70,000 in Australia say they are of Jedi faith - GoFuckYourself.com

CamChicks · 07-29-2004, 02:45 AM

old article - so maybe it was posted before - but I just found it and it made me giggle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2218456.stm

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More than 70,000 people in Australia have declared that they are followers of the Jedi faith, the religion created by the Star Wars films.

A recent census found that one in 270 respondents - or 0.37% of the population - say they believe in "the force", an energy field that gives Jedi Knights like Luke Skywalker their power...

Dirty F · 07-29-2004, 02:46 AM

1 word:

Fucking retards.

fr8 · 07-29-2004, 02:47 AM

Whats the percentage for the darkside?

Firehorse · 07-29-2004, 02:47 AM

I think a lot of people are doing it for a joke!

=^..^= · 07-29-2004, 02:47 AM

i was going to sign Jedi at the last census - but then when the census collectors came round my partner and I pretended we didnt live there coz we didnt want the government having all our info

im not sure how I managed to convince them - must have been the old jedi mind-trick

CamChicks · 07-29-2004, 02:47 AM

the UK too - and it was officially recognized

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1589133.stm

Firehorse · 07-29-2004, 02:48 AM

That is unless they are force(d) to be with it!

pxxx · 07-29-2004, 02:50 AM

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Originally posted by Battuss
1 word:

Fucking retards.

Somebody needs some sleep, 2 words there

pxxx · 07-29-2004, 02:51 AM

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Originally posted by fr8
Whats the percentage for the darkside?

hehe, best response so far.

Joe Citizen · 07-29-2004, 02:52 AM

It was done by loads of Star Wars fans in the last census in an attempt to get it recognised as an offical religion.

It didn't work.

End of story.

Star Wars sucks.

montel · 07-29-2004, 02:52 AM

hehe i remember that a few years ago. by word of mouth heaps of people decided to do this to create a new religion. it didnt work.

xclusive · 07-29-2004, 02:56 AM

Not a bad idea for a new religion tell me you wouldn't want to see jar jar hanging from a cross.

CamChicks · 07-29-2004, 02:57 AM

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A campaign to get people to write the entry on their census forms has succeeded in the term being included on the list of religions, alongside Church of England, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu.

Sufficient numbers of people wrote the entry in for it to be allocated its own code for the census processing team to use.

ClamSmacker · 07-29-2004, 03:01 AM

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More than 70,000 people in Australia have declared that they are followers of the Jedi faith, the religion created by the Star Wars films.

You will find the origin of these 70,000 people were not infact Australian's but they were Kiwi's that are trying to invade us.
The Kiwi's are a bit of a weird bunch

Living For Today · 07-29-2004, 03:37 AM

haha i remember that. was pretty funny at the time. although i do agree star wars is shit.

XP · 07-29-2004, 04:20 AM

a fake religion without a prophet? How come people turn a philosopy to a religion?
Fucking retards..

Goose · 07-29-2004, 04:29 AM

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Originally posted by fr8
Whats the percentage for the darkside?

damn, my belly aches...that was funny

chodadog · 07-29-2004, 04:33 AM

It was just a huge gag. These people don't seriously consider Jedi a religion.

DarkJedi · 07-29-2004, 04:39 AM

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Originally posted by fr8
Whats the percentage for the darkside?

good question

Lykos · 07-29-2004, 06:01 AM

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Originally posted by Battuss
1 word:

Fucking retards.

Agree with u....

Project-Shadow · 07-29-2004, 06:48 AM

It was something along the lines of.. you need 50k people to actually create a religion and they went ahead and did it.

So, if you ever feel the need to change religion.. good old master Yodi will be there for you!

mryellow · 07-29-2004, 06:56 AM

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you need 50k people to actually create a religion and they went
ahead and did it.

Think it was 10k... and although the censor office said
a "significant" amount of people had written it down, they
refused to list it as a religion even though the law says they must.

Nice to hear it worked in the UK, but not here, they just ignored it.

-Ben

mryellow · 07-29-2004, 07:05 AM

oh btw there was a lot of controversy about the religion field in
general last time around.

Turns out they list about 10 different versions of Christianity but
don't provide space for the many others we have in Australia.

-Ben

sexyclicks · 07-29-2004, 07:05 AM

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Jason Fromm · 07-29-2004, 07:23 AM

Nerds.

mpulse · 07-29-2004, 07:26 AM

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Originally posted by sexyclicks
that's nothing, take a look here

Oh damn! Now i've seen it all...

Marcus Aurelius · 07-29-2004, 07:34 AM

these idiots need some pussy.

Ash@phpFX · 07-29-2004, 09:14 AM

it was done in an attempt to get it officially recognised, but the government put a stop to it before the census went out

korzon · 07-29-2004, 09:26 AM

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