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iamhowardbrown · 4 years

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i am greta

I Am Greta "I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice." Please comment on this quote by Greta. How does it differ from the priorities of many teens? Do you see any irony in how popular Greta has become worldwide? This Quote by Greta is intriguing because she is not looking for empathy for herself, yet empathy for the planet. Many teens today are growing up in a world where narcissism is socially acceptable among all ages. Many people try very hard to share their life views with the world in hopes of some grand recognition or payout. Almost to the point where it is abnormal to not post about your life. In fact to the point that you have no life if your not posting in some sort of way. Many people are falling in to the’ look at me look at me’ ‘look what i can do’ category of life and just desire to be seen. Although this has positive qualities in some instances like during a quarantine, it is the reverse for someone like Greta. Whereas shes saying listen to my words and think about your actions. She has become no more popular than any activist making strides. She just happens to be young. Did you attend the #ClimateStrike just one year ago in Foley Square in NYC? If yes, what was your experience first hand? If you tuned in virtually were you surprised how many people across the world were galvanized by her message? I did not tune in or attend the climate strike. Personally I work every day to reduce my carbon footprint. I also express the same passion to my peers and encourage them to do so. I feel that many of the strikes and protests that are happening around the world are designed for a different audience and have been effective. The youth are often forced to sit by and watch as adults put in the backbreaking gut-wrenching work. It is phenomenal that a young girl not even of voting age can inspire so many to pay more attention to something they should already be doing. I love that people have recognized her worlds and are rallying together in an effort to create a larger voice around climate justice as well as social justice as a whole. Most people don't realize the impact of climate change, or the importance of bees and pollination and these are issues that shouldn't make us uncomfortable yet more curious about how we can live differently together. Greta is doing that by the impact she's having on the youth of the world. Why do you think a girl with Asperger's syndrome has inspired a generation of young people to rise up for climate? It's easy to sit by and watch. Its always harder to get out and do something and i think that Greta is helping people wake up. Particularly when it comes to the current youth generations who are spoiled and lazy. She is classified as having a syndrome yet does not let that define her. There are many youths in standard good health who are slowly realizing that they have no excuse and should be doing more. She is also showing how important it is to apply yourself to what you believe in and is reminding people that if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. I believe that many youths have been waiting for a superhero/heroin type of figure or an underdog if you will to actually have an impact so they can see that confidence is a state of mind and that coupled with the accessibility of media and narcissistic culture has ushered in a passive-aggressive guilt trip era. Almost to the point your not cool if your not doing something about the issues we face. Its almost as if Greta has made the challenge to everyone to take your pick whether it be climate change or injustice around the world, if your not constantly educating yourself and acting then you may not be as cool as you think you are. Do you think the pandemic has dampened or amplified the climate situation? How can we innovate beyond the limitations imposed by the pandemic to create new strategies for activism? Please provide specific examples. I do feel the pandemic has affected climate change. For a while, there were fewer people traveling, which in turn reduced pollution from the burning of fuels. Factories were closed etc., I would like to think that had some environmental impact although I'm not certain. Additionally, it reduced surface pollution as well because people were managing their garbage from home, and most likely creating less waste globally due to the lack of availability to goods. We shifted online which I believe affected tree farming and paper production, however brief it was id also like to believe this had some impact of some sort. The same goes for water pollution, less people in the water or on beaches should have had some impact even if minuscule. This Pandemic has created a new platform for digital activism. Whereas more people are reading and creating messages that can be seen around the world and taking time to look closely at global issues and personal behavior choices that can have a more positive and efficient impact. "...if a few girls can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school for a few weeks, imagine what we could do together if we wanted to." --Greta Thunberg, 2018 What are your thoughts on this quote? I absolutely agree. There is strength in numbers. That is a known fact, and that it can be used for good or bad. Women are finally catching the rhythm of social recognition. This is past due, and it has been to often the women who have the most positive impacts are overshadowed by anything you can think of. To that fact the idea of the issue becomes more important than gender I suppose, however, I feel it is also a common thread in social history that not all women get along. I feel that its past time to undo this reality for some and misconceptions for others because it does affect how we get things done. Yes, we must all work together, but an organized group of women young or old can have major impacts on how the world responds to an issue. I think this quite by Greta is important because it points out the fact that we will easily pay attention to something simple like education but not the planet. It is important for girls to go to school especially after such a long history of oppression related to education and all the women that suffered for trying to learn. I also feel the fact of the matter is girls need to stand by one another and lead the world into the next phase problem solving and troubleshooting, and Greta is challenging girls to imagine what that could be and to not be afraid to be more than they are expected to be. Choose one favorite quote from the "Our House is on Fire" speech included in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference and comment. Why do you think this speech inspired so many memes? Find a meme to include on your blog. No one is too small to make a difference. “Greta Thunberg is the Spark but we are the Wildfire.” this quote reminds me of the impact of what's going on now with wildfires in actuality. Then if you couple that with metaphor look how many people's lives have drastically been impacted, look at how bad the air is, look at how widespread the damages are. This idea or metaphor is the level of impact we can have if we work together to start focusing all efforts on saving the planet. It is true government and big oil are a leading cause, but it's only because we allow them to be. We arent striking fuel-based cars, and machines. We aren't limiting our elected officials to those who only have plans to save the world. It is up to us to make the choice to raise our standard for the global quality of living. The rich and the poor will perish all the same if the world goes to shit. There will be no rich if there's no one to do the work that puts them in the high chair, and greed will soon be overshadowed by the desire to sustain basic needs for survival. No one is too big to make a difference either. It's just a matter of making the choice to do something. There were so many memes because we live in a time where humor is interchangeable with sarcasm and naivety. These issues are not funny however if making a joke about it brings awareness and change then maybe it should be welcomed, however, I don't feel that it should be at the expense of someone or something sad. “Greta Thunberg is the spark but we are the wildfire.”--Naomi Klein. Please comment. Has Greta's activism lit a fire inside you? What actions have you been inspired to take? How have your habits changed? I would say Greta has lit a fire in me too when it comes to activism, making me want to get out to some of the protests to take more photography if I ever get a chance to. I am proud of what she's doing and very happy about it. When I was 16 I was a freshman at Parsons and had no interest in activism, yet now, I definitely feel more passionate about climate change and take action every day even with the simplest tasks. I also believe I experience the effects of climate change every day as well. So it's important to me that young people keep making strides, working together, and sharing awareness. Teen Girls are Leading Climate Strikes Helping to Change the Face of Environmentalism

(Washington Post) "“We have a new wave of contention in society that’s being led by women. … And the youth climate movement is leading this generational shift." 46% of girls consider climate issues extremely important compared to 23% of boys. Why do you think this gender disparity exists? Why are girls stepping up to helm the movement? Varshini Prakash is a 26-year-old activist and the co-founder of the Sunrise Movement. They are facilitating conversations with lawmakers like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein to take the lead on saving the planet and influencing political change that will support this effort. Varshini was exposed to the impacts of climate change at age 11 and by the time she was in college she was already involved in activism. With support from elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, she has been able to expand her voice on issues and become an even bigger role model. This is great for influencing other women and young girls to be active and vocal. When you see someone that looks like you doing something and making a difference, that can have a huge impact on the choices you make in some cases. I believe society is getting more in the habit of glorifying heroins across the world and particularly as it relates to social injustice. I believe that this trend of recognition will do the world a lot of good by undoing the warped barbie images that have long been portrayed and used to facilitate control. On the other hand, when it comes to boys it is often the case where there are so many male figures, whether it be in public policy, sports, media, or service, that get recognition for the most minuscule of deeds that it clouds the idea of what should be recognized or what is ‘doing good’, and this has been the case for many years. For instance, men work hard and get dirty, women do the dirty work and stay behind, this has been a reality for many generations. Although much has changed I feel boys are taking a back seat in many cases simply because they are not raised to make noise. Whereas women's voices have been repressed for so long that shouting and speaking out is an understatement. Therefore the call to action is inherent in women of today with more figures in the light and leading the conversation, there is an opportunity to be involved that didn't exist for many years on this level. I also feel that it's important for us to unassign the gender association when it comes to fighting for the planet compared to fighting for national security, they are one and the same. Fighting for the planet has to become a ‘tough guy/gal’ thing, and killing people should/could be viewed as weak. We need each other to persevere and it's only these types of disparities that will hold us back from saving the world.

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bespectacledbellman · 4 years

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Goodbye Greens: Why I Have Left The Green Party

I haven’t always believed in progressive politics. When I was in my early teens I was a little Communist short and stout, here’s my hammer here’s my sickle, comrade. I believed everyone should be paid the same for their work and everyone can have a decent quality of life. That was great until I realised that no matter how hard I did at school I’d end up with the same fate as those who put no effort in. That wasn’t going to work.

So, I deviated further and further right until I was embracing something close to Fascism. Yes, some people are superior, I thought. After all, someone who spends their time learning and bettering themselves deserves to earn more, deserves to have more rights, deserves to have a greater say in how the country works. Again, this logic was fine until I realised that modern society can only exist if people aren’t superior to one another. We need non-academic people happy to work in our shops, farm our land, fix our cars to keep the doctors and teachers and writers and philosophers and artists going. Academia doesn’t equate with capability.

I therefore managed to find my political worldview crushed between these two illogical tenets. What this resulted in was a pragmatic left-liberalism with a few traces of quasi-Fascism. Wondering how to square this circle I endeavoured to approach each political party at my own pace. I found that Labour and the Liberal Democrats could cater to the heart, but their sometimes pie-in-the-sky thinking coupled with the anti-Blairite counterrevolution concludd with senseless policy – if, indeed, policy was ever forthcoming. On the other hand, the Conservatives seemed to be fighting for the centre ground I called home: an economic policy that was, sometimes, unfair and unflinching, but otherwise their policies fostered progressive social reforms. Cameron’s mob would neither give to the poor nor steal from the rich, but what Robin Hood’s merry men did in their own time was no concern of theirs.

I’m not saying that their approach was successful, but four years on I wonder what the UK would look like if Cameron’s planned decade-long ministry would have culminated in.

Politically homeless, therefore, I started to judge the fringes. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party was always a laugh, but unelectable. Independents were fine too, but only at constituency level. But when I read the Green Party manifesto a couple of years ago I was enraptured. The manifesto spoke to me. Save the planet. Tick. Social reforms for equality. Tick. Universal basic income. Tick.

Nuclear disarmament? Once upon a time I was opposed to this. Who throws away their shield, I mused, when someone was pointing an arrow at your head? Of course, this metaphor is completely wrong. It should be why am I standing here holding a Molotov cocktail on the off-chance that someone throws their Molotov cocktail at me? I will still be on fire no matter whether I have one of my own or not. It’s basically revenge, wrapped in the camouflaged garb of national security. Pointless. The Greens want to abolish nuclear weapons. Tick.

Sticking to my personal policy that whenever I found a party that suited me down to the core I would support them, I became a member of the Green Party. Through financial and moral support, I argued their case to friends and family and did what I could do highlight key social and economic issues that the Greens could work to resolve. I even wore t-shirts and buttons to advocate their cause in public.

And it was sunshine and roses, pretty much, until this year they started to be, well, silly, with a few minor incidents and one big one: capitalising on the chaos in America, the Greens came out for slavery reparations.

I just think this is the wrong answer. I also believe it’s insulting to simply pay people off for the suffering caused to slaves. I also felt that the logic behind compensation for past immorality was a slippery slope: where is the line drawn? What about Ireland during the Potato Famine? India? Africa? Look at the chaos caused in China by imperialism. Drawn to its inevitable conclusion, historical compensation would bankrupt the Earth.

It was also not going to do anything to solve modern racism. Say a Green government gives a stipend to people who can prove their ancestors were slaves. I can’t say for certain, but I’d guess that large category would include at least one white millionaire. Eight generations of breeding will diversify the ultimate, current generation – as it should. I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel it’s right for a government to pay someone compensation for hardships that they may never have suffered. And for those many people who have suffered hardships, a payout isn’t justice.

As I bleat on about like a noisy sheep from dawn til dusk, education is the way we move forward. Educate our children on race and the importance of loving and respecting one another. Obviously, this is a dream, because we all know people whom we neither love nor respect – but at least teach that there are so many genuine reasons for hating people that race needn’t be a contender. Hate someone for being a bully, a snob, cruel, violent, criminal. Each of those adjectives has been attached to people of every different creed and colour through history. Why compound these valid reasons?

Take all of the money earmarked for reparations and pump it into schools. Give the UK a world-class (or world-beating, which appears to be the term in vogue nowadays) education system that teaches moral and social values, and not just the order of Henry VIII’s unfortunate spouses.

It is, in my view, a cheap ploy to capitalise on what was going on around the world in support of Black communities, to make the Green Party look like the progressive party, when in fact it looks more like throwing money at the problem and hoping it goes away. This isn’t the medieval Church, we can’t buy indulgences from our national sins. Only through repentance – education – can we be absolved.

Add to that the other cringe-worthy events that I saw manifest over the Green Party’s own social media page: notably, heralding a local councillor as a champion of his community for standing up for residents, even though he actually hadn’t any idea what he was doing and jeopardised their appeals by ignoring due process. The recent election, where as a member you vote on important roles, including roles for each individual group, but you can only vote for representatives of groups you belong to. Sounds a lot like segregation to me. As a member I should be allowed to vote for the person responsible for LGBTQ+ rights, BAME rights, migrant rights. You do not segregate policy based on membership. A white straight cis man should have the same rights as a Black lesbian trans woman. (If you disagree, read the sentence the other way around and then you will.) As a taxpayer, any decision made on, for instance, women’s rights, will affect me. If the Green Party advocated sanitary products on the NHS, I am fine with that, but as I pay money for the NHS, I should be allowed to choose who comes up with that policy. It’s short-sighted to segregate policy in this way – not that I was surprised, I’d learned that short-sighted policy was our forte.

Instead of focusing on key policies that would help the country: economic policy, ecological policy, foreign policy – all grounded in a realistic view of the world – I instead was swept up in a vortex of one-dimensional thought. Yes, if you’re unhappy with the UK selling weapons to Saudi Arabia that’s fine, but don’t start a discussion about it without mentioning the consequences of the UK not doing that. Do you think China or Russia will wield the same moral pressure on the Saudi government when they inevitably fill the gap left by the UK? A more sensible, multi-faceted policy would be to use all profits from arms sales to fund refugees and migrants from conflicts. Russia would spend its profits on ivory backscratchers.

With all this, I felt forced to leave these daydreamers and return to my pursuit of a party of pragmatic progressivism. The Green Party will never become a government or have influence with policies like these. The best policies come from heart and mind. No party really provides this, and perhaps that’s what’s wrong with modern politics. There is no haven for those in the middle who want equal rights for all but a partial repeal of human rights agreements. There is no base for those who want an enlightened justice system based on forgiveness and rehabilitation, but also desire the return of the death penalty. It may seem that these things are contradictory, but they’re not: they are practical when delivered appropriately. And if you were to sit down with someone and delve into one topic for long enough, you’d find this cognitive dissonance lies within probably all of us at some level. We all sit in the middle of the political spectrum and although we’d always like to do the right thing for the right reasons, most of us acknowledge that we sometimes have to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. We must be pragmatic in our daily lives and we must be pragmatic in our politics.

The Green Party has the progressivism, but not the pragmatism; the ideals, but not the logic; it has my heart, but not my mind. It has my sympathy, but not my vote.

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driftersrpg · 7 years

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Princess Tessavia has a lovely conversation with Plett, and screws herself by talking too much.

Tessavia trained alone in the training room, for once. Gabbi was stuck doing chores, and she couldn't find anyone else to spar against. So she ran through the kata she'd been shown, using one of the training sabers.

They felt strange in her hand, still. The weight was entirely in the handle, allowing her to do very rapid swings just by moving her wrist. She alternated between running through the drills Gabbi had briefly shown her, and the blade drills she'd learned back home, trying to figure out if they still worked with this massless blade. Her focus was entirely on her movement and the few feet around here, with only enough attention to not smack anything accidentally.

Plett walked into the training room quietly, moving to one side after closing the door and watching Tess work with the saber. For one with just a few days of training, she did well, though she would have a long way to go before becoming truly proficient with the blade.

It wasn't that which interested the Jedi Master, however, as he studied her aura in the Force.

Tess spied a training dummy, set up away from anything else, and squared up facing it. This time. She thought, staring at it, adjusting her grip on the lightsaber ever so slightly.

Deep breath.

She let her mind go back to her recent fights. To how she felt just before those strikes she absolutely knew would be fight-enders, if only she could hit them. She waited. Trying to calm herself without letting go of that feeling.

And then, before she realized it herself, she ran at the dummy. Ducked low, avoiding an imagined melee strike, and shoved the lightsaber upwards into the dummy's ribcage... or attempted, at least. The blade instead skidded off the dummy's casing and, since she was following the strike through with her weight, she stumbled forward, catching herself on the dummy.

Again?

"That is an... interesting way to try using a lightsaber." Plett commented as she paused to recover. "I don't think many people even try using vibroblades in that manner."

Tess practically jumped out of her skin as she heard the slow, calm voice of Plett. "M-Mister Plett! Hello. Uh. Well. Impaling a target allows you to put your entire body weight behind a blow, and makes it more likely you'll break through a thick hide or rib cage. ... Sir." she said, before deactivating the lightsaber.

"You'd be better off using a pike or spear for that kind of move however." He pointed out, "Than a sword that is meant for slashing. The lightsaber has quite a bit more power behind it than a vibroblade, but even it needs to burn through the material you are attacking. There is also the problem of focusing your power into one point of attack. You are telegraphing your strike into a small point that is easier to deflect."

He'd been walking towards her and the dummy, and raised a hand, summoning a training saber to his hand with the force, activating it and stabbing, as she had, at the dummy. He didn't use as much force, and yet the casing withstood the attack, and the sabre only pierced faintly into the thick casing leaving a single circle of scoring.

Then he pulled back, and used a slashing motion instead, with the same force as he had before. This time, as he deactivated the lightsaber, the casing had a deeper gouge that ran clean across it's chest area, from shoulder to hip, steaming and still red from the heat.

Tess shrugged. "I'll keep that in mind." she said "But I'm not sure that's my main problem. It seems like... almost every time I'm in a fight, I get this feeling, like now is the optimal time to strike. Like something in the back of my mind is trying to guide my hand, and I know if I could just land that strike I see in my head, it'd be a fight-ender, right there. But every single time I try that, I miss.”

I felt it when I was sparring against Gabbi. And when we fought the... Katarn? Katarn. And... well, it's happened several times. And I miss. Almost every time."

Tess stared down at her hands and said, slightly quieter, "What am I doing wrong?"

"What you are doing is using the Force to give more power to your attack." He said, watching her. "But you're not doing so consciously, and you aren't yet trained enough to properly go through with it. If I am not mistaken, Gabbi made the same move against you, with less power behind it, but she did not miss, am I correct?"

Tess looked away and clenched her jaw. "Yes. She did. Right before I landed an excellent hit on her thigh. She holds her blade too high. Can you... help me? I, I don't even mean just with this. These... powers. The Force. I need to understand it and learn to use it properly. Effectively." Upon finishing the sentence, Tess finally looks back up and looks Plett right in the eyes. "Please? You might be the only one who can help us."

"What purpose do you have in learning to use the Force, Tessavia?" He asked.

"To defend myself, and to defend my friends." she said. "There are people trying to hunt me down. And the others, for that matter. But those are different people."

"Do you fear these people?"

"I-- Of course. Don't you? Isn't that why you've kept the kids here?"

"Fear is a natural reaction to dangers around us." Plett nodded. "It is our mind informing us of danger. However, letting it guide your actions will only lead to anger and hatred, and that will leave you open to the dark side of the Force. I believe you have met some who were consumed in this manner, ages past."

"Yeah. They weren't too friendly." Tess said. "So what do I do, then? Give up, turn myself in to the glorious Empire and let them take me wherever they wanted to, to do who knows what to me?"

"No. But you must learn to acknowledge that fear, and the let it go. Not use it to guide your strikes through anger." He explained. "I do not expect you or your friends to take to the true Jedi path. But I do want you to understand that emotions, specially negative ones, can cloud your mind, and be your undoing. You must learn to recognize them, understand why they are there, then let them go. That is what meditation is for. To center yourself." He raised his hand, letting the hilt of the training saber float serenely above it. "Once you are centered in mind, you will become more centered when it comes to battle... and hitting your opponent."

"And if I can do that, will you help us with these powers? I need to learn to defend myself and the others as best I can. It's... dangerous, out there. I got stabbed by a ghost, once. That was weird. But not just me. The others, too.’

Ressan is... eager. Maybe a little too eager. Always trying to use a vibroblade when a butterknife is needed, so to speak, you know? Suvore... well. You want to talk about fear guiding your actions, she's the living, walking embodiment of it."

Plett nodded, bemused by the group he'd been sent by the will of the Force. "Yes, the others as well. They have both already asked me to instruct them."

"Really? I kind of expected you to take more convincing. You know I have a bounty on my head, right?" Tess said, somewhat shocked.

"Yes. So do the young ones under my care, and I myself." He said with a nod. "There is a standard bounty for all force sensitives, but the payout grows exponentially for padawans, knights and masters." He moved to put away the training saber, then sat on one of the mats lining the room, patting one near him as an invitation. "I understand that there is danger, and for that reason I created this sanctuary for the padawans, a place where they'd be safe for as long as possible from the Empire, training them as best I could for a galaxy that is no longer friendly to Force users and Jedi in particular. And while that safety exists, I will do what I can to train you three so that you too have the ability to protect yourselves once this sanctuary ceases to exist."

Tess put the training saber away and sat down beside Plett. "Right, okay, that's understandable. But-- Wait, did you call me by my whole first name, earlier?" Tess said, scowling a little. "I've only introduced myself as Tess, here."

"You did. But you have garnered quite a bit of fame in the galaxy in your short time off your own world, princess... and it was not hard to find you and your friends on the holonet." He pointed out.

Tess looked sheepish and scratched at the back of her head. "It's been a pretty intense couple of weeks. Some new trouble every day, it seems like. I almost envy the kids here. They don't know what they've got." She sighed, and was quiet for a moment. "So you've seen the gladiator fight, then? Suvore didn't force me to do that. She tried to stop me."

Plett blinked slowly. "Gladiator fight?"

"What? No, I didn't say gladiator fight. I said... radiator... kite. We should probably meditate, huh? Meditating's good. Get centered. Totally centered." Tess closed her eyes. Damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn damn

"You chose to fight." He said. "Why?"

Tess sighed and opened her eyes. "We needed money. I've caused Suvore and Ressan a lot of trouble. Or, well, Ressan and I have caused Suvore a lot of trouble, really. She's a wanted criminal, thanks to me. Or, well, partially thanks to me. The Empire thinks she kidnapped me. So... I wanted to help pay her back, in some way, for the incredible debt I now owe her." Tess rolled up a sleeve, revealing a pair of thin scars on her upper arm. "That's where I got these. I won. We got enough money for fuel and food. It's not enough, but it's a start."

"So you fought another fighter who was trying to obtain money themselves, for possibly the same need?" He inquired.

"Uuuuuhhhh." Tess stalled. "I fought a big animal."

"A caged animal who was merely trying to survive."

"... yes."

"Did you enjoy it?"

Tess sighed, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. "Yeah. Yeah, I did."

"Did you even once, before, during or after the fight, consider that you killed an innocent being who was forced against it's will to fight to survive? And enjoyed it?"

"I didn't kill it!" Tess objected

"So you merely beat it, presumably with your vibroblade. Gave IT scars that will be added on to, in a continuous loop of suffering perpetuated by it's masters."

"... yes."

"Do you realize that what you fear from the Empire, is what you helped cause to that creature?" He watched her. "In your fear of the Empire, you channeled it into an act of oppression against one weaker than yourself."

Tess opened her mouth to object, but she had nothing. No counterpoint. No sharp retort. "You're right." she said, after a while, voice quiet.

"That is what the difference is between acknowledging and making peace with your fears, and letting your fear guide you. Up until this point you have let fear guide your steps and actions, with no thought to the deeper truths of the actions you take." His expression became gentler then. "Being able to manipulate the Force in the way that you can is a powerful tool. One that can easily turn you into the very beings you are running for. With great power comes greater responsibility for your actions. Jedi have strict rules for a reason... we have powers beyond those of other beings, and must be very careful not to let those powers be used improperly. If you wish to become proficient in battle, both with the blade and with the Force, you must learn to use it judiciously and only when it is absolutely necessary."

"Alright." Tess said. "I-- I can do that. Just to protect myself and my friends. I can do that." After a moment, she added "Does that mean no gladiator fights against willing combatants, either?"

He stared at her in silence. "Do you think you will be able to fight without using the Force at all?"

"I'm doing my best not to rely on it." Tess said, subconsciously running a hand across the claw on her chest. "Using it will bring unwanted attention to us."

He nodded. "Well, by understanding the Force and how it works, it should become easier to do just that. Now, shall we meditate for a while before going upstairs for dinner?"

"Yeah, that sounds good." She said, and then, after a moment: "Master." She closed her eyes, and slowly, slowly slipped in to a force trance

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