Post by Pimpmaster McSlap-Bitch on Jun 3, 2005 12:24:20 GMT -5
Is the Dark Side really that bad? Is the Light Side really that good? Indeed, it is smart to wonder if you`re on the right side as Padme does. Not doing so would be to refuse knowledge and so neglect yourself.
What`s wrong with pursuing power? Knowing your limits and testing and building upon your skill? What`s wrong with using anger, contempt and hatred, and attachment to fuel your drive? To take revenge, to fight for what you believe in or protect an ideal, aren`t these worth becoming stronger and more powerful for?
Jedi are blind. It is most likely that the Sith understand the ways of the Jedi well. Palpatine knows how to seduce Anakin because he knows how he thinks and how it differs from Jedi philosophy (probably among other things). Truely it is Jedi who hate, and their intolerance of the Sith is the most obvious example of this. Jedi are like Nazis in this way.
I see the Light Side philosophy as valid. It`s very simelar to Buddhism in some ways. Buddhism is great and I agree with a lot of it, but unrealistic, especially when considering emotion. Anger leads to hate, hate to suffering, jealousy lives within the shadow of greed, all that stuff. But if negative emotion can be put to a constructive use, wouldn`t the wise man take the good with the bad? There will always be suffering anyway; an increase of your suffering and other negative emotions is countered by your increase of power and whatever else comes with it.
Yeah, hatred clouds the truth and ones judgement and so forth, but this is nothing Sith should be afraid of if they`re truely deliberate in their actions. The will to power should never be compromised.
Say your mother doesn`t buy you a car, but you want the car. Would I be right in assuming that a Jedi would work to get the car, but a Sith would work even harder, mainly to spite the mother, but get the car faster? A Jedi would likely realise contentment in not having a car, and not bother chasing what they want. After all, the car is a possession, and Jedi preach unattachment as Buddhists do. This example feels a little flaky even to me, but develop it in your own minds before critisizing it (because if you come with something stupid and flawed, you know I will point it out
Jedi are selfish and have no drive, none compared to the Sith. And if they do, they`re nothing but pretentious Sith lying to themselves, denying their own desires and passions. Abstinance! Pah! Who are we to deny ourselves what we have been given? The force gives, albeit an indirect presentation, and Jedi refuse? So much for 'evil'; As Sith, one only does what the Jedi want to do but deny themselves. Watch Episode III and tell me Mace Windu in the scene with Palpatine isn`t a prime example of a Jedi confused about this point.
The parallels to real life are obvious, to me at least. If you don`t see the parallels, then consider yourself a real life Jedi; blind.
What`s wrong with pursuing power? Knowing your limits and testing and building upon your skill? What`s wrong with using anger, contempt and hatred, and attachment to fuel your drive? To take revenge, to fight for what you believe in or protect an ideal, aren`t these worth becoming stronger and more powerful for?
Jedi are blind. It is most likely that the Sith understand the ways of the Jedi well. Palpatine knows how to seduce Anakin because he knows how he thinks and how it differs from Jedi philosophy (probably among other things). Truely it is Jedi who hate, and their intolerance of the Sith is the most obvious example of this. Jedi are like Nazis in this way.
I see the Light Side philosophy as valid. It`s very simelar to Buddhism in some ways. Buddhism is great and I agree with a lot of it, but unrealistic, especially when considering emotion. Anger leads to hate, hate to suffering, jealousy lives within the shadow of greed, all that stuff. But if negative emotion can be put to a constructive use, wouldn`t the wise man take the good with the bad? There will always be suffering anyway; an increase of your suffering and other negative emotions is countered by your increase of power and whatever else comes with it.
Yeah, hatred clouds the truth and ones judgement and so forth, but this is nothing Sith should be afraid of if they`re truely deliberate in their actions. The will to power should never be compromised.
Say your mother doesn`t buy you a car, but you want the car. Would I be right in assuming that a Jedi would work to get the car, but a Sith would work even harder, mainly to spite the mother, but get the car faster? A Jedi would likely realise contentment in not having a car, and not bother chasing what they want. After all, the car is a possession, and Jedi preach unattachment as Buddhists do. This example feels a little flaky even to me, but develop it in your own minds before critisizing it (because if you come with something stupid and flawed, you know I will point it out
Jedi are selfish and have no drive, none compared to the Sith. And if they do, they`re nothing but pretentious Sith lying to themselves, denying their own desires and passions. Abstinance! Pah! Who are we to deny ourselves what we have been given? The force gives, albeit an indirect presentation, and Jedi refuse? So much for 'evil'; As Sith, one only does what the Jedi want to do but deny themselves. Watch Episode III and tell me Mace Windu in the scene with Palpatine isn`t a prime example of a Jedi confused about this point.
The parallels to real life are obvious, to me at least. If you don`t see the parallels, then consider yourself a real life Jedi; blind.