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((Sorry about the pause. Free time for Dora means a lot of writing for me)). Dora followed Osman through the forest, somewhat dejected of not being able to "beat" him when he told her to. Still, it wasn't right for the Jedi (or anyone) to be bettered by one's mood, so she driven the thoughts...

((I don't think she can beat him and we're not in a game system where each attack counts as practice; her fighting a Jedi Master is very much like spoon fighting a river, or breeze fighting a tree - on her part it is a repetitive surf of failed attempts, nothing new to describe there)). Dora...

Plashes of stained light rivaled that of sunlight seeping thru the trees, as sabers connected only to rebound and then meet again. It was a set of stand offs, paries and counter-paries, as Dora sumberged into Soresu focus, doing light and fast strokes toward her opponent while moving and...

Thinking that to have a lightsaber at her throat isn't very wise, Dora fluttered it aside, to her right, side-stepping to her left. Her own lightsword now being between the Master's lightsaber and his body, she flicked it into a semicircle: toward the Osman's chest, then up to a defensive...

Hi, Samuikion. You should remember that testing theory doesn't make it true in the general sense. Scientifically, "holds true" might mean that theory is mathematically and logically coherent, practically usable, but it does not mean that theory can explain all facts nor that it explains them...

Generally, Religion and human experience is just too wide a subject to be coherently described without personal experience and in a small amount of time. What we know about Dogmatics is just the very high level of abstraction which does not say a lot about Religion and complexity of it. I...

"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."...

That is a very idialistic and scholastic (from school) view of science. Most real theories have facts which they can't explain or predict, together with (given time to develop) concurrent theories around. EDIT: Maybe we should review our definition of theory? Maybe from here?

Similarly, you can't test a theory, you can only test facts which theory tries to explain or predict. - change of subject - One interesting phenomena showing how are tests are limited is the metric expansion of space. According to this theory, we see less and less of the universe because in...

Sure, and I haven't seen the studies myself, the thing is, religion is being researched in a lab, sometimes with different results. Not really, theory isn't accepted when everything is accurate, theory is accepted when it have practical value. As an example, Quantum Theory, Strings Theory...

Religion per se can be tested in a lab and was tested that way a lot. I've heard of studies of brain activity during prayer, and of course, psychologists often tried to test religion, by studying people, includig the lab studies (e.g. bringing people into the lab and working with them, rather...

What I meant is the idea of hell comes hand in hand with the idea that something is wrong with humanity. We can see how life becomes hell in this age, regardless of what the afterlife and next age would look like. Idea of afterlife developed and clarified slowly, we can see it developing in...

"Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing." http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/orthodoxy/ch2.html Maybe the idea of hell comes from the idea that something went wrong. Claiming that Christianity is the source of what...

Dora tried to think of some moves, but she understood hopelessly that any idea she would muster would only make her more vulnerable against Master Osman's counterattack. She was weared by a Soresu opponent without even beginning to engage. She went on with more basic slashes, two frontal...

Dora matched the Osman's stance, lightsaber being held close to her body, but it was a very unwieldy pose for attack, not giving her a space for momentum or reach. Yet, she thought, it would be sufficient for now to try some very basic things, and observe her Master's Soresu movements in...

They went to a lighter part of the forest and finally, to a clearing. Green grass cheerfully swayed in the breeze. Tall kingwood trees stood as guardians, throwing a tapestry of light and shadow on the glade. It striked Dora as a good place to train, maybe Master Osman was aiming at this...

Dora gave Master Osman's lightsaber a look. It was strange that he hid his real lightsaber elsewhere, leaving his "training" lightsaber on the belt, but Dora decided not to press the matter, perhaps it will resolve itself with time. What Osman said about lightsabers was contrary to what Dora...

"Not where I'm from! For me, the robot's maintance room is more of a home, than a stream. Sure, some people go to a sea or a river on vacation. My parents did, too. Twice. Only without me" Dora answered, after some consideration. It was unclear to her how she felt about swimming. It was odd: a...

"Oh, that's so sweet! I'm so glad you had that kind of missions! Here for a moment I thought how lonely it would be to live in always in a very different place" she said, acting too fast to tangle herself in reflection (sometimes she'd let her thoughts slip like this, knowing she would...

"With this little bit of practice, I hope I will be less of a dead weight to you" she said, remembering her earlier worries about not knowing much of how to defent herself. Deciding to take her patience, she assumed that whatever Master Osman had in mind, will take place in due time. Now, she...