For all who do not know who I am by recognition, I am DeVaos Sadow. Religious Philosopher and everyday debater.
I read the topic ("Jedi" a religion?) and thought you all need some cleaning up.
I'll first point out, there are many who "think" themselves to be Jedi and Sith, which this is what you can call "sad". Not about being from a movie, no... but rather the claimed Jedi actually creating their own notions of the religion, making it far different than the orthodox version; and these claimed Sith whom either claim Palpatine to be a real god (literally) or claiming they possess lightening.
These religions can in fact exist, but do not exist in this time. Ask yourself, where did Lucas get the ideas of these religions? You will even come down to, Whom gave Lucas the ideals of these religions? Perhaps even, which everyday religions developed the Jedi and Sith beliefs?
To also state, the Force does exist. Yet you all take it into a question and out comes an opinionated answer to best fit your question. To state there is no Force, is saying there is no God/Allah.. depending on your oppinionated thoughts and religion, you can also say there are no spiritual beings, no witchery, no Heaven nor Hell. The Force is different than these? Ah, you have much more to learn if you state this.
So if you claim the Jedi and Sith religions to be "sad" simply because they were introduced in a fanfilm, then I can state many ways your own religion is considered false, contradictive and asinine. To avoid this, seek what I have said, do not be ignorant and foolish.
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i've always argued that the force is pretty much buddhism, except in SW the mystical energy field is its own entity apart from everything else (all matter, other energy)
also when the jedi die they lose their identity and become one with the force (exceptions being quigon, yoda, anakin, and obiwan).
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It's no religion. Jediism is a stripped version of Buddhism, without all the nasty bits. It's way too superficial to be considered a religion, or even a philosophy. It's a collection of Yoda sayings.
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I've actually been debating with this guy via e-mail, and he is out of it. He believes, nay, KNOWS, that the Force is as real and incarnate entity.
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Im pretty sure that Lucas has said somewhere that he got his ideas from Zen or something. Even if he did'nt you can obvously see the similarities between the Jedi religon and Toaism.
Yeah, but much more eloquently. He countered with an ex machina that, simply because you can't perceive it, doesn't make it real. So I told I believe in Arnold's evil twin who rules Andora under the secret tutelage of an undead-Hitler.
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he sounds a few ewoks short of a tree village.
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Apr 20th, 2008 01:43 PM
