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Jedi is a religion!!!

Post by Crown »

Okay,
Here in the great brown/red land of Oz, we just had our census done, and basically in order for a religion to be recognised 10,000 people had to say that they belonged to it. Can you guys guess where I am going with this? :mrgreen:

Yep you guessed it, over 17,000 people in the religion section wrote Jedi! Hehe, George must by laughing his ass off right about now! So in Australia being a Jedi is an official recognised religion. Now if you will excuse me I have to go and build my lightsaber....

Mind you this whole thing came about because Star Wars fans emailed each other and pledged to write Jedi in the religion question and the government isn't takin' it too seriously, but hey they just announced it on the radio! :mrgreen:
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I'll join if you have enough holidays. :D
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Cool!!! Too bad the US won't do anything like that. :( Oh well. The price you pay for living in a Christian dominated country.
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Holidays are up to the person, covered under WorkCover and the traditional 'sicky'. All other holiday's have yet to be announced, however GL's birthday looks like becoming one... :mrgreen:
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::ahem::

In one of the novels, it is mentioned that the Jedi must take every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off for meditation, and every Thursday and Friday must be devoted to excercise.

So, really, the only days of the week a Jedi can possibly work should be Saturday and Sunday. Luckily, most businesses are closed then. :D
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I wish Jedi was a religion in the U.S. The Ep3 release date would be a national holiday, and all Star Wars products will be tax free. Also, all the televangelist shows would be replaced with 24 hours of ANH, TESB, ROTJ, TPM, and AOTC.
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And we could put KJA to death as a heretic!

I vote for piling rocks on his chest, ala Salem Witch Trials. Though crucifixition has some nice aspects as well. Takes a really long time to die...
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i heard of hte Australian Jedi religion i just cant remember where i saw it, maby Insider? besides GL's birthday being a national holiday the actors like Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew and other fan favorite actors should have there birthdays as Jedi Religion holidays at least.
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I'd known about this, but I had thought it was England that had done that, but Australia is just as good. :D
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Post by Lord of the Farce »

I had thought that the governments of just about every country (including our very own place Down Under) countered the "Jedi Religion" thing by saying that for "Jedi" to be recognised as an actual religion (heh), it had to have all these elements and other crap in it's organisation (or something). To be honest, I'm just itching to hear the dumb ass outcries opposing Jedi being consider an actual religion because it's only "make belief"... :twisted:
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Jedi is already an offical Religion in England and New Zeland, glad to see it spreading

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Though, technically speaking, you can't be a Jedi by just writing it down a census, can you? Where's the years of dedicated training? Lazy bums.
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Ender wrote:And we could put KJA to death as a heretic!
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Morte wrote:Though, technically speaking, you can't be a Jedi by just writing it down a census, can you? Where's the years of dedicated training? Lazy bums.

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Actually, 'Jedi' isn't an official religion anywhere.

www.snopes.com, the best urban legend site on the net, details where this popular legend got out of hand. Check it here:

htt[url]p://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm[/url]

And the 'Jedi Census' page:

http://www.jedicensus.com/
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Lagmonster wrote:Actually, 'Jedi' isn't an official religion anywhere.

www.snopes.com, the best urban legend site on the net, details where this popular legend got out of hand. Check it here:

htt[url]p://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm[/url]

And the 'Jedi Census' page:

http://www.jedicensus.com/

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Lagmonster wrote:Actually, 'Jedi' isn't an official religion anywhere.

www.snopes.com, the best urban legend site on the net, details where this popular legend got out of hand. Check it here:

htt[url]p://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm[/url]

And the 'Jedi Census' page:

http://www.jedicensus.com/
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Of course Jedi can't be an official religion. It does not extort money from its followers by alternately promising horrible torture for retaining wealth or promising spiritual nirvana for giving it up.

Having said that, I entered "Jedi" on my own census, here in Canada. And if the government wishes to contest that by laying charges for fraud, let them. I dare any lawyer to prove that I do not believe in the values of the Jedi in a court of law. Moreover, I defy any lawyer to define religion in a manner that excludes Jedi without also excluding other "legitimate" religions.
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Wong I'm here to collect Jedi Tax, Otherwise you'll um fall to the Dark-Side, And you don't get Force Lightning if you don't pay the Evil Jedi Tax :D

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Jedi's actually a pretty good religion. I mean, it's all about serving the greater good, helping others, and being at peace with the universe. We even have our religious attire and symbols pre-made.
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Course there are few memebers as one of the classic rits of initation is building your own Lightsaber


And paying Bean's Jedi(Or Dark Jedi if you want force Lightning) Tax

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Mr Bean wrote:Course there are few memebers as one of the classic rits of initation is building your own Lightsaber


And paying Bean's Jedi(Or Dark Jedi if you want force Lightning) Tax
And feeding Bean to Fluffy the Rancor....
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And feeding Bean to Fluffy the Rancor....
Like I said we have few memebers, No ones managed to do all three yet :D(And espcialy #3 :D)

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