After AVATAR can you even enjoy anything else

[Moco Loco]

Luckily, I never went through this "phase". If anything, Avatar made me appreciate every part of my own life much more and made me a happier person in general. I haven't had any serious depression since before then (which I define as depression so bad, you no longer wish to be yourself-- I never would've traded my life for anything).

Niri Te, it's metal, be proud

[iron_jones]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

Niri Te, it's metal, be proud

Totally. It can be native/na'vi and metal at the same time!

[Moco Loco]

Am I going to regret backing you up on this

Niri Te, I don't know what purpose drinking blood serves, but whatever makes you feel connected to nature is good, I guess.

[Niri Te]

The life in in the blood, and by drinking it, you incorporate the Deer's life into your own.
Niri Te

[iron_jones]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

Am I going to regret backing you up on this

Most likely. It's best not to encourage me Moco, you know this.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by apache_blanca

Replying to the title of the thread: "After AVATAR can (I) even enjoy anything else?" my answer is NO. I am trying but all seems to be a pale shadow in comparison. It's been two years that I am trying "to find Pandora on Earth" (Not only beautiful sights: I also mean the sense of the community, friends, to be able to say "I See You" to real persons & the long etcetera) - oh I do have friends here & they are sometimes the only reason to go on living (& even though I complain about my coworkers we "cover each other's backs" during stressful times so I do recognize "sense of community" in this RL situation). What I repeatedly fail to find is the Avatar feeling - apart from very few occasions that have to do mostly with Avatar itself (like, to hear a soundtrack unexpectedly - it blows me away!). & very few times of "the sense of Oneness" in the nature when I feel that I am part of the world - then I remember Neytiri drinking from the purple flower. Avatar, again!

Oel ngati kameie.

Pandora > Earth, and there are no equivalences that people try to make

[apache_blanca]

Originally Posted by Niri Te

... DON'Y worry about the tool, pay attention to the MINDSET,
Niri Te

I agree on this one, "spirit is all that matters". There was a Spain TV program about a guy who hunts with a bow, & yes he has a super hi tech one - but watching How he does it, with hunter's spirit... attention, concentration, stealth, precision... the type of the bow matters much less than this attitude.

& he honors the animals by... making sketches of them. It's a different manner, but the same respect.

As for the "black & white world", the way I put it - I posted about it here, on Keeping the feeling alive, because I guess it fits good there. What I said here still stands true, but I am thinking about "doing the best job of the worst" - what to do if I happen to be in this world anyway, & most likely, for a duration!?

I guess one can get to enjoy things of this world again, when one has a passion. Niri Te has a passion for flying, Raiden - for creatures, some people for computer games when they "become" Na'vis (the night scenes are beautiful btw)... It's just a question of finding in a way "one's place on the wheel", I can't help thinking just how wise this is. I am definitely not a hunter - therefore I am grateful to hunters. I am a Dreamhunter (and a healer, a little bit), & also a "weaver" in a sense: I recommend interesting threads & posts to people here on ToS & nobody told me yet: "What a horrible thread you've sent me to!" - rather, it's the other way around. So yeah, I make "small tsaheylus".

So yeah, still looking for "Pandora on Earth" I haven't found it yet, I don't know if I ever will - but at least I am trying. There must be some way!

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by iron_jones

Totally. It can be native/na'vi and metal at the same time!

Exactly.

[TxonTirea]

The last film I went to see at the Cinema was Harry Potter in IMAX. Even that wasn't that great, In my head, I really haven't seen (Or wanted to see) anything in Cinema's since Avatar.

[Niri Te]

Hey, the most important thing that Txon happens to be is an Avatarian. We got our weekly "fix" of avatar last night, so we will be OK for another week.
Niri Te

[neytirifanboy]

Ialso felt like that in the first few weeks after seeing Avatar. But it doesn't affect me at all now.

In fact, I was hit the same way a couple of weeks ago when I saw Sucker Punch. Many people hate that movie. But for me it caused the same "avatar-like" feeling, although for different reasons and in a different way.

[Txonä Rolyu]

Well I can enjoy other things i.e. my music (I'm a musician) but I do find it hard to really anjoy other movies. I keep comparing movies to Avatar lol. Like...I'll hear a lot of hype about whatever movie, then go see it and be all 'hm. Nothing like Avatar.' It's also kind of saddening when I hear that FOX fanfare then the movie is something that's not Avatar.

Tho for the first like month or 2 after seeing it, it was hard for me to focus on anything else because my mind was just racing with thoughts of Pandora and trying to learn the language.

-Txonä Rolyu

[Niri Te]

Ateyo and I have two Guitars, a Mandolin, a Viola, two hand built chromatic Harmonica's, and a Yamaha Pro Keyboard in the bedroom with us, and we haven't played any of them in over 3 years. Ever since we were thrown out of the last Synagogue just because we always both showed up in the same car, (NEVER ANY PDA OF ANY SORT was displayed).
After that, we just started operating on autopilot, doing the things that were required to survive. That and we took it to the State of Texas, forcing them to legally Marry us. After the last incident of hatred shown us by people that called themselves "God's Chosen ones", we didn't care WHO'S feelings we hurt.
After we saw Avatar, we just BURIED ourselves in the culture, it is a lifestyle that we both embraced for decades before the movie was made, but for me, learning the language is coming slowly, partly because of my brain damage, and partly because I am the one who keeps this place running, doing all the maintainance, repairs, and new construction. So I only get to spend 20 percent of the time that Ateyo spends on learning the language.
I'm hoping that the lengthening days will snap me out of this, and perhaps I will walk over to one of the instruments and start playing it.
Niri Te

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Txonä Rolyu

Though for the first like month or 2 after seeing it, it was hard for me to focus on anything else because my mind was just racing with thoughts of Pandora and trying to learn the language.

-Txonä Rolyu

You know, sometimes I wonder if it is frustrating to be a fluent speaker of a language whose only native speakers are fictional.

[Crickett]

Originally Posted by Raiden

You know, sometimes I wonder if it is frustrating to be a fluent speaker of a language whose only native speakers are fictional.

Ask someone who speaks Klingon. If I was able to speak fluent Na'vi, that would be awesome IMO, even though none of my IRL friends even LIKE Avatar let alone speak Na'vi.