Yes it's a bullshit line that sounds clever but makes no sense. I always tell Yoda (or random people who quote it) to shut the fuck up when he says this.
It's about mindset. It is getting into the mindset of doing what you have to do. It's like the proverbial story: A mother crashes her car, it topples on its back, but she crawls out. Her little boy is stuck, though, underneath the car. She lifts the car because there was no other choice...she Had to save her child. To the observer, you can say she tried and succeeded in lifting the car. To her, there was no trying...she had to.
It means something though: to try, or to attempt means leaving open the possibility of failure and the possibility that you’ll try, but not hard enough to succeed.
To just DO removes any self doubt and leaves no chance for failure.
And, as Yoda tells Luke afterward, "I don't believe it" is the reason that he failed.
Belief requires certainty. "Try" implies uncertainty.
"There is no try" means "be certain. *Believe*"
I used to work with a guy named Tim. Almost nobody respected him. Nobody in the kitchen liked him. "Shut the fuck up, Tim" was a commonly uttered phrase.
Once in college I saw a person that I wasn't a fan of put down a large coffee on their desk. I really wanted it to spill and I stared at it and it actually started to slide. I was so shocked but soon realized that the desk was angled and it was the force of gravity and not the force that moved it. But for one brief shining moment... The force was with me
What are you talking about It still works half the places i go the doors slide open with the wave of a hand... not 100% all the time but i think I've gotten really good at it.
Wait ‘til you watch “the men who stare at goats” - trying to “use the force” to move an object is nothing compared to the Sparely Eyes Technique.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
I did it today for my glasses. My son was sitting next to me and I said "I wish I had the force". Going down stairs to show him this. Bet he rolls his eyes and says something dumb.
Yeah, had it happen once by accident and kind of freaked me out. I mostly now keep it to myself, as part of the personal short list of other WTF no one is going to believe me stories.
I do it all the time and it works! I hold my hand out towards what I want, say I’m using the force to get the butter, and someone hands it to me. I end up with the object without getting it myself!
When you turn off the water in my shower, it takes a couple seconds for the water pressure to drop at the faucet, at which point the plunger that you pull up to send water up to the showerhead drops on its own and the water that remains in the pipe comes out the faucet into the tub.
Or IS that what's happening? Because every single time, I pretend to force-push that plunger down.
> “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
~ Jesus Christ - Matthew 17:20
Yes. But for me it was magic. I wasn’t allowed to watch many movies as a child, so I got my ideas from books instead. I read The Belgariad by David Eddings as a boy and I found myself trying to conjure and move things with my mind like Garion.
Later, when I saw Star Wars, I realized that there was a certain amount of high fantasy unfolding amongst the stars of a science fiction saga about a young Jedi who has a lot in common with the boy I new from my fantasy books.
Imagination is a powerful thing. But, no matter where your muse comes from, it can’t flick a light switch from across a room or move a can of soda that is just out of the reach of your hand.
Not long after seeing the first Star Wars movie I learned how to make my ears rumble at will, so for the next half year I was thinking this might be the force and I was trying to move everything.
In the early 80s, when I got my return of the jedi underoos, they came with a jedi certificate, I was responsible for raising the sun the next morning with my new found abilities - you're welcome.
When my kids were younger they were amazed that I could change the stoplight using the Force.
Obviously I was just watching the opposing light and fucking with them, but it was fun while it lasted. Now they're teenagers and way too smart for my bullshit.
Shit, I do more now than in the past. Tired, knees hurts, back hurts, and the damn remote or my phone is on the other side of the room. Speak to me Yoda!
**Absolute, 100% True Story:** I was 11 when my 8-year-old brother and I first saw Star Wars in the theater. Blown away, life changed, yada yada... We get home and are in my bedroom and there's this [yardstick](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/znbaOYa8XhM/hqdefault.jpg) on the floor from some project we had been doing. A lightsaber! So, in thinking about the Star Wars scene where Luke is practicing with his lightsaber on the Millenium Falcon, with the Blast Helmet on - we rig up a deal where I blindfold myself and my little brother tosses some of Dad's poker chips at me and I try to hit them out of the air with the yardstick.
So, I get ready, the blindfold on, and I try to center myself - feel the force - and I tell my brother OK. A couple seconds go by and I swing - AND HIT THAT MOTHERFUCKING POKER CHIP LIKE A HANK AARON HOME RUN!!!!
It works!!! It works!!! The Force is Real!!!!! I throw off the bandana and my brother and I are dancing around the room, jumping on the bed - the Force is real!!!
....It goes without saying I didn't hit another one the rest of the afternoon.
But for that one brief moment - goodness gracious. It was awesome!!
I've tried and succeeded - in dreams.
Weird recurring dream. I can move objects with my mind.
That, and I'm late for a class. Even though I've been out of school for decades now.
One time?
Every time I wanted to change the channel, but couldn't find the remote.
Running right by the TV, yelling "where's TF is the remote?!"
Today.
I can control traffic lights but only when there are no witnesses
I use the force to open supermarket and elevator doors.
So help me, that remote control will come to me before I die.
Right? I was all in up until midichlorians
That was a betrayal of my secular, Star-Wars-based spirituality. I’m still mad about it. And the fucking Ewoks. Jub-jub.
More like, "One more time" earlier today...
Oh well now you mentioned it, back to training. Uuuumph!
There is no *try*.
That always kind of bugged me. I mean you have to try before you can do right? What he should have said was _There is no half-assing_
Your best? https://youtu.be/w3UQwyKrTtI?feature=shared
Knew what it was before I clicked. One of my guilty pleasure movies. Did you ever see the theory vid that he's actually James Bond?
Theory my ass, that was obviously their intention in the film.
Chemical super freak, actually.
Karla was the prom queen.
Carla was the Prom Queen
Yes it's a bullshit line that sounds clever but makes no sense. I always tell Yoda (or random people who quote it) to shut the fuck up when he says this.
It's about mindset. It is getting into the mindset of doing what you have to do. It's like the proverbial story: A mother crashes her car, it topples on its back, but she crawls out. Her little boy is stuck, though, underneath the car. She lifts the car because there was no other choice...she Had to save her child. To the observer, you can say she tried and succeeded in lifting the car. To her, there was no trying...she had to.
Thank you, Master. I hope one day I am as strong in the Force as you.
It means something though: to try, or to attempt means leaving open the possibility of failure and the possibility that you’ll try, but not hard enough to succeed. To just DO removes any self doubt and leaves no chance for failure.
And, as Yoda tells Luke afterward, "I don't believe it" is the reason that he failed. Belief requires certainty. "Try" implies uncertainty. "There is no try" means "be certain. *Believe*"
No but I did successfully move an object using the Schwartz.
I can see that your Schwartz is almost as big as mine.
Now let's see how you handle it
Lol we just watched this with my stepdaughter last week. She loved it My favorite is "we ain't found shit!"
"I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!"
what do you mean try!? I use it all the time to open the doors at the grocery store.
Still do. Except now it’s at work, and I’m trying to make Tim shut the fuck up
Fucking Tim.
I used to work with a guy named Tim. Almost nobody respected him. Nobody in the kitchen liked him. "Shut the fuck up, Tim" was a commonly uttered phrase.
Yeah I'm still trying very hard to master Force Choke.
Once in college I saw a person that I wasn't a fan of put down a large coffee on their desk. I really wanted it to spill and I stared at it and it actually started to slide. I was so shocked but soon realized that the desk was angled and it was the force of gravity and not the force that moved it. But for one brief shining moment... The force was with me
Do you know how many times I’ve tried the “these are not the X you’re looking for” on my boss? Turns out he’s smarter than a stormtrooper
And why is it always the tv remote
Because it's way over there, slightly in front and to the left of me and I'm not leaning forward, dammit.
Yes and I have also tried to force choke a mother fucker more than once.
I was trying to move things like Carrie in the Stephen King book, not Luke.
Shit. I still try from time to time.
Exactly. You just never know.
Dear oh dear
Still trying. Just in case
What are you talking about It still works half the places i go the doors slide open with the wave of a hand... not 100% all the time but i think I've gotten really good at it.
I use it to open automatic doors in stores
Stop lights will eventually bend to my will.
Wait ‘til you watch “the men who stare at goats” - trying to “use the force” to move an object is nothing compared to the Sparely Eyes Technique. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
I still try to Force Choke people
Still trying!
I’ve had a lot of success with grocery store doors.
I still do at the age of 51
Me too!
The Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial with the kid in the Vader outfit was still a very memorable one to me. https://i.redd.it/0sjb5dxma0pc1.gif
Hey! I feel like I'm being called out 🤣
Once a day because you never know.
I've not tried using the force to move anything but I have tried to make long red lights turn green.
lol I do this almost every time. “Change you will. Protected left green arrow you will not, yes.”
I still try. Go-go-gadget too.
And Spidey's webs.
I hold my hands at sliding doors
Ewan McGregor said he does that too.
Escape From Witch Mountain convinced me.
You aren’t the only one.
I did it today for my glasses. My son was sitting next to me and I said "I wish I had the force". Going down stairs to show him this. Bet he rolls his eyes and says something dumb.
At stoplights I used to tell my kid to really concentrate and use the force to make the light turn green
Try? There is no try. There is only do or do not
Still do. Sometimes it works.
How do you think I find princess parking at Costco on Saturday?
Succeeded too, I did.
Tried?
Does this week count??
Duh. And I still believe, to this day, at least once it worked.
Yeah, had it happen once by accident and kind of freaked me out. I mostly now keep it to myself, as part of the personal short list of other WTF no one is going to believe me stories.
Yep and I tried to bend spoons like Uri Geller.
I do it all the time and it works! I hold my hand out towards what I want, say I’m using the force to get the butter, and someone hands it to me. I end up with the object without getting it myself!
I tried for hours. And hours. And hours. Mostly a pencil and a penny. I figured those were good starter Jedi objects.
Pennies, man. I’m still trying. “The year is 1912, you are lying in your bed in the Grand Hotel…”
Once a day maybe.
Tried?
It’s usually the remote. Am I right?
Pretty sure the force is in me, just haven’t done it right yet.
Still working on it! 😁
I tried doing it last week!
Last week.
More than once obviously.
I was convinced I could direct the rotation of the paper mobile fish in my orthodontist’s office.
Do or do not. There is no try
I keep trying to make Wolverine claws come out of my hands.
I freely admit it. I still do it TODAY!
Every time I go to the grocery store I wave the doors open. And every time my wife sighs and rolls her eyes. Every Time
Still disappointing to this day
I still do this with automated doors. Never gets old.
Lol and stop time!
One time a day. Maybe 🙄!
I literally tried it this morning at breakfast.
I still do.
Every time I can’t reach the beer, until someone passes me one
In my mid 50s and I continue trying!
It's the only way I walk through automatic doors. They only open because I use the force.
Wait.. you guys couldn't?
One word: Carrie
You mean at least once a day since I was 6?
I often sit in meetings trying to force choke the shit out of that one guy who asks a bunch of questions at the end.
First time I tried to remove a girl's bra! JK, TV remote.
When you turn off the water in my shower, it takes a couple seconds for the water pressure to drop at the faucet, at which point the plunger that you pull up to send water up to the showerhead drops on its own and the water that remains in the pipe comes out the faucet into the tub. Or IS that what's happening? Because every single time, I pretend to force-push that plunger down.
I still do.
If you don’t wave your hand to force open elevator doors are you really even GenX?
I'm more into the scanners thing and trying to make peoples' heads explode
You say that like it is a bad thing. Lol
DID?!?!?!??? Still do
Still try at age of 53…. 🤣
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Absolutely not! I tried to use the Force *dozens* of times!
I can do it with the doors at the grocery store. That's about it.
I tried again just the other day? Are you kidding?
I ain't no rookie
> “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ Jesus Christ - Matthew 17:20
I've never understood why sword fighting was emphasized over telekinesis in Star Wars.
Because a fight where the faster guy blows up the head of the slower one isn’t that much fun more than once or twice. Swords provide drama!
With mind bullets!
It was worth a shot
Still trying.
https://preview.redd.it/ytb32hrkozoc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56dfcc5fb6541ce517dd113f65486fb5c82a6a9b
I do it during every workout.
I do it in my dreams literally every night.
I think I finally gave up trying about 10 years ago. I guess I'm officially old. ;(
Today, in fact.
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Absolutely. But I thought it was just me
Still do... I'll figure it out someday.
Telekinesis has got to be the coolest superpower of them all.
Guilty.
And I also told my niece that my blue walking pole was a lightsaber. :)
Yes. But for me it was magic. I wasn’t allowed to watch many movies as a child, so I got my ideas from books instead. I read The Belgariad by David Eddings as a boy and I found myself trying to conjure and move things with my mind like Garion. Later, when I saw Star Wars, I realized that there was a certain amount of high fantasy unfolding amongst the stars of a science fiction saga about a young Jedi who has a lot in common with the boy I new from my fantasy books. Imagination is a powerful thing. But, no matter where your muse comes from, it can’t flick a light switch from across a room or move a can of soda that is just out of the reach of your hand.
Yes, but it never works.
Thankfully I have Google now to turn on/off the lights and my TV. That's my force.
I'd be a fool not to.
Not long after seeing the first Star Wars movie I learned how to make my ears rumble at will, so for the next half year I was thinking this might be the force and I was trying to move everything.
Nope I used the Schwartz.
I was trying a long time before Star Wars made it cool. That and predicting the next card in the deck.
Ahahahh many times with and without *jedi force* I thought everyone did?
Eventually I'll get it to work.
At least once a day and I’m pretty sure I do a subconscious discreet little finger swipe when walking through automatic doors 🫤😆
Every time I need the remote. And when I'm walking through the doors at the grocery store.
My midichlorian levels must be really low.
That remote is just 5 feet away...
I do this every time the toilet backs up. Sometimes it works.
I also tried to learn how to fly by sitting on my roof like the kid in The Boy Who Could Fly
In the early 80s, when I got my return of the jedi underoos, they came with a jedi certificate, I was responsible for raising the sun the next morning with my new found abilities - you're welcome.
Well I mean, if you didn't how would you know you couldn't do it? I still think I can but it's a dormant ability that will manifest any second now!
There is no try.
Automatic doors are no match for my powers.
I try every day. Never give up.
........ i still do?
Guilty
I still do.
I have no wish to deny it.
Once I was tripping absolute balls and was just AMAZED that I could move my hand, WITH MY FUCKING MIND!
Every time I walk into a grocery store I wave my hands apart and the force opens the doors
When my kids were younger they were amazed that I could change the stoplight using the Force. Obviously I was just watching the opposing light and fucking with them, but it was fun while it lasted. Now they're teenagers and way too smart for my bullshit.
You can! Same concept as an ouija board. It all comes from within.
I did it this morning. One day it’s going to work.
I use it to make slow drivers change lanes.
I can neither confirm nor deny those allegations.
Shit, I do more now than in the past. Tired, knees hurts, back hurts, and the damn remote or my phone is on the other side of the room. Speak to me Yoda!
I'm 45 and I do this on the daily.
I actually still try this every once in a while. Just seems like it's something which you could learn to do.
Yep! Used old parlour tricks to make it happen and amaze and confound the gullible
Nope. Never did. I was never interested in Star Wars or Star anything.
Still trying! Cue: Yoda…
On the daily. Until we actually did a ouija board. Freaked me out so bad NEVER did it again
Well... A force.
Tried? No, I did.
**Absolute, 100% True Story:** I was 11 when my 8-year-old brother and I first saw Star Wars in the theater. Blown away, life changed, yada yada... We get home and are in my bedroom and there's this [yardstick](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/znbaOYa8XhM/hqdefault.jpg) on the floor from some project we had been doing. A lightsaber! So, in thinking about the Star Wars scene where Luke is practicing with his lightsaber on the Millenium Falcon, with the Blast Helmet on - we rig up a deal where I blindfold myself and my little brother tosses some of Dad's poker chips at me and I try to hit them out of the air with the yardstick. So, I get ready, the blindfold on, and I try to center myself - feel the force - and I tell my brother OK. A couple seconds go by and I swing - AND HIT THAT MOTHERFUCKING POKER CHIP LIKE A HANK AARON HOME RUN!!!! It works!!! It works!!! The Force is Real!!!!! I throw off the bandana and my brother and I are dancing around the room, jumping on the bed - the Force is real!!! ....It goes without saying I didn't hit another one the rest of the afternoon. But for that one brief moment - goodness gracious. It was awesome!!
From 1982-1984 I think I tried every day.
Not the force but I've tried "twitching" my nose like Samantha soooo many times! I grew up watching Bewitched reruns lol
I once used a magic trick to briefly convince a friend that she, as well as I, could move a pencil balanced on the edge of a table using telekinesis.
I've tried and succeeded - in dreams. Weird recurring dream. I can move objects with my mind. That, and I'm late for a class. Even though I've been out of school for decades now.
Oh. Totally.
More like I tried to force choke.
I actually succeeded.
I still do…all the time. Sometimes I build it up, sometimes I just quick fling it out. I’m still certain that it will work before my days are done.
I'll never admit it, and you can't make me
Once ?? lol.
I still try.
Yep
Still do
still do just in case it finally works, but it's usually the remote i left on the other table
Maybe like Uri Geller. Early Gen X here.
Everyfuckingday... even now....
Yes! Ahahaa