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    Lokizz

    [1]Oct 15, 2006
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    then could it be that all bending skills were learned from animals? because as youve seen in the cartoons apa uses air bending to a certain extent so could the air tribe have learned how to air bend from the flying bison and if so then where did the water benders and fire benders learn their bending from???
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    Airawende

    [2]Oct 15, 2006
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    Water benders learned bending from watching the interaction between the moon and the ocean

    Firebenders...they havn't mentioned anything yet, but my guess would??be the sun...don't quote me on it, though.

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    zukone

    [3]Oct 15, 2006
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    Lokizz wrote:
    then could it be that all bending skills were learned from animals? because as youve seen in the cartoons apa uses air bending to a certain extent so could the air tribe have learned how to air bend from the flying bison and if so then where did the water benders and fire benders learn their bending from?


    What I want to know is why some of the earth kingdom can bend and some can't if bending was learned by animals. Following this theory, Everyone should be able to earthbend. It's extremely coincidental that the two lovers had the gene for earthbending AND learned it from animals.
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    KilalaRose

    [4]Oct 15, 2006
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    duplicate thread.....anyway, Waterbenders learned from the moon spirit and Airbenders learned from the flying bisons. We don't know what the Firebenders have learned from. They could have learned from the sun or the dragon.
    zukone wrote:
    What I want to know is why some of the earth kingdom can bend and some can't if bending was learned by animals. Following this theory, Everyone should be able to earthbend. It's extremely coincidental that the two lovers had the gene for earthbending AND learned it from animals.
    the bending has become hereditary depending to the nation you're from. the bending arts had been learned thousands of years ago, considering how many past Avatars there were, and i doubt anyone remembers how to learn the bending from an animal (it would be too easy if they could). The two lovers created the Earthbending gene, so they didn't originally have it. The elemental spirit of Earth has to be born into the child, though, for it to be a Earthbender. Two non-benders from the EK could have a Earthbending child, and vice versa. If you recall from "The Fortuneteller" there were two identical twins, but one was a Earthbender and the other wasn't. This same instance could happen for the other nations, too, but not the Air Nomads because all of them are Airbenders (yes, that is confirmed. i have proof!)
    Edited on 10/15/2006 3:26pm
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    UGamer08

    [5]Oct 15, 2006
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    KilalaRose wrote:
    duplicate thread.....anyway, Waterbenders learned from the moon spirit and Airbenders learned from the flying bisons. We don't know what the Firebenders have learned from. They could have learned from the sun or the dragon.
    zukone wrote:
    What I want to know is why some of the earth kingdom can bend and some can't if bending was learned by animals. Following this theory, Everyone should be able to earthbend. It's extremely coincidental that the two lovers had the gene for earthbending AND learned it from animals.
    the bending has become hereditary depending to the nation you're from. the bending arts had been learned thousands of years ago, considering how many past Avatars there were, and i doubt anyone remembers how to learn the bending from an animal (it would be too easy if they could). The two lovers created the Earthbending gene, so they didn't originally have it. The elemental spirit of Earth has to be born into the child, though, for it to be a Earthbender. Two non-benders from the EK could have a Earthbending child, and vice versa. If you recall from "The Fortuneteller" there were two identical twins, but one was a Earthbender and the other wasn't. This same instance could happen for the other nations, too, but not the Air Nomads because all of them are Airbenders (yes, that is confirmed. i have proof!)

    And that waterbendering is enhanced during raining?

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    SapphireStones

    [6]Oct 15, 2006
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    Remeber, just because your mom or first cousin or someone was able to bend, it dind't necessarily meant you were a lock for being a bender also. It depended on how strong your faith was in your culture that determined your skills. I think someone mentioned it before, but that's like how Katara has strong belief in the moon spirits and faith in the interaction between the moon and the tides and blah blah blah, while Sokka is quite skeptical (not skeptical, but like just not really as concerned about it)when it comes to it, and he has no bending skills. It just all depends on your faith.
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    KilalaRose

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    SapphireStones wrote:
    Remeber, just because your mom or first cousin or someone was able to bend, it dind't necessarily meant you were a lock for being a bender also. It depended on how strong your faith was in your culture that determined your skills. I think someone mentioned it before, but that's like how Katara has strong belief in the moon spirits and faith in the interaction between the moon and the tides and blah blah blah, while Sokka is quite skeptical (not skeptical, but like just not really as concerned about it)when it comes to it, and he has no bending skills. It just all depends on your faith.
    the person is born with the ability to bend....you don't even know what faith is when you're a newborn
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    SapphireStones

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    KilalaRose wrote:
    SapphireStones wrote:
    Remeber, just because your mom or first cousin or someone was able to bend, it dind't necessarily meant you were a lock for being a bender also. It depended on how strong your faith was in your culture that determined your skills. I think someone mentioned it before, but that's like how Katara has strong belief in the moon spirits and faith in the interaction between the moon and the tides and blah blah blah, while Sokka is quite skeptical (not skeptical, but like just not really as concerned about it)when it comes to it, and he has no bending skills. It just all depends on your faith.
    the person is born with the ability to bend....you don't even know what faith is when you're a newborn

    Oh. Well yeah.

    Or.......

    Maybe you're born with bending skills but when you get older whether you actually tap into that connection with your culture's beliefs (I'm trying not to make this sound all religious) and enhance your bending skills, or you don't really pay attention to it, or just aren't as into the whole "Harmony with nature" thing and just don't ever enable your skills.

    .............

    Or I could be wrong.
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    ISpeakTheTruth

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    SapphireStones wrote:
    KilalaRose wrote:
    SapphireStones wrote:
    Remeber, just because your mom or first cousin or someone was able to bend, it dind't necessarily meant you were a lock for being a bender also. It depended on how strong your faith was in your culture that determined your skills. I think someone mentioned it before, but that's like how Katara has strong belief in the moon spirits and faith in the interaction between the moon and the tides and blah blah blah, while Sokka is quite skeptical (not skeptical, but like just not really as concerned about it)when it comes to it, and he has no bending skills. It just all depends on your faith.
    the person is born with the ability to bend....you don't even know what faith is when you're a newborn
    Oh. Well yeah. Or....... Maybe you're born with bending skills but when you get older whether you actually tap into that connection with your culture's beliefs (I'm trying not to make this sound all religious) and enhance your bending skills, or you don't really pay attention to it, or just aren't as into the whole "Harmony with nature" thing and just don't ever enable your skills. ............. Or I could be wrong.

    Well...Zhao wasn't very harmonious to nature in fact he was anti balance trying to destroy the moon and all...I say it's 100% genetic.

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    Songoftheskies

    [10]Oct 15, 2006
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    I think the creators said it was both spirit and genes.
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    KilalaRose

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    Songoftheskies wrote:
    I think the creators said it was both spirit and genes.
    it is. it depends whether the elemental spirit is born into or not, and the nation you're from tells what element you bend (genes)
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    SapphireStones

    [12]Oct 15, 2006
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    Yah. We all win!

    *looks around*

    What? I hate being wrong, so i'd rather us all be right than to be wrong altogether. I am such a dork
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    UGamer08

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    KilalaRose wrote:
    Songoftheskies wrote:
    I think the creators said it was both spirit and genes.
    it is. it depends whether the elemental spirit is born into or not, and the nation you're from tells what element you bend (genes)

    As I've said on well basically a bunch times this was asked, the creators??haven't settled on that so as you said, "its??kinda both" (they said the exact same thing).??So??its??pretty much a??whole mess of argueing and speculation until they decide to pull something out. Wow that just??about summarizes, ah well.??

    Edited on 10/15/2006 4:01pm
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    ISpeakTheTruth

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    SapphireStones wrote:
    I hate being wrong, ...... I am such a dork

    Well I have good news and bad news. Bad news is that you're wrong about the bending issue...and about a great many other things I'm sure. But you're right about being a dork.

    Oh yes what is that sound?...It's the sound of a burn.

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    ChrisVisagie

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    Well,?? why don't we look at it this way; has there at any time in the series been a person that wanted to be able to bend but wasn't?

    Oh and about the air bending thing, I think I read somewhere that air bending had been learned from the fly bison, that is why they are held in such high regard by the air nomads.

    So Earth came from badger moles, Air from Flying bison and Water from the moon.

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    whiteforest

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    ChrisVisagie wrote:
    Well, why don't we look at it this way; has there at any time in the series been a person that wanted to be able to bend but wasn't?


    No, but there was a case where someone didn't want to bend his element, but could: Jeong Jeong.
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    KilalaRose

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    ChrisVisagie wrote:
    Oh and about the air bending thing, I think I read somewhere that air bending had been learned from the fly bison, that is why they are held in such high regard by the air nomads.
    yes. Airbenders even borrowed the arrow from the bison for their tattoos
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    zukone

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    ChrisVisagie wrote:

    Well, why don't we look at it this way; has there at any time in the series been a person that wanted to be able to bend but wasn't?

    Oh and about the air bending thing, I think I read somewhere that air bending had been learned from the fly bison, that is why they are held in such high regard by the air nomads.

    So Earth came from badger moles, Air from Flying bison and Water from the moon.


    You could even say water from the moon/fish.?? The last could be the sun/dragon
    Edited on 10/15/2006 6:44pm
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