Does this sound familiar?
Dialogue from Star Wars Episode III:
PALPATINE: My mentor taught me everything about the Force . . . even the nature of the dark side.
ANAKIN: You know the dark side?!?
PALPATINE: Anakin, if one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic, narrow view of the Jedi. If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the Force. Be careful of the Jedi, Anakin. (pausing) They fear you. In time they will destroy you. Let me train you.
- posted on 05/26/2005
前两天写的。
I am watching Star Wars (all 6) and for the first time have a slight idea of who all those creatures are in the movies. In Episode III, Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side and beame a Dark Lord of the Sith in the hope of saving his love from death, of becoming the most powerful, of becoming the master of the universe. Well, a Sith might be powerful but with the dark side, he is afraid of death. A Sith can reverse the natural course of things (anti-Taosim approach) but cannot prevent his own death (ironic, the Emperor says). When a Sith fights a Jedi of equal power, a Jedi is selfishless and unafraid of death, so he can never loses. Someone as bright as Anakin Skywalker must have known this all along during his Jedi training. He must have seen how at peace a Jedi can be with the world. Yet he never understood how he could be one of them, because he had memory of his mother's suffering and he wanted to avoid the suffering of his wife. Therefore it was only his fate that he could not be a true Jedi. Not his fault. The two sides of the force always exist and each person in the universe has to fulfill his own destiny. It is only that the ones on the dark side can't gain ultimate freedom.
If Anakin Skywalker knows all these and still chooses the dark side, then he is free. Why do I stress freedom? Because I found this Sith Code below, and freedom seems to be the ultimate goal of the Sith.
The Sith Code
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
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今天又想的。
But then I think, to be human is to have earthly passion and fear of loss and all that. A Jedi master is no longer "human", but like a taoist (神仙). A Sith is a more engaged "human". Anakin is given a choice, but he is not ready to be a Jedi in this life, either because he is not enlightened, or his desire and curiosity for life is too great. His masters, being older and wiser, failed to train him properly. He lived a confused life and died in passion.
我的意思是,唉,先不说了。 - Re: 给信奉relativism的各位posted on 05/26/2005
Gee. There ARE people who looked for inspirations in Star War. - Re: 给信奉relativism的各位posted on 05/26/2005
God wrote:
Gee. There ARE people who looked for inspirations in Star War.
He who seeks looks for inspirations in everything in the universe.
He who has found sees inspirations everywhere.
宇宙的真义体现在一木一石之间,更体现在人的想象力与创造力中。
(这里的人指的是 George Lucas 和观众。) - Re: 给信奉relativism的各位posted on 05/26/2005
阿姗 wrote:
God wrote:He who seeks looks for inspirations in everything in the universe.
Gee. There ARE people who looked for inspirations in Star War.
He who has found sees inspirations everywhere.
宇宙的真义体现在一木一石之间,更体现在人的想象力与创造力中。
(这里的人指的是 George Lucas 和观众。)
It's like looking for vitamins in the drainage.
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