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vaguely-concerned · 1 year ago

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the ultimate act of futility it is to argue about the rightness or wrongess of the jedi and their world view only through a watsonian lens with in-universe information, without taking into consideration the doylist perspective that this is fundamentally a cosmology constructed by a guy whose self-described religious views are those of a 'buddhist methodist' who was hopped up on campbell. friends we are never going to get something entirely coherent out of this b/c what went into it wasn't either and that's fine, that tension is probably part of what makes the franchise so enduringly interesting, please stop tearing each other apart I'm so tired

#like yeah the jedi philosophy gestures at buddhism but also... anakin is born through immaculate conception #there's some christianity all the way down nonsense going on here too. it's complicated and weird and so interesting!#not conducive to drawing definitive final conclusions on anything within tho #star wars #I've been thinking a lot lately about how 'falling to the dark side' seems to have a lot more to do #with falling from grace than any ideas I've seen connected to buddhism (not that I'm an expert in either religion haha)#anakin is an antichrist figure who gets saved by one startling moment of grace and love -- not through awakening #I'm generally a jedi-enjoyer btw my main grudge against them is how few rivalling force traditions we get to see (especially light side)#there's apparently quadrillions of living souls in the gffa at any given time. are u telling me there isn't more variety than that???#r u telling me the jedi have a monopoly on truth? does no one not named something like 'darth deathandplague' have other interpretations?

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