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1st mood of 2019: I still get emotional about Dragon Age 2
take your carriage very slowly by your rivalâs home, that she might see your latest hat
Eat your heart Catherine, you toad-eating hag.
Elizabeth, you must surely be aware that I am unable to view the roads from my apartments due to the vastness of my estateâŠ
Oh, please do forgive my mistake, Catherine, I had only assumed you could see from that ostentatiously high pedestal atop of which you have placed yourself
You know, with all the language throughout Star Wars about âgiving inâ to the Dark Side, how the Dark Side makes you more powerful, how the Dark Side makes you age strangely and destroys you, it sure doesnât sound like an âopposite side of the coinâ so much as the âdeeper end of the pool,â like itâs actually the true form of the force and being a Jedi is about keeping it tamed so it doesnât eat you the way it actually wants.
the force is entropy
Eldritch Jedi pls
This is one of the reasons i love the second Knights of the Old Republic game, wherein one of the major characters (who defines herself neither as Jedi nor Sith) actually views the Force this way, saying  âI hate the Force. I hate that it seems to have a will, that it would control us to achieve some measure of balance, when countless lives are lost.â
Itâs also the game that gave us the two most entropic, eldritch characters in the franchise: Darth Nihilus, whose dark-side-borne ability to feed on the Force and consume life itself has twisted him into a half-living âwound in the Forceâ, more presence than flesh
and Darth Sion, whose entire body is a ruin, his flesh nothing but ragged scar tissue, every bone and muscle broken and torn, kept animated by will alone as he forces himself, second by agonizing second, to exist
I wish there were more horrifying perspectives on the force like that
#the force is a horrorterror
This is one of the reasons the term âLight Sideâ never felt right to me, even before it was used in any official media; The Force always struck me more like an ocean than a binary concept: the deeper you go, the darker and more crushing it gets â at a certain point becoming an effectually consistent darkness â and while light filters down and fades for some distance, if there is a truly light âsideâ itâd be the surface.
Which isnât to say âthe Force is evil unless you flounder about near the topâ â just that itâs a natural force, and as such is something you need to respect and be adequately prepared for. (Take electricity, for example: super awesome and pretty dang useful, but OH HOLY SMOKES donât try and harness it unless you REALLY know what youâre doing!)
In this sense, being tempted by the Dark Side is less a case of âHey, I wonder whatâs on the other side of this coin it looks pretty cool haha oh whoops Iâm Space Walter White now,â and more one of âThe deeper into this thing you go, the harder youâll need to fight to resist the ever-increasing pressure, to remain whole, even to just see whatever the heck youâre actually doing.â
(which is why Jedi training is so important: those padawans gotta build themselves a mental Deepsea Challenger!)
THIS META BLESSED ME
Okay but letâs suppose, for a moment, that the Force is actually malevolent.
That would make a lot of sense.
Consider, for a moment, an eldritch parasite. This ancient being feeds off of the life-force of other creatures. Not that unusual, as most living things also consume other living things, to various degrees. But this one is technically somewhat removed from the usual structures of biology. It is a passive and opportunistic predator, for the most part. Whenever a living being that is connected to it - however weakly - dies, it consumes part of its energy, and gets bigger.
As life in the galaxy flourishes, and time passes, this singular entity gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger. Like a catfish; the only limit to its growth is how much it can consume to fuel it. The larger it gets, the more it is able to sink its invisible claws into other living beings, until eventually there is hardly any life out there which hasnât been âinfectedâ by it, and slated to become its spiritual dinner as soon as its biological form gives out.
And here we actually come to - of all things - the midichlorians. Which, the Jedi use to measure someoneâs sensitivity to the Force, which works because midichlorians are the vehicle for the predatory parasite to infest living beings. The immune systems in some people begin to develop a certain degree of resistance to them, which is why some folks have more, and some have less, and this directly correlates to their Force sensitivity. The more midichlorians you have, the worse your immune system is at fending off the parasite.
The Force counters the risk of being bred out of subsequent generations by developing camouflage, and adapting itself into a more seemingly-symbiotic relationship with its prey.
What the Jedi see as the âlight sideâ of the Force, is a reflective layer that this predator has created via its connection to all living things. This network is the honey trap that encourages the beings still strongly connected to it, to spread that connection, because it affords them advantages while they are still alive. But its elements are comprised mostly of echoes and reflections of their fellow prey organisms. Force Ghosts that resemble the departed. Emotions that are transmitted along this layer and between individuals. Small amounts of power that can be siphoned off to impact the environment, and can also spread the Force to whatever living thing it comes into contact with.
This being is huge now, it needs a lot of juice in order to maintain its existence, let along continue to grow. And like most predators itâs willing to expend a certain amount of energy in order to guarantee a bigger pay-off.
The deeper you go into the Force, the more the Force starts exerting its own will through you. And the less you see of the reflected camouflage of it, and the more apparent it becomes that the Force wants large swaths of death to feed it. Which is why Dark Siders often become so preoccupied with things like Death Stars.
But itâs a balancing act. A large population of relatively peaceful Force sensitives, like the Jedi, cost more than theyâre worth, because beyond a point they take too much energy from the Force and donât kill enough people to pay for it. A single individual abusing their powers for self-gain and murdering left and right, though, accomplishes the goal of feeding it. The Force obviously doesnât want its food supply to die out completely, but this explains the persistent cycles of the Star Wars universe - as a soon as a group of peaceful Force users becomes prominent, they get wiped out by a few Dark Siders who have tread too deeply past the reflective surface of the Force, and become actual vessels for its will.
And then when the Dark Siders have finished killing a whole bunch of people, itâs time for them to go, too, so that they donât wipe out the entire populace and kill off the Forceâs food supply beyond its ability to reasonably recover. The peaceful types then see an upswing, as they are more adept at spreading the Force. So the cycle goes - Jedi spread the Force, Sith kill the Jedi and feed the Force, Jedi kill the Sith and resume spreading the Force. Itâs a planting and harvest cycle, and the galaxy is populated with the Forceâs living spirit crops. Anakin Skywalker, who was arguably one of the beings most closely connected to the Force, and had an extremely high midichlorian count, basically lived this cycle in its entirety as an individual - he spread the Force as a Jedi, he killed people as a Sith, and then he ended it all in order to preserve his progeny for the next round.
tl;dr - the Force wants to eat your soul. The reason the âlight sideâ types always get so up in their own asses is because what they perceive as the Force is basically their own reflections dangling in front of them like an angler fishâs lure. The reason the âdark sideâ types get so messed up is because theyâre basically the equivalent of those grasshoppers who get infected with a parasite that makes them drown themselves.
This point of view would actually explain both No-Attachment rule and the Orderâs cradle-robbing - some more self-aware Jedi saw the Force for what it is and pushed for a rule that potentially would cut births of Force-sensitive kids to a bare minimum. And those who were born Force-sensitive thanks to a quirk of the Force are to be taken from the society in the quickest way possible before they mess up, given tools to keep it at bay, and indoctrinated to never want to dabble in the deeper ends of their ability. It would also explain the whole debacle of Unifying vs Living Force and why Jedi seem to prefer the former - all of the description of the Living Force I came across present it as more ever changing, nearly organic entity and Jedi that use is as more responsive to its nudges, so potentially more inclined to being âcorruptedâ by it.
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As a Christian, I find myself disliking Andrastianism because I find it incompatible with biblical Christianity. The Maker is presented as no better than the Evanuris, demanding absolute obedience among followers while doing whatever He wants no matter how immoral they are. Non-humans are discriminated against, which contradicts its goal of spreading the faith to all races. Lastly, the Chantry uses military force to enforce the faith on everyone, which is unsurprisingly counter-productive, as it has made more bitter enemies in the long run.
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I wonder if the word âinquisitionâ rings any bells to the confessor⊠no? nothing?
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