(01-16-2010, 12:54 AM)Sforza Wrote: Some people need to play more video games:

Quote:Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues

James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

Quote:"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."

(01-16-2010, 12:54 AM)Sforza Wrote: Some people need to play more video games:

Quote:Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues

James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

Quote: The first time after I woke up the next day after watching it I "had" to see it again. I have seen it four times now, and soon to be a fifth. I think watching it takes away that depression, because when I am watching it, i dont know how to describe how I feel, but it feels good. I want to just forget about it all sometimes, take down my avatar wallpaper, stop reading about it and what not, but I just cant.
I have to use a quote from the movie sometimes I guess "Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up."
I heard writing a sequel helps, but I just cant compete with what has been laid out.

I dont know if theres any WoW addicts out there, but after seeign Avatar I have lost all desire to play (and trust me thats like being addicted to any drug)
I'm just hoping it will pass over time, but if anybody has any recommendations how to cope I would love to hear them.

Quote: Start living like Neytiri: in touch with nature, the environment, and not being greedy and wasteful. Pass on the burger, for something more healthy for you and less cruel to animals. Spend your time on this forum, or volunteering in your free time, instead of getting high or drinking, twiddling your thumbs, being apathetic and complaining about how bad the world is. Don't get swept away by the wave of negativity, live your dream. Your life has only two switches, to shine or not to shine. There is no "apathy" setting. If you're on apathy setting you might as well sign your world away to destruction. When you get discouraged by everyone around you, be courageous like Jake, and jump on the leonopteryx. Be the change you want to see in your world. There are only so many people on this earth, the more of them that are doing positive things, the less of them that are out there doing negative things. It's unfortunate that we live in a world where, just by pulling a trigger or making a corporate decision, one single greedy human being can wipe out the hard works of love of many people. But this is why we need to stop focusing on money and start focusing on our environment. Because we have the intelligence to kill ourselves, but not the wisdom to stop it. What will our money buy, when everything that is worth having is destroyed? The only way you can fill the emptiness you feel after this movie, is to jump on the leonopteryx.

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Originally Posted by elequin View Post
Thats the problem, even if you wanted to strive to be more like the Na'vi you would be eaten alive in this world. It really hurts thinking that... you know. It really would take a complete new fresh start somewhere un-corrupted.

Yes, Elequin. It is very difficult to simply be good in this world, and just hope for the best. The only reason it is so easy to be that way on Pandora is because of the tsahaylu that Eywa provides to all creatures. (And even there you still have to watch out for the viperwolves. Even there jealousy and anger and death exists). Here on Earth we are not so lucky. "Tsahaylu" represents what we all dream of, when we truly dream. It is easy to be derided and ridiculed for being a dreamer in our world, when we look at how bad things are around us. But in the end, I feel that the reality of this world is alot simply how you look at it. If this world was 100% horrible, and without hope, if we ever stopped trying to live out our dreams, think about how much drearier this world would be. All parents would abandon their children, nobody would have any friends, people would stop painting, composing and writing, everyone would be cynical and hateful to each other to a degree even worse than what it is in reality. No alliances, no matter how self-serving, would even be possible. No we do not live in a world where tsahaylu is granted to us as a birthright by Eywa. Instead we live in a world that is in a precarious balance between conflict and harmony, and it is up to each and everyone of us to seek out tsahaylu, by how we act and where we devote our energies, each day, day in and day out. But it is not enough to be good, you must also be smart. You can be the most loving parent in the world to your child, but if you don't educate yourself on nutrition, you could be killing your child from an early age by feeding them Twinkies everyday. Or you can seek to feed the homeless, and if you don't provide a way for them to give back, you create a cycle of dependence and free riding. The examples could be endless.

(01-18-2010, 04:26 AM)Hempire Wrote: i wonder though, these blue dudes....whatever the fuck you call them lol....how did they become conscious and self aware?
i mean we humans have been self conscious for only thousands of years....i wonder how it happened....one species...suddenly became self aware and slowly took control over the machinations set out by the flesh we inhabit. So in comparison, how did these blue dudes *lol* became self conscious...why only them? how about other creatures?

(01-17-2010, 01:05 AM)Hempire Wrote: though, alice in wonderland is mainly a DRUG movie.....
think about what's in it....

Mushrooms= obviously..... Alice ate mushrooms which made her big or small (i tried them twice *psylocibin mushroom* and indeed your perception and sense of being expand and contract....i guess it makes sense how they expand your consciousness, but i guess what's important is for you to have 'space' where your consciousness can expand.....meaning not just take shrooms and 'duuuuuuhhh this is so awesome' more like an adventure where you go out into the vast ocean alone....then bringing back ideas.....catch....middle size fish that you can share with people.


Mad tea dude= caffeine but with the way he's all jumpy i guess he might be on crack too lol
that seagull who smokes too much tobacco also the sugar loving bunny.....

funny thing is that if i recall correctly, alice in wonderland was written by someone who was into opium.....