(ANSA) - Rome, October 13 - Top scholars have gathered in Rome this week to discuss the exciting and controversial idea that Sardinia is the lost island of Atlantis .
The theory, developed in a book by the Italian journalist Sergio Frau, has drawn international acclaim but also fuelled heated criticism .
Despite selling 30,000 copies in Italy, a detailed 20-point appeal by 250 academics has dismissed the book, claiming it sensationalizes Sardinian history .
But the theory received a major boost last year, when the United Nations cultural heritage body UNESCO organized a symposium on the issue in Paris, suggesting the idea was worth serious consideration. Academics, archaeologists, geologists and historians from across Italy are now meeting in Rome's Accademia dei Lincei to look at the theory in closer depth and discuss possible paths of future research .
Believe it or not, it seems that "top scholars" are convening to decide whether or not Sardinia is Atlantis.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Traditionally, the location of Charybdis has been associated with the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily, opposite the rock called Scylla.
NOthing like a little Greek mythology.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Traditionally, the location of Charybdis has been associated with the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily, opposite the rock called Scylla.
hahaha fantastic
has nobody read Pliny Secundus here
Whirlpool sea monsters are something different to whirlpools
gotta love how wrong all those greek texts were translated in the late 19th century for mass public consumption and the resulting nonsense you read about what we think the ancient greeks thought thesedays
The Indian sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which, the Whales and Whirlepooles called Balaenae take up in length as much as foure acres or arpens of land
In the French Ocean there is discovered a mightie fish called Physeter,
[A Whirlepoole] rising up aloft out of the sea in manner of a columne or pillar; higher than the very sailes of the ships: and then he spouteth, and casteth forth a mightie deale of water as it were out of a conduit, ynough to drowne and sinke a ship
this area that they're talking about was subject to slow ocean rise at the end of the ice age and at a few times since
but at no point was it inundated within the timeframe set by plato
I'd like to know just exactly which scholars are attending
i bet the list reads
G.Hancock
D.Childress
M.Kimura
M.Blavatsky (in spirit)
R.Schoch
S.Osmaganic
Z.Sitchin
A.Collins
G.Little
I.Lawton
A.Alford
Beagle wrote:The conference in Rome should be over by now. Hopefully their conclusions will be made public.
If the list of "researchers" matches Marduk's hypothesis, then it's all probably a ruse that was set up by "the Club" to get all those guys under one roof in order to facilitate the implantaion of "the Club"-oriented brain implant that "the Club" got from the aliens that built the pyramids.
Now that they have control of the only serious researchers outside "the Club," (i.e. Hancock, Sitchen, Schoch, et al.) the club will slowly begin to program the minds of these (former) heroes of the common man toward supporting "the Club's" ridiculous ideas about how Egypt was created and built by the Egyptians (for example.)
Harte
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Beagle wrote:The conference in Rome should be over by now. Hopefully their conclusions will be made public.
If the list of "researchers" matches Marduk's hypothesis, then it's all probably a ruse that was set up by "the Club" to get all those guys under one roof in order to facilitate the implantaion of "the Club"-oriented brain implant that "the Club" got from the aliens that built the pyramids.
Now that they have control of the only serious researchers outside "the Club," (i.e. Hancock, Sitchen, Schoch, et al.) the club will slowly begin to program the minds of these (former) heroes of the common man toward supporting "the Club's" ridiculous ideas about how Egypt was created and built by the Egyptians (for example.)
At a tangent to the topic, my friend Rachel told me that her parents sold their house to none other than the mighty force of Graham Hancock. I'll confess that at the time dark thoughts crossed my mind regarding potential knowledge of where he lives, although this was roughly the year 2BTS (Before The Sopranos) so I remain at liberty and with a clear conscious.
A few years ago GH did another 'I've found Atlantis - no, seriously' programme on Channel 4 and I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by his general conduct for several reasons 1) he admited that some of his theories had been a little misguided in the past, referring I suspect to that pyramids-Orion's belt (or whatever) stuff. 2) he seemed to accept the possibility that the underwater stone doodads in question might not be Atlantis after all.
I know it doesn't make him into a torchbearer for the er... flames of reason (or something) and the message of the show basically ran 'here's some stuff and I don't quite know what it is'. Anyway, my point I suppose is that if crackpots must get on TV at least his crackpottery was, in this instance, both harmless and pleasantly free of bold unquantified claims.
Which makes a change from the usual Von Daniken crap.
