On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:30:10 -0400, Cory Albrecht
hotmail.com> wrote:
>Zia wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 4:53 am, Cory Albrecht
hotmail.com> wrote:>>> Tom McDonald wrote:
>>>> But this won't stop the idiots and the credulous and the propagandist
>>>> and those out to make a buck on the gullible from making their precious
>>>> mud pies. So go ahead, fuck around all you like with your queer take on
>>>> the Atlantis business. But don't expect anyone who actually knows Plato,
>>>> his works and his days, from being flat disgusted with you. As am I.
>>> Best evidence for Zia Abbas being a kook - the books are published by
>>> wel-known vanity press iUniverse/Writers Club press.
>>>
>>> Also, Abbas is self-described om
amazon.com as a computer consultant.
>>
>> Well after looking at the kind of language some of the people have
>> used here, this is not a right place for any kind of scholarly
>> debates. Atlantis was in the east and Dilmun was described as a land
>
>If Atlantis is "in the east", then why did Plato describe it as being
>beyond the pillars of Hercules, to the west?
Possibly because at one stage the pillars of Hercules were regarded as
being in the east, probably in the region of the Straits of Messina or
even the Dardanelles. There is a quote from Roman times which makes
this clear.
>
>> towards the east. But these people who can label 'Plato' and
>> 'Socrates' as liers deserve no more dialogue. I have self published my
>> books in US just because I wanted them to be available globally
>> through online stores, something I could not have done with publishers
>> in my country. I would never have published my books online, if my
>> only objective was to make money. Anyways I cannot use this kind of
>> language, so I will stop wasting my time with such narrow minded and
>> ignorant people.
>
>Translation: I can't stand people poking holes in the (il)logic in my
>unsupported hypothesis in a subject where I am not an expert, so I'm
>just going to run home to mommy.
Eric Stevens
