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Type1

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Topic

#630

Atlantis was a real civilization

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

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After 5 votes and with 23 points ahead, the winner is...

oromagi

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Publication date: 03.22.2019 08:16AM
Last updated date: 04.17.2019 05:16PM
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

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oromagi

1922

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Round 1

Type1

04.02.2019 04:52PM

Pro

Forfeited

oromagi

04.04.2019 04:55PM

Con

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

Type1

04.07.2019 04:55PM

Pro

Forfeited

oromagi

04.07.2019 05:07PM

Con

Extend arguments

Round 3

Type1

04.10.2019 05:07PM

Pro

Forfeited

oromagi

04.10.2019 05:16PM

Con

Atlantis is fake news. Pls. vote Con

RationalMadman

03.22.2019 09:24AM

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@Type1

you are starting your journey :)

Type1

03.22.2019 09:14AM

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@RationalMadman

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.

RationalMadman

03.22.2019 08:44AM

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@Type1

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.

Type1

03.22.2019 08:32AM

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@RationalMadman

Bermuda triangle? I am talking about the Richat structure. The Bermuda triangle shit is probably some naturally occurring electromagnetic or weather phenomena.

RationalMadman

03.22.2019 08:20AM

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@Type1

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.

PsychometricBrain

04.17.2019 01:41PM

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Full forfeit

Barney

04.17.2019 09:31AM

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Forfeiture.

Melcharaz

04.10.2019 10:20PM

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Ramshutu

04.10.2019 05:20PM

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Full forfeit

RationalMadman

04.10.2019 05:18PM

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Reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3nT0piQDgA