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This is my philosophy on life as well.
My wife’s terrified of flying and I’m not. She asked me why I wasn’t afraid to fly, I told her, “there isn’t anything for me to do about it. It’s entirely out of my hands. Why stress myself out from an outcome I have zero control over and ruin my day?”

And then she said "No, it's because you are too stupid to be afraid, or to have a good time."

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I got a hilarious lecture from a neighbor this morning on my commute out of the neighborhood.

“I’m worried about your speeding. There are kids in the neighborhood.”

I always drive the speed limit like an elderly woman, so that was a mystifying conversation. I should’ve said something smart back and I’m bummed that I missed the opportunity lol.

You should have run into her with your car. And then put one of those "How's My Driving?" bumper stickers across her forehead.
 
So we've reached the point in the program where we start posting random Rudyard Kipling shit? Ok then. Here's Bob Weir and the late great Rob Wasserman performing Kipling's poem "The Winners" on Letterman.



What is the moral ? Who rides may read.
When the night is thick and the tracks are blind,
A friend at a pinch is a friend indeed;
But a fool to wait for the laggard behind
Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

White hands cling to the tightened rein,
Slipping the spur from the booted heel,
Tenderest voices cry, "Turn again,"
Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel,
High hopes faint on a warm hearth-stone
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

One may fall, but he falls by himself
Falls by himself, with himself to blame;
One may attain, and to him is the pelf,
Loot of the city in Gold or Fame
Plunder of earth shall be all his own
Who travels the fastest, and travels alone.

Wherefore the more ye be holpen and stayed,
Stayed by a friend in the hour of toil,
Sing the heretical song I have made
His be the labour, and yours be the spoil.
Win by his aid, and the aid disown
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
 
You should have run into her with your car. And then put one of those "How's My Driving?" bumper stickers across her forehead.

It was a he. Interestingly, he started going over the speed limit once we left the neighborhood (I was driving right right behind him). I should’ve been a dick and reported him for reckless driving. Another missed opportunity!

Also, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

The pearl-clutching was hilarious from this dude. What a wenis
 
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Based on this...Jedi....plus not much into Wizards..''



It depends on the Wizards. If it's like Harry Potter world I think Jedi could win.

Depends. Are we talking galactic war, or basketball game? If galactic war definitely Jedi. If basketball game... well actually, probably still Jedi.

Many people are jumping right to the Harry Potter Wizard lore, but it doesn't have to be. I say that because I'm 100% going with Wizards. Who even says that a lightsaber can block a spell? Come on.

Jedi essentially have telekinesis and a lightsaber. Wizards have literal magic.
 
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I'd take Rand al'Thor over any wizard or jedi
Sucks that the amazon series is so bad. Doubt it makes it more than another season and will never get to a conclusion from the books.

My fav char being that weak channeler Androl and he doesn't even first appear until like the 9th or 10th book who
is only good at opening gateways and then figures out how to use them as weapons, severing limbs, opening up a portal right before a spell would hit him and then having it exit and hit the original caster. In the final battle getting to lead a circle and get immense power reserves and opening a gateway directly into a volcano to eradicate an enemy army with lava.
I think Brandon Sanderson is responsible for pretty much all the coolness from the character and decided he wanted to utilize the spells/magic Robert Jordan had established in a specific way with this character.
 
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The force is an energy field created by living things, and which can be manipulated via the midichlorians in your meat. It is a biological process that exists within the limitations of biology and physics. Hell, if you don't have midichlorians (like the Yuzhan Vong from outside the galaxy), then you've got heavy resistance to direct force manipulation, which is a big advantage for a wizard.

Wizards draw their power from something deeper and more primal. The universe itself. Basically zero-point energy. A competent wizard would be able to cancel out the force due to their control over the quantum realm, and then rearrange all the atoms in a Jedi to transmute them into a series of sheep. Then just click on them until they pop.

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Sucks that the amazon series is so bad. Doubt it makes it more than another season and will never get to a conclusion from the books.

My fav char being that weak channeler Androl and he doesn't even first appear until like the 9th or 10th book who
is only good at opening gateways and then figures out how to use them as weapons, severing limbs, opening up a portal right before a spell would hit him and then having it exit and hit the original caster. In the final battle getting to lead a circle and get immense power reserves and opening a gateway directly into a volcano to eradicate an enemy army with lava.
I think Brandon Sanderson is responsible for pretty much all the coolness from the character and decided he wanted to utilize the spells/magic Robert Jordan had established in a specific way with this character.
They're already filming a third season. It's not going away any time soon.
 
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