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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Aloysius J. Gleek:
The best of several good responses--
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21douthat1.html
Readers' Comments
Heaven and Nature
By ROSS DOUTHAT
The film “Avatar” is the director’s long apologia for pantheism, Hollywood’s religion of choice for a generation now.
Comment 27.
This is not pantheism, but a blend of animatism and animism.
The rest of you can look it all up in the dictionary.
Trust me, I do this for a living.
Will Spires
Santa Rosa, CA
December 21st, 2009
9:53 am
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on January 11, 2010, 01:56:06 am ---http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21douthat1.html
Readers' Comments
Heaven and Nature
By ROSS DOUTHAT
The film “Avatar” is the director’s long apologia for pantheism, Hollywood’s religion of choice for a generation now.
Comment 27.
This is not pantheism, but a blend of animatism and animism.
The rest of you can look it all up in the dictionary.
Trust me, I do this for a living.
Will Spires
Santa Rosa, CA
December 21st, 2009
9:53 am
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You chose the most authoritative response, but it was too short. Another interesting response was:
--- Quote ---Clemsy Greenfield, NY
December 21st, 2009
1:41 pm
The question isn't if nature "deserves a religious response." The question is how could we have ever thought otherwise.
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but several of the responses strike me as biased or ill-informed. However, I doubt that pantheism is the best name for what's illustrated in the movie. I'll have to get back to you on that.
I wonder if Cameron might have taken some inspiration from Druidism, which I'm studying now!!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 10, 2010, 07:13:09 pm ---Just reading in my Celtic history about the early Celts who painted themselves blue with woad (whatever that is), bleached their hair with lime and went naked and dreadlocked into battle, scaring the Romans into retreat!!
Haven't seen Avatar yet but want to so much. Can't get ennione to go with me, so I'll go by myself.
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Woad is the name for both a type of herb and the blue dye made from its leaves.
Front-Ranger:
Oh, okay! Maybe it grows on the wind-tossed heaths of the Highlands!
Oh, I automatically capitalized the word Heath. :-\
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: oilgun on December 19, 2009, 06:06:35 pm ---
Yes, Blue is the new Sexy (and the new Green)
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--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 11, 2010, 04:03:01 pm ---I wonder if Cameron might have taken some inspiration from Druidism, which I'm studying now!!
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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 11, 2010, 04:26:02 pm ---Woad is the name for both a type of herb and the blue dye made from its leaves.
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Well, if it walks like a duck--! :D
Who knew??!!http://www.woad.org.uk/
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and how it has been used for several thousand years (see woad history) in Europe
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