Antithesis: The Star Wars Cosmology

Synthesis: The Squirrels of Freeway Park

Discuss.

Isn't this just a normal way of being for Britons?

Apropos of nothing: Derrida.

Thus proving that Charles Mudede is a sexist piece of poop.

The tide is turning.

Entirely destroyed, the order is later resurrected by Luke Skywalker, who was trained in part by Obi-Wan Kenobi, a student of Qui-Gon Jin.

Jinian philosophy of the Force focuses much more on the Living Force--in this view, the Force is thought to dwell in *all* living beings, regardless of midi-chlorians, and we know from the "Empire Strikes Back" that Yoda himself moves closer to this view through his time in exile in transcendental communion with Jin's Force spirit: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."

Luke Skywalker, as the founder of the new Jedi Order, is heavily influenced by the Living Force (much reinforced by the Jedi's experience with the Yuuzhon Vong, who have midi-chlorians but are somehow separated from the Force). This Skywalkerite Reformation makes many changes: Skywalkerite Jedi can take spouses, for instance, and love--and have certain attachments. They are sensitive to the Force as it dwells in living beings at the moment, and focus less on Force visions of the past and future. It is a more balanced view of the Force.

To further this balanced, Middle Way view of the Force, Skywalker moves the headquarters of the Jedi from war-torn and overly urban Coruscant to the Praxeum on Yavin 4, and later after the Yuuzhon Vong War to Ossus.

Let us thus not regard the history of the Jedi as monolithic, but rather--like any ancient philosophy, belief system,and martial art--as something that has evolved and reformed, at times radically.