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EndoExo t1_ivkjdze wrote

Just warning you, OP, you're about to get flamed by a bunch of idiots who listened to quacks on Joe Rogan.

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Lausn t1_ivlzcz2 wrote

As a student of philosophy, and not someone that listens to Joe Rogan, this is not a 'fact'. Plato described Atlantis based off of a the word of a relative. He didn't 'make it up' as he did, say, The Cave or The Republic. Instead he was recounting something he heard. This doesn't mean Atlantis as we think of it is actually real, but that Plato didn't just make it up to prove a point, because he is normally very explicit with the things he does make up.

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Thenidhogg t1_ivmhsxu wrote

okay so Melville didn't "come up" with moby dick because he worked on a whaling boat? you really committed to that?

everyone has experiences nobody 'comes up' with anything if you're gonna be that strict about it.

plato wrote it down first so he 'made it up' or whatever.

nobody is suggesting it is some kind of hard core deductive Fact needed for launching a space shuttle...

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Lausn t1_ivy9aqz wrote

What in the hell did I just read... you ok bud?

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WankerMcDoogle t1_ivkrtdu wrote

Had a friend start religiously listening to JRE and I just can't stand talking to him anymore about anything. Literally cult like faith in the idiot named Joe Rogan.

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PDRugby OP t1_ivlam8k wrote

I really appreciate this warning- I had no idea what I was wading in to here, and couldn't figure out why I has getting so much hate for what (I thought) was a pretty well established fact.

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aftershane t1_ivkvs8g wrote

You talking about the conspiracy theorists that turned out to be right when they got proof of a massive crater under the ice caps in Greenland that when hit by an asteroid would have melted the caps and caused an unbelievable rise in sea levels?

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jagnew78 t1_ivl8sh9 wrote

as usual there is a mix of truth with the lies. the Hiawatha impact event hit Greenland at a time when Greenland, and all the arctic was ice free and a balmy tropical forest.

There were no ice caps to melt, and no sea levels to rise because of non-existent ice already being melted into the ocean millions of years ahead of the Hiawatha impact.

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bolanrox t1_ivlju6l wrote

there was a dinosaur found in Antarctica. Dinosaur train taught me this

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