© by Gerald So | geraldso.blogspot.com | 1:15 A.M.
I haven't made new year's resolutions for a few years now, not wanting to join the crowd making big decisions on the turn of a calendar. I've had more success deciding things on my own time and not announcing them to the world.
I'm also not one to look back. Part of the reason to have a blog after all is so I don't have to remember how things went. In the last few weeks, I'm proudest of having added sphinx crunches and dolphin hops to my daily exercise.
All that said, I've been wanting to read and write more. How's this for a statement of goals?: Reading at least twenty-six novels (One every two weeks. Sounds doable.), and writing at least one poem a week. The idea is if I do more than that, great.
Good luck to you.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Monday, December 28, 2015
At The Five-Two: "A Movable Nightclub" by Alan Catlin
© by Gerald So | geraldso.blogspot.com | 12:30 A.M.
Alan Catlin returns with The Five-Two's New Year's Eve-New Year's poem:
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I'm now accepting love- or passion-themed crime poems to be published in February. Submit by January 15.
Alan Catlin returns with The Five-Two's New Year's Eve-New Year's poem:
Subscribe to Channel Five-Two for first view of new videos.
I'm now accepting love- or passion-themed crime poems to be published in February. Submit by January 15.
Thursday, December 24, 2015
The Force is the Force, Of Course, Of Course
© by Gerald So | geraldso.blogspot.com | 6:30 A.M.
Still no spoilers about Star Wars Episode 7. I've been thinking about the Force, particularly how advocates of the Light Side (Obi-wan, Yoda, etc.) say it's an energy field created by all living things. The Force surrounds us and binds us. Life creates it, makes it grow. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Yet, if the Force is benevolent and created by life, how are advocates of the Dark Side (Palpatine, Vader, etc.) able to use it in kind? Anakin Skywalker ultimately was not strong-minded. His emotions allowed him to be easily subjugated. How could someone so mercurial hope to use the Force well enough to threaten the Light Side?
I'd prefer it if there were no sides of the Force, if instead it was naturally created and benevolent, with the Light Side attempting to follow its nature and the Dark Side attempting to bend it to their will. Strong, driven personalities like Palpatine can use the Force this way, but it resists them, over time withering them physically. This depiction of the Force explains Palpatine's decaying appearance and Darth Vader's need for an oxygen machine without any reference to Episodes 1–3.
By contrast, following the natural flow of the Force prolongs life, such as Yoda's nine hundred years.
This is by no means official doctrine on the Force, but it makes more sense to me than what's been depicted in the movies. Your thoughts?
Still no spoilers about Star Wars Episode 7. I've been thinking about the Force, particularly how advocates of the Light Side (Obi-wan, Yoda, etc.) say it's an energy field created by all living things. The Force surrounds us and binds us. Life creates it, makes it grow. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Yet, if the Force is benevolent and created by life, how are advocates of the Dark Side (Palpatine, Vader, etc.) able to use it in kind? Anakin Skywalker ultimately was not strong-minded. His emotions allowed him to be easily subjugated. How could someone so mercurial hope to use the Force well enough to threaten the Light Side?
I'd prefer it if there were no sides of the Force, if instead it was naturally created and benevolent, with the Light Side attempting to follow its nature and the Dark Side attempting to bend it to their will. Strong, driven personalities like Palpatine can use the Force this way, but it resists them, over time withering them physically. This depiction of the Force explains Palpatine's decaying appearance and Darth Vader's need for an oxygen machine without any reference to Episodes 1–3.
By contrast, following the natural flow of the Force prolongs life, such as Yoda's nine hundred years.
This is by no means official doctrine on the Force, but it makes more sense to me than what's been depicted in the movies. Your thoughts?
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