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Plato's Atlantis My Theory

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« Reply #2055 on: June 06, 2010, 12:33:31 am »

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As I pointed out before, he mentions the 9000 years ago, at least 3 times so I don't think we're in doubt as to the timeline he's placed the story.

Actually, we're completely in doubt as to when he places the story, and that is the one issue that everyone pretty much agrees on.  Namely because:

1.  Neither the Greeks or the Egyptians were officially a civilization at that point so there was no way they could keep records.

2.  No writing system at all was even in place back then, for any civilization.

3.  There is no way that the story could have been passed down verbally as there was no official language for anyone either.

4.  There was no way that Plato could have possibly known, given all those points.

I prefer to think of it as a storyteller simply stating, "once, a long time ago," (which the 9000 years was used as, in other writings) and that is how we should regard the reference to 9000 years. 

Once we all accept this, it opens up myriad possibilities. And it somehow makes the whole Atlantis story more plausible as well.
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