TricksandNonsense

niche nitpick I know but a "moot point" is not something that isn't worth talking about. it is literally the opposite. "moot" is a word for a citizens' assembly that has cognates throughout the Germanic (especially Scandinavian) languages. originally saying something was a "moot point" meant that it shouldn't be talked about right now, instead it should be tabled until it could be fully debated with the entire community present. the slide from that meaning to "this isn't important" probably has something to do with the emergence of the idea that politics isn't real life. anyway when someone says something is a moot point you should be like "cool, I'll call the lawspeaker and ask them to put it on the agenda"

I'm going to absolutely flatten you when we debate this on the Law Rock in front of the chieftains

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

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“The time of the Jedi is over.“ It’s painful enough that Obi-Wan can’t use the Force because people would know he was a Jedi, that he can’t even speak about the trauma of living through his people’s genocide, that he can’t even practice his own religious culture, but what’s really destroying me is that it isn’t just the Force stuff that Obi-Wan is no longer doing, it’s the Jedi philosophy of emotional regulation that comes with the Force and being a Jedi. Obi-Wan has fallen to his grief, it is consuming him, it is warping him, it’s not just that he’s turning away people like Nari, but that he’s also holding onto his pain, he’s not letting it go.  The Force is based on your emotional wellbeing, if you connect to the Force through anger and fear and pain, that is the dark side.  If you connect to it through compassion and calm and love, that is the light side.  Jedi have to accept the circumstances they find themselves in, they have to let go of their hurts, because their connection to the Force is fundamentally about that emotional wellbeing, it’s not just Jedi philosophy, it’s literally how the Force works. But Obi-Wan isn’t a Jedi anymore.  The time of the Jedi is over. So he holds onto his pain, he holds onto his hurt, he holds onto his attachment to Anakin, which is the inability to accept that life changes and you have to let go when it’s time, you cannot grasp onto something so hard that you crush it because you are afraid to live without it, that’s what attachment is.  It is everything the Jedi have trained against doing. But the time of the Jedi is over. The Jedi and their light and their teachings and their ways are gone, so he holds on because he doesn’t know how to let go of mourning Anakin and the Jedi, even when Bail Organa himself calls him desperately and pleads with him to help save Leia.  It’s not until Bail hauls his ass all the way out to Tatooine and tells him, right to his face, “Move on. Be done with it.” Those words brought me to tears, because Bail Organa isn’t just telling Obi-Wan to rescue his daughter to be a Jedi again, but telling him to let it fucking go, because that’s what Jedi do.  Protect people with your lightsaber when you can, love them and help them when you can, but when the time comes, if you can’t save them, you have to train yourself to let go. George Lucas says that’s how the Force and Star Wars and the Jedi work and I am IN PAIN because Obi-Wan truly believes that the Jedi are dead, that his old life is dead, and it’s not just swinging his lightsaber around or making people float that he’s buried in the ground, but his willingness to accept the circumstances he’s in and to move with the flow of what’s happened. The Jedi say you can’t destroy yourself in your grief–and Obi-Wan is destroying himself in his grief here, he is doing exactly everything that the Jedi warn will happen when you don’t let go.  He’s been unwilling to let go of his feelings, because he’s not a Jedi anymore. He doesn’t connect to the Force because that would mean he would need to let go of his feelings and he can’t do that. The time of the Jedi is over, he says, and we see what it’s doing to him, how it destroys him day by day.  He may not be sinking into the dark side, only because he’s not using the Force, but he is suffering all the same for it, because he has forsaken the lessons of the Jedi.  Because the time of the Jedi is over.

But does Obi-Wan believe the time of the Jedi is over and that they lost because of his loss and (perceived) failure or is his loss and pain more because of the collapse of his support and belief system. The contrast between his views and Nari's are maybe too clear. Obi wan is there swinging the pendulum between pain and boredom contemplating writing his own Nihilistic philosophical masterpiece and saying to Luke a few years  “ you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view”

Hey, repost with how obscure your music taste is and your most listened to artist on this Spotify stats site. The higher your score, the more obscure your music taste is. I want to know what you all get :)

being younger than your fave characters and then eventually becoming older than them is such a weird feeling

"No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!"