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The entire treatment by the Legacy EU authors of the Solo children bordered on the abusive.

Very little in the current Disney era of Star Wars (with TRoS being the notable example) plumbs the depths of just how bad a lot -- if not, most -- of the output of the EU Legacy era well and truly was.

The use of the term "New Jedi Order" which was the Legacy EU designation for the YZ series of books, etc.

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The overall intent for the NJO was definitely worthwhile as the EU had really gotten stagnant so a radical shake-up was absolutely necessary! What didn't sit well with fans was how ludicrously dark the series set out to be right from the outset, to the point where the authors appeared to be revelling in just how much physical/psychological torture they could put the Solo/Skywalker family through. The first book ends with Chewie dying when a moon gets dropped on him, and the NJO series only gets bleaker for the Solos/Skywalkers from there!

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The existence or non-existence of free will is independent of whether or not the subjective agent can tell the difference between a deterministic outcome and a non-deterministic one. I would imagine that a theoretical (extra dimensional?) objective observer of the situation I described would conclude that free will doesn't exist. It may very well be a distinction without a difference, but that doesn't negate that the distinction exists.

That's more or less correct. The Chiss Ascendancy was aware of the YV and when Thrawn joined the Empire, he informed Palpatine of them as well.

FOR THE LOVE OF EXAR KUN, PLEASE DO NOT RETURN THE YUZAHN VONG INTO THE NEW JEDI ORDER!

There's a prime example of the twisted nature of God's version of free will right there. She had to know from the moment Creation itself that Judas would betray Her Only Begotten Son in order to fulfill His divinely-ordained human sacrifice to Herself for the salvation of mankind. Judas had absolutely no choice in this fate whatsoever and for his crime of actually helping fulfill God's own prophecy, he undoubtedly was condemned to Hell for eternity:

I genuinely want to torture everyone involved with the creation of that piece of morally abhorrent nonsense to death. In fact, the entire "self-help" industry should be publicly disemboweled.

I perceive free will (or the lack there of) like this: After I've made a decision or a choice, if I was given the opportunity to reverse the course of time and make that decision or choice again without having any knowledge of the outcome or consequences of that decision or choice -- i.e., the state of the universe would be identical to as it existed it was when I made the original decision or choice -- would I make a different decision or choice, would I take the path not travelled? The answer to me is no - I would not, because the conditions that existed when I made the original decision or choice have not been altered. Necessarily, the other alternative paths simply do not exist and are effectively illusions and therefore, there was never any free will to begin with that would've resulted in the alternative course of action being taken.

That is also part of the mythology.

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I can assure you that I am self-aware to the point where I am fairly convinced that the "self" does not actually exist!

For the record, the references to Lilith are found exclusively within Jewish texts.

No.

My sister finally got it a couple of weeks ago and the extent of her symptoms were like those of having a slightly-worse-than-usual cold for a few days (Gina had four rounds of the vaccine). Our 78 year-old mother who has been exposed to it repeatedly both in the US and Trinidad either still hasn't gotten it or received it and was completely asymptomatic (of course, she's had five rounds of the vaccine). I'm still COVID-free as far as I'm aware, but I also still wear a mask in public when I go to the grocery, etc.

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