Comments by "Pawfeirefin" (@pawfeirefin4048) on "The ‘mythical’ vanished island scientists think is real | ABC News" video.

I agree that we should consider the stories of our forebears! I reckon the disappearance of Atlantis (an even older memory of our ancestors) had more to do with the isostatic (post-glacial) rebounding of the land under the Laurentide Ice Sheet. As the ice melted, the rebounding could have caused isostatic depression or some sort of of corresponding drawing-down force on the Mid-Atlantic. Simply put, with the great weight removed, the north of North America went up and the Azores area went down. Atlantis disappeared not so much from sea level rise but from land level fall. Maybe this happened slowly, but - if the stories are to be believed - it could have happened suddenly if the North American rebound was also sudden, as it would be from a hypothesised comet impact on the glacier. It was strange commenting on an ABC video. How gracious of you to enable comments!
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@AbiSaysThings What a very intriguing thing you say. Let me understand correctly. Are you saying that because Plato wrote about Atlantis, then all memory and discussion of Atlantis post-Plato is due to Plato? So, all the memory of Atlantis for more than two thousand years since Plato is actually just a collective memory of... Plato? Whoa, I want you ask you so many questions about that logic, if indeed I understand you correctly.
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@ThW5 You're splitting hairs - or actually begging the question - by saying "that one of them would have been called Atlantis is an idea which cannot be traced further back than Plato". So what? You think they 'themselves' called themselves "Atlanteans"? Way to straw man! You think ancient Americans called themselves "Americans"? Of course "Atlantis" has an origin in written documentation, just as you would have one. Doesn't mean you didn't exist before the documentation. Anyway, history itself - or the practice of history - can hardly be traced further back than Plato. And it was not much earlier than Plato that you have the invention of the very writing system by which Plato was able to record in Greek the experience of his ancestor in Egypt (Solon learning of Atlantis). That it was written about at all by Plato, that it was given any name at all, does not mean it is the source of the story of the sunken civilisation. Plato's was not the first to speak of the antediluvian world. And there are other sources of knowledge that can be traced. Good luck.
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