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The Avatar State wasn't cut off from Korra, instead all of the previous life experiences and communications with her previous lives were lost.Kind of like how your computer crashes but everything you've saved is gone forever.Remember in S2 E1 of ATLA, when Roku mentioned that if you are killed in the Avatar State, all the previous Avatar's lives will be lost and the Avatar will cease to exist. Then at the end of the series Aang was killed.The situation with Korra was different. She had the Avatar spirit ripped out of her, along with all the previous Avatars' memories too and together they were destroyed.Meaning that now every avatar who will come later in the future can't access those memories anymore. They can still go into the Avatar State because Raava is inside of them and is infused with their life forces.Now I don't know if they will ever get those past memories back but I do think it's possible somehow.Like a computer, if all the memories aren't saved somewhere, then all that came before is basically lost. But if you have something like a flash drive or like a cloud then all isnt technically gone.Like a flash drive, Tenzin told Korra that Vaatu's prison, was known as the tree of time and that it's roots bind both the spirit and physical worlds together.Everything that happened in the history of the Avatar world was recorded by the tree of time. I feel like the creators are somehow going to link the tree of time to a plot where somehow the Avatar can regain their past memories.Idk, that's just a theory. But hopefully I cleared up some things.

“If God did not want us to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and Satan did, isn't a fair argument that we should thank Satan for our having free will? Also, shouldn't it be considered evil that God gave us death because we gained this knowledge?”Lord, save us from exegesis based on colloquial paraphrase…If it had, indeed, been simply “the Tree of Knowledge”, then yeah, it would seem very weird that God didn’t want Adam and Eve to eat of it. It would imply that God prefers ignorance.But it wasn’t.It was “the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”.Now, first, let’s consider what “knowledge” of good and evil is.Obviously, eating of the tree couldn’t have been necessary for Adam and Eve to merely have a concept of right and wrong—otherwise, Eve would not have protested when the Serpent suggested that she eat the fruit. She at least knew, in a childlike way, that she ought not to do what God told her not to do.There is theoretical knowledge… and there is practical knowledge.Adam and Eve had the theoretical concept of good and evil prior to eating of the fruit—but they had never experienced evil. And, with nothing to contrast with, their subjective experience of good was attenuated as well.Next, let’s tackle “free will”.Of course Adam and Eve had free will before eating of the fruit. If they hadn’t, then they couldn’t have done it.God would have said, “Don’t eat this fruit,” and Eve would have gone, “Instruction received. Complying,” like the mere automaton that she would have been.The fruit did not grant (or represent) free will.Finally, we need to take seriously the claim of God as “Father”. Because that is the crux of the matter here.Prior to eating of the fruit, Adam and Eve were like happy children—they didn’t need to personally experience and understand good and evil, but rather just to trust their Father. He would tell them what they needed to know, and never lead them astray.But, like many disobedient children, Adam and Eve were tempted by the idea of “growing up” and claiming the prerogatives of their parent for themselves—deciding for themselves what is good and what is evil. “You can’t tell me what to do, Dad! I’m not a baby anymore, I’m twelve!”And that was the original sin—the choice to privilege Eve’s judgment (and Adam’s) above God’s judgment. The choice to think that they knew better than their Father.In earthly relationships, this isn’t always wrong. Parents can be immature, unwise, or otherwise flawed, and kids do (hopefully) mature into adults with faculties equal to those of the parents.But God is not flawed. God is not limited. And God’s children can never surpass Him in wisdom or righteousness.Sin is, at its most basic level, the desire to be our own God.

This is Astana, Kazakhstan.Astana is located in the middle of the middle of nowhere; Little surrounds this city for 1,200 kilometers, except a few villages along the world’s largest steppe, located in a country which most people have never heard of; Astana is a dot of urban structures in a mass of nothing.Shooting from this mass of urban structures are many futuristic structures, such as the Bayterek (the tower in the center in the above picture), the Khan Shatyr, and the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation.Khan ShatyrPalace of Peace and ReconciliationThese sci-fi-like buildings seamlessly blend in with local culture; the Bayterek connects with the local tale the “Tree of Life”, which features a golden orb.Though it’s glitz and style give the impression that the city has existed for a while, twenty years ago, this area was nothing, save for a gulag for prisoner’s wives and a post-WWII resettlement for Russian Germans.Astana only truly came into existence in 1997, when the Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered a new capital to replaced then-capital Almaty, turning barren land to a vivid beacon of hope for the country.However, despite its new look, signs of its Soviet past still stand. The ugly 1950s-era Soviet housing blocks still stand on streets.At a pub, Nordic-looking people drink lager. They aren’t tourists but Volga Germans, dragged here by Stalin decades ago.Looking at the skyline, the 382-meter Abu Dhabi Plaza nears completion, while new apartments take shape to accomodate the growing population.Today, the city stands as a blend of Europe and Asia, a mixture of East and West. And the mixture keeps on getting more components added in, which blend in to the Eurasian harmony Astana is.