so I guess the notion of free will just takes it full in the ass, you either obey the force or get ruined, yeah this is a power we should cower before instead of destroying the universe
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @arthur_affect and
Uh, no shit? *the Force is based on Daoism* and in Daoism the ideal state to aspire to is total harmony with the Dao
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Replying to @loudpenitent @saintwalker98 and
And if you don't like that and think that you can just Punch The World, sure, that's a thing, but *it's not the position taken by Star Wars' inspirations*, where striving against the Dao is the explicit SOURCE OF SUFFERING AND DISHARMONY
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Then I'll be a Star Wars villain and fight to free everyone from this cycle of abuse by ending reality
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @loudpenitent and
This is youpic.twitter.com/XnWzqenXBx
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @saintwalker98 and
Insert extended rant here about how KOTOR2 has done lasting damage to SW
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Look even if Star Wars is a Daoist universe (it's really more of a Buddhist universe but whatever) it doesn't mean everyone who lives in that universe is going to like it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
What exactly the difference is between Buddhism and Daoism is a fraught topic but from a Buddhist POV it's a more "sophisticated" philosophy It's not as simple as "Everyone be chill and there won't be any trouble"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Ok sure, but the basic problem is every one started taking Kreia's whining at face value ad Objective Truth because the writers of KOTOR2 seemingly resented SW not being the way they preferred.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
I dunno about actually wanting the Star Wars universe to be different, I think it's reasonable to just say if you were in this universe and you had proof this was how the universe worked, somebody would be upset
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No one denies that Kreia is a Sith and she's on the Dark Side And she's even inevitably doomed to fail, her dream is impossible and she was willing to commit atrocities for it It's just as interesting and self-aware a version of the Sith philosophy as he could write
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Rather than just one-note cackling fascists it's Sith who, well, know they're Sith "I know there is a divine plan and I knowingly oppose it because it is the divine plan, not for any other reason"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's lampshaded in the game how the Trayus Academy Sith are a great deal creepier than the KotOR 1 Sith, these skulking philosophical nihilists rather than regular Nazis "Say what you will about the tenets of Revanchism, at least it's an ethos"
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