Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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Absolutely not the other way around, no. Midi-chlorians are a symbiotic lifeform that live in harmony with the environment around them; they could not possibly create that environment in the first place.
If someone has Force Potential, this will be shown by the large amounts of Midi-Chlorians that have become resident in his or her body, attracted by said potential.
Not only is this explnation in keeping with the natural basis GL used for their idea, if it uis the other way around you get stipid scenarios in which people think injecting people with MCs will give you Force powers, or silly stuff like that.
No. The MCs are a symptom, not a cause- but Force potential is useless without them.
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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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Well, that would be a cruel comparison. loads of stuff lives in our body without us calling it a disease, but it may well follow similar patterns anyway.
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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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Because it is the only way that makes logical sense, Dim. Really, no other explanation scans at all. As I described above. GL's symbiosis link is very clear.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
Yip. He's right. I never understood this for a long time but found a site on this which expains it all.
You're born with force potential.
The midi-chlorians are attracted to you and enter your body.
Midi-chlorians need the force to survive.
The Jedi find other Jedi by testing for midi-chlorians.
The more you have then the more force potential you have.
And through the midi-chlorians Jedi get a greater understanding of the force as they "constantly speak to you, telling you the will of the force" as Qui-Gon put it.
So midi-chlorians need the force, and Jedi need midi-chlorians to help them understand the force.
Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK
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I imagine, KJ, that the idea that is was the other way around horrified you as much as me; people saying that if you get a blood transfusion from a Jedi you steal their power, and so on...
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
Well I thought it was that way round for a long time, until I found some sites which explained it.
Now that theory sounds like something out of the EU.
Nov 10th, 2001 10:46 PM
