you ever realize how low-key messed up the Jedi Order is?
I aint saying the Sith are good guys, they do bad shit as well, but let’s look at history on the other side of things.
> Paint Sith as villains when the were originally just a splinter faction with a differing belief system.
> Lead a court ordered genocide against a Sith planet that posed no threat after having been defeated in a war.
> Fun fact, the Sith were only on that planet becuase the jedi had killed all but 12, stripped them of everything and put them on ships into random deep space
> Essentially the Jedi made the Sith what they are today through stupid decision making
> Abandoned their peace loving code (which was forged because of legislation disbanding their military forces, bringing about a thousand year era of peace) to become commanders and generals in the Clone Wars.
> Lead a violent coup against a leader who was actually elected once it came put that he was from a group they a personal vendetta against, because this is what peace loving space monks do guys.
> Literally train to feel no remorse or pity as opposed to the Sith who are expected to embrace the full spectrum of emotion.
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Not even looking at the Sith though, they’re still just so
No, we don’t kidnap children. We take them because it is the will of the force. oh, and younglings if you ever feel the urge to meet with your family again you need to go talk to the counselor because something is wrong with you and that urge is bad
Beware of any other group of force users (even excluding the sith and evil people). We’re the only ones that can use the force properly. We are literally the only people in the entire galaxy that should have an organized group of force sensitives because everyone but us is wrong
Has a prophecy about the Chosen One bringing balance to the force and thinks that somehow means being blinded by the light. Hint: that’s not a balanced scale (I still fail to see how destroying all trace of the dark side is “balanced” but ok george lucas)
if you’re afraid you might turn evil, so don’t be afraid children, and don’t be afraid of turning evil because you were afraid.
If you don’t get taken as an apprentice that’s ok, younglings. You can become a farmer, but you’re still a Jedi to us. Unless we tell you to leave and send you back to that family we told you to forget about.
politicians are bad and we shouldn’t rely on them. It’s okay because its not like we deal with politics anyway. Anyway, let’s constantly harass the senate and pressure them into doing what we want
don’t get attached to anything. besides your lightsaber. and your master, but not really your master. don’t get attached or you’ll turn evil and probably kill everyone
Just in case some of you are interested…
Jedi Code:
There is no emotion, there is peace.
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.
Sith Code:
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.And a third one also exists which is made by the gray Jedi. (The ones who’ve “gone rouge” but aren’t Sith)
There is no Dark Side, nor a Light Side
There is Only the Force
I will do what I must to keep the balance
The balance is what keeps me together
There is no good without evil, but evil must not be allowed to flourish
There is passion, Yet peace
Serenity, Yet emotion
Chaos, Yet order
I am the wielder of the flame, the protector of balance
I am the holder of the torch, lighting the way
I am the keeper of the flame, soldier of balance
I am a guardian of balance
I am a Gray Jedi
Is this like when we all realized we were satanists?
OKAY APPARENTLY THIS RANT WAS COMING BECAUSE.
Okay let me explain a thing that people don’t get about Buddhism because I feel like The Force in Star Wars is Fairytale Buddhism, and the Jedi are ‘Buddhists as understood by Christianity/general Western culture’ and it doesn’t… really work. like that.
The biggest logical fallacy being that dark=bad and light=good.
Let me explain about the Lotus, a pretty universal symbol of Buddhism that I feel highlights the misunderstanding, a flower that grows from muck. You cannot have flowers without dirt: they die or is in the process of dying.
When Buddhism talks about non-attachment it’s coming from a place where attachment is essentially what makes us human. It’s the dirt that feeds us.
When you hear ‘clear the mind’ to prompt meditation, it’s supposed to be with the knowledge that to be sentient is to think. That it happens. That it’s part of us. That clearing the mind is really really difficult and it’s okay and expected that you fail alot. And:
And meditation is like making your bed; it’s a pain in the ass but it makes your whole bedroom look cleaner.
But that doesn’t mean you stop using the bed.
It’s not a bad thing that your bed keeps getting messy. It’s not a bad thing that mediation is hard. It’s not a bad thing that Lotus grows from mud. It’s what’s supposed to happen.
I mean, it’s like making a kid make a bed and then telling them never to use it. The more precocious the kid, the more they’re gonna throw a fit about the logical fallacy.
Which is why I generally throw up my hands at the Jedi Council because down that road lies madness and Catholic guilt.
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