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	<title>Comments on: Avatar Review: 3D is great, but it is so anti-military, pro-environmentalism, and really new-age</title>
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		<title>By: drtech</title>
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		<dc:creator>drtech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Environmentalism places the creation (earth and living things) above the creator, Christ Jesus, and is therefore completely antithetical to a Christian worldview. Being against environmentalism is not at all being against taking care and being a good steward of all that the Lord has entrusted to us, in fact as God commanded us to cover the earth and subdue it, we are to use it&#039;s resources while we take care of it. The problem lies in that the modern environmental movement is not all like that, it is about stopping all usage of our natural resources the God has given us because people have made the earth, &quot;Mother Earth,&quot; and such that like I said previously elevates the creation above the Creator.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Environmentalism places the creation (earth and living things) above the creator, Christ Jesus, and is therefore completely antithetical to a Christian worldview. Being against environmentalism is not at all being against taking care and being a good steward of all that the Lord has entrusted to us, in fact as God commanded us to cover the earth and subdue it, we are to use it&#8217;s resources while we take care of it. The problem lies in that the modern environmental movement is not all like that, it is about stopping all usage of our natural resources the God has given us because people have made the earth, &#8220;Mother Earth,&#8221; and such that like I said previously elevates the creation above the Creator.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anti-military and environmentalism are GOOD things, not bad things, especially environmentalism.  Anybody who opposes environmentalism should be ashamed of themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anti-military and environmentalism are GOOD things, not bad things, especially environmentalism.  Anybody who opposes environmentalism should be ashamed of themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: DamageFaction</title>
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		<dc:creator>DamageFaction</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought i was right on an aggressive group who refuse to see other people who are different as equal that think its ok to kill people and take their land off them who believe that violence is the answer to any problem. 
Thats America alright this is what it will be like when you have space travel but its not all bad negotiating with the Taliban?
Vietnam II anyone?
I guess theres no choice somethings got to be done Barak wants to hand over to Afghan security in 2014 no way its going to be won by then so i guess its his only option so they both kind of ended the same anyway!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought i was right on an aggressive group who refuse to see other people who are different as equal that think its ok to kill people and take their land off them who believe that violence is the answer to any problem.<br />
Thats America alright this is what it will be like when you have space travel but its not all bad negotiating with the Taliban?<br />
Vietnam II anyone?<br />
I guess theres no choice somethings got to be done Barak wants to hand over to Afghan security in 2014 no way its going to be won by then so i guess its his only option so they both kind of ended the same anyway!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Tai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am all with you. The anti-military sentiment was a huge slap in the face against all Marines and military service members. I get that we all want to be good to our environment but seeing a soldier go Awol like that was just sickening. The military deserved better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am all with you. The anti-military sentiment was a huge slap in the face against all Marines and military service members. I get that we all want to be good to our environment but seeing a soldier go Awol like that was just sickening. The military deserved better.</p>
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		<title>By: Series60</title>
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		<dc:creator>Series60</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This &quot;movie&quot; is the longest piece of propganda I have seen in a long while. As usual Hollywood liberals paint the military as being degenerate morons while painting the indigs as noble peoples. they themselves caused. Noble natives yeah these are the same people that called the Mayan people noble and we see how they acted. Worship of a planet instead of god all mighty more leberal foolishness. And kiicking you own race when it is down oh yeah that real heroism. Killing your own supposed brothers in arms once again real heroism. I could maybe give James Cameron some props for this movie but every movie he seems to make tears down the very system that makes hime his money Capitalism one day people may wake and see these Hollywood Liberals for what they are a bunch of hypocritical asshats with no understanding of what makes America great just how to tear down what made her great.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This &#8220;movie&#8221; is the longest piece of propganda I have seen in a long while. As usual Hollywood liberals paint the military as being degenerate morons while painting the indigs as noble peoples. they themselves caused. Noble natives yeah these are the same people that called the Mayan people noble and we see how they acted. Worship of a planet instead of god all mighty more leberal foolishness. And kiicking you own race when it is down oh yeah that real heroism. Killing your own supposed brothers in arms once again real heroism. I could maybe give James Cameron some props for this movie but every movie he seems to make tears down the very system that makes hime his money Capitalism one day people may wake and see these Hollywood Liberals for what they are a bunch of hypocritical asshats with no understanding of what makes America great just how to tear down what made her great.</p>
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		<title>By: Roland Orre</title>
		<link>http://www.smilecouple.org/2009/12/18/avatar-review-3d-is-great-but-it-is-so-anti-militarypro-environmentalism-and-really-new-age/comment-page-1#comment-102</link>
		<dc:creator>Roland Orre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A few other notes: It was interesting that you mention things like: 

anti-american : Does this imply that you consider Cameron non American then, or that to be American is to want to kill things you don&#039;t understand. Please come on! It&#039;s you who are judging America if you consider that anti-war anti-military would be anti-american.

left-wing slant: Does this mean that right=evil, left=good, Please again! What has right left to do with being caring about living things to do? 

Environmentalism and New-Age: The movie did actually give a plausible explanation for the wonderful ecology that existed on Pandora, but you may have missed that Augustine in the end actually analyzed the neural connections of that planet and that tree (which is usually don&#039;t have neurons) and considered that it was more than 10^12 connections, that is about the level of the human brain). The ecology on that planet had obviously evolved a high neural connectivity among individuals, like the neural connections you used to control your Ikar with. This is not at all anything mystical. The movie Avatar reflects a really challenging scientific future for the humanity. The humanoids had no telepathy, but obviously other organisms on that planet were connected. This is nothing mystical. Already in a patent application I did in 2005 I exemplified how a possible brain to brain communication could be implemented, and that technology is close, and can of course have evolved naturally as well (or be created if you so want).

The movie was great, it imposes a lot of things we should question ourself. How are we behaving as intelligent beings, what are our challenges for the future, and respect respect respect. Don&#039;t destroy things you don&#039;t understand!

Love others (and this includes not only humans of course) as yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few other notes: It was interesting that you mention things like: </p>
<p>anti-american : Does this imply that you consider Cameron non American then, or that to be American is to want to kill things you don&#8217;t understand. Please come on! It&#8217;s you who are judging America if you consider that anti-war anti-military would be anti-american.</p>
<p>left-wing slant: Does this mean that right=evil, left=good, Please again! What has right left to do with being caring about living things to do? </p>
<p>Environmentalism and New-Age: The movie did actually give a plausible explanation for the wonderful ecology that existed on Pandora, but you may have missed that Augustine in the end actually analyzed the neural connections of that planet and that tree (which is usually don&#8217;t have neurons) and considered that it was more than 10^12 connections, that is about the level of the human brain). The ecology on that planet had obviously evolved a high neural connectivity among individuals, like the neural connections you used to control your Ikar with. This is not at all anything mystical. The movie Avatar reflects a really challenging scientific future for the humanity. The humanoids had no telepathy, but obviously other organisms on that planet were connected. This is nothing mystical. Already in a patent application I did in 2005 I exemplified how a possible brain to brain communication could be implemented, and that technology is close, and can of course have evolved naturally as well (or be created if you so want).</p>
<p>The movie was great, it imposes a lot of things we should question ourself. How are we behaving as intelligent beings, what are our challenges for the future, and respect respect respect. Don&#8217;t destroy things you don&#8217;t understand!</p>
<p>Love others (and this includes not only humans of course) as yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Roland Orre</title>
		<link>http://www.smilecouple.org/2009/12/18/avatar-review-3d-is-great-but-it-is-so-anti-militarypro-environmentalism-and-really-new-age/comment-page-1#comment-101</link>
		<dc:creator>Roland Orre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DrTech, I don&#039;t know what planet you are from, but I really loved this movie just because it is anti-military and and also beg us to not destroy things we don&#039;t understand. It was equally philosophical as the Matrix and I really loved it.

The scary thing is that there actually exist monster-people as in the movie, you mentioned Vietnam yourself, and evil corporations that devastate and destroy things they have no right to do. 

It is really relly good for Christians to see this movie as Christians are reminded about Christianity&#039;s message, Love others as yourself.

There is a large part of the Christian population on this Earth that are fake Christians, and are not following the Christian message. Every Christian that can treat other beings in a way they do not want to be treated themselves. There are claimed Christians that starts wars, there are claimed Christians that become soldiers and military commanders, and actually kill other people and torture other people. There are many wannabee Christians but the amount of actual Christians is low.

Do you really think that Jesus would have approved the actions of that military monster, those who drove those helicopters, those who drove those bulldozers and that bloody selfish ruthless unobtainium digger.

If you really believe that you are not a Christian, as little as e.g. the former president Bush.

Then, as you refer to Hinduism (yes avatar is a Sanskrit word) you seem to be fulfilled with some strange view that Hinduism would be wrong! How do you know this? Respect please! Remember that e.g. Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu. To do the right things and be respectful about living things is not about what you name your religion. It&#039;s about what you do.

Love others as you love yourself, this is what Jesus said.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DrTech, I don&#8217;t know what planet you are from, but I really loved this movie just because it is anti-military and and also beg us to not destroy things we don&#8217;t understand. It was equally philosophical as the Matrix and I really loved it.</p>
<p>The scary thing is that there actually exist monster-people as in the movie, you mentioned Vietnam yourself, and evil corporations that devastate and destroy things they have no right to do. </p>
<p>It is really relly good for Christians to see this movie as Christians are reminded about Christianity&#8217;s message, Love others as yourself.</p>
<p>There is a large part of the Christian population on this Earth that are fake Christians, and are not following the Christian message. Every Christian that can treat other beings in a way they do not want to be treated themselves. There are claimed Christians that starts wars, there are claimed Christians that become soldiers and military commanders, and actually kill other people and torture other people. There are many wannabee Christians but the amount of actual Christians is low.</p>
<p>Do you really think that Jesus would have approved the actions of that military monster, those who drove those helicopters, those who drove those bulldozers and that bloody selfish ruthless unobtainium digger.</p>
<p>If you really believe that you are not a Christian, as little as e.g. the former president Bush.</p>
<p>Then, as you refer to Hinduism (yes avatar is a Sanskrit word) you seem to be fulfilled with some strange view that Hinduism would be wrong! How do you know this? Respect please! Remember that e.g. Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu. To do the right things and be respectful about living things is not about what you name your religion. It&#8217;s about what you do.</p>
<p>Love others as you love yourself, this is what Jesus said.</p>
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		<title>By: J</title>
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		<dc:creator>J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the anti-military comments here. It&#039;s always good for a laugh when people show how ignorant they are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the anti-military comments here. It&#8217;s always good for a laugh when people show how ignorant they are.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Terrible depiction of our military.  My son is a jet pilot risking his life in our war against terror and Hollywood turns out to type cast our pilots as villains...can this be true?  The truth will prevail and someday people like Mr. Cameron will be viewed as quite biased and simply incorrect in his assessment of our wonderful military and their actions--which by the way are supporting Barack Obama&#039;s policies.  If I only knew the plot prior to buying the tickets, I would have never gone.  It reminds me of those who treated our Vietnam vets so terribly on their return from the war.  My advice to Hollywood: appreciate the servicemen who fight for you--without them you would not have such a luxurious lifestyle and not make them the villains of your eye catching but unjust and hateful movies!   Mr. Cameron has simply got it backwards, our military are the good guys.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terrible depiction of our military.  My son is a jet pilot risking his life in our war against terror and Hollywood turns out to type cast our pilots as villains&#8230;can this be true?  The truth will prevail and someday people like Mr. Cameron will be viewed as quite biased and simply incorrect in his assessment of our wonderful military and their actions&#8211;which by the way are supporting Barack Obama&#8217;s policies.  If I only knew the plot prior to buying the tickets, I would have never gone.  It reminds me of those who treated our Vietnam vets so terribly on their return from the war.  My advice to Hollywood: appreciate the servicemen who fight for you&#8211;without them you would not have such a luxurious lifestyle and not make them the villains of your eye catching but unjust and hateful movies!   Mr. Cameron has simply got it backwards, our military are the good guys.</p>
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		<title>By: drtech</title>
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		<dc:creator>drtech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE: Who isnâ€™t pro-environment? I never said anything about pro-environment...I said &quot;Environmentalism.&quot; Big difference. Of course everyone wants to take care of what God has given us, it is when the creation becomes what is worshiped rather than the Creator that is the problem as is apparent the environmental/New Age philosophy of the movie and when Environmentalism takes over common since. Yes, most science fiction films have some new age element, but this one is the most I have ever seen. (light from within indicating that all things are part of &quot;energy&quot; or part of &quot;a god&quot;...much like star wars&#039; force, but to an elevated extent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE: Who isnâ€™t pro-environment? I never said anything about pro-environment&#8230;I said &#8220;Environmentalism.&#8221; Big difference. Of course everyone wants to take care of what God has given us, it is when the creation becomes what is worshiped rather than the Creator that is the problem as is apparent the environmental/New Age philosophy of the movie and when Environmentalism takes over common since. Yes, most science fiction films have some new age element, but this one is the most I have ever seen. (light from within indicating that all things are part of &#8220;energy&#8221; or part of &#8220;a god&#8221;&#8230;much like star wars&#8217; force, but to an elevated extent.</p>
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