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Ok, so this is what I was invited to the Guild to talk about, so I thought I should get straight into it.

What it is all based on are the philosophy's of the Jedis and Sith.


Ok, so that's the Jedi code. I used to be a Jedi myself, until I conveted to become a Sith. What the code describes is basically that a Jedi is utterly self-less and feels no emotion what-so ever in "fear"* of clouding their judgement. (*note: a but it in averted commas because fear is an emotion.) The "peace" it describes is about within the Jedis mind, same again with "serenity".




Now, this is what I find to be interesting. They are polar opposite of the Jedi's, as you can see. Unlike the Jedi, they do not suppress their emotions. They take it and use it to their advantages. It is a quite a common mistake, esspecially by Jedi's, that their emotion "clouds their jugdement. Which, I find to be rather ignorant, which is against the Jedi Code (One must respect their enemy to avvoide ignorance.).
Ok, so here is the Sith Code:



This reveils that infact, they do upon to others what they do to them. For, fear, anger and hatred do not spin themselves out of nothing. It reveals Sith to be shunt and oppressed but no longer shall they take it. They use everything their enemy gives them and returns it. Not the "Sadistic for the hell of it" kind.

I shall now address the issue of the force. It is all down to the person in how they interrpret what the force is or is not. Here are several theories:
1) The Force is pure fiction.
2) The Force is not what it is portayed to be but the strange force that seems to loom over Humanity.
3) The Force is another term for "Dark Matter" seeing as it "binds us together" which atually may have the potential to be "tapped" into which may explain "healing spots" and "Psykics"
4) It is the Spirit of everything and when it's vessel dies it rejoins up with the collective. (Notice the similarity between that and the idea of "Gaia")
4) The full blown out "Star Wars" type.

I am sure there are more theories on the subject, but those are the ones that spring to mind. So, I hope you have learned something from this.

I'm interested in knowing how real life Jedis and Siths view George Lucas. Is he a prophet to them, since he "raised awareness" of this form of philosophy, or is he considered something else to the religion?

Not at all. And for all your knowledge I have converted a Jedi to Sith cause I am cool like that.

It's only really grown in popularity since the UK's 2001 census, when over 390,000 Star Wars fans entered "Jedi" on their census form as a joke that it would have been ranked the 6th largest religion in England. That is, if parliament hadn't ruled it out as a joke.

But since then, it's grown quite a following, and a serious one too, I might add.

I am not sure if Jedi already a religion... for me it seems more like a belief system or philosophy... but are there jedi ceremonies? Rituals etc, so that it really can be considered a religion?

Depends on how you define a religion. A religion is a belief system and a philosophy and arguably any belief system or philosophy may be religious. Personally, my religion is something aside from the Jedi path. I only reluctantly self-identify as a Jedi, however, as the Jedi aspect is really contained within my religious structure anyway.

The basic ideals of the Jedi can actually be found in pretty much all the world's religions. The foundation is simply treating people well and being at peace with yourself, others, the world around you.

Woah. I never knew it was an ACTUAL religion. That's interesting. smile