aghogday wrote:
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A Powerful Ally It Is"
To Paraphrase Eastern
Philosophy With Some American
Secular and Science Based Words
That George Lucas And His Hero 'Joseph
Cambell' Illustrated So Well Through the Medium
of 'THAT' 'New Summer Blockbuster' That Sadly Glorifies
Violence That Only Accelerated Through the Decades After
in Terms of
Gory Special
Effects Like
the Jaws Series
of Movie Starting
in the Mid-70's As Well...
Yes, of Course, 'Star Wars' Fits in So
Well in the Philosophy, Politics, And Religion
Very perceptive Aghoday!
Lucas leaves a number of breadcrumbs throughout star wars about the real purpose of his imaginative universe (and its not a biography of the Skywalker clan like some star wars nutjobs think).
Yoda sounds a lot like he speaking the wisdom of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The Jedi philosophy echoes that of buddhism and the jedi use of the force to defend themselves is much like the martial arts of southern and eastern Asia
It may be fiction but Lucas is correct about the Jedi code
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force.
The Jedi Code was a series of rules and tenets that governed the Jedi Order's actions and embodied its beliefs. The Code taught its followers to not give in to feelings of anger toward other lifeforms, which would help them resist fear and prevent them from falling to the dark side of the Force.
The Jedi Code mandated that the Jedi could train only one apprentice at any given time.
The Code forbade the Jedi from killing unarmed opponents as well as seeking revenge. Amongst other dictates, the Jedi Code forbade Jedi Knights and Jedi Masters from training more than one Padawan at a given time.
Attachment was also forbidden by the Code. Grand Master Yoda stressed that attachment led to jealousy, greed, and ultimately the fear of loss, all of which were paths to the dark side. Ahsoka Tano also regarded attachment as dangerous, and rejected Grogu as an apprentice due to the foundling's bond with the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin.
Notwithstanding the strictures against attachment, the Code emphasized compassion as an essential aspect to the Jedi way of life, teaching that all lives were precious, though outsider misunderstandings of this were not unusual. While Jedi did not marry, the Code banned neither romantic feelings nor familial love. Nevertheless, giving into personal attachment was tantamount to forsaking the way of the Jedi,the teachings of which had little to do with family relationships
11 Jul 2022, 2:37 am
), I'm in.
Well I didn't mind 7 but the rest of them 
