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Star
Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
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Star Wars: Episode II
Attack of the Clones
SPIRITUAL CONNECTIONS
This page was created on May 14, 2002
This page was last updated on
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SPIRITUAL
CONNECTIONS
On Self Control and Anger Issues
The downfall issues of Anakin Skywalker
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SELF
CONTROL
Lord
of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.
SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568–1639)
Rule
lust, temper the tongue, and bridle the belly
Self-control
is the ability to keep cool while someone is making it hot for you.
Control
yourself! Anger is only one letter short of danger
ANGER
A man
who can’t control his temper is like a city without defenses.
JEWISH PROVERB
Anger
is a weed; hate is the tree.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354–430)
Anybody
can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right
person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for
the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within
everybody’s power and is not easy.
ARISTOTLE (384–322 B.C.)
I was
angry with my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757–1827)
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BIBLICAL
CONNECTIONS
How to Move Away From the Dark Side
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Galatians
5:13-23 -Message Translation
 It
is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make
sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you
want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve
one another in love; that's how freedom grows. For everything we know
about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as
you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and
ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating
each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
 My
counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit.
Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a
root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit,
just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two
ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one
way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given
day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the
erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?
 It
is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own
way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation
of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness;
trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat
competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper;
an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives;
small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing
everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions;
ugly parodies of community. I could go on.
This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use
your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.
 But
what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives,
much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like
affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop
a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart,
and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people.
We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force
our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way.
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