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Mon Jan-11-10 08:54 PM
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| 11. Posers helping Christian* Fundamentalists give the movie a bad name. |
| -Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues (become depressed, unhappy w/ humanity) |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 08:44 PM |
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It's okay. They can always play the videogame. |
Ian David |
Jan-11-10 08:46 PM |
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1. Create the Need |
Moochy |
Jan-11-10 08:47 PM |
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4) Hype the need through the media. n/t |
Ian David |
Jan-11-10 08:51 PM |
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The real "need" is a connection with nature and each other |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 09:04 PM |
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Well put. |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 09:31 PM |
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. |
Moochy |
Jan-11-10 09:38 PM |
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Where can one get one of these magic boxes? |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 09:44 PM |
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LOVE adbusters. |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 10:05 PM |
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+1 |
villager |
Jan-11-10 10:16 PM |
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Jesus, these people need to go take a walk in the woods . . . |
hatrack |
Jan-12-10 09:02 AM |
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My mom was telling me about an article she read that said that many people live with |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 09:50 AM |
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It's not all around me - just houses, malls and roads where the woods used to be. |
Lilith Velkor |
Jan-12-10 01:19 PM |
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+1000000000000! |
earth mom |
Jan-12-10 09:04 AM |
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Why don't they join a rain forest preservation campaign, then? |
WildEyedLiberal |
Jan-11-10 08:47 PM |
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That's what I was wondering myself. An EarthWatch expedition in Costa Rica |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 08:57 PM |
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I don't even have to go to Costa Rica |
arcadian |
Jan-11-10 10:25 PM |
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Sure, I can too, and they aren't that few and far between (certainly not in Florida |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 11:37 PM |
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because they don't care |
pitohui |
Jan-11-10 09:06 PM |
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Pfft. Rain forests aren't in 3-D. n/t |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 12:06 AM |
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lol, well played. |
boppers |
Jan-12-10 12:18 AM |
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I think your explanation |
dana_b |
Jan-11-10 08:48 PM |
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The Na'vi do live the way "civilized" people should. |
branders seine |
Jan-11-10 08:49 PM |
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Ah, so you bought into the "Noble Savage" trope. |
proteus_lives |
Jan-11-10 11:37 PM |
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A trope, in a Cameron film? Heaven forbid. |
boppers |
Jan-12-10 12:21 AM |
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I'm already a junkie! |
proteus_lives |
Jan-12-10 12:34 AM |
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A short list: |
boppers |
Jan-12-10 01:04 AM |
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In case you haven't seen it: |
proteus_lives |
Jan-12-10 01:43 AM |
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LOL |
boppers |
Jan-12-10 02:08 AM |
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I got it from this site. |
proteus_lives |
Jan-12-10 10:24 AM |
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ItHasAlreadyRuinedMyLife |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Jan-12-10 09:05 AM |
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Who would want to live under a hippy theocracy that had no agriculture? nt |
anonymous171 |
Jan-12-10 11:27 AM |
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10-foot-tall blue people with tails |
branders seine |
Jan-12-10 01:19 PM |
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No, not bizarre fanboys do really weird shit |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-11-10 08:49 PM |
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Tom Hanks saw this shit coming way ahead of his time... |
Ian David |
Jan-11-10 08:53 PM |
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Oh fanboys have been around a LONG time |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-11-10 09:05 PM |
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I love that movie. |
proteus_lives |
Jan-11-10 11:39 PM |
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If he were really a fanboy, he would have called it a Dire Wolf. |
ContraBass Black |
Jan-11-10 10:49 PM |
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I was wearing a Davion uniform |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-11-10 11:14 PM |
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I have yet to see it..... |
Joe the Liberal |
Jan-11-10 08:49 PM |
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Even though it's made by NewsCorp, you still gotta see the movie. n/t |
Ian David |
Jan-11-10 08:57 PM |
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Fucking stupid. How empty must your life be |
Codeine |
Jan-11-10 08:50 PM |
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"Art" has never been more inaccessible |
Robb |
Jan-11-10 08:57 PM |
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Indeed. People are so overwhelmed with staying afloat these days |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 09:03 PM |
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People's lives ARE empty. Little connection with Nature and only superficial |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 09:01 PM |
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Yeah, but many films... |
CoffeeCat |
Jan-11-10 09:22 PM |
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Posers helping Christian* Fundamentalists give the movie a bad name. |
patrice |
Jan-11-10 08:54 PM |
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bingo |
ldf |
Jan-11-10 10:42 PM |
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Wait until the DVD with the deleted sex scenes comes out. |
hedgehog |
Jan-11-10 09:02 PM |
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Blue balls? n/t |
Ian David |
Jan-11-10 09:06 PM |
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wouldnt it be called 'pink balls?' |
Moochy |
Jan-11-10 10:08 PM |
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Blue Balls (n/t |
whatchamacallit |
Jan-11-10 09:13 PM |
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one thing that amused me about the rapture for this movie--to the point of suicidal depression |
niyad |
Jan-11-10 09:20 PM |
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He had several |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-11-10 09:27 PM |
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Formula? The story has been told before: |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 09:36 PM |
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Worst than that |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-11-10 10:13 PM |
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the Septics and Sciencyists have a lot to do with the general lack of imagination, |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 09:29 PM |
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What are you trying to say? Are you talking about skeptics and scientists? |
csziggy |
Jan-11-10 09:44 PM |
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Those who don't understand "studying and understanding the real world without resorting to' rigid |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 09:49 PM |
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Use anti-septics for the septic, but no clue on the sciencyists. |
FSogol |
Jan-11-10 09:50 PM |
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Real science sheds light while mere scienciness blocks it. |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 09:56 PM |
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Put down the bong. |
FSogol |
Jan-11-10 09:57 PM |
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Or at least pass it this way! |
Lisa0825 |
Jan-11-10 10:07 PM |
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Name removed |
Jan-11-10 10:37 PM |
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Says the person who can't type one completely coherent post. |
Lisa0825 |
Jan-11-10 10:47 PM |
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Thank you for outing yourself |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:55 AM |
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oh you have GOT to be fuckin KIDDING |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:45 AM |
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Take off the blinders |
omega minimo |
Jan-11-10 10:36 PM |
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The same stupid science you're always bitching about is the only reason... |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 12:25 AM |
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What no magic fairy Na'vi dust? |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 12:48 AM |
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Don't don the blinders, dear NB |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:00 AM |
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What blinders that there is science and science can be a problem |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:09 AM |
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Sciencyness is a problem, like truthiness is. |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:11 AM |
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I am not talking of truthiness, but of SCIENCE |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:13 AM |
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WTF is sciencyness anyway? n/t |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:15 AM |
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An aproximation of science, like truthiness for truth |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:22 AM |
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Indeed. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:23 AM |
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Yet you ignore the answer |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:29 AM |
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OK, first of all... |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:35 AM |
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OK, first of all |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:41 AM |
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ROFL |
dionysus |
Jan-12-10 02:09 PM |
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So if I happen to be critical of the antivaxer crowd I have blinders on? |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:35 AM |
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Do they make a vaccine for whatever's wrong with him? n/t |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:37 AM |
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Good guy most of the time |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:38 AM |
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Your assumptions are the blind spot here. |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:44 AM |
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Um what? |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:43 AM |
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Nah yours is an example of what Jacoby calls |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 02:00 AM |
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You are making false assumptions and projections here |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:00 PM |
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Wake up and smell the coffee because you have been |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 12:18 PM |
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The sciencyists create the false dichotomy and attack others, control/prevent discussion |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:43 PM |
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NO dear, as far as the ani vaxers are concerned |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:12 PM |
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That's not what I'm talking about. |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:32 PM |
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Then you have made a very poor showing in explaining yourself |
nadinbrzezinski |
Jan-12-10 01:57 PM |
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Those without blinders |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 05:43 PM |
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This guy is like a far less entertaining version of the timecube.com guy. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:22 AM |
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FFS define your term... |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:14 AM |
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. |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:22 AM |
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That was Clarke, not Asimov.. |
Fumesucker |
Jan-12-10 02:06 AM |
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Wrong |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:59 AM |
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What misguided black and white thinking? What are you talking about? |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:07 AM |
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. |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:10 AM |
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Can you give an example? |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:16 AM |
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Yes |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:25 AM |
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You really don't understand the concept of "giving an example" do you? |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:31 AM |
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They are rampant |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:34 AM |
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You can't give one, can you? |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:36 AM |
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I already have |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 01:45 AM |
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I'm not investigating a term that you made up and which has no definition. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 01:57 AM |
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You made no effort |
omega minimo |
Jan-12-10 12:02 PM |
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I did make an effort to consider it. I consider it nonsense. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-13-10 12:20 AM |
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I thought Progressives were supposed to be |
MicaelS |
Jan-12-10 12:10 PM |
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This dude need professional help |
Synicus Maximus |
Jan-11-10 09:29 PM |
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So this "reporter" earns more than I do and they think an anon user called "mike" is a Source? |
slampoet |
Jan-11-10 09:40 PM |
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That's pretty superficial of our society.... |
Haole Girl |
Jan-11-10 09:45 PM |
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Think about the demographic that the film appeals to |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 10:03 PM |
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I was just talking with my husband about this and... |
Haole Girl |
Jan-11-10 10:08 PM |
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Same question I was asking myself. nt |
RedCappedBandit |
Jan-11-10 10:20 PM |
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Good movie, nice message, stunning visuals, but if you think its is |
FSogol |
Jan-11-10 09:48 PM |
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Personally, I don't think that it's "deep" at all |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 09:58 PM |
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Maybe he is sensitive to "American" collective guilt |
texastoast |
Jan-11-10 10:10 PM |
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No, I think it has more to do with... |
mrbarber |
Jan-11-10 10:43 PM |
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"people discover that, really, they like jungles, and not seeing them cut down to provide more FOR |
MisterP |
Jan-11-10 10:48 PM |
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"Conventional thinkers" have been spoon fed the same RW swill since 1980 |
Lorien |
Jan-11-10 11:33 PM |
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Jenseits des Powell-Memo |
MisterP |
Jan-11-10 11:53 PM |
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The sad thing is that people are affected by this shitty movie. |
proteus_lives |
Jan-11-10 11:41 PM |
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hahahaha |
janx |
Jan-11-10 11:41 PM |
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The only James Cameron movie that made me want to commit suicide was Titanic. |
Cessna Invesco Palin |
Jan-12-10 12:05 AM |
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DiCaprio's hamming wasn't too easy to deal with, either. |
boppers |
Jan-12-10 12:30 AM |
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Gah! Now I have that horrific song in my head! |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 02:16 AM |
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You know, something tells me Avatar will be seen about like Titanic in a few years. |
Marr |
Jan-12-10 11:24 AM |
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The human race has a nasty genocidal streak. |
roamer65 |
Jan-12-10 12:08 AM |
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Genocidal..and suicidal |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 12:15 AM |
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They have a woefully narrow view of humanity. nt |
greyl |
Jan-12-10 12:10 AM |
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Well Im off to see it tomorrow |
brettdale |
Jan-12-10 12:56 AM |
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News Flash: Some Depressed People Still Get Out To Watch Films! |
sofa king |
Jan-12-10 01:12 AM |
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well, i don't know... if a movie makes you contemplate suicide, then i don't blame the movie... |
1 |
Jan-12-10 02:05 AM |
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Here's news for them. We had a lush and beautiful world once. |
shadowknows69 |
Jan-12-10 02:21 AM |
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yes we did! and boo fucking hoo... |
1 |
Jan-12-10 02:33 AM |
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"Boo fucking hoo"? Actually, what's happening to our planet IS tragic |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 02:44 AM |
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true dat. nice and sad pictures. and what is your point, exactly? about the movie? |
1 |
Jan-12-10 02:51 AM |
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Are you human? |
shadowknows69 |
Jan-12-10 09:18 AM |
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Um, my point about the article is stated in the OP |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 09:33 AM |
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thank you for sharing those beautiful pics |
niyad |
Jan-12-10 08:54 AM |
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your comment reminds me of a guy at an environmental conference one time, who asked, "why should we |
niyad |
Jan-12-10 08:56 AM |
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Was the guy suicidal or just mentally handicapped? |
Lorien |
Jan-12-10 09:34 AM |
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We live in a very sad era when people perfer fantasy over the beauty of real nature. |
Javaman |
Jan-12-10 09:35 AM |
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I felt Avatar would hit home with folks |
upi402 |
Jan-12-10 12:26 PM |
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