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   Bobbie Sellers to Paul S Person   
   Re: Garfield: Predicting the future   
   06 Jan 26 09:34:38   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/6/26 08:49, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 19:12:22 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   > Dorsey) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Bobbie Sellers   wrote:   
   >>> On 1/4/26 21:18, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>> You don't need the mythical stories of the Bible. There are plenty of   
   >>>> actual "historic records" that are wrong - either because the person   
   >>>> writing it didn't know enough at the time or because they simply lied.   
   >>>   
   >>> 	Name another volume that people might be familiar with, please.   
   >>   
   >> The Illiad.  History of the Pelopponesian War turns out to have some   
   >> issues as well.  And I am somewhat skeptical of the discussion of Atlantis   
   >> in Plato's Dialogues although it may well have been Ireland.   
   >   
   > Or a nearby island that went volcanic catastrophically and was still   
   > remembered for doing so when Plato wrote.   
   >   
   > Of course, how accurate the account is (if there were no survivors,   
   > how accurate could it be?) is hard to say.   
      
   	If Thera was the site of the legendary Atlantis perhaps but Lynsay   
   Sands and   
   her Argenue Immortals(never call them Vampires) came from a slightly   
   different   
   and more advanced Atlantis and are the ultimate survivors of everything   
   but malice.   
      
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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