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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diggus Rex" data-source="post: 3277046" data-attributes="member: 46101">Right, Puerto Rico. So the "Jejeje" is saying "Hee Hee Hee". Was wondering about that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'm having trouble with the force as a religion because really there's no need for faith. Jedi powers are quantifiable: He can lift this much with TK (Alter), She can manipulate this many autonomic nerve functions to this level (Control), He can detect things with the Force this far away (Sense). Belief in the Force is like belief in gravity.Studying it for 25 millenia, the Jedi have determined that the Force makes life and life makes the Force; therefore, all life is precious and should be protected in terms of quality, quantity and diversity: a fundamental definition of good. Jedi having power over the Force burden the responsibility of protecting it. Any other interpretation of this central philosphy risks the Dark side, the imbalance of the Force. Sith hold the exact same philosophy as the Jedi, but they interpret this responsibility into supreme authority. "I control the Force, the Force runs the universe; therefore I should control the universe."  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> This is why I think Jedi are zen with their release of attachment, to material things and subjective values. Sith, unwilling to endure the difficulty of balanced judgement, deal in absolutes, "My way or the highway ... after I cut you in half." I can see your Mystical order teaching the Jedi philosphy to others as a way of harmonizing the galaxy, perhaps one of the reasons all out war hasnt broken out. This can be their equivalent to the Military order's tools of enforcement (lightsabers and armadas). Jedi, of all people, should that the devisiveness of religion is the last thing the galaxy needs right now. I can understand you wanting to make them part of the problem in some way, but not this way.</blockquote>

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