HesinRaca wrote:
Their docterines contradict. What you can do, and this is what I believe Dhagon Krayt is saying(correct if wrong), is that it is entirely plausable and highly benificial to follow the light side and its docterines, and yet understand and expierence the dark side to know its workings. The Jedi code would suggest you do thish through controlled meditation on your dark emotions, but I am under the impression that Dhagon, you would consider a more active understanding of the dark side to be necessary? Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean that in order to understand a thief we must steal, or understand a rapist we must rape? Because I think you are more in agreement with the concept of controlled meditation that of truely expierencing. Please elaborate on what you mean by \"expierencing the dark side to understand it\".
No, I do not believe we should steal to understand a theif, or rape to understand a rapist. I do however (like you put it) think there should be a more active aproach in understanding it. The meditation of your feelings and emotions is great, and if you can do that and get a good understanding of it great, those are definately some of the first steps in fully understanding the dark side. I believe (at least how it worked in my experience) that the next step, is to learn when NOT to do things you would normally do as a Jedi to help others. There are times when our helping someone would in fact hurt them more in the long run. Sure your commiting an act against the Jedi code, but its actually going to help them more. You see, I think that I'm being severly misunderstood in all this. I am NOT an advocate for the dark side, I'm not saying commit lots of evil acts and try to take over the world. I'm just talking about more balance. Light cannot shine everywhere all at once. I'm mostly saying that sometimes its necessary to do something seemingly evil to better the whole, it will balance out. So Hesin, to kind of answer your question, no I'm not talking about meditating on your emotions to know the dark side, sometimes its necessary to act in an evil way. Shadow Jedi from what I understand thus far, use either acts of good or acts of evil to set forth the means that will accomplish the end that the Force has given them the motivation for.
Also, it seems that I have somehow became the voice of the Shadow Jedi, I guess this is mostly my own fault for speaking up so much, but this is something I never intended. I do concider myself a Shadow Jedi, but I'm not sure I'm any kind of expert on the matter either. I'm no master, and aside from becoming an ordained minister, I'm not even a Knight. I don't even know if there are any other Shadow Jedi here. I'd like to speak with some others that share my views of the Force, if there are any out there.
On another note though, alot of the things people put into their posts to contradict most of the things I say, are from the 16 teachings and other things of the Jedi. Remember, that they do not, and will not match up with the things I say, the 16 teachings, and so forth were written (atleast in my eyes) for light side Jedi. The teachings and doctrine and so forth don't seem to be written to allow for any other view, I guess thats where it has lots in common with most other religious books. There are parts of the teachings and doctrine and so forth that I agree with, but some that I do not. So by using these to contradict what I say, is kind of useless since I don't embrace every word of them. If I were a better writer and better with words, I would attempt atleast to write similar documents geared toward multi-faceted beliefs or geared toward other beliefs individually. Unfortunately I have not been blessed with those talents.
Dhagon Krayt
