star Wars...stay away from this thread if you have geek phobia!

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star Wars...stay away from this thread if you have geek phobia!

According to wikipedia -

The Force is life, and life is the Force. Some think of the Force as a sentient entity that may be capable of intelligent thought—almost as if it were a sort of God—while others simply consider it a thing that can be manipulated.

The four aspects of the Force are as follows: the Light Side (often referred to as "The Force"), the Dark Side, the Unifying Force, and the Living Force. The first two angles are concerned with the moral compass of the Force in its various manifestations. The Light Side of the Force is the facet of that energy field aligned with good, benevolence, and healing. The Dark Side of the Force is the element aligned with fear, hatred, aggression, and malevolence.

In theology, dualism can refer to ditheism: the belief that there are two basic principles in the universe, usually personified as deities, that work in polar opposition to each other. For example, one god is good, the other evil; or one god works for order, the other for chaos. Both the Zoroastrian religion, three millennia old and still extant, and the essentially dead gnostic religion (and its variations such as, Manichaeism, Bogomils, Catharism, etc.) are dualistic, as is Mandaeanism.

The concept of "The Force" is a ditheistic one.

So is Star Wars a heretical creation from a Christian point of view?

jude
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that is taking it too far!
fergal
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I thought it was more a Buddhist thing.... especially with Annakin's turn to the dark side being because he couldn't accept the nature of life/death which is at the centre of Buddhist teaching. He clung to the idea of making things *not* change, and so brought out all the worst in himself - jealousy, anger, bitterness, delusions of grandeur all the rest of it. If he'd accepted that life and death were part of human existence he could have chilled out, and maybe banged Natalie Portman senseless until their time came. Or something.
jude
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and why do I lie awake at night wondering such silly things instead of dreaming about forests?
fergal
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wondering about silly things is the spice of life.
jude
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not when you end up with sleep deprevation!
FlashyVaderandh...
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vzzzzzzzzzzzz.......................vzzzzzzzzzz.................vzzzzzzzzzzz
Hen
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Didn't they establish that the Force was mitoclorions or something in your blood? So being strong with the force is kinda like having diabetes? Am I right? Did I nail it? Did I get him? Is he dead?
Ralph
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I am 41 years old. I have never seen a Star Wars movie. Am I ill?
jude
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The idichlorians are a symbiotic organism in your blood that helps you harness the force....Anakin Skywalker had the highest level! So I suppose the Midichlorians are like spiritual virtues I did warn you Flash!
Ralph
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Are 'Midichlorians' some sort of biscuit?
jude
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Don't even know if Jaffa cakes are dear.
jude
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Hmmmm...thinking about it...fans didn't like the introduction of midichlorians in episode 1 because it ditracted from the spiritual notion of the Force... But if we use something physical in us - we listen to the Force through midichlorians if we quieten our minds - there is a move away from the heresy of the Manichees (to which St Augustine was affiliated before his conversion). That physical is all bad and spiritual is all good. The most striking principle of Manichee theology is its dualism. The universe is considered a battlefield for control between an evil material god, and a good spiritual god.
ricardo da force
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Thought the body-bad mind-good dualist philosophy was more down to the Bogomils, but I suppose the heretical doctrines are all the same, eh!? Midiclorians took away from the egalitarian nature of the force, which is why most die-hard Wars fans turned away from the new films. The last one was good in that Samuel L was killed in a pathetic manner, apart from that episodes 1-3 were exercises in money-making.
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