Timeline for If Jedi weren't allowed to maintain romantic relationships, why is it stressed so much that the Force runs strong in the Skywalker family?
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| Dec 5, 2020 at 19:56 | comment | added | Panzercrisis | I know it wasn't meant to be taken completely literally. It still struck me as something that sounds poetic, but wasn't necessarily phrased completely well. Same as when he said that generation had a date with destiny. He seems to be saying that generation is a special case - and he did it in kind of a poetic, inspirationally worded way - but the way he phrased it is still in a way that actually applies to all generations. | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 22:40 | comment | added | CitizenRon | @Panzercrisis I've always interpreted that quote as a play on words based on both the similarity and difference between the phrases "to fear" and "to be afraid of". "To fear" something can be "to be wary of" it, or "to desire to avoid" it, not necessarily actually "to be afraid of it". In that interpretation it is not contradictory at all. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | jeffronicus | Makes you want to build your police force entirely of droids or something. | |
| Dec 3, 2020 at 1:25 | comment | added | Lieutenant Zipp | Nice restatement! Too often that "fear" phrase is used unthinkingly by people looking for a way to be RhEToRicAL. | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | Tiercelet | @Panzercrisis well, he was specifically talking about the Great Depression and the loss of consumer/bank confidence leading to a downward spiral; paraphrased it's 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong, the only source of problems is decreased activity because citizens are too fearful to spend' which is a bit less paradoxical. | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 17:03 | comment | added | Panzercrisis | Similar to one of things you said in your answer: "...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." - a very common quote from US President Franklin Roosevelt. So are we supposed to be afraid of being afraid? But if we're afraid of being afraid, then we have fear, but I thought he said fear was the thing we're supposed to fear. It's self-contradictory. | |
| S Dec 2, 2020 at 15:46 | history | suggested | TheHans255 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Make the spoiler an actual spoiler tag
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| Dec 2, 2020 at 5:14 | history | edited | Remy Lebeau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixing a typo, and some grammar
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| Dec 2, 2020 at 4:48 | comment | added | gregsdennis | Recall also, that Palpatine also brings it up to Vader in Ep5, though it can be argued that the Sith would encourage it, being the Jedi's opposition. | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 4:41 | comment | added | gregsdennis | I was thinking of more how it was stressed thematically or narratively. I agree with your sentiments that the Jedi were blindly fearful, though. | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 4:35 | history | answered | Firestryke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |