Tuesday 4 May 2021

Very Funny Religion...

Grand Moff Tarkin Talks to Lord Vader
Star Wars: Episode IV

LORD Da'ath VADER : 
HE, is Here.

Imperial Grand-Moff 
Governor TARKIN : 
Obi-Wan Kenobi?
What makes you Think So?

LORD Da'ath VADER :
A Tremor in The Force.
The Last Time I Felt it, 
was in The Presence 
of My Old Master.

Imperial Grand-Moff Governor TARKIN : 
Surely, he must be dead by now.

LORD Da'ath VADER :
Don't Underestimate The Force.
And I Warn You, Tarkin -- 
Do Not Call Me 'Shirley', Again.

Imperial Grand-Moff Governor TARKIN : 
The Jedi are Extinct
Their Fire has gone out of The Universe.
You, My Friend, 
are all that's left 
of Their Religion.
Yes?

Officer of The Watch :
We have an Emergency Alert 
in Detention Block AA-23.


Imperial Grand-Moff 
Governor TARKIN : 
The Princess? 
Put all sections on alert.


LORD Da'ath VADER :
Obi-Wan is Here.
The Force is with Him.

Imperial Grand-Moff Governor TARKIN : 
If you're right, 
he must not be allowed to escape.

LORD Da'ath VADER :
Escape is Not His Plan.
I, Must Face Him, Alone.




I Have a Good Feeling about This.


“You get a totally different civilization

a totally different way 

of living according to Your Myth 

as to whether Nature is Fallen 

or whether Nature is itself a

Manifestation of Divinity, 

and The Spirit being The Revelation of 

The Divinity That’s 

Inherent in Nature.” 


— Joseph Campbell


"I once heard a wonderful lecture by Daisetz Suzuki

you remember, this wonderful old 

Zen philosopher, who was over here. 


He was in his 90s. 

He started to lecture in Switzerland 

that I heard in Ascona. 


He stood up with his hands on his side, and he said, 


God against Man —

Man against God —

Man against Nature —

Nature against Man —

Nature against God —

God against Nature —


Very funny religion.....”


Now, in the other mythologies, 

One puts Oneself 

in accord with The World. 


If The World is a mixture 

of Good and Evil

you do not put yourself 

in accord with it. 


You Identify 

with The Good 

and You Fight 

against The Evil.


And this is a religious system 

which belongs to The Near East, 

following Zarathustra’s Time. 


It’s in the Biblical Tradition

all the way, in Christianity 

and in Islam as well. 


This business of 

not being with Nature, 

and we speak with sort of derogation of 

“The Nature Religions.”


You see, with that 

Fall in The Garden

Nature was regarded as corrupt


There’s a Myth for you that 

Corrupts The Whole World for Us. 



And every Spontaneous Act is Sinful

Because Nature is Corrupt 

and 

Has to be Corrected, 

Must not be yielded-to


You get 

A Totally Different Civilisation, 

a totally different way of living 

according to your myth as to whether 

Nature is Fallen or whether Nature is itself 

A manifestation of divinity

and The spirit being the revelation of the divinity that’s inherent in nature.


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