> Heh heh, you mean Virgin Birth.

Well, I meant Immaculate Conception, but I'm not going to start
a flame war. Either term is applicable here, and I chose to go
with IC, rather then VB, though it was both. And while you can
have an IC without a VB, you can't have a VB without an IC, so..
shut up Mike.

>The movie made me think of the Jedi as Americanized
Buddhists and the Sith as fringy Objectivists.

I've never thought of Star Wars as an analogy for anything. I
think good ol' George just wanted to write a Science Fantasy
tale, and that's what came out. The Jedi do, however, have
definite ties to Pan-theism (I think- if that's the wrong term,
someone correct me), in that their beliefes revolve around a
powerful... um... force... that exists in all things, and is part of
everything.

Not that I'm trying to turn this into a religious debate, cause I'm
not, I'm just saying.

-Rifty

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