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Opie Macleod		#81	[-]
Posts: 555 (03/07/08 14:17:57) JAO Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You see people love to accepted, they love to be recoginzed. That is ego, indeed we all have it. Basic Pyschology will tell you that. And you will have "jedi" agreeing with the majority just so they can be a part of the Community. They will say Love and Reiki are the Jedi Way, they will back the people who make them feel welcome and important. Even if they were disagreeing before, the idea of being exiled from the community you like, the communtiy you invested so much time into, It is a scary thought and so people sell out Neo. You may have a point Neo. I do not radiate Postive Love and Light. Do you know why I do not preach Love Neo? Because Love is an Emotion. A very powerful emotion that can blind one worse than anger. I Love my Wife, will you tell me I am lying because I do not preach love? Because I care nothing more myself? Silly Neo. It's about if you have enough clarity of mind to do what is positive and helpful. If you think you are any better than others then you're just lost... Lost? Hardly, believe it or not there is actual skill. People are better than others. People have talents. People are better at certain things than others. And I am better than others at certain things, I am definitely a better driver than my Mother. Just like others are better than me at other things. Mindas can pwn me in Swordsmanship. Destiny can create a better costume than me. Neo, you are not a Jedi. By your own admission you are not a Jedi. So why do you feel you have the right to comment on what the Jedi Path is and isn't? It is not about Positive Action as Proper Action. Sometimes to do what is Right it is the least Popular thing to do. Look at who came out of the woodwork for this Post. Ego my friend. What have they done besides hide for years? Perhaps that is harsh of me, obviously they have thier own training and growth, life, to worry about. But we should recoginze those active. Define active. A singular post saying, HEY I am here. Yeah real active. Nevermind those of us, like Chris-Tien Jinn, pounding our heads into the wall working towards something more Tangible than: Jedi doing what is Postive. As for me personally, since you want to get personal. =) Ironic really. heheh I love irony.. But you can rant all you want, it won't matter... because it's zip and zero. Fake humbleness in speech, fake wisdom, fake compassion... you curse who speak ill of you, you smile to those who speak good of you... I am hardly humble. Ask anyone. If I am better than you I will say it. I have no problem with standards, thus if one is betetr than me, I concide the point. =) Am I wise? I have been told so. I usually argue it, but allow each person to make thier own judgments, I give them that basic respect. And Compassion? Sorry you are off there again my friend. You see, I view as Compassion as a huge misconception of the Jedi Path. I do not agree with Compassion at all. I curse no one Neo. In fact I will be harsher to those that give me unfounded praise more than someone that tells me to 'go fly a kite.' (to pharse it nicely) I will tell it how I see it, that has not changed for years. And it is not going ot change now. Have I done any good in this Community? It is arguable I suppose. I have been for the People and I have been against them. I feel at this moment I am for them, whether they realize it or not. Remove my name from the list. History will either forget me or remember me by my deeds. Let my actions speak for me, not post count, not years survived by the community. Let those that come later to the Jedi Community look for me if they deem it right, not because they saw my name on a list.
NeoTerrel		#82	[-]
Posts: 21 (03/08/08 06:12:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	love is not an emotion really. What people call Love is a desire, need, domination, etc. That's not a love. You know how people like to excuse their mistakes and bad deeds, they use even word love to excuse murder, this is no love. This is indulgence in self importance over other people's lives. On a nicer side it is still an emotional need to be, to own, to control. Basically ppl live like animals and having a consciousness they cover the basic and primitive with something as idealistic as word LOVE to cover how unidealistic they really are. Love is conscious WILL to give for the good of other without wanting anything back. it's more than compassion...That's the real love, as it is. ....... People CRAVE to be accepted because they do not examine their internal thoughts, feelings. But keeping such ignorant ways as having any validity among jedi only encourages jedi to never look beyond such primitive ways of life... In that I think you and many others fail what you call jedi way. You even don't seek to bring compassion and positive??? Now well... sorry but this Star Wars mythology and ethics you present is so undoing of the path itself. Otherwise Well you seem to be thinking.. thus I have not much to comment anymore...because I see this is you way. I don't agree nor encourage, but as that's your journey... and your understanding. Last Edited By: NeoTerrel 03/14/08 05:32:51. Edited 3 times.
astasophi		#83	[-]
Posts: 79 (03/08/08 08:57:05) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Neo - you are young and may not have experienced all the kinds of love there are in this world. There is a form of love that is beyond emotion - and it's beyond what I can properly describe - but it's the love that exists in eternity. It's of the Force, of each of us, of everything, and it's life and all that surrounds it and likely more than we can imagine as "our crude selves". Opie - the list is actually a contact list for doing an interview or contacting for the Jedi Central Library. It's for my Jedi Online History Project. But I will replace your name at the next installment? (Otherwise I'll have to go back and edit-edit-edit-...)?? I hope that's acceptable? - Asta
Arias Mourns		#84	[-]
Posts: 335 (03/08/08 09:45:10) Assistant Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'd leave his name but I'd remove the numbers. Actually I'd suggest you alphabetize them. That'll through a wrench in the ego machine, so to speak. And then let people think what they will about who was or is the grand pooh-bah. But I never thought this was about ego to begin with. I thought this was searching for history and compiling something as accurate as possible. If you've explained it (which you have) and people think something else then that is on them. Let those who complain complain away. They always have and always will. __________________ I don't have to know who I am. All I have to do is be who I am. I simply have to decide. To choose, and to act.
astasophi		#85	[-]
Posts: 80 (03/08/08 10:05:58) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I will do an A to Z next time... good idea! ***My above message was not meant in disapproval. I just wanted to re-iterate what the point is. Some of those who read the later messages may not know? I have been able to do a couple of interviews and it's been very interesting! I so appreciate being allowed to possibly contact those on the list. - Asta
Opie Macleod		#86	[-]
Posts: 556 (03/08/08 14:21:25) JAO Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes that is fine, when you get the chance.
jundal		#87	[-]
Posts: 499 (03/08/08 22:00:46) Pizza eating Massiah Court Jester and Holder of the sacred pie slicer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You mean im not a grand high poo-bah? Damn. ive been hoping on that one for a long time. And Neo, you have not enjoyed the awsome love that is man-spoon love. Its awsome. Seriously. Thats why i said awsome twice. Oh look, three times! Ive been up since 2am. Can you tell? "which one is our enemy?" "Anger is the enemy. Greed and fear are also our enemies... And that woman from the laundromat that pushed in in from of me and made me drop my underwear hamper. She too, is our enemy." "But master, is that because you wear womens underwear?" "... Yes."
Opie Macleod		#88	[-]
Posts: 557 (03/09/08 00:12:22) JAO Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You are Pizza eating Massiah Court Jester and Holder of the sacred pie slicer. Main question is, do you like to be the Big Spoon or the Little Spoon? And yesh, I can tell.. You talk more when you are tired.
jundal		#89	[-]
Posts: 500 (03/09/08 01:42:40) Pizza eating Massiah Court Jester and Holder of the sacred pie slicer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Big spoon. Unless im in a little spoon mood.
JKC Shaolin	lol	#90	[-]
Posts: 19 (03/09/08 17:29:24) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	good stuff.
CanyonVR		#91	[-]
Posts: 383 (03/10/08 13:14:36) Patron Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	LOL.... Opie wrote: "History will either forget me or remember me by my deeds. Let my actions speak for me, not post count, not years survived by the community." This statement could not be more true for many an online Jedi. Some people just want to hear (or read) their own words no matter how irrelevant they are to a topic...or they even start a new topic and preach on. Then when confronted or questioned you get "Hmmmm...and just how many posts have you made??!!" If my name is entwined in the history (or future) of this site then I hope it will be for the content of my posts rather than the number. Chas (CanyonVR)
JKC Shaolin	hmmm,,,	#92	[-]
Posts: 22 (03/10/08 14:00:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mine will be the quantity.. lol or lack there of
jundal		#93	[-]
Posts: 503 (03/10/08 23:50:46) Pizza eating Massiah Court Jester and Holder of the sacred pie slicer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The only problem is, i think, that people only actually pay attention to you if you have a certin amount of posts. You could be the most profound person, with the most amazing things to say that make constant sense, but if you only have 5 posts next to your name, you get ignored.
Jedi Xhaiden		#94	[-]
Posts: 154 (03/11/08 12:20:54) Patron Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's not so much that way anymore though, at least at the sites I participate at, though at some sites it is still definitely that way. The main sites Im active a new member is just as valued as a long term member and is always treated just the same as someone that has been around for a long time. "A teaspoon of medicine can help but a spoonfull can kill" "Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
astasophi		#95	[-]
Posts: 82 (05/04/08 06:20:28) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I am leaving the Jedi Community - having found what most in today's Jedi Online Community have found... The Jedi Path goes with me - though I won't refer to it as "The Jedi Path" because there is very little of that on today's Jedi Forums. What I was fortunate to learn in training, however, is dying - and a lot of personalities, politics and personal agendas are now front and forward. With Jedi Academy gone - I suspect there will be very little pure training. With training done so seldom at other sites - and that training embedded in today's online Jedi discussion sites - with more personalities, politics and agendas - I suspect the Jedi Path has truly become an individual one. Maintaining the old training sites - archiving them - is important. I never would have gained what I did had I not dug for that old style training. The bullies, the ignorant, the politicians and those who want to have an 2nd Life existance as a Jedi - instead of a real life existance as a Jedi seem to be what it means to be "Jedi". Does the name mean anything? In this case it does and it doesn't. From my observations, we can discuss a body/mind/spirit lifestyle - philosophy rather like those of the Jedi of Star Wars, and the reference and inference seems to work as well as calling onesself Jedi. Let's face it - when these were younger days a lot of the Jedi Online Community was a social site. But some real work and discussion was ongoing and what was made is now burried-under a lot of bombastic Second Life nonesense. I have been around the Jedi Online Community 18 months - and I gained a great, great deal from learning the skills and philosophies shared with what was once a major new idea/path in this time of individual spirituality. But it is fairly dead - and I do understand why many have left to go it alone. I understand it now. There was failed leadership then - and no leadership now. And possibly - the Jedi Online Community is going to be a sidenote in the history of a different spirituality/Lifestyle that will take it's place. Because what was made here is simply too good NOT to continue onward. I've appreciated what I've learned - the real "Jedi" interraction I have had. If someone else would like to continue with the History Project - it's free for the having... Thanks again...I do continue on this Path - but not - as so many of you - within an Online Community as it stands today. - Asta Sophi Last Edited By: astasophi 05/04/08 06:28:24. Edited 1 times.
astasophi		#96	[-]
Posts: 103 (09/13/08 04:47:45) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I didn't leave the Community completely - but I did take a huge step back from online discussion. Two of the major sites have been pulled by their administrators - taking all writings and work with them. ( AshlaKnights and The Jediism Way.) My concern in beginning the Jedi Online History project was because of concern in losing original Jedi Writings in all their forms and variations. The most basic questions concerning the Jedi individual are being asked again - and it seems every site is now beginning a library. Was this because sight had been lost in the Jedi Community during the excitement of Star Wars 1,2 and 3? (In my opinion they were good films, and had some interesting ideas, but as for showing "jedi" seemed to show more the weakness of trying to follow such a strict and dogmatic ideal over The Force - which cannot be claimed or controlled by anyone no matter their "Medichlorian" content). Online - with the fall of the two major sites - it seems the bullying, politics and much of the "fan-fiction" seems to have subsided. I realize now that the Administrators of these sites were rather newer to the Jedi Community and were creating a view of the Jedi that were based in part on the Star Wars Prequels and "Exteded Universe" as well - and possibly more - on the video games. The animated movie "Star Wars" of this summer doesn't seem to have caused much interest with youth in learning more about the Jedi. However - there is work on finding and archiving original Jedi works - and I hope that people who responded here will consider their own writings to be offered. Personally - I suspect a library should not be allied to a site or any one Jedi. I've seen the disaster when an Admin decides to pull a site losing all writing - without warning. I'd like to work community-wide and along with independent Jedi site libraries to accumulate and link Jedi written works together so that any can find material - no censorship - no politics - involved. There are many kinds of Jedi because there are many kinds of people, and to judge one better than the other is possibly to be blind to opportunity to learn and grow? I'm also writing because I see another Jedi, "Skywatcher 9" has shown-up and I'd like to add them to the list. - AstaSophi
astasophi		#97	[-]
Posts: 104 (09/15/08 23:23:39) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	ShadowNinja add to the list...
Nabledan		#98	[-]
Posts: 304 (11/16/08 11:49:05) Patron Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi AstaSophi, I was active here from 6/05 to 5/06. Since leaving the online community I have been working pretty much solo. Best regards, Nabledan Last Edited By: Nabledan 11/16/08 12:03:54. Edited 1 times.
astasophi		#99	[-]
Posts: 106 (11/21/08 20:39:29) Resident Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sorry - haven't checked in for some time. Thank you for logging in on this thread. I understand about the "solo training". Seems to be the way most of end-up, huh?
jundal		#100	[-]
Posts: 508 (12/01/08 11:35:10) Pizza eating Massiah Court Jester and Holder of the sacred pie slicer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We tend to get bored with the theatrical crap that occurs on the various communities, so we tend to wander off on our own eventually...

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