Old vid, many of you have probably already seen it :p

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/30395/

Even if this 0ld /\/3ws, I rather enjoyed this a lot for some reason. Even though this seems highly unlikely to how George wrote Star Wars, it is very entertaining and has my vote for a future George Lucas biography movie type thing like this.

Plus, one question that bothered me: "Aghhhh!"

"Mom?"

"Kids?"

How did she legally change her name? Wouldn't she notice she was a Lucas too? Maybe devoirce was involved?


Now, onword unto this...I knew this time would come that I would post this. This has prompted me in the movie at the beginning while the pot smoker was talking to Lucas.

Disclaimer: This next part is for insight only. It is not my beliefs, but relations to them.

I would like to talk about the Force. Now in Star Wars, the Force surrounds us, penetrates us and binds us together. It can be weilded to do supernatural, if even called that, things that most people don't normally see, or believe in. It can be used for one path of Healing, absorbing, and protecting oneself. On another path, it can be used to amplify damage and destruction done to your will, with undoubtfull cause of manipulation.

Okay. Now, personally in real life I can relate this to Qi (or Chi) energy, which is normally called my researchers, "bioelectromagnetics". This is energy is extremly understudied and difficult for even the cleverist of scientist to explain...so I'll try my best. Now this energy is much related to the Force. It takes years to train and discover/grow this energy, and even more years to manipulate or weild it. This energy is primary used for healing purposes. That is why most people practice Tai Chi to discover this energy. And most people that practice Tai Chi seek out healing, good health, or was recommended it from a doctor.

But it also has a "Dark Side" to it as well. You can use Qi energy to amplify damage to your punches (Most famous, Bruce Lee's 1 inch Punch, which contains both physical velocity, time and motion, along with Qi) or kicks. Not only this, but I have been witness to monks doing a technique called "Dragon Breath" in which they inhale, then exhale with excess energy...creating a "smoke" effect. Or making it feel like fire is running up someone's arm. Or knocking someone out on concious, useing nothing but energy, while the other person is on the other side of the room. Now, what you can't do is Force Pull/Push things (like grab a fork while you're at the dinner table) and other stuff, but still...my point is abnormal things happen with Qi and in the hands of a criminal it could be a very bad situation (thus not widely teached until recently).

Okay. Now to bind these two together. Do you think George Lucas borrowed eastern philisophies and worked it into the Force on his own? Do you think that he actually made up this stuff from his own wisdom? Do you think he got this from some potsmoking room mate? I don't know. But Qi Energy and Bioelectromagnetics are suprisingly simular.

NOTE: I don't care if you believe me or not. Most people don't, nor do I try to prove myself. I'm just useing this to get insight on what you might think George did. If you wish to study more about bioelectromagnetics, there are some books out about it. I doubt you will find anything on the internet, though.

"Mom?.... mom?"

"Hey George! Check out my new duck! ... I named him Howard."

Since we're on this bandwagon...

[EDIT: Holy crap, Anovis! Your original post was "Hi... kids?"... that is one huge typo you had to edit there. :p]

oh man you guys that is so illegal

I rented that video from the store a few years ago, I don't think it's okay to post it online.

Sorry to ruin your fun but THAT'S THE LAW

Go rent the video!

I wanted the first post

(actually the bioelectromagnetics thing was prompted after I watched this again)

Maybe I'm just dense, but can someone explain the duck to me?

I've heard of chi energy also allowing the palms of your hands to be heated to incredibly high temperatures and i've definitely heard it for healing. If you wanna see real life jedi, go visit a shaolin temple :p, unless they've all been shutdown by the Chinese government. If that's the case you can probably visit some in India or Nepal maybe.

lmfao nah, the Temple is still there, despite years of destruction.

Wow...a Temple. This reminds me of something in Star Wars. See the relation people? Shaolin Temple using Chi, Jedi Temple using the Force?

hmm...

Anyways yes, you can cause your hands to warm up. This is actually a bad sign measure, as this heat you feel is actually resistance from the energy you execute to the tissue of your skin, your muscels, and your blood. But sometimes when it's winter, I never wear gloves for this reason

And yes you can transfer this heat to other people, but it goes away usually in 3-5 minutes (I can only do it for around 30 seconds depending on the person )

Oh damn it. Now I wont some milk and cookies just from reading that URL.

Considering this is a published product and you can purchase it at your local Best Buy, is it legal to post it online?

http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/download_george_lucas_in_love_74820.asp

I don't think TFN would give out download links if it was illegal. I think the movie was first distributet over the internet and then available as a DVD with more features, as it gained popularity.

Staplerfahrer Klaus was also first available as a download but you can now also buy a DVD (at least in Germany you can).

Howard the Duck. Greatest movie of all time.

Wow. I've been looking for this for a long time. Thanks!

They played this on Sci Fi once on a Star Wars fan film show hosted by Kevin Smith awhile back.

I still prefer Jawas Gone Wild . . .

>_>

*Gasp* YOU TAKE THAT BACK!





Star Wars.

what chaz said. or pretty damn close to it. its about tis giant talking duck from amother dimension named Howard. he smokes cigarettes, drinks beer, appreciates the finer points of the female anatomy. he's awesome.

Agreed, but I was kind of pissed off I rented it and it was only like 10 minutes long. Why the heck should you have to rent a short film for full price???

My 8th grade science teacher played this for us, he was awesome. He made us read Ender's Game, and had us watch The Abyss and X-Men.

Heh, I was trying to see that once. Good stuff.

About your chi/qi thing .. in any prominent martial arts community, the whole mystified idea of chi/qi is ridiculed for good reason. The principle of chi/qi has been slandered horrificly from what it was originally INTENDED to be ..

Several things
1) physical manifestation of "chi/qi" is NOT shooting that stuff out of your body. like this.
Firstly regardless of anything Bruce Lee did little to none internal, qi related training. Most people hear about his dim mak (the practice of which is also widely laughed at just because of how people propagandize it and make it something its its not) and automatically associate that with "qi strikes" or whatever. But that's besides the point. The whole one-inch punch thing is widely trained as a biomechanical method to put power behind your strikes -- there are a whole bunch of ways people have developed to do this. Bruce Lee's JKD thing was oriented on getting your body weight into your punch through weight adjustment. Taiji's fa-jin uses the principle of moving your body as a whole entity rather than one piece at a time ("strike with your arm, strike with your whole body") and sudden, centered explosive force WITHOUT shifting your weight.

The stuff about knocking people out with energy is just ridiculous. You can't do that, period. The idea of being able to expel 'chi/qi' through your body was widely fueled by silly things like dragonballz (the cartoon) which actually just took the idea and made it entertainable, but certainly not plausible in real life.


The ORIGINAL idea of qi was universal energy .. more just your ability to be at peace than anything. People talked about it in really abstract terms, but the jist of it was just mental stability and focus: the idea that if you were panicked/tensed (imagine having an adrenaline rush, or like slipping on an ice rink or something n flailing around trying to regain balance), you wouldn't be able to control your body as well as if you were calm and relaxed. Hence this idea of you must be relaxed so the qi flows through you .. it really just is your internal (mental) ability to have control of every part of your body. almost the entirety of xingyi's backing philosophy is training this (the name means "forming the mind n body together, or making your mind n body one so there's no you being out of control)

Taiji is first n foremost a combat martial art; that's what it was put together for. The vast majority of external taiji principles are all biomechanics -- using whoever you're fighting's body against them .. disrupt their 'flow' by interfering with the way their natural body movements. This again has been misinterpreted and widely propagandized as being able to literally sense your opponent's chi and use it against him. You have to realize that when people talk about chi, they use it as a metaphor for things like awareness, alertness, etc -- again mental focus n control. The healing part is generally referred to as qigong and it is again biomechanics .. combines the mental part with stuff from acupuncture to relieve stress, help your body not be so tensed so that things can flow normally again.

All of the mystical/energy stuff was in all likeliness created as an abstract way to remember/teach these things metaphorically, and then misinterpreted or idolized by people who go crazy over this stuff.
Making up an example: "Use your chi to stomp and break a hole in the ice, but not fall in." This would mean something like "stomp but don't shift your weight all the way over to the stomp leg so that you are dependent on the leg that's uncertain of whether or not it can find stability .. keep your weight on the other leg just in case". Then a stupid person would come in and think "OMG THIS MUST MEAN THAT I CAN SHOOT ENERGY OUT OF MY FOOT AND BREAK THINGS AS HARD AS ICE NOW IM GONNA GO SPEND A COUPLE HOURS TRYING TO DO IT, FAIL, TELL EVERYONE IM LEARNING AND ACT LIKE I HAVE SUPERPOWERS"



Yea it's summer and I have way too much free time