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Profile of a Real-Life Jedi Academy

Posted by timothy on from the mind-tricks-for-manhattan-landlords dept.

dkleinsc writes "The NYTimes ran a profile of the New York Jedi Club, an organization dedicated to teaching the ways of the Force. Jedi Grandmaster Flynn Michael, a sound engineer and (by his own proclamation) an 'over-the-top geek,' connected the ideas of the Jedi with dance, martial arts, sword-fighting and Tibetan Buddhism to form the curriculum."

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  1. Sage advice by multimediavt · · Score: 5, Informative

    “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”

    - Han Solo

    1. Re:Sage advice by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      yeah, and look what happened to him. Got his blaster whipped out of his hands, tortured and cryogenically frozen.

    2. Re:Sage advice by jackbird · · Score: 5, Funny

      Luke getting the girl would have been... awkward.

      Of course Lucas could have decided to have more than 1 female in the galaxy without tentacles coming out of her head.

  2. Re:She's your sister .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    These people will not be having sex anytime in the forseeable future. They also won't be able to levitate, control objects with their mind, brainwash storm troopers, or shoot lightning. What we have here is a lose-lose situation.