Instigator / Pro
12
1266
rating
119
debates
15.97%
won
Topic
#630
Atlantis was a real civilization
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 5 votes and with 23 points ahead, the winner is...
oromagi
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- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Three days
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
35
1922
rating
117
debates
97.44%
won
Description
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Round 1
Forfeited
Unlike many mythological place names, the origins of the Atlantis legend are well understood. In Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" the tyrant Critias claims that his great-grandfather had a friend (the famous Solon) who once translated a work from Egyptian to Greek that described an island called Atlantis. In Plato's "Critias," the nature of Atlantis and its war with a fictional ancient Athens 11,500 years ago was narrated. We should note that Plato's dialogues are works of fiction recreating popular philosophies of Socrates and his contemporaries. Socrates used the fictional Atlantis as a foil against which to contrast some of his theories regarding an ideal state.
After the discovery of the Americas in the late 15th Century, the notion of Atlantis was revived by utopian and apocalyptic theorists as evidence supporting all manner of theories, contributing to and re-editing the fictional history of Atlantis.
Mid-20th Century psychic Edgar Cayce, who is considered the founder of the modern American New Age Movement, popularized the notion of Atlantis on radio and books by telling many of his subjects that they were re-incarnated Atlantean souls. Cayce asserted that there was a secret hall of records beneath the Sphinx, the discovery of which would cause Atlantis to rise again from beneath the sea. Although Cayce asserted that this would take place in the 1960s, the fact that Atlantis did not rise from this sea did little to diminish speculation within New Age thinking.
No convincing archaeological evidence of a sunken mid-Atlantic civilization has ever been produced. Archaeologists can assert that there was no ancient Athenian culture as far back as 9,500 BC. No archaeological finds to date suggest that any Stone Age culture developed sailing vessels earlier than the Egyptians and Polynesians circa 4000 BC.
Round 2
Forfeited
Extend arguments
Round 3
Forfeited
Atlantis is fake news. Pls. vote Con
you are starting your journey :)
Perhaps there are multiple portals. Perhaps the portals that aren't meant for humans to go through can be forced open. Perhap[s none of this is actually real.
It's Atlantis. The portal it left behind. That is how the aliens exit Earth but it's not an entry portal at all, I predict that's in the north pole but it could be anywhere.
Bermuda triangle? I am talking about the Richat structure. The Bermuda triangle shit is probably some naturally occurring electromagnetic or weather phenomena.
Holy shit you are learning flat earth truths. I am impressed. Ragnarök happened on Atlantis not the North Pole and it became the Bermuda Triangle, you have much to learn but you're on the right track.
Ignore the comics.