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‘They come in geeks and go out Jedi warriors’: Inside the strange world of the New York Jedi Club

The New York Jedi club meets each week at a Midtown Manhattan studio to broaden their skills on everything from spirituality to skilfully handling a lightsaber - the Jedi’s weapon of choice.

Leading the charge is Flynn Michael, the group’s founder - who calls himself a Jedi grandmaster.

He told The New York Times: ‘I was beat up a lot as a kid, and the lightsaber brings out that strong hero inside of you, so you can stand up for yourself’.

Mr Michael told the paper that he utilises his background in martial arts, dance, sword-fighting and Tibetan Buddhism to teach, and his students come out with all the skills of a galaxy guardian.

As Mr Michael puts it: ‘They come in geeks and go out Jedi warriors’.

His students range in age from mostly 20-somethings to a 65-year-old woman.

Mr Michael’s students usually begin with toy lightsabers, but eventually evolve to impressive replicas that they build themselves.

He told The Times: ‘It’s more than just dancing around with a glow stick. Your mind has to be one with your body when you’re swinging these things.’

But even a Jedi master pays the price for leaving his weapon unattended.

Last month, Mr Michael was showing off his custom-made lightsaber - valued somewhere between $400 and $700 - at a bar in Brooklyn when a thief apparently walked off with it. 

He told News of the Weird: ‘Some Jedi I turned out to be’.

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Children develop along four streams: intellectual, physical, emotional (psychological) and social. In classrooms, the smartest kids tend to be left out of more activities by other children than they are included in. They are “odd,” they are the geeks, they are social outsiders. In other words, they do not develop socially as well as they may develop intellectually or even physically where opportunities may exist for more progress.

Their emotional development, characterized by their ability to cope with risky o r stressful situations, especially over long periods of time, also lags behind t hat of the average person.

Adults tend to believe that intelligent kids can deal with anything because they are intellectually superior. This inevitably includes situations where the intelligent kids have neither knowledge nor skills to support their experience. They go through the tough times alone. Adults don’t understand that they need help and other kids don’t want to associate with kids the social leaders say are outsiders.

As a result we have many highly intelligent people whose social development progresses much slower than that of most people and they have trouble coping with the stressors of life that present themselves to everyone. It should come as no surprise that the vast majority of prison inmates are socially and emotionally underdeveloped or maldeveloped and a larger than average percentage of them are more intelligent than the norm.

Western society provides the ideal incubator for social misfits and those with emotional coping problems. When it comes to happiness, people who are socially inept and who have trouble coping emotionally with the exigencies of life would not be among those you should expect to be happy.

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The interactive Periodic Table of Swearing

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This is hilarious.

but i couldnt use it. :(

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peculiartreasure195:

God has created sex for marriage alone… but that story you gave up above about the skit really bothered me. Yes, having premarital sex is a sin, but God gives forgiveness.  

“Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.” Acts 13:38-39

When you have sex outside of marriage, I believe you are giving some of yourself away to that person. 

I look at it like this: Imagine sex as a wrapped up gift under the Christmas tree. On Christmas Eve you desperately want to know what is inside the package…so you take a quick peek. During the day you keep going back to look again. By Christmas morning the wrapping is torn and it doesn’t look as appealing as it once did. You aren’t as excited about your present as you were when you first saw it. You didn’t wait till you were suppose to receive it….It’s just not the same. You would have enjoyed the gift more if you had waited.  

I am not a Christmas present.  I am an intelligent, caring, loving, fun, creative person who loves deeply and the fact that I am not a virgin does not negate or lessen my value as a human being.  My love is not ‘torn’ or ‘unappealing’ because I have had sex.  I and anyone lucky enough to be loved by me knows that.

You say that you disagree with the teacher in the above story, but your anecdote does the same thing.  It implies that people have a limited amount of worth and that each time one has premarital sex it is lessened.  That the person is a half-empty bottle of perfume or a slightly torn Christmas present.

As the author of the ProChoiceGeneration post (hi, I’m Maria), I think you missed the point of my original post.  If you or anyone else decides to wait until marriage for sex and are confident in your decision, I am happy for you.  Anyone being confident in what they want in their lives is pretty great.  But here’s the thing, you just told me that I am a Christmas present and that my boyfriend is some mischievous kid who ‘ruins his surprise’.  In that statement, you turned a loving, egalitarian, and deep relationship into an interaction between a child and an object.  You dehumanized me and others who have had sex and I will not stand for that. 

Reblogging again because Maria’s fucking commentary, man.

Commentary. 

Also, I have to say that personally, I’m enraged at ANYONE who devalues a person because they have sex. I don’t give a shit if you want to wait; that’s your choice. But don’t push your archaic beliefs on me and other people because of our choices. I’m not less of a person because I’ve had sex. The person down the block isn’t less of a person because they’ve had sex.

No one is less of a person because they’ve has sex. Point. Fucking. Blank. 

Badass commentary - and I’m going to reiterate what Maria said.

I am not a present. I am not a “gift” to be given to a man. I should not be expected to arrive “whole” and “untouched” to make anyone feel like I am WORTHY. 

Also, newsflash: NOT EVERYONE IS CHRISTIAN AND NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN CHRISTIAN MORALS OR SCRIPTURE. It’s not a bad thing for you to believe that, or for those morals and scriptures to be important to you, but to me and a lot of other people, the Bible is just a book. And it IS a bad thing for you to say that I need to live according to the laws of YOUR god.

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The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People

The foot soldiers in the government’s increasingly fanatical war on drugs, particularly marijuana, are state and local police officers dressed in SWAT gear and armed to the hilt. These SWAT teams carry out roughly 50,000 no-knock raids every year in search of illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia. As author and journalist Radley Balko reports, “The vast majority of these raids are to serve routine drug warrants, many times for crimes no more serious than possession of marijuana… Police have broken down doors, screamed obscenities, and held innocent people at gunpoint only to discover that what they thought were marijuana plants were really sunflowers, hibiscus, ragweed, tomatoes, or elderberry bushes. (It’s happened with all five.)” +

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