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Re: Another one of those 'what's wrong with TPM' posts
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:41:00 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Jeff Johnston writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes: • **snip**
> > There's a lot of decent arguments against midchlorians, but this isn't one
> > of the good ones.
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> I was making a rhetorical point, rather than giving a precise suggestion of
> how to get Forceful.
It's one I've heard over and over as showing "how stupid midichlorians
are" without the people saying it ever realizing how stupid their
"counterargument" sounds.
If you mean you preferred the force as a wholly mystical rather than as a
"scientific" phenomenon, that's all you need to say - it's really just a
matter of personal preference. A lot of people seem to forget that.
There's no reason why it can't be both - plenty of real-world mysticism
has grown up out of what are really scientific phenomena (astrophysics
comes to mind - eclipses, astrology, the whole world-ending "planetary
conjunction" crowd, etc)
J
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| (...) I would rather think that the Jedi potential has what is in him already to attract midichlorians, rather than the midi stuff being born in his blood. The "scientific explanation" for the force is probably to placate young new viewers who think (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) **snip** (...) I was making a rhetorical point, rather than giving a precise suggestion of how to get Forceful. (...) If you're speaking figuratively, not at all. If, as I was, you're referring to actual manna in his actual blood, then you're (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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