Avatar Pandora Quotes

the word "avatar" comes from the Sanskrit noun avatāra derived from a verbal root that means to "cross over". Jake's avatar is what enables him to "cross over" from the mortal world to the sublime universe of Pandora

Above all, they revere Pandora - and Eywa, the deity who pervades animates the planet - as a source of life, a nurturing mother, a provider and a protector. Pandora, for them, is more than just an arena ; deadly conflict. It's first and foremost a place of caring.

Traditional Christian theism holds that God is both transcendent and immanent, meaning that God exists wholly outside of the created uni-verse, outside of space and time, yet interacts with the created universe in myriad ways - most directly through incarnation in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Compare this with Eywa, the Navi "All Mother." Eywa is also worshipped as a divine being; but, unlike the Christian God, she doesn't merely interact with the world of Pandora but is Pandora itself, manifested through the intricate neural network among the plant and animal species that inhabit it, the Navi among them.

The Na'vi seem to regard the borrowed energy that nurtures and sustains their existence as a gift of Eywa, their Great Mother. And, ironically enough, the name human beings chose for the Na'vi's world is Pandora, a Greek name meaning "All-Gifts." But the "sky people" seem to lack a full appreciation of the implications of that name, not recognizing that the proper response to a gift is not a jealous sense of entitlement but rather heartfelt gratitude, which is most genuinely expressed as a desire to give back.

Pandora is an "unfallen" world - a metaphorical Garden of Eden - characterized by a beautiful harmony among its inhabitants that's disrupted only when beings who aren't native to that world violently invade it.

The word tantra comes from two Sanskrit verbal roots, tan tra. Tran means "to expand" or "to weave," which is just what does in his avatar body when he weaves the tendrils of his n queue with those of his teacher-lover Neytiri, the animals of Pandora and the trees that connect him ultimately to Eywa.

On the positive side, perhaps the best example of a creative and (potentially) helpful use of AI is Chat2024, an AI-powered chatbot that serves as a stand-in for each candidate. This gives any visitor to Chat2024.com the ability to ask any candidate any question you want. Through the site, you can carry on a conversation with each candidate just as you’d engage a friend over any other messaging app. The AI has been programmed with everything it needs to field any question, even answering in the voice, tone, and attitude of each candidate (mostly). The company behind Chat2024 is also developing a voice feature that will allow people to engage in a voice conversation with each candidate’s AI avatar, which will have a voice eerily close to the real thing. I tried Chat2024 soon after it launched, and the results were interesting, to say the least. I can see some real value here for voter education … but I can also see how tools like this could go horribly wrong. We’ve opened a Pandora’s Box, and there’s no going back. Obviously, the big potential danger with a tool like Chat2024 is that these answers are not actually coming from a candidate. The AI is using all the information at its disposal to approximate what it thinks the candidate would say in response to each question. But, as anyone who’s played around with ChatGPT and other AI-powered search engines knows, sometimes the AI is just … wrong. Sometimes, woefully so.

Pandora could be a "giver" to humanity by providing a model for how we can live in communion with our world. Jake receives the lesson, but unfortunately most of the other human beings on Pandora fail to listen and learn.

I hope our depiction of Pandora and Earth’s infiltration of that world in A2 and the other sequels will not only entertain but also cast light on the urgent choices humanity faces as we look to the environment and our collective future on Earth.