[…Everything they were both just thinking about… but how to articulate it…]
I assumed it… implied… unidirectional causality. "This happened because the Force made it happen." I can't buy that as more than… consolation. Confirmation bias to avoid facing the horrible truth that reality is chaos.
But now I don't think it matters whether we found each other because we were 'supposed' to, or that finding each other makes us able to… make something good, become something better, out of everything that came before. Maybe there's no difference. They're both the same thing. And that… seems like… the heart of what people seem to be talking about when they say 'the Force'.
[How literally he's ready to take some of the other elements—to what one is being attuned, how passively it can be relied upon—he's not ready to judge. …But that itself is a change. He's no longer simply dismissing them. Not just because he's seen what Chirrut can do, but because the concepts, possible explanations, no longer seem contradictory. The Force need not be separate from the beings within it.]
<33333 (P.S. Hallo comparative religion courses…)
I assumed it… implied… unidirectional causality. "This happened because the Force made it happen." I can't buy that as more than… consolation. Confirmation bias to avoid facing the horrible truth that reality is chaos.
But now I don't think it matters whether we found each other because we were 'supposed' to, or that finding each other makes us able to… make something good, become something better, out of everything that came before. Maybe there's no difference. They're both the same thing. And that… seems like… the heart of what people seem to be talking about when they say 'the Force'.
[How literally he's ready to take some of the other elements—to what one is being attuned, how passively it can be relied upon—he's not ready to judge. …But that itself is a change. He's no longer simply dismissing them. Not just because he's seen what Chirrut can do, but because the concepts, possible explanations, no longer seem contradictory. The Force need not be separate from the beings within it.]