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Avatar I have not as yet had the opportunity to see this film so excuse me if I err in some of of my comments not from ignorance but from not having all of the facts, however seldom in life do we have all of the facts while many times making life or death decision for ourselves and others. Military leaders do it every day.
I spend many hours a day on my computer, reading studying and just generally surfing at times. While doing that this morning I came upon an article by a lady about the movie "Avatar" which was an extremely complimentary article about the movie as she speaks about the controversies surrounding the movie.
Being from the Los Angeles / Hollywood area we here know it is controversy that as she says in the article "puts butts in the seats'. So many controversies over a movie.
Which brings me back to my own belief which I believe is proven time and time again in scriptures from the Bible to the Koran to the Bhagavad-Gita being that life is nothing but personal belief and perception. As we believe so it is.
Napoleon Hill said it so well "What the mind of man can believe and conceive the mind of man can achieve".
As I look around me at the wonderful world we live in today as I did while riding the metro rail from Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles after the bus from my harbor city to Long Beach I marvel at how and what men have perceived and conceived. From the towering buildings of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the Watts Towers, which are a miracle in themselves.
For those of you that have no idea of what the Watts Towers are: Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Watts Towers Watts Towers, group of folk-art towers in the Watts section of Los Angeles. The complex was built (192154) single-handedly by the self-taught Italian immigrant Simon Rodia (also spelled Rodilla, 18791965). Of varying heights (the tallest is nearly 100 ft/30 m high) and shapes, they are enigmatic and extraordinarily fanciful structures, sculptural in appearance and reminiscent ! of Anton io Gaudí's imaginative architecture. Elegant monuments to Rodia's inventiveness and industry, they are constructed of steel, stone, and cement, often in a kind of filigree, and inlaid with found objects such as china shards, bits of glass, seashells, and bottle caps in a multitude of patterns. Once considered an eyesore and threatened with demolition, the complex was eventually recognized as a significant work of art and designated a national landmark. Damaged by the 1994 earthquake, the towers underwent extensive renovations from 1995 to 2001.
After that bit of history back to what I was saying; this is a beautiful world we live in. I am so blessed to be here at this stage of my life for I have come to love LA the city of angels and it most certainly is.
Avatar appears to be a marvelous piece of entertainment which brings me to the heart of what I want to say. It is entertainment so we take from it what we will. As one of my mentors and teachers in the past pastor Jeff use to say 'chew up the chicken and spit out the bones.'
This is actually how I live my life I take from whatever sources are useful to me and discard the rest. Doesn't mean I may not come back at a later time and rethink my earlier choices and pick up those I threw away for I am an evolving individual that does not stay the same. I am not the same yesterday, today and forever nor would I want to be.
Nor would I want to live in a static never changing Universe for change is what keeps us alive and growing as individuals. It is when we get stuck in a never changing rut we allow ourselves to become prime candidates for senility and other mind disorders.
Mental health is about using your mind to grow a life while enjoying that life as you are growing. Learning that yesterday is gone while tomorrow has not arrived we are to make this moment and every one we are ever in the best it can possibly be as we remember to love ourselves and all of those around us.
I remind you that I love and believ! e in you .
Peace, Love, and Light Rev. Dr. W. Isaac Norris 3rd of the Angelic Messenger Circle the Eternal Light Center of Hope Wisaac3rd.com http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/inspiration-spiritual/wisaac3rd@aol.com |
