Atlantis (was: Re: [UA] Commercial)

[Bailey Watts]

> >> The thing is, Socrates says
> >
> >You did mean Plato, didn't you?  Because if not,  I'm confused.  :)
>
>Plato wrote the thing, but Socrates actually says the claims in the 
>dialogues.  He's like the lead character in a play.  In some of the 
>dialouges, you can speak of their opinions nearly interchangeably (though 
>in others not).
>
> >Great, now I'm getting interested in tracking down the history of belief
> >in the existance of Atlantis.  So far Ignatius Donnelly's "Atlantis -
> >The Antediluvian World" is the oldest non-Platonian reference I can
> >find.  However, reading it gives an impression that this has been
> >discussed before.
>
>I'm unaware of any other primary sources about Atlantis (that is, people 
>not using other sources as evidence of Atlantis, but just saying "I saw it" 
>or similar)
>

This so much reminds me of a prank I played when I acting psychic either on 
the phone or in person at a psychic fair.  When I encountered a person that 
seemed to be hardcore dependent on asking psychics for help I would ask if 
anyone else had done a past life reading for them.  When they said yes, I'd 
ask if the person doing the reading said anything about Atlantis.

When they said yes again, I would tell them that it was really New Zealand 
and a lot of people who have never been to New Zealand often make that 
mistake during past life readings.  A little more then half the time you 
could just see that soemthing clicked in their mind when they heard that.  
It was pretty cool.
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