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[[Avatar]] is the [[incarnation]] or incarnated manifestation of a [[Hindu]] [[deity]], a theory both characteristic of Vishnuism and marking a new epoch in the religious development of India.<ref>{{Nuttall|Avatar}}</ref>
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'''Avatar''' is the [[incarnation]] or incarnated manifestation of a [[Hindu]] [[deity]], a theory both characteristic of Vaishnavism and marking a new epoch in the religious development of India.<ref>{{Nuttall|Avatar}}</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hinduism/Vaishnavism-and-Shaivism Vaishnavism and Shaivism - Britannica (britannica.com)]</ref>
  
 
Recently, the term ''avatar'' has been used to signify "an interactive representation of a human in a virtual reality environment",<ref>http://www.case.edu/help/webglossary.html</ref> that is, an online persona used in computer gaming or internet communities.
 
Recently, the term ''avatar'' has been used to signify "an interactive representation of a human in a virtual reality environment",<ref>http://www.case.edu/help/webglossary.html</ref> that is, an online persona used in computer gaming or internet communities.
  
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'''Avatar: The Last Airbender''' is also the title of an animated television series which airs on Nickelodeon.
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''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is also the title of an animated television series which airs on Nickelodeon.
  
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'''Avatar''' is the name of a film by [[James Cameron]] released in 2009.<ref>[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/avatar.html Decent Films review of Avatar]</ref> It has the highest [[Inflation|unadjusted]] domestic and worldwide box office grosses of any film released.<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/ All Time Box Office records]</ref>
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''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' is the name of a film by [[James Cameron]] released in 2009.<ref>[http://decentfilms.com/reviews/avatar.html Decent Films review of Avatar]</ref> It has the highest [[Inflation|unadjusted]] domestic and worldwide box office grosses of any film released.<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/ All Time Box Office records]</ref> It currently has two sequels: ''The Way of Water'' in 2022 and ''Fire and Ash'' in 2025.
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==Anti-conservative content in James Cameron's Avatar==
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''Avatar'' is laced with pessimistic and anti-Christian messages about [[environmentalism]]. The film also imputes base motives to the [[War on Terror]] in several instances. At one point, the major villain, a [[USMC]] colonel, commends his protégé on his military service in [[Nigeria]] and [[Venezuela]]. It is subtly implied that [[US]] actions in these countries in some unspecified point in the future were carried out for the sole purpose of securing the last commercially viable oil deposits on Earth. During the production of the film, however, dangerous [[Communist]] dictator [[Hugo Chavez]] was in power in Venezuela and Nigerian [[Muslim]] [[terrorist]] [[Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab]] acted mere months after the film's release. Worst of all, ''Avatar'' presents a religious worldview both [[materialistic]] and [[pagan]]. The natives of Pandora, the fictional [[moon]] on which the film takes place, are said to enter the [[afterlife]] only through the physical duplication of their minds in a kind of [[neural network]] distributed across the roots of the many trees all over densely-forested Pandora. In other words, a [[reductionist]] view of [[consciousness]] is taken which does not account for the immaterial [[soul]]; [[heaven]] is only attained by the transfer of one material [[brain]] into another. (Expand.)
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Avatar is the incarnation or incarnated manifestation of a Hindu deity, a theory both characteristic of Vaishnavism and marking a new epoch in the religious development of India.[1][2]

Recently, the term avatar has been used to signify "an interactive representation of a human in a virtual reality environment",[3] that is, an online persona used in computer gaming or internet communities.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is also the title of an animated television series which airs on Nickelodeon.

Avatar is the name of a film by James Cameron released in 2009.[4] It has the highest unadjusted domestic and worldwide box office grosses of any film released.[5] It currently has two sequels: The Way of Water in 2022 and Fire and Ash in 2025.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nuttall Encyclopedia of General Knowledge, article on Avatar originally published in 1907 written by Reverend James Wood
  2. ↑ Vaishnavism and Shaivism - Britannica (britannica.com)
  3. ↑ http://www.case.edu/help/webglossary.html
  4. ↑ Decent Films review of Avatar
  5. ↑ All Time Box Office records
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