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Wait. What?

O NOES! We're being invaded by naa'vi!

False alarm, it has mouse ears.

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That's just sad. We have a planet, it's incredible, diverse and beautiful, it frustrates me to see people preferring to run off because we're screwing this one up, instead of respecting what they have and trying to do something to make it what it could be. I'm not an Eco-warrior or anything, but it really irks me when people completely ignore the incredible home they already have.

Ok, those people have serious mental issues O_O. Just reading some of the quotes is enough to make one depressed.

I do sort of feel like life on this planet is full of ****, but fantasizing about escaping to a prettily-rendered alien environment from a popcorn flick is just sick. (Hell, at least pick a properly-developed fictional setting, like Middle-Earth. ) Plus, doesn't part of the fun of living in this world lie in seeing just how asinine it can become? Or maybe that's just me...

Eh, any world can be well-developed. You just have to do the development work yourself.

Nuts or Star Trek all over again? You decide.

Top Gun wrote:I do sort of feel like life on this planet is full of ****, but fantasizing about escaping to a prettily-rendered alien environment from a popcorn flick is just sick. (Hell, at least pick a properly-developed fictional setting, like Middle-Earth. ) Plus, doesn't part of the fun of living in this world lie in seeing just how asinine it can become? Or maybe that's just me...

Fantasizing about it is fine. Obsessing to the point of depression and suicide is not.

You've got to wonder though... I'd very much doubt any of the people contemplating suicide live in South America, Northern Australia, South East Asia, the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada etc. etc. - anywhere where there's still some degree of wild, beautiful, lush green country. Imagine what a few days in any of these places would do for someone who had a life changing experience sitting in a dark theatre? I know that I've personally never enjoyed a part of the world more than I have in the time I've spent in the sub/tropical regions of WA and the Northern Territory, at least in terms of the environment and the climate and whatnot).

Anyone would get depressed with the world if their only experience of it in its natural form comes from a cinema\tv\computer screen. I also wonder how they'd react to something like the "Planet Earth" BBC doco (hell, watch the American version, and they can even get Sigourney Weaver in there).

Black Wolf wrote:You've got to wonder though... I'd very much doubt any of the people contemplating suicide live in South America, Northern Australia, South East Asia, the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada etc. etc. - anywhere where there's still some degree of wild, beautiful, lush green country. Imagine what a few days in any of these places would do for someone who had a life changing experience sitting in a dark theatre? I know that I've personally never enjoyed a part of the world more than I have in the time I've spent in the sub/tropical regions of WA and the Northern Territory, at least in terms of the environment and the climate and whatnot).

Anyone would get depressed with the world if their only experience of it in its natural form comes from a cinema\tv\computer screen. I also wonder how they'd react to something like the "Planet Earth" BBC doco (hell, watch the American version, and they can even get Sigourney Weaver in there).

I would just like to emphasise Attenborough > Weaver*10

I'm probably lucky in that I live in a built up (if not large) town yet are less than an hour away from some rather pretty unspoilt areas. Of course the downside is that almost nowhere - except the highlands - is far from development either. That and the pissing rain.