The Great Phantom

That's the hidden moral of the Kotor series: "Don't buy your shoes if you can kill your cousin."

Revan used it to kill all that weren't loyal to him. It was intended, but it is possible that it was a 'sudden inspiration' sorta thing, but I doubt that.

Oh, and metadigital, that was a good way to put it. But, you are still doing what SciFi writers from the 60's did: You're trying to include MODERN logic into a FANTASY (/SCIFI) world. SciFi in the 60's had home computers the size of cars, but look how wrong they are... The one I'm using is a little bigger than my head (which isn't an easy feat ).

Once again, I find my mind drifting towards Ca

Not necessarily hereditary, I agree. The most powerful force user could suddenly spring from a family with no history of force-sensitivity. That doesn't preclude the possibility that strong force-users tend to have strong force-user children. Since so few Jedi have children, there's little evidence either way. But I thought I remembered Kreia saying something along these lines... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, if the parents are FS's, then the kid will be stalked by the Jedi for the next 2 years until they can decide if they are FS, or not. Jedi families used to have kids all the time, and there was one family (on Taris, it was that headband thing) where 1 or 2 out of every generation were FS's, but the rest weren't. That shows that MAYBE somewhere in their lineage resides a powerful Jedi, but not necessarily. Maybe that's the next step of Mission's plan: To discover a Force Sensitive Gizka and position them as spy(s) within the Jedi Council, in order to slowly continue the Republic's downfall. But, in the end, it will be her cousin, Palpatine, that rules, all because of a stupid shoe sale on Tatooine... but I digress.

Yet another optimist... We are growing far to few and in between.

From what I've read online, the spells are pretty much the same as many other AD&D spells, and I assume the same goes with the locales...

I've said this all before, but never in so few posts... I think that the DS is a perverted use of the LS; Whereas people usually use the LS to 'dance to the beat' as you so aptly put, Credulous, the DS users DO try to force their own will into there. They use life to destroy life (among other things that seriously change things), and this could very well be the reason for their aesthetic appearance. I was reading a Forgotten Realms book, and I found this oddly familiar quote: "I felt a tremor in the Weave." I read that, and broke out laughing...

That made more sense. That's all fine and well, but nowhere in SW does it mention alternate universes, so, for all intents and purposes, the only SW Universe that we have to worry about is the canonical (and all related to Kotor II) one. That does make sense, yes... Sorta 'seeing' around things, but 'obstacles' (or choices yet to be made) can get in the way and fuzzy things all up. Yoda said it was DIFFICULT to tell the future, but maybe that's because whatever the Force 'thinks' is likely to happen is the background image behind all the fuzz may look like.

Redwall's pretty good, too.

That was a good way to put that... (I think. Lemme reread it a couple of times, and then maybe my over-tired brain will understand. :ph34r: )

The Jedi are neutral... Grey Jedi are disillusioned Jedi, or those on their way to the title of Dark Jedi. Just saying. :ph34r:

Oops, sorry. This one girl I know keeps getting some of Jordan's books, and I keep mixing them up...

*sigh* What's the world coming to? I can see it now, as Maul falls down the generator in 2 halves, screaming "Wait until I hit the bottom! I'll pull myself together in a freakish display of anti-gravity!"

I ignore the 'vergeance' prophesy... It was a huge mistake.

There's no "Neutral Side" in SW.

I've never read Hamlet... Maybe I'll check it out one day (after I wade through the other 15 books I have in a week and a half). Does anybody agree w/ the healthy (for all of us, including many of our positions at work ) comprimise I have suggested??? I feel like nobody is listening... Usual I prefer that, but... :ph34r:

In SW, there's good and bad, no in between. You're either good at heart, or bad. 'Nough said. Kreia said it SEEMED the Force had a plan for all of us, but once again, she reminds me SO much like Ca

People keep misunderstanding the whole nature/balance things I say... I give up... (for now )

That's anthropomorphizing Nature. ;-) Nature just is. It doesn't seek anything since it is a thing. Also, the idea of balance had to come from city-living academics/philosophers. If you grew up on a farm or in a rural area you'd know there Nature was in a constant state of struggle and conflict. Balance, like, apathy, is death. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ahh, another Eastern concept: creative tension! *Lights a bulb in the deep recesses of my brain * ... From when I studied Confucianism ... the creative tension between Jen and Li ... hmmm, just checked some research, looks like that's a dead end. (*Mumbles* Stupid brain *Mumbles*) Still, you have a good point: Peace is death -- the big sleep: when Entropy finally wins and all energy is in the lowest form. Chaos theory tells us that everything is in motion, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle ensures that we can never know both the exact time and place and the velocity of a sub atomic particle at the same moment ... still, this tells us nothing about the Mind of The Force. But, Jen is a good concept for out discussion on the True Nature of The Force. "... Jen can be viewed as a single principle with three interlinked dimensions: human-cosmic unity, moral-metaphysical goodness and practical-universal love. Jen may be humanity, virtue and love

He's asking us what we think, so I don't know if he has his own defenition or not...

The Yin-Yang thing only continues a very Catholic idea (no offense) that Women are the source of evil and suffering...

Well, I already know what happened as far as Jedi goes... They invented the Jedi Knight series. I think that a KOTNR is a waste of time, since many games and books have already taken over that era, and the timeline leaves very little for a galaxy-changing act to take place.

Well, my idea can fall as one... The Force is 'thinking', but it is still to fulfill the same goal as the 'f' Force. Oh, and I found an interesting thing in Kreia's statement: "I hate how it SEEMS to have..." I forgot the following words, but Kreia says SEEMS, which means that even her lies aren't positive. This provides two discrediting evidences: A) SEEMS (Takes it down to about 80% credibility that the Force actually is all controlling) B) KREIA says it (That pretty much lowers any statement down to less than 50% accurate alone.) Well, with those two facts alone, then the idea that the Force is actually omnipotent is taken to around 20-30% credibility. I think that the Force falls between the two varying concepts: A diety, and a THING. It obviously mirrors life rather closely (basic instincts come packaged w/ all the self-preservation thing). Perhaps one could say that life and the Force are simbiotes...

Do you have to keep the two boxes (one of poison needles with a huge warning label, the other of acupuncture needles) so close together? Yes... What does it mean? (in a foreign accent)