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From the lens Did Atlantis Really Exist?.

Please share your thoughts about Atlantis. Have you read anything interesting on the topic? Do you have any theories?

  • Deadicated Apr 20, 2012 @ 8:50 pm | delete
    Excellent Lens, I think there are a few locations where Atlantis could have been located.
  • wheresthekarma Mar 31, 2012 @ 3:17 am | delete
    Great interesting lens. Going to pin it to my "mysteries' board on pinterest :)
  • nightcats Mar 30, 2012 @ 1:18 pm | delete
    I really have no clue whether Atlantis existed. I have an open mind on the subject, though.
  • RealLifeServices Mar 30, 2012 @ 4:38 am | delete
    Wasnt it a place where traders would come together in the times when Greece was a major knowledge hub of the world?
  • vnmediagoup Mar 30, 2012 @ 2:53 am | delete
    Great lens!
  • flycatcher Mar 29, 2012 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    My current theory is that the myth of Atlantis grew up around the flooding of a real island that was perhaps not far above sea level to begin with, but the sophistication of its culture and technological achievements and whatnot have been greatly exaggerated in the telling, to say the least.
  • wordstock Mar 29, 2012 @ 10:24 am | delete
    If it didn't exist, there would be no myth to tantalize so many for so long. Great lens on an interesting subject.
  • desertdarlene Mar 29, 2012 @ 9:05 am | delete
    I think it may have been a large island that sank or was covered by water after the ice age glaciers began to melt, or both. But, I don't think it was much more advanced in technology than the average culture in the area at that time.
  • juliavm Mar 29, 2012 @ 12:06 am | delete
    Maybe we're just not meant to find it. When the time is right, we will.
  • LizMac60 Mar 28, 2012 @ 5:41 pm | delete
    Im not sure about Atlantis, but believe it very possibly could have existed. Blessed.
  • MelonyVaughan Mar 28, 2012 @ 5:15 pm | delete
    Lovely lens. There are so many speculations about Atlantis... I hope it's found one day.
  • GaelicForge Mar 28, 2012 @ 9:00 am | delete
    Atlantis sings in the hearts of the human race as a treasured and ancient ballad that entices us toward the creative spirit of life.
  • fivee05 Mar 27, 2012 @ 10:31 pm | delete
    I do believe that Atlantis existed.
  • Tipi Mar 27, 2012 @ 9:37 pm | delete
    I was here a couple years ago and my hopeful heart still wants there to have been an Atlantis. Donovan's "Atlantis" started playing in my head as soon as I came here and just had to listen to it...it was magical...hail Atlantis! But, I digress, I meant to just congratulate you on front page honors!
  • KReneeC Mar 27, 2012 @ 10:14 am | delete
    Great lens! Very interesting..... well done
  • JziE Mar 27, 2012 @ 3:16 am | delete
    no such thing. at least that is what I thought
  • hftm69 Mar 27, 2012 @ 2:08 am | delete
    Great lens, I also believe that Atlantis excisted, but at this moment we can't proof that Atlantis excisted, the ocean is so big...
  • ckolander Mar 26, 2012 @ 11:02 pm | delete
    Great lens! I love mysteries like this!
  • LabKitty Mar 26, 2012 @ 10:19 pm | delete
    Some historians claim that the basis of the story of Atlantis was ancient Crete. There was a very rich Minoan civilization there for a couple thousand years which got wiped out virtually overnight by a volcanic eruption. This was around the time that the Greeks were arriving on the scene, which might explain Plato's obsession with the place. Sea levels in the Mediterranean changed dramatically, creating lots of submerged ruins around the island. Also, the documents that the Minoans left behind are written in something called Linear A which nobody knows how to read, adding to the mystery.
  • gamrslist Mar 26, 2012 @ 8:37 pm | delete
    ill be back enjoyed your lens thank you
  • mowug1776 Mar 26, 2012 @ 7:36 pm | delete
    sometime i wonder if there where 2 Atlantises
  • tembrooke Mar 26, 2012 @ 11:38 am | delete
    I think this is such a fascinating question. I'd really like to believe that Atlantis existed. Maybe one day there will be concrete proof.
  • parwatisingari Mar 15, 2012 @ 6:00 am | delete
    yeah this is one of my table thumping debates. I love this one.
  • Edutopia Feb 15, 2012 @ 9:19 am | delete
    Great lens. There is a lot of information that we don't know yet that could be miss-attributed to a super volcano eruption or the volcano.
  • paullenton Feb 7, 2012 @ 4:47 am | delete
    I like the debate created here! Good way to trigger participation. Excellent job! Thanks for the subtle teaching.
  • WriterJanis Jan 6, 2012 @ 9:44 pm | delete
    I can't wait for the day that it's found. How much history we could discover.
  • LensbyLisa Nov 24, 2011 @ 4:05 pm | delete
    This lens has just been squid angel blessed! I have always been intrigued by stories of Atlantis, and whether it is real or not, it is still fun to read about!
  • calistoeloi Nov 13, 2011 @ 2:31 am | delete
    Was really into the myth of Atlantis when I was a kid. Great lens! Kudos!
  • aquarian_insight Oct 31, 2011 @ 4:39 pm | delete
    Takes me back to when I was obsessed with Atlantis. A great lens.
  • franstan Oct 17, 2011 @ 6:48 pm | delete
    I have always been intrigued by Atlantis. Blessed.
  • daria369 Aug 13, 2011 @ 1:48 pm | delete
    I always enjoyed this kind of stories. Nicely done & great resource. ***Angel blessed*** during my epic Back to School Bus Trip quest :)
  • sukkran Aug 9, 2011 @ 6:39 pm | delete
    interesting and informative lens on a lost continent. learned a new subject from you. thanks. ~blessed~
  • HERBMASTER Jul 10, 2011 @ 6:15 pm | delete
    Aside from the Atlantis issue, I really like how you wrote this page on the issue. It really makes me rethink what I could do differently. Thanks for visiting me at my site.
  • kab Jul 10, 2011 @ 7:47 pm | delete
    I don't exactly know what you mean, because this page is on both sides of the Atlantis issue, but thanks, I guess. And so the world knows, I did visit your site; I did read it; and I did declare it BS. I'm not buying what your selling. But thanks.
  • RetroMom May 24, 2011 @ 2:01 am | delete
    This is a very interesting lens. It makes me wonder, it Atlantis really do exist.
  • grannysage May 8, 2011 @ 6:04 pm | delete
    Sometimes I could just kick my husband. He is always destroying my favorite myths with facts. I was a true Atlantis in the Atlantic believer until he convinced me with research that it was most likely the explosion of Thera. The Minoans had a very advanced civilization and the eruption greatly contributed to its decline. There are also some that speculate that it could have been linked to the story of the Exodus in the Bible. It is a truly fascinating subject.
  • achilles Apr 30, 2011 @ 8:07 am | delete
    this was an impressive lens. interesting information on the island sinking in the ocean. thanks for sharing this wonderful lens - something greek
  • garrekds Mar 25, 2011 @ 10:37 pm | delete
    Atlantis certainly has a lot of exciting stories surrounding it, but like many scholars have been saying about several resurgent myths, people in modern times are taking the stories far more seriously than the people of antiquity ever did.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Feb 11, 2011 @ 6:09 pm | delete
    It doesn't matter if it was really real, it was definitely real and we are living in it now. If we don't wake up, just like they didn't, then we will be with them.
  • MoonandMagic Jan 27, 2011 @ 6:42 pm | delete
    I love the Atlantis legend, I have rolled this and enjoyed it a lot :)
  • Gera Nov 23, 2010 @ 11:09 am | delete
    Interesting topic.
  • Nov 13, 2010 @ 7:35 am | delete
    Great job on making this lens, you can see that you put a lot of thought on this.
    Great job!!!
  • AmbrosiaPopsicle Nov 12, 2010 @ 10:13 pm | delete
    The next time Atlantis Rises, will be within us.
  • MarkUpshaw Nov 9, 2010 @ 4:42 am | delete
    Nice lens on this topic. Of course, I believe that it existed.
  • Irenemaria Oct 11, 2010 @ 7:30 am | delete
    I saw a lovely movie made about this. Pro´s and con´s. They left me with a question mark.
  • DecoratingforEvents Oct 8, 2010 @ 9:18 am | delete
    For years I have read tons on this, both ways. I believe it was real. Cool lens idea!
  • mcochs Oct 2, 2010 @ 7:55 pm | delete
    Awesome lens!
  • emcueto Sep 29, 2010 @ 1:17 pm | delete
    it probably did exist but the stories of it that we know of today may have been twisted to make it more appealing to people.
  • awakeningwellness Sep 19, 2010 @ 1:05 pm | delete
    This is a great topic for a debate, I definitely believe it existed. Have you ever read any of Edgar Cayce's channeled information on Atlantis?
  • Sep 16, 2010 @ 12:54 am | delete
    This debate has been going on a long time and I think it will continue until concrete proof of Atlantis is found. I choose to believe it did exist.
  • Tipi Sep 9, 2010 @ 10:12 pm | delete
    There are other places that did exist and no traces can be found of them, so why not Atlantis too. It could have been real. I don't know....
  • JoyfulPamela Aug 26, 2010 @ 7:03 pm | delete
    I don't know if existed or not, but the mystery behind the story makes it all that more interesting and fun!
  • Christene Aug 18, 2010 @ 10:25 pm | delete
    Funny that I found this lens today. My daughter had announced earlier that when she grows up she will find, and live in, Atlantis. LOL
  • Catherine Ruby Christian Jul 26, 2010 @ 2:36 am | delete
    I always like to hear or watch or read about Atlantis. Don't know if it exists, but its interesting. :)
  • Richard Welch Jul 13, 2010 @ 5:06 pm | delete
    The Atlantis legend actually has a very straightforward explanation. It was a supervolcanic island off Portugal that exploded and sank in the 17th century BC, i.e., the lost island was exactly where Plato said it was. Plato's Egyptian sources greatly exaggerated the antiquity of Atlantis -- along with their own (See Roots of Cataclysm, Algora Publ. NY 2009).
  • Wordwinder Mar 4, 2010 @ 2:35 am | delete
    Interesting topic for a lens. Unless decisively proved, the question of Atlantis having existed should remain in the realm of myth.
  • Krystal Feb 1, 2010 @ 9:04 pm | delete
    I haven't really dont much research on this, but from the bit I've read, (and I understand that people talked differently in the times of Plato) the first thought I had was that he could have been talking about a ship. I mean on this page what you cite from Plato, he never states anything of land of the "Atlantis". He talks about the land where you can see Atlantis from... I don't know. Like I said, I haven't done much research on this, it was just a first impression. Though, maybe not even a ship; but something large floating in the ocean. Eh, just my 2 bits.
  • jptanabe Jan 9, 2010 @ 10:38 am | delete
    Great topic for a lens! Definitely a fascinating debate. I guess I'm a believer, at least I hope there was a real Atlantis. In any case, the story is memorable and has much to offer even if we never find the real Atlantis.
  • lasertek Dec 9, 2009 @ 7:24 pm | delete
    I have always believed that Atlantis existed. I may not have gone into research but my instinct tells me that such a place and civilization once lived this earth.

    Nice debate. Rated 5* Hope you could visit my lenses and become a fan of my fb page . Thanks
  • Pukeko Oct 25, 2009 @ 4:35 am | delete
    Fun topic. Great debate
  • tokarski21 Sep 12, 2009 @ 3:20 pm | delete
    There actually is enough real scientific information about the ancient world available to us to solve the mystery of Atlantis - so that's what I've done in this 8 minute video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cvT44vbkhA
  • kitty222 Sep 11, 2009 @ 10:50 pm | delete
    Excellent...I think it's likely that Plato's vision was based on older stories of a "Lost Land", which in turn were based on a genuine cataclysmic event. The details don't have to be one hundred percent accurate; but maybe there was really a large island out in the Atlantic that got sank by a massive earthquake in 9600 B.C.
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Apr 7, 2009 @ 2:34 pm | delete
    I'm not sure and you've made me wonder what my teenagers think. I'll have to remember to ask them. Nicely done lens; blessed by a brand-new SquidAngel!

    Brenda
  • Crystal_Booth Apr 4, 2009 @ 10:25 am | delete
    Atlantis has always interested me. I'm not sure if it existed, but I love reading and hearing about it. Fantastic lens! Blessings :)
  • Pramod Mar 1, 2009 @ 6:50 am | delete
    If Atlantis were in fact not a metaphorical city of Plato, why is that after Plato, only Donnelly came forward with his idea, a whopping 2000 years later. For us, Humans, anything unexplained, like the aliens, atlantis, life on Mars, is exciting. Although some of them turn out to be true eventually, not all have to necessarily be true.
    My gut says atlantis was Mr. Plato's imagination. and we are all now stuck to his fantasies.
  • SolarFeline Feb 6, 2009 @ 8:40 pm | delete
    Great lens! Have always had an interest in Atlantis. Great list of books to reference. Have read some and will definitely read the others. Kudos!
  • Chinesefood4free Dec 11, 2008 @ 4:33 pm | delete
    I beleive... that God selected Atlantis to go as the dinosaurs went. I beleive that man has reached some remarkable levels in the short time we have been here, and what it must have been like the first 3,000 years. I beleive God made the Earth that we need to be aware of, 10,000 years ago and anything before this is not our concern. What about in btween The early Chinese, Egyptians and us ?
  • annoymous Nov 7, 2008 @ 3:23 am | delete
    Very cool website! Are you aware of the new book, Of Atlantis by Lanaia Lee? This is a great book about the Kingdom of Atlantis before the destruction and the main characters have eternal life and turn up throughout history to play big roles in stuff like The Mayan Doomsday Prophecy and even the Third Reich. Check it out at her website: www.lanaiaslair.com
  • David Aug 17, 2008 @ 12:51 am | delete
    Everything about Atlantis doesn't have to be true for it to have existed. I believe Atlantis was an island, not a continent, that existed somewhere in the Aegean Sea, and was destroyed by volcano-earthquake-tsunami combination.
  • Squidoophile Jul 30, 2008 @ 10:33 am | delete
    I am a big fan of this topic, and your ideas are very good, and very attractive lens.
    try to see my debate on are there any extraterrestrial life.
    thanks.
  • spirituality May 15, 2008 @ 8:03 am | delete
    Great lens, great topic.
  • bluejewels42 Mar 25, 2008 @ 11:24 pm | delete
    Wow!! I am just at a loss for words, but I will give it a honest try... Very imformative, once I started reading it was hard to stop, but I will difinately be back tomarrow for more information.
    Very Enlightening.
  • poddys Mar 11, 2008 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    Great lens for an ancient history buff like me.
    I believe Atlantis dates far back beyond the Greek civilisation, to the dawn of man, before the great flood, the age of the Gods.
    Did the Gods arrive on earth from another planet and create mankind? It explains a lot, and there is plenty of evidence if you open your mind. I have a lens on Zecharia Sitchin, author of The Earth Chronicles which you might find interesting.
  • Greekgeek Mar 8, 2008 @ 12:58 am | delete
    Great lens! Sorry about holding forth, but it's been a scholarly hobby/focus of mine since the early 80s. :)
  • EelKat Feb 26, 2008 @ 3:02 am | delete
    great lens! for some reason I've alway thought of Atlantis as being In the Mediterranean somewhere near France. No idea how I got that idea in my head.
  • kidgrifter Feb 14, 2008 @ 11:47 pm | delete
    Great lens! I wanted to invite you to join my group: Join my group Monkey Brain!
  • Susan52 Feb 12, 2008 @ 5:15 pm | delete
    I still haven't made up my mind, but you certainly present a lot of great information here. Outstanding job!

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