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Tue Jan-12-10 09:33 AM
Response to Reply #119 |
| 126. Um, my point about the article is stated in the OP |
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Am I blue? Sure, but not about any Hollywood creation. I'm halfway through life and I'm less hopeful now about the future of this country and our planet than I ever was. Maybe someone like yourself-obviously quite young-hasn't felt the magnitude of the situation yet. Maybe others are just waking up to what's been going on. Doesn't stop me from writing to our reps and signing petitions every week, along with looking for ways of making my life more carbon neutral.
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| -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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Deleted message |
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 |
#119 |
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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 |
#128 |
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I felt Avatar would hit home with folks |
upi402 |
Jan-12-10 12:26 PM |
#137 |
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