How lazy can you get. Its in the exact place where I said it was, in the FIRST PARAGRAPH, at that! I figured you might be too lazy to click on a link, so I cut and paste and put it here:
A venerable if maverick Jedi Master, Qui-Gon Jinn is a student of the living Force. Unlike other Jedi Masters, who often lose themself in the meditation of the unifying Force, Qui-Gon Jinn lived for the moment, espousing a philosophy of "feel, don't think -- use your instincts." Were it not for Qui-Gon's unruly views, he would have undoubtedly been on the Jedi Council.
thats a broad, yet shallow interpretation. and by shallow i dont mean uneducated, i mean, it doesnt go very deep. Qui-gon is the only jedi we have seen that beleives midichlorians can tell you the will of the force. that is why sw.com says he beleives in the LIVING force. When Qui-gon tells the council about Anakin and his midichlorian count, they kind of give a side-ways look at eachtother like, "good grief. not this again." Non of the jedi dispute that midichlorians exist, let alone that people jedi with higher midichlorian counts are more powerful, but no other jedi has ever said they midichlorians can tell you the will of the force.
as far as the living focusing on the present only, and that being the meaning of qui-gons statements, we must also remember that yoda taught luke to focus on the present. It seems to me to be a standard Jedi teaching to focus on the problem at hand, not something unique to the theory of the living force.
Hmm. You guys are talking about things that are still speuclation as if they are fact.
Never mind the website for this one. The whole Living Force/Unifying Force thing is very vague right now (track back a bit to see the thread I opened up the moment it was mentioned on the website for more).
So saying things like only Qui-Gon believed the MC's could tell you the will of the Force is a bit much. It;s possible, but somehow I think not.
did i say it was fact? No. But i was basing my statements on TPM, as well as what the website says. 95 percent of what they put on the website is absolutely true, and never changes. In my opinion, its fairly probable that what the website says is true. Im doing exactly what scientists do. They base their own theories on the groundwork of what is popularly viewed as "scientific fact." Often, things viewed as fact in science turn out not to be true, and scientists must re-evaluate their theories. As far as Im concerned right now, what the website says can be considered as probable fact. I have no reason to disbeleive it, and neither does anyone else. A theory based on something the website says, which also agrees with what is in the movie, is alot more likely than a theory someone pulls out of their butt, based on their interpretation of a line in the movie. Until we are told otherwise, qui-gon is the only jedi that beleives in the living force. Certainly we know that none of the other council members beleive in it.
its what the website says. until there is an official lucasfilm source that says otherwise, you have to accept it as fact. at least as we understand it now. GL could change stuff all around later, such as he did with owen being related to anakin, and not ben, but until he changes it, it is official star wars fact.
so whats the point of the website. i dont see you disputing the fact that the website now says that owen is anakins stepbrother. or the fact that it says a hundred other things about stuff we havent seen yet in the movies. you cant pick and choose what you will beleive from the same source. its either all true, or its all innacurate. GL doesnt allow people to put whatever the heck they want on the website. while he cant oversee every little detail personally, what is put on the website is controlled. were not talking about some kids fansite. this is the official star wars website. the OFFICIAL star wars website. and it is biased to disagree with something it says simply because you dont like it
You are simply getting tiresome now, bigsef.
I have said over a dozen times that the webiste is not infallible but is often a good indication.
And again, you are suggesting that I make decidions on whether I 'like' things or not. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have no strong feelings about this Living/Unifying Force thing one way or another, and no reason to bias myself accordingly. In fact- as I have mentioned several times- I earlier opened a thread entirely about this subject saying that was pretty much supporting the idea of the Living/Unifying Force thing becoming canon.
And you say it is either all true or all inaccurate? That's just crap! A source can be right about some things and wrong about others! Of course it can! The site has said several things that are wrong over time. Many more that are right. The important thing is that the site is NOT canon.
In any case, Lucasfilm's OWN policy is that it ain't so unless either GL says it or it is in the films.
you forget to mention that its the ONLY thing we have stated on the subject, and there is absolutely no reason to disagree with it or doubt its authenticity. weve never seen ANYTHING about living vs. unifying force before, but someone in the know had it put on the website. it would seem unlikely that some web geek simply made it up and put it on the website. if starwars.com says something, and we dont have an official source that disagrees, its as good as fact, until theres something in cannon that states otherwise.