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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by d0mine on Monday November 06, 2023 @01:57PM (#38167048)
There is a map of Middle-Earth. It doesn't mean the place is real.
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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by weatherlight on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:04PM (#38167180)
The map of middle earth isn't in the middle of a philosophical treatise on understanding the nature of the physical world and the composition of the universe..... :/
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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by yesbabyyes on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:37PM (#38167717)
It's rather in the middle of a story populated with (demi-)gods interfering in the affairs of men, mythical creatures, and heroes of elvish descent. And hobbitses. Filthy, nasty hobbitses!
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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by weatherlight on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:55PM (#38167984)
:)
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Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island? by ffgjgf1 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:14AM (#38174402)
And Utopia is.. it’s perfectly valid genre. Inventing a fantasy world to convey your theoretical ideas in a more approachable way seems like a very sensible approach.

For that matter Tolkien to claims that his world is actually set on our planet just thousands of years ago.

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