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Post by nighthawk on Dec 30, 2005 19:45:33 GMT
I think that Star Wars is having a profound effect on our culture. It's started people thinking and I think it has tweaked long almost lost memories .. sowing good seeds it is.  |
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Post by prady on Jan 2, 2006 11:13:21 GMT
yoda was my first guru  |
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Post by ahbleza on Jan 3, 2006 22:18:04 GMT
I even once read that the intention of the whole series (9 movies, but they put an early end to it), was to create a sort of new "bible", something to hold on for believers all over the world, crossing borders and religions  |
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Post by ironfeather on Jan 10, 2006 12:17:34 GMT
Yoda a japanese name is.
Coincidence it is not.
Kenobi a japanese word is.
Vader a german word for father is.
mentioned this I have...
in different bullletin it was...
[okay, resuming native grammar of english speakers] Yoda's speech patterns are ALSO japanese... the verbs inserted last in their grammatical structure. But it is still pretty cool that the SW saga has made such a positive impression. I begin to think it will survive a very long time as an intro to our dharma.
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Post by JCL on Jan 11, 2006 1:41:09 GMT
cool, interesting topic, thanx 4 sharing.
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Post by JCL on Jan 13, 2006 12:36:55 GMT
Vader a german word for father is. it's vater, lol.  |
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Post by ironfeather on Jan 29, 2006 15:13:19 GMT
Kenobi = sword belt
following is copied from my blog...
a friend and i had a great conversation last night about ideas, intelligence, chaos theory and whatever else came to mind. I remember saying that most absolutes are dangerous. Such as good versus evil. there is no 100% of either one.
my illustration: [it's from a movie, but bear with me] the redemption of darth vader by his son luke. In the "return of the Jedi" when luke deactivates his lightsaber and refuses to join the dark side, the emperor palpatine or darth sidious then proceeds to torture him with force lightning. Vader looks on, with resignation, pain, his memory of being hit by wracking pain in a struggle with count dooku [his own encounter with force lightning]... something awakens in him...
as strong as vader was in the force, as great as his ambition was, luke had greater courage and vader was about to lose his son and the last seed of good left inside him. His last link to amidala. [other than leia]. Vader already lost too much... his mother, his childhood, his mentor, and much of hiw own humanity. the torment of watching luke die [and reliving his own losses up that moment] was the final straw. Vader could not have come back from the abyss on his own, it took luke to stir up the truth hidden in the cobwebs of his mind. they were in this drama together. And he finally saw that.
remember when luke saw what was left of vader's arm? that recognition of remarkably similar injuries [i.e. trauma?] this is the moment before he deactivated the saber. what is that recognition if not a seed of compassion? the basis of right vision, right intention, right action and right mindfulness? food for thought. Ironfeather
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