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The Death Star in Rogue One

It's the means, not the end itself.
A side effect of their fundamental theological schism.

Force ghosting is a relatively recent thing for the Jedi. We are to understand that the dead transform into the Force, and that this applies to all the Padmes and Bails out there, in addition to those Jedi who do not ghost. If Qui-Gon is telling Yoda a bunch of things he already knows, there doesn't seem to be much point to it. So it doesn't look like the issue of the cosmic Force and the netherworld works as the source of the historical schism between Jedi and Sith, especially given that there are much more obvious reasons at hand. We might consider how the pre-Disney EU addressed the situation. The question of whether ends justify means, as in the real world, need not have anything to do with the structure of the Force.
 
It's not a new thing at all. It's a *very* old thing, this much is made explicitly clear. It's just that the knowledge was lost and forgotten over the many thousands of years of galactic history.

As for the Sith thing; again, it's not really left open to interpretation. It's fairly specific and is supported by what some of the LF guys have said, most of which seems to have come straight from Lucas.
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You seem to be confusing the difference between the light and the dark with the difference between the Jedi and the Sith. One is a fundament of the Star Wars universe, the other are a pair of organisations with differing doctrines and interpretations. As such it's those doctrines that distinguish them from each other. The Sith are selfish and can't see past the material universe, the Jedi are selfless and strive to serve the greater good.

In theory anyway. Half the reason the order fell is that they were consumed by the dark side by allowing themselves to become warriors, when they should have been protectors. So try not to labour under the overly simplistic misapprehension that: Jedi=light & Sith=dark. It's just not that simple, no matter how much you want it to be.
 
It's not a new thing at all. It's a *very* old thing, this much is made explicitly clear. It's just that the knowledge was lost and forgotten over the many thousands of years of galactic history.

It's a new thing to the Jedi, unless you're referring to some new-canon source that I'm not aware of. Thus, implicating it in the source of the ancestral schism between Jedi and Sith doesn't work ( other than as speculation unsupported by evidence ).

It's fairly specific and is supported by what some of the LF guys have said, most of which seems to have come straight from Lucas.

So what we have here is a meeting where Lucas says nothing of the netherworld or the Cosmic Force, nothing about belief in the physical realm, yet goes on about the light side and the dark side ( collectively "the core of the Force" ).

And this is supposed to help your case how?

You seem to be confusing the difference between the light and the dark with the difference between the Jedi and the Sith.

Not at all. The fact remains that the essential difference between the Jedi and the Sith is in their relationship to the sides of the Force.

As such it's those doctrines that distinguish them from each other.

Such as the doctrine "don't use the dark side".

Half the reason the order fell is that they were consumed by the dark side by allowing themselves to become warriors, when they should have been protectors.

Funny how it keeps coming back to the dark side, isn't it? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
 
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The Death Star looks down on that Planet like an evil God... I love that!
 
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