mercredi 14 janvier 2015

Doesn't the refined version of the Jedi Code mean the exact opposite of the orignal code?


The Jedi Code goes as follows:



There is no emotion, there is peace.

There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.

There is no passion, there is serenity.

There is no chaos, there is harmony.

There is no death, there is the Force.



This version was written by Jedi Master Odan-Urr, a Jedi Librarian who made it his life's work to study the Jedi Code. He pointed out that if you asked a dozen Jedi about the meaning of the Jedi Code you'd get a dozen different answers. Many Jedi noted that they found the Code difficult to understand, and as such he set out to refine and clarify it, ending up with the above code (of which the fourth line is sometimes omitted). But the original in question goes as follows:



Emotion, yet peace.

Ignorance, yet knowledge.

Passion, yet serenity.

Chaos, yet harmony.

Death, yet the Force.



Note the difference: Odan-Urr's code is based on overcoming the negative by attaining the positive (so because you have peace, there is no need for emotion) while the original has you attain the positive while retaining the negative (so you know passion while being serene).


Doesn't this mean that the new Jedi Code pretty much means the complete opposite of the original code? Instead of knowing both harmony and chaos you know only harmony? Interstingly enough, according to the new Jedi Code something like Vapaad cannot exist (it requires emotion in a peaceful body) while the old Code actively encourages things like it. Or do I misunderstand the Jedi Code in either (or both) of its iterations?


I am aware that much of this information comes from the non-canon roleplaying games by Wizards of the Coast, and I am not very bothered by how canon or non-canon the answers are.





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