Where does bending start?: the chicken or the egg

by **Pleh** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:38 pm

I've heard rumors that the next Avatar series is based in the time before the Avatar or something.
Just word-of-mouth though. I haven't heard from anyone credible.
But if it's true, then we may yet find out where it all began.

by **Renori Fa** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:43 pm

Now that would be an interesting series

by **Tiny** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:42 am

We are told by the Lion Turtle in Sozin's Comet ep.2 that "Before the time of the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the spirit inside ourselves" (or something to that effect)

This can lead us to believe that the origin of bending was from (probably Lion Turtles) ancient beings bending the energies that eventually led to the control of the elements.

There is a theory that is outside Avatar. In relation to telekinesis, there is a theory that, with concentration, extreme meditation, and an unbending will, people are able to manipulate their surroundings with only their willpower.
There is a theory beyond that, that everyone has the power of telekinesis, but there is normally something holding that back. This could be interpreted as the "energies" bent by the ancients.
Using these theories (loosely, because I have not thought about it prior to now), we can say that not only did bending originate from the power locked in the beings existing, but that it is possible that it can exist for real.

by **avatarfreaklea** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:19 am

tinyartist18 wrote:We are told by the Lion Turtle in Sozin's Comet ep.2 that "Before the time of the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the spirit inside ourselves" (or something to that effect)

This can lead us to believe that the origin of bending was from (probably Lion Turtles) ancient beings bending the energies that eventually led to the control of the elements.

There is a theory that is outside Avatar. In relation to telekinesis, there is a theory that, with concentration, extreme meditation, and an unbending will, people are able to manipulate their surroundings with only their willpower.
There is a theory beyond that, that everyone has the power of telekinesis, but there is normally something holding that back. This could be interpreted as the "energies" bent by the ancients.
Using these theories (loosely, because I have not thought about it prior to now), we can say that not only did bending originate from the power locked in the beings existing, but that it is possible that it can exist for real.

Very true, the Lion Turtlees were probably the first type of bender using 'spirit bending'. And the elemental benders probalbly found a way to use their 'spirit bending' to try and find a way to control the elements surrounding them.

by **nutshak** » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:50 am

haha chicken and the egg question isn't that hard to figure out.

An egg can't survive without a chicken.

A chicken can survive without an egg.

A mutated raptor or reptile of some kind layed an egg! then sat on it and accidently cracked it.

So he tried again and this time he was sucesful in hatching it and that reptile thing layed another egg and so on on so forth! until the chickenw as formed!

Does that mean raptors would have tasted like chicken?

by **Patosi** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:07 pm

nutshak wrote:Does that mean raptors would have tasted like chicken?

That depends, what kind of raptor are we talking about?

by **tyleefreak** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:50 pm

maybe the cycle is an illusion?

people always try ti put some order in things.
and so they invented the cycle

no?

by **sparticus** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:14 pm

By definition the egg came first. The genetic differences that happened from 1 generation to another where what created today's modern chicken, so the mutation that created the chicken must have existed while it was in the egg to begin with.

As for bending, I'm saying that soulbending came first, and in the experimenting that surely followed an Avatar was created. The creation of the avatar then disseminated into the creation of the 4 nations.

by **DaKool** » Thu May 20, 2010 2:51 am

the ocean and the moon tought the waterbenders how to bend and the bager moles tought the earthbenders the dragons tought the fire benders and the the bisons tought the airbenders

by **mJacobsensl** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:09 pm

I have a related question, I am finishing my four year degree this year having only been in school for three years. As Calgary does not take into account this semesters marks, they will only see two years and last semester, the same as the OP. Is it possible they will consider my situation or will I be judged the same as others who have done another year of school? Thanks I hope that made sense.