of social structures and hierarchies they may have had. There certainly could have been technological advances that were the exclusive privilege of an elite class.
Wheat, maize and numerous other edible grains, fruits and vegetables certainly owe their origins to the guided evolution of wild plant species by an unknown primeval culture.
In fact there is such universality in world folklores, fairy tales, mythologies and especially language that a truly critically thinking skeptic would be safer to assume the existence of a common source, a mother culture, then to depend upon these similarities and direct mirrorings to have occurred due to happenstance and chance.
Originally posted by Byrd
Actually, it's the objects and graves of those who had highest status that we find most often. They were the ones buried with care and ceremony. So if the technology was the privelege of the elite class, we'd have found that.
Actually, we do know which cultures develped these grains and how long it took. There's plenty of archaeological evidence.
Speaking as someone who studies (academically) folklore, I'd disagree with that. There are certain folktales that travel, but they're clearly cultural mashups rather than retellings of the same tale by different culture.
Originally posted by Cicada
Plato didn't create the concept of Atlantis in a vacuum, but like anyone, derived it from folklores and mythologies of his era.
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Cicada
Plato didn't create the concept of Atlantis in a vacuum, but like anyone, derived it from folklores and mythologies of his era.
Well, since no one else has, I'm going to challenge the validity of the above statement.
I do not believe for even one second that Plato derived the Atlantis story from some mythology or legends held by the culture of his time.
There is no evidence of any such mythology, folklore or legend, and Plato made up a lot of things in his writings, as did practically every other writer of the ancient Greek culture. Philosophical, dramatic, and even historical writers fabricated a bunch of stuff back then, to try and make their point (whatever it may be.) Think Aesop. Are those fables based on Greek mythology or legend?
Harte
Originally posted by Odium
What proof do you have that they have such a thing?
There is a large difference between a culture being destroyed and a World flood...in fact if you take it one step further it could have easily developed it from the Babylonian Myths when the river flooded and destroyed parts of Babylon...