[spycatcher]

Old background info posted here

For some reason the Free Republic search engine doesn't search posts more than a week or two old, so a more recent posted update isn't available to link. I found this old one using Google, but they don't index more recent FR stuff.

[rwfromkansas]

Hello, Atlantis. MAYBE....:)

[Traction]

What remained of The Maine was refloated after the investigation into her explosion. She was towed to sea beyond the 12 mile limit and scuttled in International waters. The location of her re-sinking has been known since that time. Again, the press can't get it right.

[CalConservative]

Seems to coincide well with the age of the Flood. More evidence!

[crypt2k]

Probably natural rock formations.

[Lancey Howard]

Zelitsky said the structures may have been built by unknown people when the current sea-floor actually was above the surface.

Interesting theory....

[The_Expatriate]

Lost city? How careless can one get? I mean, to misplace an entire city for centuries...

[jrewingjr]

Here's a link to the same story - different source: Update on Underwater Megalithic Structures near Western Cuba. Very interesting, many pictures and diagrams.

[billybudd]

No, you fools, it's Fidel's underwater hideaway!

[Clinton's a rapist]

The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft

[#3Fan]

I think it's part of an Atlantis Empire that covered the equatorial regions east of Asia all the way to the West of Spain. I think it was based on a sunken continent just east of the Philippines. I think it's empire covered the islands of the Pacific Ocean, the central parts of the Americas, and the islands off Spain and Africa. Old legends.

[Carry_Okie]

There is a Masonic tradidion that led to the founding of the Knights of the Golden Circle, which later became the Knights of the Ku Klux Clan (kuklus means "circle" in Greek). The plan was for a slave nation that incorporated the American South, Mexico, Central America, and the Northern Coast of South America. Havana was to be the capital. BTW, the Walker family (as in George WALKER Bush) was both a prime member of the KGC and had significant dealings in Nicaragua. There is speculation that the interest on the part of the KGC was in reviving the drug trade, and perhaps rediscovering the gold mines of the Aztecs.

Masonic traditions reach back to Zoroasterian origins, far enough back to have a record of such a city. There are other, more tangible evidences ancient exploration and perhaps trade with Central America conducted by both Hebrew and Phoenician civilizaions. There is evidence of a global drug trade extending back at least as far as the pre-Mosaic dynasties of Egypt.

[d4now]

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[brat]

Wonderful post, spycatcher...thankyou! And thank all of you for the interesting links. There is much food for thought.

[Straight Vermonter]

The intriguing discovery provided evidence that Cuba at one time was joined to mainland Latin America via a strip of land from the Yucatan Peninsula, the researchers said.

[Wm Bach]

Dr. Pangloss, we've found your El Dorado.

Hey, maybe Edgar Cayce WASN'T a complete whack job...

...nahhhhhh.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Aurelius]

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[jrhepfer]

We should keep our minds open to the possibility that civilization existed before recorded history. Right now, we are to believe that, all of a sudden, some folks decided to build cities in the Tigris and Euphrates river vallies in Iraq. Does this strike anyone as odd? All of a sudden large cities of thousands of people pop up at once?

I don't buy that, but no other explanation has yet to arise. But the possibility that there is another explanation (Atlantis-like civilization) is available to us and demands some investigation. The world currently has vastly advanced civilizations living a scant few hundred miles from mud brick villages and grass roofed shacks, why not then?

Another curiosity is that we are led to believe that moder humans appeard little more than 30k years ago and we have advanced to our current stage since. By Darwinian theories of evolution this is not possible. By biblical histories, this is not possible. Yet again though, another option has not yet surfaced. We should keep an open mind to possibilites that do explain these events with more logic though.

Atlantis may not be a "missing step" in this logical process but a previously unrecorded civilization would be a logical step.

But, that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.

[RayChuang88]

Looks like I have to throw in my US$0.02 on this subject. :-)

Let's consider the issue of Plato's works. There is potential proof what Plato may have been referring to was the Minoan civilization that suffered a catastrophic setback when the island of Thera was destroyed in a spectacular volcanic eruption circa 1200 B.C. that destroyed the volcano in the center of the island and caused it to collapse into the sea (that's why Thera today is three islands, not a single one).

When Thera was destroyed, it set up a massive tsunami that travelled all over the Aegean Sea. We do know that the northern coast of Crete suffered massive damage from a tsunami about the same time as the Thera eruption, so what happened was that the major Minoan outposts all over the Aegean Sea were destroyed. Once the Minoan civilization suffered that disaster, they were easy pickings for the Myceneans (the people described in Homer's works) and the later Dorians.

When Plato talked about Solon's story, he said the civilization was destroyed some 9,000 years ago as described by Egyptian scholars. However, there are some scholars who said that Solon may have mistranslated what the Egyptians said, so what Solon may have described happened in reality only 900 years earlier, which closely matches the fall of the Minoan civilization as result of the Thera disaster.

[d4now]

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