Claims: in atlantis myth origins

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31 Jul 2017
The idea that Atlantis was destroyed by nuclear weapons created by its inhabitants originates from pseudo-scientific and theosophist sources, not from Plato.

As I tell you these things that people believe that are nonsense, I need to make clear that I know that Alex Jones has to be aware of some of this, and this is where it's coming from. Because the idea that there was a connection with outer space and Atlantis is all from this. It has nothing to do with Plato. Plato didn't talk about that shit at all. So he's getting that from a source that has to be in line with the Von Daniken, the other guy's name. Who cares? Yeah, the other. The guys from Ancient Aliens. Yeah. Maybe he just watched an episode of Ancient Aliens. It's entirely possible. Yeah, that's entirely possible. But then again, he always talks about the Atlantean legend. And he always talks about how we're getting to this Atlantean moment. And that is the idea that Atlantis created nuclear weapons and blew itself up, which comes from this pseudo-scientific, pseudo-spiritualist, theosophist branch of nonsense. If you actually are really just going off of Plato, which is, you know, a respected source in many ways, whatever he's talking about, Atlantis is very unspecific. But he talks about it, like the destruction of Atlantis was the punishment of God because they were too warlike. They went around and they disrespected the will of the gods. They fucked with Athens. It was too much. So they got destroyed by the gods because they became too decadent. It wasn't that they created nuclear weapons and then destroyed themselves. He takes his entire idea of the metaphor of Atlantis from these bullshit sources and claims it comes from Plato.