Guardian Angels ~ Fr Ripperger

Guardian Angels ~ Fr Ripperger

The Diamond in The Rough

Aladdin is a poor Young Man living in China (In Name Only. The setting is completely Islamic). He has no job and lives off the little money His Widowed Mother can bring in; His Father died from Grief at such An Irresponsible Son. One day, An Evil Maghreb Sorcerer approaches him, claiming to be His Father's Brother but in fact seeking to use him for his own benefit. He gives Aladdin A Ring and sends him into A Magic Cave to retrieve An Old Oil Lamp, but when Aladdin struggles on the last step, The Magician's impatience gets the better of him and he seals The Cave with Aladdin and His Lamp inside. 

Fortunately, he's still wearing His Magic Ring which, when rubbed, releases a Jinn who brings him out. When he gets home, Aladdin's Mother starts cleaning The Lamp, releasing a far more powerful Jinn who grants Aladdin his every wish.

Over time, with the use of The Lamp, Aladdin becomes vastly wealthy. He even gains The Sultan's favorite daughter for His Wife. However, The Sorcerer realizes that Aladdin must have escaped with The Lamp, so he steals it with a ruse, then takes Aladdin's Palace, along with His Wife and all his possessions, to His Home in Maghreb.

Aladdin despairs, but all is not lost, because he still has that Magic Ring. While The Ring Jinn can't simply undo The Lamp Jinn's Magic, He can transport Aladdin to His Palace, where he frees His Wife, beats the bad guy, and gets His Lamp back.

 

 All right! You know, it is funny because I'm so used to-
Always-, my key is always higher than the actors' who do, like, my songs
I can't believe-
You have a high voice
But you-, you actually do the song-, I do it in A, erm, in C, right?
Yeah
You do it in what?
In D
Unbelievable (a step up)
My ego has just shattered everything
You wanna try it?
Let's do it!

Proud of your boy
I'll make you proud of your boy
Believe me, bad as I've been, ma
You're in for a pleasant surprise

I've wasted time
I've wasted me
So say I'm slow for my age
A late bloomer, okay, I agree
That I've been one rotten kid
Some son, some pride and some joy
But I'll get over these lousin' up
Messin' up, screwin' up times
 

You'll see, ma, now comes the better part
Someone's gonna make good cross his stupid heart
Make good and finally make you
Proud of your boy
 

Tell me that I've been a louse and loafer
You won't get a fight here, no, ma'am
Say I'm a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good
But that couldn't be all that I am
 

Water flows under the bridge, let it pass
Let it go
There's no good reason that you should believe me, not yet
I know, but
 

Someday and soon
I'll make you proud of your boy
Though I can't make myself taller
Or smarter or handsome or wise
 

I'll do my best, what else can I do?
Since I wasn't born perfect like dad or you
Mom, I will try to try hard to make you
Proud of your boy

 

Liam Neeson's Wife

 

The Queen :

Have you seen how the hens in

the yard peck at each other?

Each choosing the one just weaker.

Why do the ladies peck at you?

Ophelia :

I'm not noble, My Lady.

The Queen :

Did you know I was not raised at court?

My sister and I were sent as girls to a convent in France.

But even there, there were hens and they pecked.

Ophelia :

Even the nuns?

The Queen :

But I had my sister to defend me.

Ophelia :

I didn't start it.

It wasn't my fault.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Go out and close the door.

Ophelia :

But you asked to see me.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Yes, well, you have to knock before you enter.

Ophelia :

I can't believe it.

This is all horse face's fault.

KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Who is it?

Ophelia :

Jesus Christ.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Oh, dear. We were led to believe  you had a beard and sandals. 

Now, we'll have to change that stained-glass window in the school chapel.

Ophelia :

Look, I didn't start it, it wasn't my fault, and if this were America, I would sue.

That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

I know perfectly well what happened, Poppy.

Ophelia :

Then why isn't Harriet here too?

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Because, unsurprisingly, it's you I want to talk to. 

Look, I know it's very difficult... being the only new girl in your year.

Ophelia :

You mean, the only normal girl.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

What do you like to read, Poppy?

Ophelia :

OK Magazine, People, Us Weekly.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Well, might you be able to tackle such a thing as a book?

Ophelia :

I prefer movies.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Well, my personal library seems to be missing the book version of ‘Freaky Friday’.

So, perhaps you might try this.

Ophelia :

Oh, my uncle's producing the film version.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

Alice in Wonderland was originally a book.

You might surprise yourself and actually enjoy it.

Ophelia :

This is my punishment?

This school is so weird.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

What do you want to get out of this

school, Poppy?

Ophelia :

To get out of this school.

Mrs. Qui-Gonn Jinn :

You know, this school has produced absolutely nobody of note.

Our leading light was the girl who was Princess Diana's foot doctor.

So, if your aim is to make the pages of Us Weekly, then this isn't The Place for you.

What we do produce are smart, independent, free-thinking, good-hearted girls, who remain friends for life.

The kind of girl that, behind all your wisecracks, I know that you are.

The Secret of The Ancient Order of The Whills

222 INT. POLIS MASSA-

OBSERVATION DOME-NIGHT

On the isolated asteroid of Polis Massa, YODA meditates.

YODA: 

Failed to stop the Sith Lord, I have. 

Still much to learn, there is ...

QUI -GON: (V.O.) 

Patience. You will have time. 

I did not.

When I became one with the Force I made a great discovery. 

With my training, you will be able to merge with The Force at will. 

Your physical self will fade away, but you will still retain your consciousness. 

You will become more powerful than any Sith.

YODA :

Eternal consciousness.

QUI-GON: (V.O.) 

The ability to defy oblivion can be achieved, but only for oneself. 

It was accomplished by a Shaman of the Whills. 

It is a state acquired through compassion, not greed.

YODA :

. . . to become one with The Force, and influence still have . . . 

A power greater than all, it is.

QUI-GON: (V.O.) 

You will learn to let go of everything. 

No attachment, no thought of self. 

No physical self.

YODA: 

A great Jedi Master, you have become, Qui-Gon Jinn. 

Your apprentice I gratefully become.

YODA thinks about this for a minute, then BAIL ORGANA enters the room and breaks his meditation.

BAIL ORGANA: 
Excuse me, Master Yoda. 
Obi-Wan Kenobi has made contact.

223 EXT. MUSTAFAR-LANDING PLATFORM-DAY

The CLONES have placed ANAKIN in a medical capsule. They float the wounded Sith Lord into the belly of the IMPERIAL CRUISER. 
DARTH SIDIOUS follows the capsule into the ship. 
The ship takes off.

224 EXT. POLIS MASSA-LANDING PLATFORM-NIGHT

OBI-WAN lands the Naboo Cruiser on the landing platform of the isolated post of Polis Massa. 

YODA and BAIL ORGANA, along with a FEW GROUND CREW, are waiting as the ramp lowers and OBI-WAN emerges, carrying the unconscious PADME in his arms, followed by ARTOO and THREEPIO.

BAIL ORGANA: 

We'll take her to the medical center, quickly.

225 EXT. LANDING PLATFORM-CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY

The shuttle lands. 
DARTH SIDIOUS and CLONE TROOPERS leave the shuttle. 
ANAKIN's body is carried along in a floating medical capsule.

226 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT

POLIS MEDICS work, on PADME in an operating theater. 
OBI-WAN and one of the MEDICAL DROIDS enter an observation room where BAIL and YODA are waiting.

MEDICAL DROID :

Medically, she is completely healthy. 

For reasons we can't explain, we are losing her.

OBI-WAN :

She's dying?

MEDICAL DROID :

We don't know why. 

She has lost the will to live. 

We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies.

BAIL ORGANA :

Babies??!!

MEDICAL DROID :

She's carrying twins.

YODA :

Save them, we must. 

They are Our Last Hope.

The MEDICAL DROID rushes back to the operating room. 

ARTOO and THREEPIO watch, greatly puzzled. 

ARTOO BEEPS.

C-3PO :

It s some kind of reproductive process, I think.

227 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY

ANAKIN, in the medical capsule, is lifted onto a table in the Rehab Center. 

DROIDS go to work on him. 
ANAKIN has new legs and a new arm.

228 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT

The TWINS are being delivered as BAIL ORGANA, YODA, ARTOO, and THREEPIO watch. 

OBI-WAN is in the operating theater with PADME. 

He takes her hand.

OBI-WAN: 

Don't give up, Padme.

PADME winces from the pain. 

The MEDICAL DROID is holding the BABY.

MEDICAL DROID: 

It's a boy.

PADME: 

Luke . . .

PADME can only offer up a faint smile. 

She struggles to touch the baby on the forehead.

MEDICAL DROID :

... and a girl.

PADME :

. . . Leia.

R2-D2, THREEPIO and BAIL ORGANA watch from an adjoining space.

229 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY

VADER, dressed in his black body armor, lies on the table. 

Nose plugs are inserted and the mask drops from above, sealing tightly. 

The helmet is fitted and VADER begins breathing.

230 INT. POLIS MASSA-MEDICAL CENTER-NIGHT

OBI WAN leans over PADME and softly speaks to her.

OBI-WAN:

 You have twins, Padme 
They need you . . . hang on.

PADME: 

I can't . . .

PADME winces again and takes OBI-WAN's hand. 

She is holding Anakin's japor snippet.

OBI-WAN:

Save your energy.

PADME: 

Obi-Wan . . . there . . . is good in him. 

I know there is ... still . . .

A last gasp, and she dies. 
Obi-Wan studies the necklace.

231 INT. CORUSCANT-IMPERIAL REHAB CENTER-DAY

DARTH SIDIOUS hovers around the periphery of a group of MEDICAL DROIDS who are working on ANAKIN. 

DARTH SIDIOUS paces in the foreground. 

A DROID approaches the Dark Lord.

MEDICAL DROID :

My Lord, the construction is finished ... he lives.

DARTH SIDIOUS :

Good. Good.

The DROID moves back to the table where DARTH VADER lies. The table begins to move upright. 
DARTH SIDIOUS moves in next to DARTH VADER.

DARTH SIDIOUS: (continuing)
 Lord Vader, can you hear me?

DARTH VADER, with his dark mask and helmet, moves up into the frame until he is in a CLOSEUP.

DARTH VADER: 

Yes, My Master.

DARTH VADER looks around the room.

DARTH VADER: (continuing) 
Where is Padme? 

Is she safe, is she all right?

DARTH SIDIOUS moves closer to the half droid/half man.

DARTH SIDIOUS: 

I'm afraid she died. ... 

it seems in your anger, you killed her.

A LOW GROAN emanates from Vader's mask. 

Suddenly everything in the room begins to implode, including some of the DROIDS.

DARTH VADER: 

I couldn't have! She was alive! 

I felt her! She was alive! 

It's impossible! No!!!

VADER SCREAMS, breaks his bonds to the table, and steps forward, waving his hands, causing objects to fly around the room. 

SIDIOUS deflects the objects, but some of the DROIDS aren't so lucky. 

VADER'S PAINFUL SCREAMS echo throughout the Center.

232 EXT. NABOO-ALDERAAN STARCRUISER

BAIL ORGANA's Starcruiser approaches the city of Theed.

233 INT. ALDERAAN CRUISER-CONFERENCE ROOM

BAIL ORGANA, YODA, and OBI-WAN sit around a conference table.

YODA: 

Pregnant, she must still appear. Hidden, safe, the children must be kept.

OBI-WAN: 

We must take them somewhere the Sith will not sense their presence.

YODA: 

Split up, they should be.

BAIL ORGANA: 

My wife and I will take the girl. 

We've always talked of adopting a baby girl. 

She will be loved with us.

OBI-WAN: 

And what of the boy?

YODA: 

To Tatooine. 

To his family, send him.

OBI-WAN: 

I will take the child and watch over him. 

Master Yoda, do you think Anakin's twins will be able to defeat Darth Sidious?

YODA: 

Strong the Force runs, in the Skywalker line. 

Hope, we can . . . Done, it is. 

Until the time is right, disappear we will.

BAIL leaves the conference room. 

YODA stops OBI-WAN.

YODA: (continuing) 

Master Kenobi, wait a moment. In your solitude on Tatooine, training I have for you.

OBI-WAN: 
Training??

YODA: 

An old friend has learned the path to immortality.

OBI-WAN: 

Who?

YODA: 

One who has returned from the netherworld of the Force to train me . . . your old Master, Qui-Gon Jinn.

OBI-WAN: 

Qui-Gon? But, how could he accomplish this?

YODA: 

The secret of the Ancient Order of the Whills, he studied. 

How to commune with him. 

I will teach you.

OBI-WAN: 

I will be able to talk with him?

YODA: 

How to join The Force, he will train you. 

Your consciousness you will retain, when one with the Force. 
Even your physical self, perhaps.

The Jedi Heresies of Master Qui Gon Jinn : MillennialProphecy,Eschatology and Quantum Destiny-Bending

Be Mindful of The LIVING Force, my young padawan.

"The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.

 It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. 

It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. 

It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. 

The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: 

'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 

'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? 

It could not have evolved by chance. 

It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

"'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' 

and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, 

and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book, Well, That about Wraps It Up for God.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

QUI-GON: 

I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you. 

OBI-WAN: 

Wait a minute... 

QUI-GON: 

I need a midichlorian count. 

OBI-WAN: 

The reading's off the chart... over twenty thousand. 

Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high! 

QUI-GON: 

No Jedi has. 

OBI-WAN: 

What does that mean? 

QUI-GON: 

I'm not sure.

QUI-GON: 

... He was trained in the Jedi arts. 

My only conclusion can be that it was a Sith Lord. 

KI-ADI: 

Impossible! 

The Sith have been extinct for a millenium. 

MACE WINDU: 

I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing. 

YODA: 

Ah, hard to see, the DarkSside is. 

MACE WINDU: 

We will use all our resources here to unravel this mystery and discover the identity of your attacker... 

May the Force be with you. 

OBI-WAN turns and leaves, but QUI-GON continues to face the Council. 

YODA: (Cont'd) 

Master Qui-Gon - more to say have you? 

QUI-GON: 

With your permission, my Master. 

I have encountered a vergence in the Force. 

YODA: 

A vergence, you say? 

MACE WINDU: 

Located around a person? 

QUI-GON: 

A boy... 

his cells have the highest concentration of midichlorians I have ever seen in a life form. 

It is possible he was conceived by the midichlorians. 

MACE WINDU: 

You're referring to the prophesy of 

The One Who Will Bring Balance to The Force... 

you believe it's this... boy?? 

[ NOT YET. ]

QUI-GON: 

I don't presume... 

YODA: 

But you do! 

Revealed your opinion is. 

QUI-GON: 

I request the boy be tested, Master. 

The JEDI all look to one another. They nod and turn back to OBI-WAN and QUI-GON. 

YODA: 

Trained as a Jedi, you request for him? 

QUI-GON: 

Finding him was the will of The Force... 

I have no doubt of that. 

Ani... I'm not allowed to train you, 

so I want you to watch me and be mindful... 

... always remember, 

your focus determines your reality. 

[ LAW OF ATTRACTION ]

Stay close to me and you will be safe. 

ANAKIN: 

Master, sir... 

I heard Yoda talking about midichlorians. 

I've been wondering, 

What are midichlorians? 

QUI-GON: 

Midichlorians are a microcopic lifeform that reside within all living cells. 

ANAKIN: 

They live inside of me? 

QUI-GON: 

In your cells, yes... and we are symbionts with them. 

ANAKIN: 

Symbionts? 

QUI-GON: 

Life forms living together for mutual advantage. 

Without the midichlorians, life could not exist, 

and we would have no knowledge of the Force. 

They continually 'speak' to us, telling us the will of the Force. 

When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them 'speaking' to you. 

ANAKIN: 

I don't understand. 

QUI-GON:

With time and training, Ani... you will... you will.

" You don’t get it - SPECTACULARLY.

On at least 3 or 4, possibly up to half a dozen different levels, you’re just wrong in every way, in every respect, on every level - starting with :

1) There is no contradiction between the “two explanations”, as you call it - it’s exactly the same explanation : it’s a MYSTICAL energy field, as in, it’s unseeable, undetectable, unobservable, a non-local spooky-action-at-a-distance transmission-medium.

This is real, “Real World” science - nobody has ANY IDEA how Quantum Entanglement transmits identical symltaneous information to two mutually entangled particles thousands, millions, even hundreds of trillions of miles, or even light years sepearated from one another - but the precise reason lies somewhere in the higher dimensionality of Maxwell’s Field Equations, and the established phenomena of an induced flow of current (I.e. charged particles) in a given direction through a suitable medium (copper wire) by either linear motion, or rotation of the charged particle medium of transmission (the wire), between two oppositely charged magnet poles, in a direction perpendicular to (at 90* right-angle turn away from the direction and lines of force (flux) between the two opposing poles generating a magnetic field orientated perpendicular (again, at 90* from) the plane of the copper wires’ motion/rotation, which induces the flow of energy and linear movement of the electrons through, and along the wire - 

A Vergence, You Say...

Qui-Gon Jinn: 

I have encountered a vergence in the Force.

Yoda: 

A vergence, you say...

Mace Windu: 

Located around a person?

Qui-Gon Jinn: 

A boy. His cells have the highest concentration of midichlorians 

I have seen in a life-form. 

It is possible he was conceived by the midichlorians.

Mace Windu: 

You refer to the prophecy of The One Who Will Bring Balance to The Force. 

You believe it's this -  boy?

verge (n.)

"edge, rim," mid-15c., from Old French verge "twig, branch; measuring rod; penis; rod or wand of office" (12c.), hence, from the last sense, "scope, territory dominated" (as in estre suz la verge de "be under the authority of"), from Latin virga "shoot, rod, stick, slender green branch," of unknown origin.

Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c. 1400). Modern sense is from the notion of within the verge (c. 1500, also as Anglo-French dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the king's court. Sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Meaning "point at which something happens" (as in on the verge of) is first attested c. 1600. "A very curious sense development." [Weekley]

verge (v.1)

"tend, incline," c. 1600, from Latin vergere "to bend, turn, tend toward, incline," from PIE *werg- "to turn," from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." Influenced by verge (v.2) "provide with a border" (c. 1600); "be adjacent to" (1787), from verge (n.). Related: Verged; verging.

Hating

You refer to the prophecy of 
The One Who Will Bring Balance to The Force

You believe it's this -  boy?

"The Oak Tree..?!?

Qui-Gon Jinn: 

I have encountered a vergence in the Force.

Yoda: 

A vergence, you say...

Mace Windu: 

Located around a person?

verge (n.)

"edge, rim," mid-15c., from Old French verge "twig, branch; measuring rod; penis; rod or wand of office" (12c.), hence, from the last sense, "scope, territory dominated" (as in estre suz la verge de "be under the authority of"), from Latin virga "shoot, rod, stick, slender green branch," of unknown origin.

Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c. 1400). Modern sense is from the notion of within the verge (c. 1500, also as Anglo-French dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the king's court. Sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Meaning "point at which something happens" (as in on the verge of) is first attested c. 1600. "A very curious sense development." [Weekley]

verge (v.1)

"tend, incline," c. 1600, from Latin vergere "to bend, turn, tend toward, incline," from PIE *werg- "to turn," from root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." Influenced by verge (v.2) "provide with a border" (c. 1600); "be adjacent to" (1787), from verge (n.). Related: Verged; verging.