http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/12/29/avatar-the-film-the-idea-and-the-word/ Coverage of news, issues and events occurring in virtual worlds or those who create those worlds Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/12/29/avatar-the-film-the-idea-and-the-word/comment-page-1/#comment-207035 samlowry hawks Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:38:44 +0000 http://www.metaversejournal.com/?p=2448#comment-207035 In some points i am agree with you BUT: Even all idea of being someone else than your real me is not acceptable for most of the serious men of our period, in all times , people tried to escape themselves from a so hard reality to find something more "livable"....Being always concrete is a way than humans can not support in a long time life: They need to dream, that s why we made planes, that we tried to go in space etc.. No logic in there, just a way to use logic to find more than nature perhaps could not give us. Virtual worlds has now the ability to make us dream in a good way: Avatar, the film, only shows us that beside technology and reason there's a little thing in himans that never could be "logical" or "natural", against all the animal way: The ability to dream! Just let's dream and let's stop searching reasons against us. Someone says: " A man who stop to dream begin to die"... <br>Yours<br>Sam In some points i am agree with you BUT: Even all idea of being someone else than your real me is not acceptable for most of the serious men of our period, in all times , people tried to escape themselves from a so hard reality to find something more “livable”….Being always concrete is a way than humans can not support in a long time life: They need to dream, that s why we made planes, that we tried to go in space etc.. No logic in there, just a way to use logic to find more than nature perhaps could not give us. Virtual worlds has now the ability to make us dream in a good way: Avatar, the film, only shows us that beside technology and reason there's a little thing in himans that never could be “logical” or “natural”, against all the animal way: The ability to dream! Just let's dream and let's stop searching reasons against us. Someone says: ” A man who stop to dream begin to die”…
Yours
Sam

]]> http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/12/29/avatar-the-film-the-idea-and-the-word/comment-page-1/#comment-206990 Next: Our avatars, ourselves » Copper Robot Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:06:44 +0000 http://www.metaversejournal.com/?p=2448#comment-206990 [...] 1 pm: The blog Metaverse Journal looks at “Avatar: The film, the idea and the word,” noting that the major world religions have the idea of avatars at their centers: Our bodies are not [...] [...] 1 pm: The blog Metaverse Journal looks at “Avatar: The film, the idea and the word,” noting that the major world religions have the idea of avatars at their centers: Our bodies are not [...]

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