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post #1 of 41
1/26/08 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by NPR
Gospel According to Yoda
Daniel Jones noticed, as did many other people, that more than 390,000 people across England and Wales had claimed "Jedi" as their religion on the U.K.'s 2001 census. An Internet campaign may have driven up those numbers, but the results held a deeper meaning for Daniel and his brother Barney. That census report became their impetus to start the U.K. Church of the Jedi.
I didn't know you could just up and convert to Jedi-ism.
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post #2 of 41
1/26/08 at 5:04pm
You need to build your own lightsaber first.
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post #3 of 41
1/26/08 at 5:16pm
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Morda Hehol - Head of UK Church for The Jedi
Jonba Hehol - Anglesey Order Minister
Jonar Magwy - Administration
They used that simple, jedi name generator for their names? Surely they could have created something on their own, other than using that stupid tool.
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post #4 of 41
1/27/08 at 7:32am
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Originally Posted by Chris Allen View Post
They used that simple, jedi name generator for their names? Surely they could have created something on their own, other than using that stupid tool.
They're members of a made up religion that focuses on a spiritual concept from a fucking series of movies. They're lucky they if they make it through the day without shitting themselves.
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post #5 of 41
1/27/08 at 8:52am
Essentially, all they're really worshipping is the ability of some microscopic lifeform with a hive mind to control the universe through superpowered proxies.

Get back to me when Nature publishes the research study detailing the life cycle and habits of midichlorians.

No, I'm still not over it.
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post #6 of 41
1/27/08 at 7:30pm
Sign me up anyway.

Does anyone know where I can find a Green Adegan Crystal?
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post #7 of 41
1/27/08 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by Cow Puncher View Post
They're members of a made up religion that focuses on a spiritual concept from a fucking series of movies. They're lucky they if they make it through the day without shitting themselves.
Yeah, that would be like following some cuckoo, pay-for-salvation religion that a second rate sf author made up.
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post #8 of 41
1/27/08 at 10:15pm
Is it too much to hope they'll clash with that army of Stormtrooper re-enacters and eliminate one another?
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post #9 of 41
1/27/08 at 10:22pm
I'd rather throw them at the Scientologists, frankly.
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post #10 of 41
1/28/08 at 1:15am
They have just as much reason to believe in "Jedi-ism" as anyone else has to believe in their religion.

And no, that isn't me endorsing their beliefs as somehow worthwhile.
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post #11 of 41
1/28/08 at 1:19am
Except for the fact that these Jedi know for a fact that the tenets of their religion are fictional.
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post #12 of 41
1/28/08 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Except for the fact that these Jedi know for a fact that the tenets of their religion are fictional.
Only because (ostensibly) they're willing to embrace reality. Everyone else can do the same. People don't rise from the dead, etc.
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post #13 of 41
1/28/08 at 1:26am
Well, I can see the case for a Christian being willing to believe that the contents of the bible are truth, as it is presented as fact. Star Wars, on the other hand, is very much presented as a work of fiction. To accept any part of it as objective truth requires a special kind of dementia that even most Christians can't compete with.
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post #14 of 41
1/28/08 at 1:56am
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Well, I can see the case for a Christian being willing to believe that the contents of the bible are truth, as it is presented as fact. Star Wars, on the other hand, is very much presented as a work of fiction. To accept any part of it as objective truth requires a special kind of dementia that even most Christians can't compete with.
Whether someone tells me in all sincerity that people can rise from the dead or be born from virgins, or if he tells me that the story is fictional, I am equally inclined to disbelieve him.
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post #15 of 41
1/28/08 at 2:18am
Are people seriously taking these guys seriously?

Isn't this a census issue — the Australians have been doing this for years — where, in a given census, when the "other" category blank receives more than X amount of claims to religion Z, religion Z must be included as a category on the next census?

Regardless of what the local atheists might like to think, I'm sure this isn't really another example of the witless masses falling for the classic "science fiction story is really a divine revelation" canard." (Again.) I think it's just one of the methodological ha ha's geography teachers use to tart-up their otherwise dull lectures on quatitative analysis.
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post #16 of 41
1/28/08 at 12:29pm
"There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no death, there is the Force."
-Jedi Creed

Sign me up!
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post #17 of 41
1/28/08 at 2:21pm
I did indicate "Jedi" on my census. Not because I believe it but because it's none of the Government's fucking business what I do or do not believe in.

Jedi was a very mild protest vote.
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post #18 of 41
1/28/08 at 2:23pm
I'm all for this religion if they follow the monkish ways of the Jedi. IE, no procreation, no sex.
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post #19 of 41
1/28/08 at 2:48pm
You laugh now, but in 600 years, the American Space Senate will vote to make Teras Kasi training mandatory for all preschoolers.
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post #20 of 41
1/28/08 at 6:57pm
Damn you Minsky, damn you to hell for your Teras Kasi reference.
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post #21 of 41
1/29/08 at 7:27am
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
I'm all for this religion if they follow the monkish ways of the Jedi. IE, no procreation, no sex.
Oh, I don't think you need to worry about that.
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post #22 of 41
1/29/08 at 9:46pm
Under one of the chapters:

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Jedi Paranormal Investigation Unit: -
This chapter is also a service for the public, with use of the force to eliminate problems with paranormal activity.
*plays Ghostbuster theme*

I ain't afraid of no ghosts! Fear leads to anger....which leads to...
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post #23 of 41
1/30/08 at 5:50am
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Originally Posted by Radb707 View Post
*plays Ghostbuster theme*

I ain't afraid of no ghosts! Fear leads to anger....which leads to...

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post #24 of 41
1/30/08 at 2:31pm
I love it how well the Stay-Puft picture goes with the name of your short film, Greg, and how they line up perfectly.
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post #25 of 41
1/30/08 at 3:36pm
It goes together too well. I thought it was part of the post.
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post #26 of 41
1/30/08 at 11:46pm
Somebody with more time on their hands than me should do a "Cloverfield" about the day the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man arrived.
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post #27 of 41
1/31/08 at 12:10am
It should involve a couple of Louis Tully's clients and their friends so that we see snippets from the largely recorded over party from a couple nights before where some moron brought a cougar with him.
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post #28 of 41
1/31/08 at 12:15am
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
I'm all for this religion if they follow the monkish ways of the Jedi. IE, no procreation, no sex.
Yeah but we all know there's only one thing that can come of that:

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post #29 of 41
1/31/08 at 12:21am
I didn't realize that it was possible to make a Darth Vader costume look flamboyantly gay. But damned if somebody didn't pull it off.
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post #30 of 41
1/31/08 at 1:29am
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Somebody with more time on their hands than me should do a "Cloverfield" about the day the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man arrived.
Ha, just get a camcorder to record a part of Ghostbusters off an LCD screen. You get your shaky cam, and hopefully a shot of people running away from the marshmallow man.

Or we can call SAIRUS, and have him use his "expert" editing skills.

And yes, that Darth Vader is flamboyantly gay. I feel like he's about to break into a disco.
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post #31 of 41
1/31/08 at 1:48am
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
Somebody with more time on their hands than me should do a "Cloverfield" about the day the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man arrived.
EctoField

Consider it in the works.
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post #32 of 41
1/31/08 at 3:26am
I was thinking Gozerfield, but Ectofield will work nicely. I hope it's the next short film linked in your signature.
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post #33 of 41
1/31/08 at 3:56am
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Originally Posted by Overlord View Post
They have just as much reason to believe in "Jedi-ism" as anyone else has to believe in their religion.

And no, that isn't me endorsing their beliefs as somehow worthwhile.
I don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but you've somehow managed to make atheism as obnoxious as Christian/Islamic/Jewish/Jedi fundamentalism.
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post #34 of 41
1/31/08 at 4:36am
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Originally Posted by Cow Puncher View Post
I don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but you've somehow managed to make atheism as obnoxious as Christian/Islamic/Jewish/Jedi fundamentalism.
Clearly you're going to hell.
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post #35 of 41
1/31/08 at 5:04am
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Originally Posted by Radb707 View Post
And yes, that Darth Vader is flamboyantly gay. I feel like he's about to break into a disco.
That was the whole point!
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post #36 of 41
1/31/08 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Amphibatron View Post
I was thinking Gozerfield, but Ectofield will work nicely. I hope it's the next short film linked in your signature.
I am sending you imaginary green boxes as we speak.
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post #37 of 41
1/31/08 at 8:36pm
I got this sent to me by a friend the other day, no idea where it comes from...

Gozerfield/Ectofield
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post #38 of 41
1/31/08 at 8:39pm
And suddenly, Rob somehow seems more real.
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post #39 of 41
2/1/08 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Tom View Post
I got this sent to me by a friend the other day, no idea where it comes from...

Gozerfield/Ectofield
Give your friend some green rep from me. That's awesome.
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post #40 of 41
2/1/08 at 10:21pm
I think if I were to join a fictitious religion I'd be a Fremen.

I once read a short story that mentioned, among other religions making a pilgrimage or something, the Pratchett Realists. That's fun to think about.
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post #41 of 41
2/2/08 at 2:33am
I'd have to go with the Church of the Great Green Arkleseizure.

But then, I think all religions are fictitious.
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