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20 Dec 2008 23:35 #20831 by
Jedi and Sith. Names given by men to two factions of the one whole. One can not exsist without the other. There would be no balance. Balance should be the focus of our journey, not laying blame for being unbalanced. I remember when there was a time when the path of the Living Force didn't carry the name Jediism or Sith. It was just the path we followed. We communed with it, lived in it, followed its flow. Now if the path one follows has another name than Jediism it is evil and wrong. Haven't we learned enough from the in-fighting of the Christians or nation of Islam to see the destructiveness of these actions? If you choose to call yourself a Jedi, then so be it. Follow your feelings, look to the light for guidence. If you call yourself Sith, so be it as well. Follow your emotions, let your passion show you your way. If you choose to not pick a side, but search for balance in the grey line that is seen to run between the two, then focus on being whole with your two halves. There are masters of each path here and at other temples. A name is a name. It doesn't make another your enemy because they pick to call themselves by another name other than the one you pick. We use names that come from myth to give direction to our \"church\". All too ofter we let the myth cloud our vision and we lose ourselves in what actually is the reality. We are all followers of the Living Force. Light. Dark. Doesn't matter. You are not required to agree with another living person here in order to follow the Force. Follow your path and let others be. The Wiccans have a saying, \"as long as it doesn't harm another.\" Not a exact quote on my part, but close enough to get the point across.If one wants to call them selves Jedi or Sith, who are you to judge right or wrong for that person. You should only agree to disagree and press on from there. Pull a reality check folks and see that this is not some fantasy world we live in, but a reality. Find your balance, don't be childish by pointing fingers and calling names, and follow the flow of the Living Force as it guides you on your journey.

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21 Dec 2008 10:39 #20840 by
Agreed...and very well said...

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21 Dec 2008 11:31 - 21 Dec 2008 12:12 #20841 by Jon
While I agree like Moonlight with the essence of the pacifying message of what you say Master Justice I feel there is a discrepency or difference between Sith and Jedi, or as you compared Christian and Moslim for example. It is not as simple as that. If they are a balance and were existing in a mutual necessity then their individual existence would be an imperfection or non sufficiency. If they were mutually dependent, the Sith would no longer exist if the Jedi also did not and vice versa or at worst one alone would be a peversion. Sithiism, Jediism, Christianity, Islam... are also not essences of the absolute they worship but are forms of expression or worship or philosophies of the opposites in a cosmic relationship. After all what we are convinced what we see may not exist.Sithiism is Sithism, Jediism is Jediism, Christianity is Christianity... nothing more nor less. Each should be respected in its own right and each should be accordingly respecting. There are religions however whose belief and mission is the conversion of the world and its own supremecy. This is not intolerence but belief. To do otherwise would undermine their own existence.

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