Originally posted by Muaddib
First you said that the Vedic scriptures do not say anything about an atomic explosion or anything similar to it, then you mention that these
scriptures don't exist, proved you wrong on that, now this too?
Funny thing, but actually a lot of the books cited by the ancient nuclear war crowd -didn't- exist until this century. Vaimanika Shastra namely.
As for the scriptures, I spent untold hours shredding the nuclear war theory in
www.abovetopsecret.com...'
If you read through that you will find a translation of that passage from www.sacred-texts.com which is decidedly non-nuclear. The nuclear aspect is a
bias created by our modern knowledge of nuclear weapons- people steer the translation in that direction on purpose, and if they don't do so the
translation has nothing to do with nukes.
"Atlantis Under Antarctica?
After WW II, scientists started to pay close attention to the issue of a supposedly once-existing civilization in Antarctica. The hypothesis is
confirmed by some medieval maps and research of paleogeologists and glaciologists.
Twenty years later, the director of the Istanbul National Museum, Khalil Edkhem, was sorting out a library of the Byzantine emperors in an old palace.
He found an ancient map made on gazelle skin. On the map, there were the shores of western and southern Africa, as well as the northern shores of
Antarctica.
Nope, this was debunked a long time ago, and I had the honor of being the one who brought word of it to ATS. (I know, I'm a braggart).
The Piri Reis Map shows South America curving so that the coast of Argentina faces North. This is because the cartographer ran out of room on the page
and didn't want to waste it. You can confirm this by downloading the map and comparing it to an Atlas. "Antarctica" very obviously has terrain
features matching Argentina on the map, and the bottom half of South America is missing unless "antarctica" is actually it.
Khalil could not believe hiseyes: the shores of the Queen Mod Land, to the south of the 70th parallel, was free of ice. An ancient cartographer marked
a mountain chain there. The name of the cartographer was known: an admiral of the Ottoman Empire fleet, Piri Reis, who lived in the first half of 16th
century."
Actually he lived in the second half of the 15th century and first half of the 16th- he was about 90 years old when he was exectued for losing a
battle. I did my homework on this one. The map is nothing impressive for its date- it's a collection of portugese and spanish charts all compiled
into one big map of the ocean. Cuba isn't even on it, Haiti is turned 90 degrees on it's side, the Falkland Island are too big and too far North,
there are islands that don't even exist mapped there, AND there are notes in the margins which say where the source maps came from- they were almost
all from lost portugese merchants.
You've been pretty thorough about showing that there is stuff under water. Yes, there is stuff under water. The catch is that most of it is nice and
close to the continents and is the victim of erosion, volcanic activity, rising tides, or tectonic shifts probably comparable to what we experienced
not long ago in Indonesia.
There is little if any evidence for a lost continent which sank as a whole.
Plato is pretty explicit that there was a series of horrible earthquakes before the deluge, and that in one of these quakes atlantis sank. Sounds like
a tsunami or a sudden movement in the plates if I ever heard it. We know from very recent experience this is possible.
That's not a lost continent, that's not a highly advanced civilization, that's not a nuclear war, that's not anything more amazing than other
natural disasters in history we are already aware of.
