Comments on Lightsaber Wars

Thesis: Natalie Merchant's Motherly Bazooms

Antithesis: The Star Wars Cosmology

Synthesis: The Squirrels of Freeway Park

Discuss.

"A Briton who has a chronic alcohol problem"

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

I would really like to hear about how this assault ties into the Star Wars interpretation of Nietzsche's master-slave morality.

@3: It involves African women with large foreheads. You wouldn't understand! Trim your hegemony!

When I had an alcohol problem and impersonated Darth Vader, I wore a pink bathrobe and a mask while 'skulking in an evil manner', but I never hit anyone with a crutch. Shit's out of hand.

Apropos of nothing: Derrida.

It ultimately signifies the inevitable collision of two tragicomically irreconcilable Others, namely, Natalie Merchant's Left Bazoom and Natalie Merchant's Right Bazoom, thus giving material, and maternal, aid and comfort to Derrida's Slave-To-Masturbation imperative.

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

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My brother, a wealthy executive I can't name here, joined me for a delicious black cherry latte (soy). As we strolled (yes, we brought our own to-go cups - steel), I showed him the beautiful accomplishments the civic planners have recently achieved in the great 98177. We had such fun to that point that it could only be topped off by attending a high-brow political forum which was invite only.

The tide is turning.

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Natalie Merchant is the Death Star.

Given that more than 1 percent of all Britons belong to the Jedi religion, doesn't this make it more of a religious war?

Keep in mind the Skywalkerite Reformation. The Jedi Order under the Old Republic was a Platonic organization, also heavily bureaucratic and entrenched in its own traditions, and entirely too focused on material aspects of the Force, such as the relevance of midi-chlorians. The philosophy underlying much of this stream of Jedi thought is called the Unifying Force, of which Yoda was a leading proponent.

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.

Ah, yes, but are not the Sith part of the religion, much as Satanists have more in common with Christians or Jews than they do with other branches like Wicca which are part of a separate tradition?

Wasn't this an April 1st news item?