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Re: Another one of those 'what's wrong with TPM' posts
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Tue, 6 Jun 2000 02:43:23 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jeff Johnston writes:
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.

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


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 Force mysticism is a whole lot of bull.



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  Re: Another one of those 'what's wrong with TPM' posts
 
(...) Yes, because the number of kids who watch the evolving monsters of Pokemon and read Harry Potter show that today's youth have a hard time swallowing anything magical. eric (24 years ago, 6-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Another one of those 'what's wrong with TPM' posts
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)

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