I would like to share a thought (based on canonical information as much as possible) about healing by the Force seen in Ep9 and which has caused so much discussion. I have always thought of it as very simple: the ability to heal is achieved by mastering the Living Force (which is one of the two aspects of the Force, the other being the Cosmic Force) and learning to "channel" it. As I understand from the prequels, the study of the Cosmic Force was very prevalent, while the study of the Living Force was lapsed and followed by a minority current of Jedi (e.g., the very first dialogue between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in Ep1). One aspect of mastering the Living force is maintaining one's self-awareness even after death (thus being able to manifest as a Force ghost), another may well be the ability to elicit healing from physical damage in living tissue. Anakin could not save his mother because, while potentially powerful, he knew nothing about it. Even Sidious did not know about it, which gives me pause as to how even the Sith as far as studying the Force were no better off than the Jedi, although then he must have learned something because in Ep9 he manages to absorb the Living Force from Ben and Rey to toughen his decaying body. While in the Ahch-To texts Rey found the ancient indications to that effect and learned it (and perhaps Plagueis similarly, or re-discovered it on his own). In Yoda's species this ability might be innate (Grogu heals Karga) but after a very long time spent considering almost only the Cosmic Force the master almost forgot it. Am I making it too simple? 🙃

Star Wars Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

I would like to share a thought (based on canonical information as much as possible) about healing by the Force seen in Ep9 and which has caused so much discussion. I have always thought of it as very simple: the ability to heal is achieved by mastering the Living Force (which is one of the two aspects of the Force, the other being the Cosmic Force) and learning to "channel" it. As I understand from the prequels, the study of the Cosmic Force was very prevalent, while the study of the Living Force was lapsed and followed by a minority current of Jedi (e.g., the very first dialogue between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan in Ep1). One aspect of mastering the Living force is maintaining one's self-awareness even after death (thus being able to manifest as a Force ghost), another may well be the ability to elicit healing from physical damage in living tissue. Anakin could not save his mother because, while potentially powerful, he knew nothing about it. Even Sidious did not know about it, which gives me pause as to how even the Sith as far as studying the Force were no better off than the Jedi, although then he must have learned something because in Ep9 he manages to absorb the Living Force from Ben and Rey to toughen his decaying body. While in the Ahch-To texts Rey found the ancient indications to that effect and learned it (and perhaps Plagueis similarly, or re-discovered it on his own). In Yoda's species this ability might be innate (Grogu heals Karga) but after a very long time spent considering almost only the Cosmic Force the master almost forgot it. Am I making it too simple? 🙃

Open Source Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Intrigued by the fact that many Bibliogram/Nitter/Invidious/Piped instances are from sites that also offer other services, I set out with good will to sift through them one by one, and here are the results: (and I must say I discovered many instances that are not indexed on the “official” directories). Obviously if I missed any I will point them out and add them.

Intrigued by the fact that many Bibliogram/Nitter/Invidious/Piped instances are from sites that also offer other services, I set out with good will to sift through them one by one, and here are the results (and I must say I discovered many instances that are not indexed on the "official" directories). Obviously if I missed any I will point them out and add them.

Privacy Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Intrigued by the fact that many Bibliogram/Nitter/Invidious/Piped instances are from sites that also offer other services, I set out with good will to sift through them one by one, and here are the results: (and I must say I discovered many instances that are not indexed on the "official" directories). Obviously if I missed any I will point them out and add them.

Podcast Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Siamo tre matti scatenati che cercano di far ridere (non solo i polli, per lo meno)! https://www.fuoriritmo.it/ (e visto che siamo sul Fediverso, ci trovate anche su Funkwhale e Pixelfed 😉)

Fumetti Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Nonostante io abbia (quasi) 33 anni, fin da ragazzino sono stato un assiduo collezionista degli albi degli irriducibili Galli, e ad oggi posso dire di averli tutti in bella mostra in libreria, parte dei quali originali degli anni '60 e '70. È innegabile che fino a "Asterix e i Belgi" si senta il piglio di Goscinny nelle storie, che Uderzo ha tentato con alterne fortune di mantenere dopo la scomparsa dell'amico e collega; io personalmente le ho apprezzate abbastanza, se non altro per lo sforzo di tenere in piedi la serie da solo. Veniamo ora agli ultimi albi, di Ferri e Conrad, "Il papiro di Cesare" bellissima la conclusione con il richiamo a Goscinny e Uderzo ❤️; "La corsa d'Italia" vi giuro che ad un certo punto la lettura mi aveva proprio preso, dovevo rallentarmi per non leggerlo troppo di corsa 😃, "La figlia di Vercingetorige" temevo una rappresentazione stereotipata dell'adolescenza ma è andata ancora bene, è particolare la conclusione quasi fiabesca. "I Pitti" e "Il Grifone" sono quelli che mi hanno preso di meno, non so, non decollavano se non in qualche gag qua e là.

Fediverse Futures Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Few days ago I discovered that any time you follow a fediverse account on a different instance than your one, the server you are on mirrors the original content of any toot/post, and I think this is a huge issue, because then every Fediverse server/instance could quickly get overloaded from contents from other servers! Am I right? I've always thought that toots/posts from other instances were just "empty shells" retrieving the content on demand.

Sometimes I think that vocational discernment should be "mandatory": such a fundamental part of a Christian's life journey cannot be left to individual initiative, but should be an integral part of Christian initiation, which in my opinion should continue until after the age of 20 (with the Confirmation). Here in Italy, many young people, even good Catholic, are not naturally led to question themselves about their vocation (whether it be consecrated life, marriage, priesthood, or none of them).

Fediverse Edo_Secco • 2 years ago • 100%

Some time ago I started following some Twitter accounts from the Mastodon instance I'm on, via one of the many Birdsitelive instances. Suddenly they all disappeared and I thought of a server down; no problem I followed them again via another Birdsitelive instance. Until this week: also those ones disappeared. Then I asked to my admins, they answered they are blocking Birdsitelive instances one by one because of their huge resource consuming on server. But: shouldn't the "weight" be on the side of the Birdsitelive server? From Mastodon I'm only reading, I shouldn't being generating anything. Am I missing some technical info?

Whoa!!!!!!!!!! What do you think?

Seriously, is there people that think things like these ones?! "Force-wielders are very limited in numbers in comparison to the population. The Jedi and Sith prefer the use of a weapon called a lightsaber, a blade of energy that can cut through virtually any surface and deflect energy bolts. The rest of the population, as well as renegades and soldiers, use laser-powered blaster firearms. In the outer reaches of the galaxy, crime syndicates such as the Hutt cartel are dominant. Bounty hunters are often employed by both gangsters and governments. Illicit activities include smuggling and slavery."

We all know now that the storyline of the sequel trilogy developed just along with the movies. But now we all see that there has been a great work of project behind the High Republic, involving all the authors and the Story Group together in order to define the basis of the entire story already at the beginning This should really be the new standard method of devising new stories from now on. That's just what I hoped to see! Nice job Lucasfilm!

Italy Edo_Secco • 3 years ago • 100%

Può sembrare una brutta provocazione anti-democratica, ma è solo un dubbio sincero. Spero lo prendiate in quanto tale. Ho cercato se se ne fosse già parlato qui, ma non ho trovato niente, in caso contrario mi scuso. Ho avuto un pensiero improvviso: mettiamo che una certa questione venga approvata o affossata da un referendum; nel giro di, mettiamo, una ventina d'anni la popolazione votante può cambiare e anche di molto, a seconda della mortalità di chi era in là con l'età e dei bambini e ragazzi che sono diventati maggiorenni nel frattempo. Per non parlare dei cambiamenti di mentalità, delle scoperte scientifiche nel caso la questione referendaria fosse stata di quell'ambito, ecc. Alla luce di questo, come considerare la valenza di un risultato referendario con progressivo passare degli anni? Davvero, prendetelo come un dubbio sincero, io non mi ritengo il più brillante degli esseri umani, quindi è probabile che sia la domanda a essere posta male. Grazie a chi risponderà!

In *Scum and Villainy* at page 47 we see the ID number of Nack Movers: COR143817TRND195441.37 "COR" is almost certainly for "Coruscant", "TRND" is almost certainly for Trandoshan. The numbers could be random, sequential, or have to do with his sex, area of birth, birth date. Any thoughts on the rest?

Since I did not find a list of all lightsabers arranged in this way, I made one. Hope you appreciate :-) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6cWD0IGG0yomOqxUKqIO-M_fKB2uAEY7qp2-1dpHCc/ I'm very sorry it's on Gdocs, I know I have to abandon the dark side of bigtech. Every suggestion for addition is welcome!