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Of course running a Jedi group has some pretty interesting history tied to it as well. Our community at its youngest is twenty years old. We can go to 24 if want, some try to push further, but community-wise that is about where it tops out. We are still in those college party years. But plenty of examples of running a Jedi group exist. Many groups grew very active. Many great and large groups which have crumbled under their own weight. Many groups which have toppled under drama and politics. Some under stagnation. Others just from no activity. Avoiding these issues isn't as difficult as our history may make it seem - just about learning from our history.
Example. In 1999 I was given a council position and a Master title. Fortunately the Force (or my internet provider dropping service in my area) and my own low self-esteem allowed me to run away from that. Still it kicked started me on a journey through the community that would add many titles and positions - some just as ridiculous and superfluous as the first two. I watched as that original group ate itself over and over again - sure the website survived for years, but not the leadership, not the direction, all eventually withered away under the constant toxicity; a mask worn to keep pretending it is its old self. I got to witness many other sites rise and fall. Fascinating stuff. Human Nature vs Jedi Nature, the scoreboard is not encouraging.
So when an idealistic young man approached me with an idea he was working on, I was humbled. It is nice when someone acknowledges that time served. He wanted to form a new group and asked my advice, so I gave him a breakdown. I laid out the pitfalls. I laid out a couple avenues for success. I pointed to his own Jedi idol (actual, not fictional) and the wrong turns he made. "Learn From". Here are examples - remember these as you move forward. When tough decisions come - and they will come - remember these giants and how they fell. He invited me to join him as he built this group, I accepted (history in the making if nothing else). Then it was clear - decisions were being made, but they screamed of an era that had all but disappeared. The same mistakes in new packaging. The same misguided focus - Organizational Value over Jedi Value. Mistaking leadership for popularity.
I spoke up - I was shouted down. I warned - I was a labelled a doomsayer. I laid it all out - they voted to cast me out.
History will be repeated if it is not learned from. And it has not been learned from. The lesson? Culture isn't what you preach, it is what you allow.
24 years and that hasn't sunk in yet.
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Just because someone says you're always after them, it doesn't make it so.
Yell it as loud as you want. But as tarkin put it 'if sayigg it only made it so'... Because it doesn't.
Feeble attempt, a predictable attempt, a rusty blade you have become.
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The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
- William Arthur Ward
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That is all.
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I remember as a child, watching an episode of “Hey Arnold!”. Within this particular episode the main character “Arnold” and another secondary character are out for a date, within a local diner. At the end, “Arnold” ends up paying for the meal, entertainment, etc; only for the date to proclaim they aren’t interested in him for “x.y.z” reasons. I would have been in early education at this time, but still vividly remember thinking how messed up it was that the main character spend all this time and money to essentially be lead on. I’ll explain how this is relevant later on within the rant.
Humanity (in entirety) is deeply, profoundly, and incurably psychotic. All aspects of our culture, identities, and daily lives are rooted within this psychosis. We, as children often have imaginary friends; play imaginary games; and understand that these games and friends are not rooted in reality but only in the realm of creative speculation and artistry.
Many of us are brought into religion by our parents or extended (friends) family. Often we begin this introduction with the understanding that this system is based within fantasy and imagination as well. Overtime as we are repeatedly either punished/rewarded based on our participation within said religious (cult) organization, we gradually lose touch with our natural understanding that all things involved with such activity are acts of imagination and in fact not real.
For some, this process can be cruel; abusive; torturous. Not necessarily out of acts of violence or rage, but at times instead out of willful and intentional ignorance. It can take the form of rape, whipping/(marshall) punishment, deprivation of food/water, and isolation. It can also take the form of intentional and willful refusal to provide essential and lifesaving medical care; refusal to provide access to (public) education, refusal to report criminal acts to proper authorities, etc.
Humanities entire history is war, death, corruption, and oppression.
We trade each other slips of paper and chunks of metal to purchase items from others who “employ” themselves in a chosen profession. As children many of us create play economies and emulate “working” with the understanding, that it too is an act of imagination and fantasy.
There is no objective, defined, or legitimate reason for any of the functions we carry out on a daily basis. Forests, oceans, mountains; entire ecosystems are torn down and sold for raw materials so that we can go and then purchase the phones, laptops, shoes, purses, jewelry, robes, and assorted trinkets that they are converted into by various industry.
Entire species have gone, and continue to go extinct for the sole purpose of allowing our continued luxuries and comforts. We lament as though we somehow care; yet continue to patron the very industries that are erasing their presence on this planet.
We allow ourselves the luxury of forgetting; at great expense, that all we have built or claimed to build is indeed a very long and elaborate game of imaginary play. There is no divine need for us, or anything we have built to exist. There is no need; outside of our psychotic society for high speed transport, supermarkets, entertainment, art, or spirituality to exist.
And we can all acknowledge that the biodiversity and integrity of this planet would be better if we were to not inhabit it. We see it as OUR world. Not a world shared between its many species and life forms; but OURS. Many of our religious texts explicitly exalt us as above all other life forms, that we and we alone have DOMINION over all creatures.
They belong to us. To slaughter for food, to process for articles of clothing and luxury. To fight or otherwise train for our amusement and entertainment. We even profess the audacity to consider them sentient beings, capable of pain; let alone any emotional capacity.
And, as we truly and sincerely believe that our species is a required and mandatory presence upon this world, we procreate incessantly. We fuck constantly, endlessly. The more children the better. We acknowledge the dangers of overpopulation; food shortages, water scarcity, increase in spread of contagious diseases, increased loss of biodiversity, increased rate of damage to the environment, etc.
But for most, the problem of overpopulation is treated as “everyone else in the world needs to have less children except for me and anyone related to me”. “For me, I need to out fuck and out breed everyone else. They need to not have children however”
One of our species greatest, crowning achievements; the internet. At least 30% of worldwide bandwidth is now used for the viewing and consumption of pornography. Even more disturbingly is the part of that percentage that is not tracked. A.K.A illegal porn; peadophelia, zoophilia, streamed rape/non consensual sex, etc.
And, all of this will continue until we have used up every possible resource; committed every possible atrocity; and exterminated any form of biodiversity within this world.
TLDR; Humanity is a plague, and upon reaching sentience and self awareness; our ancestors should have done the noble thing and erased all traces of human life, including their own.
Out of time to rant.
Happy MDW!
So long and thanks for all the fish
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What has to come ? Will my heart grow numb ?
How will I save the world ? By using my mind like a gun
Seems a better weapon, 'cause everybody got heat
I know I carry mine, since the last time I got beat
MF DOOM Books of War
Training Masters: Carlos.Martinez3 and JLSpinner
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Kohadre wrote: Warning/Preface: [TRIGGER] The rant contained below may be considered highly controversial and offensive. For that reason it has been encased within a spoiler. If you are prone to or are currently experiencing suicidal ideation or wish not to be offended DO NOT CLICK.
Warning: Spoiler!
TLDR; Humanity is a plague, and upon reaching sentience and self awareness; our ancestors should have done the noble thing and erased all traces of human life, including their own.
Out of time to rant.
Happy MDW!
My... My... Aren't you after my own dark little heart. That thought is literally titillating! Why? Not sure, it just excited me.
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Phoenix Vidensia wrote:
Kohadre wrote: Warning/Preface: [TRIGGER] The rant contained below may be considered highly controversial and offensive. For that reason it has been encased within a spoiler. If you are prone to or are currently experiencing suicidal ideation or wish not to be offended DO NOT CLICK.
Warning: Spoiler!
TLDR; Humanity is a plague, and upon reaching sentience and self awareness; our ancestors should have done the noble thing and erased all traces of human life, including their own.
Out of time to rant.
Happy MDW!
My... My... Aren't you after my own dark little heart. That thought is literally titillating! Why? Not sure, it just excited me.
Warning: Spoiler!And makes me a bit aroused *blush*
Awwww I love it when two Siths find each other! Makes feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Occasionally it also disturbs me and makes me want to vomit in my mouth, but I'll take the bad with the good
EDIT: I thought the original post was by Khaos. Please ignore me and my stupidity
- Knight Senan'The only contest any of us should be engaged in is with ourselves, to be better than yesterday'
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