I like to think that everyone in Avatar is some form of Asian but there's just happens to be a hand full of people who are a different race. >one Indian guy meditating in an abandoned monastery >one white guy sailing around the world in a longship >one African guy living in an ancient stone village in the Earth kingdom desert >one Polynesian stuck on an undiscovered island
No bending Europe is on the other side of the the world, and the Asian cultures that they missed are also there. Like you have the Fire Mongols and the Polynesian water benders.
No bending Europe is on the other side of the the world, and the Asian cultures that they missed are also there. Like you have the Fire Mongols and the Polynesian water benders.
My head cannon is Not-India is on the other side of the world. They don't have bending but the do have chi-blocking and chakras. That were Pathinik & the couple guy in Varrik's retinue came from.
Apparently there are actually non mongoloid people in the avatar world but they are far rarer and generally isolated to specific regions, apparently black people and white people exist in the earth kingdom and middle eastern/ indian looking people exist as well.
So it looks like it's less that only asian people exist in the avatar world and more like asian people are a super majority of the population.
>the africans in korra's comic about the Turf War?
Fricking who??? Not everybody that's painted brown is from Africa.
Also, the comics not canon. That's why they gave the shippers the run of it knowing full well that most people don't read it and therefore easily trumped by any animated project.
>>one Polynesian stuck on an undiscovered island
Polynesians would be doing this anyway.
Ancient religion, or religion in general, is also bullshit. What's your point?
Everyone is tired of your ignorant reddit bullshit, you haven't read ancient scriptures or ruminated on 6000 years of philosophy you've just shat your pants like a moron and screamed buks r dum. have a nice day you 80 IQ moron.
Avatar had a simplistic religion. Even anime don't go deeper than it
>the ones that point out corruption in institutionalized religion >the ones that call out all governments as servants of the Evil >the ones that acknowledge no human should enforce the Divine Law >the ones that say that religion should be voluntary >the ones that emphasize your own personal relationship with the divine and the fellow man >the ones that say that you just need to be decent (no murder, no stealing, no adultery, etc) to get life eternal >the ones that also tell you how to be elevated to the co-ruler with the divine >the ones that solve the problem of evil by explaining the current world as an opportunity for the above >the ones backed up with testimonies no historian claims to be a lie
The Gospels
You people are fricking weird. Religion has a straightforward definition and science, like atheism, ain't it. Why can't you just say when you dislike something, why do you have to make up nonsense?
Prove wrong(you fricking can't)
Atheism is not an institution.
Technically atheism isn't a institution or movement, but the reality is that the majority of atheists follow more or less the same set of beliefs in regards to culture and society.
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I must say it's a struggle to explain I'm in the side of life and the preservation of nature while simultaneously not granting people or nature mystic properties.
Don't tell if not asked is the best strategy.
>""""actual atheism""""
You people have really been on pure copium mode in recent years, holy shit. I guess Reddit really served for a purpose after all.
Prove wrong(you fricking can't)
Atheism is not an institution.
Believing in woke evolution, the big bang and secular wokey browniepoint religions like woke marxism and woke LGBBQ+ among other wokeness
1 month ago
Anonymous
You're mixing spiritual beliefs with political beliefs, please never have children.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>woketard gets offended
None of those things have anything to do with being woke, though your rejection of biology does
1 month ago
Anonymous
This is unironically correct in a bizarre way. Secularization just gave rise to different bizarre belief systems that would not have gotten hold if religious belief stayed firm. People are religious creatures and they will continue to think in that framework even if religion is gone.
1 month ago
Anonymous
When I got into atheism, I naively expected that the weakening grasp of religions would start making people turn to atheism in mass.
Instead, what I got was a massive increase in shit like horoscope, new age and neo pagan religions, but mostly into social activist movements.
I guess I'll never live in a free world.
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Anonymous
That's because atheism is your religion
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Anonymous
>NOOO MY ANSWERS ARE ALL WHAT MATTERS TRUST THE SCIENCE
I've left the atheist movement many years ago since the majority of them got into the progressive movement.
I think people just want to find their own path to spirituality without a religion that comes with so many rules, contradictions, and wacky cosmology.
I guess the average human just can't cope with life without some enchantment.
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Anonymous
I think people just want to find their own path to spirituality without a religion that comes with so many rules, contradictions, and wacky cosmology.
1 month ago
Anonymous
>NOOO MY ANSWERS ARE ALL WHAT MATTERS TRUST THE SCIENCE
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>if you're not a muslim or a christgay you must believe in wokeness
Sorry man I'm just not going to go to church or play forspoken.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Where did all these religious larpers even come from? I dont buy that the genuinely devout hang out on Cinemaphile.
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Anonymous
My theory is that as culture shifted, religious kids grew up more ostracized in school and as young adults, they think found friends on Cinemaphile.
I don't buy for a second that any of them are devout or sincere with their beliefs, I think they're more like Eric Cartman and only believe so they can feel forgiveness for the bad shit they do regardless of what others people think of them.
1 month ago
Anonymous
A fair number probably do, it's certainly no guarantee of good behaviour. Mostly though religious LARPing is comorbid with whining about the libs.
1 month ago
Anonymous
My theory is that as culture shifted, religious kids grew up more ostracized in school and as young adults, they think found friends on Cinemaphile.
I don't buy for a second that any of them are devout or sincere with their beliefs, I think they're more like Eric Cartman and only believe so they can feel forgiveness for the bad shit they do regardless of what others people think of them.
>World is full of religious people >THERE'S NO WAY THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE INTERNET
lmao I will pray for you
1 month ago
Anonymous
Nobody buys that hardcore fundies hang out on Cinemaphile
1 month ago
Anonymous
It's all contrarianism.
Early internet was populated by atheists because religious fundamentalism was more prominent in mainstream culture
Now that mainstream culture has become more secular, young fundies crop up to rail against it
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Anonymous
I mean, I agree with you but using the word woke three times in the same sentence makes you look like a fricking moron.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Makes him look like frickin' PAC MAN
WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK ahahahahahahahha aah
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Anonymous
Is believing in evolution and the big bang as controversial in the States as Cinemaphile larpers lead me to believe? In person I've met exactly one person who rejected the theory of evolution, a fundie friend of mine at school. And that was a religious school with chapel services and bible class. Hell, the big bang theory was devised by a priest. I have trouble taking you people at all seriously.
1 month ago
Anonymous
I'm not even a Christcuck, but atheists who bring up "muh heckin sciencerino" are fricking obnoxious.
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Anonymous
The thing is that religion is a free passport to say all kinds of stupid shit, and atheists don't have that luxury so you can call them obnoxious to their face. Which is fine by me, but you're holding them to a higher standard.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Sounds like a you problem. One aspect of religion that we don't focus on too much anymore is that it provided an explanation for how the physical world came to be the way it is. Scientific discoveries have largely disproven what was previously held has unquestionable truths about the origins of the universe and man. What's great about it is that the real explanations are every bit as fantastical as the old myths while still being true. The fact that we even understand the Bing Bang is a miracle. People who scoff at "muh science" might have become jaded from contempt culture war stuff and people who use science like a cudgel. I'm grateful to live in an age where we understand the irl lore of the universe.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Burgeroids are intentionally kept moronic by their ruling class.
1 month ago
Anonymous
No, it's a strawman used by morons like
Burgeroids are intentionally kept moronic by their ruling class.
1 month ago
Anonymous
That was the point anon, he is woke and pissed off people note wokeism is a religion
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Anonymous
>""""actual atheism""""
You people have really been on pure copium mode in recent years, holy shit. I guess Reddit really served for a purpose after all.
Correct.
Atheism is the gayest religion to ever exist.
dogmatic adherence to whatever the western scientific community's current concesus are.
[...]
[...]
Technically atheism isn't a institution or movement, but the reality is that the majority of atheists follow more or less the same set of beliefs in regards to culture and society.
Not everyone is fricktard American, only they think like that because you burgers literally cannot go on withouth turning everything into a cult
1 month ago
Anonymous
No one said everyone is American, you're just proof of what they're talking about
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh frick off, you now damn fricking well that it's only your kind who does this shit you disingenuous frick
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Anonymous
Again you're just proof of what everyone else is talking about, moron
Actually the moron b***hing about wokes accidentally had a point - Marxism, actual Marxist-Leninism as practiced in the USSR not the boogeyman buzzword, was an atheistic philosophy that, except for not making openly supernatural claims, had most of the qualities of a state religion.
But that's a philosophy that contains atheism in it. Atheism is just not thinking there's a god. You could think the universe is created by some cosmic hippo farting out bubbles in an interdimensional body of water and each bubble is a universe and that's still an atheist way of thinking because no god was involved. It's total bullshit, but it lacks a creator God thinking it into existence thus making it an atheist explanation.
I know. There's no inherent commonality between atheists. But you asked for a religious thing atheists did and that's the standout example.
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But what is religious about it? From what I'm reading it's just a political/cultural ideology pushed by the government no different than what we do our countries. Now what Stalin did was on the level of a cult as he filled the party with cronies, killed off anyone who stood up to him and loved promoting himself as some great leader to the communist world with propaganda.
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If religion is defined as a system of belief in the supernatural, then nothing is religious about it. In temporal terms it occupied the same social role in Russia as a state religion (not coincidentally). Orthodoxy, if you prefer.
It's kind of offensive to borrow the aesthetic of Hinduism/Buddhism (using what's clearly an Indian man no less) and insert 70's New Age stuff mixed with psychology.
netflix aang for sure. he sounds so condescending and afraid unlike nickelodeon's aang who still acts as a child despite what he's going through for example.his childish behavior on wanting to firebend asap
Only like 1% of people understand the Guru was wrong. Aang didn't need to let go of people or even unlock his chakara's to master the avatar state or be locked out of it forever if he didn't. He was "wise" but not all knowing
>did it have any popularity in the east?
Not in China and Japan. They're a bit touchy about their more... "colorful" histories being used as inspiration in the show.
The reason why Avatar isn't popular in Asia is because asians think the characters and themes are basically just white people and fundementally western with an asian coat of paint.
I feel this might be the reason I generally prefer ATLA over most anime. Despite it's Asian influences, it's still a western story at it's core and doesn't cause much of a culture shock to me.
Japan loves all things American Disney always breaks box office records in Japan and even though they have developed their own pop culture they still look to the West.
Sure but a lot of Disney classics are set in western settings with Mulan being the only one set in asia. The contention with Avatar has to do with how the show has an asian inspired fantasy setting but because its story, characters, and themes are fundamentally western, it just comes as offputting to them.
Another example would be the manga Kingdom, which is an epic set in ancient China. A lot of manga and anime are popular in China but ironically not Kingdom, despite it being a major hit in Japan and set in medieval China, because the characters, story, and themes are fundamentally japanese so it just comes off as offputting to the general Chinese audience.
I don't have a problem with religion, I have a problem with people who see their religion as a free pass to be an butthole. Ever notice how when someone says that they know what God wants, by a strange coincidence, it always happens to be what they want? I'd respect them a lot more if they just stopped saying "God wants..." and just said "I want..." instead.
Shaolin monks famously preferred not to kill. Maim, yes. Did kill sometimes, but not as policy. IIRC at least one popular Chinese strategist calls for the use of women in battle, specifically as home guard, the second line of defence, behind able-bodied men but ahead of elderly men and boys. If real Chinese women had magic powers they'd probably see more combat.
>Young Avatar, you must not slay the fire lord. One who kills his opponents, loses the war, of the soul. To truly be victorious you must rip him a new one, in his mind.
I don't care
I like to think that everyone in Avatar is some form of Asian but there's just happens to be a hand full of people who are a different race.
>one Indian guy meditating in an abandoned monastery
>one white guy sailing around the world in a longship
>one African guy living in an ancient stone village in the Earth kingdom desert
>one Polynesian stuck on an undiscovered island
No bending Europe is on the other side of the the world, and the Asian cultures that they missed are also there. Like you have the Fire Mongols and the Polynesian water benders.
>Fire Mongols
Those can't possibly exist, or else they would have conquered the world already.
>tfw kankermongol
The mongols were never good with boats or seafaring.
My head cannon is Not-India is on the other side of the world. They don't have bending but the do have chi-blocking and chakras. That were Pathinik & the couple guy in Varrik's retinue came from.
Apparently there are actually non mongoloid people in the avatar world but they are far rarer and generally isolated to specific regions, apparently black people and white people exist in the earth kingdom and middle eastern/ indian looking people exist as well.
So it looks like it's less that only asian people exist in the avatar world and more like asian people are a super majority of the population.
So like uh real life?
There are no non-Asians in Avatar-verse. It's just that "Asian" cultures include everything from the Middle East to the East Indies to Arctic Siberia.
What kind of Asian are the swamp benders?
One of those jungle Asians from Indochina.
but they look and sound like they're cajun
explain the africans in korra's comic about the Turf War?
keep in mind Mike wrote that comic
>the africans in korra's comic about the Turf War?
Fricking who??? Not everybody that's painted brown is from Africa.
Also, the comics not canon. That's why they gave the shippers the run of it knowing full well that most people don't read it and therefore easily trumped by any animated project.
Where are the slavs in Avatar?
Kyoshi Island
That's why Suki has red hair and blue eyes.
For some reason this reminds me of the time we had a thread discussing what the show would be like if it was based in Europe rather than Asia.
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/136545466/
Found it.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for the Greeks and Romans to be earth?
Jews & roma are airbenders
I've wanted to visit Meteora since I first heard of it.
I now remember some old tumblr-art where someone redrew avatar as western, with Aang being a little benedictine monk and all.
It was pretty cool
There are actually French Cajun people in the avatar world. They live in the swamp.
Ethnically they're very lost eskimos.
>>one Polynesian stuck on an undiscovered island
Polynesians would be doing this anyway.
Everyone is tired of your ignorant reddit bullshit, you haven't read ancient scriptures or ruminated on 6000 years of philosophy you've just shat your pants like a moron and screamed buks r dum. have a nice day you 80 IQ moron.
Don't forget the fricking Aztecs protecting the last of tge dragons
Ancient religion, or religion in general, is also bullshit. What's your point?
Frick off, Reddit atheist. No one cares.
Which book do you think is The Real One?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Why did you pick book filled with gay sex?
Avatar had a simplistic religion. Even anime don't go deeper than it
>the ones that point out corruption in institutionalized religion
>the ones that call out all governments as servants of the Evil
>the ones that acknowledge no human should enforce the Divine Law
>the ones that say that religion should be voluntary
>the ones that emphasize your own personal relationship with the divine and the fellow man
>the ones that say that you just need to be decent (no murder, no stealing, no adultery, etc) to get life eternal
>the ones that also tell you how to be elevated to the co-ruler with the divine
>the ones that solve the problem of evil by explaining the current world as an opportunity for the above
>the ones backed up with testimonies no historian claims to be a lie
The Gospels
NTA, but Industrial Society and Its Future
I was so sure you were going to say some nazi shit that the Unabomber came as a pleasant surprise.
This, but wokeism is also a religion
>I just stepped into the thread to randomly complain about gays and trannies
Ok schizogay.
>but not MY religion
OK, Doreen
science is also a religion
You people are fricking weird. Religion has a straightforward definition and science, like atheism, ain't it. Why can't you just say when you dislike something, why do you have to make up nonsense?
>Hahahaha other people's religion is so dumb
>WTF how dare you say my religion is dumb?!?
Correct.
Atheism is the gayest religion to ever exist.
Actual atheism is not a religion it's the lack of one.
>he believes this
dogmatic, aren’t we?
What are the religious tenets of atheism?
Atheism doesn't have any type of institution or set of beliefs.
>Atheism doesn't have any type of institution or set of beliefs.
lol
Prove wrong(you fricking can't)
Atheism is not an institution.
Technically atheism isn't a institution or movement, but the reality is that the majority of atheists follow more or less the same set of beliefs in regards to culture and society.
I must say it's a struggle to explain I'm in the side of life and the preservation of nature while simultaneously not granting people or nature mystic properties.
Don't tell if not asked is the best strategy.
>""""actual atheism""""
You people have really been on pure copium mode in recent years, holy shit. I guess Reddit really served for a purpose after all.
What are the religious tenets of atheism?
Believing in woke evolution, the big bang and secular wokey browniepoint religions like woke marxism and woke LGBBQ+ among other wokeness
You're mixing spiritual beliefs with political beliefs, please never have children.
>woketard gets offended
None of those things have anything to do with being woke, though your rejection of biology does
This is unironically correct in a bizarre way. Secularization just gave rise to different bizarre belief systems that would not have gotten hold if religious belief stayed firm. People are religious creatures and they will continue to think in that framework even if religion is gone.
When I got into atheism, I naively expected that the weakening grasp of religions would start making people turn to atheism in mass.
Instead, what I got was a massive increase in shit like horoscope, new age and neo pagan religions, but mostly into social activist movements.
I guess I'll never live in a free world.
That's because atheism is your religion
I've left the atheist movement many years ago since the majority of them got into the progressive movement.
I guess the average human just can't cope with life without some enchantment.
I think people just want to find their own path to spirituality without a religion that comes with so many rules, contradictions, and wacky cosmology.
>NOOO MY ANSWERS ARE ALL WHAT MATTERS TRUST THE SCIENCE
>if you're not a muslim or a christgay you must believe in wokeness
Sorry man I'm just not going to go to church or play forspoken.
Where did all these religious larpers even come from? I dont buy that the genuinely devout hang out on Cinemaphile.
My theory is that as culture shifted, religious kids grew up more ostracized in school and as young adults, they think found friends on Cinemaphile.
I don't buy for a second that any of them are devout or sincere with their beliefs, I think they're more like Eric Cartman and only believe so they can feel forgiveness for the bad shit they do regardless of what others people think of them.
A fair number probably do, it's certainly no guarantee of good behaviour. Mostly though religious LARPing is comorbid with whining about the libs.
>World is full of religious people
>THERE'S NO WAY THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE INTERNET
lmao I will pray for you
Nobody buys that hardcore fundies hang out on Cinemaphile
It's all contrarianism.
Early internet was populated by atheists because religious fundamentalism was more prominent in mainstream culture
Now that mainstream culture has become more secular, young fundies crop up to rail against it
I mean, I agree with you but using the word woke three times in the same sentence makes you look like a fricking moron.
Makes him look like frickin' PAC MAN
WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK WOK ahahahahahahahha aah
Is believing in evolution and the big bang as controversial in the States as Cinemaphile larpers lead me to believe? In person I've met exactly one person who rejected the theory of evolution, a fundie friend of mine at school. And that was a religious school with chapel services and bible class. Hell, the big bang theory was devised by a priest. I have trouble taking you people at all seriously.
I'm not even a Christcuck, but atheists who bring up "muh heckin sciencerino" are fricking obnoxious.
The thing is that religion is a free passport to say all kinds of stupid shit, and atheists don't have that luxury so you can call them obnoxious to their face. Which is fine by me, but you're holding them to a higher standard.
Sounds like a you problem. One aspect of religion that we don't focus on too much anymore is that it provided an explanation for how the physical world came to be the way it is. Scientific discoveries have largely disproven what was previously held has unquestionable truths about the origins of the universe and man. What's great about it is that the real explanations are every bit as fantastical as the old myths while still being true. The fact that we even understand the Bing Bang is a miracle. People who scoff at "muh science" might have become jaded from contempt culture war stuff and people who use science like a cudgel. I'm grateful to live in an age where we understand the irl lore of the universe.
Burgeroids are intentionally kept moronic by their ruling class.
No, it's a strawman used by morons like
That was the point anon, he is woke and pissed off people note wokeism is a religion
Not everyone is fricktard American, only they think like that because you burgers literally cannot go on withouth turning everything into a cult
No one said everyone is American, you're just proof of what they're talking about
Oh frick off, you now damn fricking well that it's only your kind who does this shit you disingenuous frick
Again you're just proof of what everyone else is talking about, moron
dogmatic adherence to whatever the western scientific community's current concesus are.
its not really a religion but it is 100% cope
>Atheism is the gayest religion to ever exist.
Can you tell me what religious things we atheists do?
Actually the moron b***hing about wokes accidentally had a point - Marxism, actual Marxist-Leninism as practiced in the USSR not the boogeyman buzzword, was an atheistic philosophy that, except for not making openly supernatural claims, had most of the qualities of a state religion.
But that's a philosophy that contains atheism in it. Atheism is just not thinking there's a god. You could think the universe is created by some cosmic hippo farting out bubbles in an interdimensional body of water and each bubble is a universe and that's still an atheist way of thinking because no god was involved. It's total bullshit, but it lacks a creator God thinking it into existence thus making it an atheist explanation.
I know. There's no inherent commonality between atheists. But you asked for a religious thing atheists did and that's the standout example.
But what is religious about it? From what I'm reading it's just a political/cultural ideology pushed by the government no different than what we do our countries. Now what Stalin did was on the level of a cult as he filled the party with cronies, killed off anyone who stood up to him and loved promoting himself as some great leader to the communist world with propaganda.
If religion is defined as a system of belief in the supernatural, then nothing is religious about it. In temporal terms it occupied the same social role in Russia as a state religion (not coincidentally). Orthodoxy, if you prefer.
>these are the people calling everyone a snowflake
Not everyone, just the people who kill themselves (and others) over pronouns.
>say something offensive
>surprised people get offended
snowflake
it's a cartoon bro
It's kind of offensive to borrow the aesthetic of Hinduism/Buddhism (using what's clearly an Indian man no less) and insert 70's New Age stuff mixed with psychology.
Cry about it?
See
it's a western cartoon, its takes on Asian culture were always very superficial.
Ancient Chinese secret, huh.
And?
Aang is a boring character.
netflix aang for sure. he sounds so condescending and afraid unlike nickelodeon's aang who still acts as a child despite what he's going through for example.his childish behavior on wanting to firebend asap
wasn't hippie bullshit mostly just skin-deep interpretations of eastern philosophies anyway?
To be clear, you believe hippies made up chakra?
the way they're portrayed in the show, yes
He was wrong anyways. His lesson was bs lmao. Aang did the avatar state anyways
Only like 1% of people understand the Guru was wrong. Aang didn't need to let go of people or even unlock his chakara's to master the avatar state or be locked out of it forever if he didn't. He was "wise" but not all knowing
That's fair, I doubt you could sell anything more than a hundred years old to a modern audience without trillions of dollars in propaganda pushing it.
Avatar was pretty big in the west, did it have any popularity in the east?
>did it have any popularity in the east?
Not in China and Japan. They're a bit touchy about their more... "colorful" histories being used as inspiration in the show.
They dont really care. Look at how China loved kung fu Panda. They just dont think ATLA is any good.
Yeah, but Kung Fu Panda didn't show their fictional version of China as being a hyper secretive police state with a puppet leader.
Lake Laogai was literally named after their current system of concentration camps.
That's nice, I doubt very much that any children watching were ever thinking about that or gave a shit. Have a nice day.
So?
Where are the wood benders?
How the frick does fire not beat wood
the wood needs to be dry for it to burn.
Korra bends my wood
None of this shit is based on ancient mythology. It's all popcorn zoomer bullshit
The reason why Avatar isn't popular in Asia is because asians think the characters and themes are basically just white people and fundementally western with an asian coat of paint.
And they are right. It's basically the same as when some slant eyed asiatic tries to write black people.
I feel this might be the reason I generally prefer ATLA over most anime. Despite it's Asian influences, it's still a western story at it's core and doesn't cause much of a culture shock to me.
Japan loves all things American Disney always breaks box office records in Japan and even though they have developed their own pop culture they still look to the West.
Sure but a lot of Disney classics are set in western settings with Mulan being the only one set in asia. The contention with Avatar has to do with how the show has an asian inspired fantasy setting but because its story, characters, and themes are fundamentally western, it just comes as offputting to them.
Another example would be the manga Kingdom, which is an epic set in ancient China. A lot of manga and anime are popular in China but ironically not Kingdom, despite it being a major hit in Japan and set in medieval China, because the characters, story, and themes are fundamentally japanese so it just comes off as offputting to the general Chinese audience.
What the hell, anon? I thought Lucas Uzumaki was based on Jesus Christ.
It's a dumb Nickelodeon show for very young children.
I don't have a problem with religion, I have a problem with people who see their religion as a free pass to be an butthole. Ever notice how when someone says that they know what God wants, by a strange coincidence, it always happens to be what they want? I'd respect them a lot more if they just stopped saying "God wants..." and just said "I want..." instead.
All religious claim to be the one true one. Including yours.
If it was based on ancient religion the monks would be killing their enemies and the women wouldn't be anywhere near a battlefield.
Shaolin monks famously preferred not to kill. Maim, yes. Did kill sometimes, but not as policy. IIRC at least one popular Chinese strategist calls for the use of women in battle, specifically as home guard, the second line of defence, behind able-bodied men but ahead of elderly men and boys. If real Chinese women had magic powers they'd probably see more combat.
What if desire was le bad?
Desire can be bad.
That's exactly what makes it so good.
143094354
You just claimed all that stuff about him based on nothing and added more buzzwords and an arbitrary number for intellect.
>Young Avatar, you must not slay the fire lord. One who kills his opponents, loses the war, of the soul. To truly be victorious you must rip him a new one, in his mind.
lol'd
I hear the voice and music perfectly every time I see this show.
What's New Age hippie bullshit based on again?
Mostly modern period occultism I think.
israeli tricks.