ARTICLE The real church of Jediism - THOUSANDS believe in religion based off the Star Wars franchise

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465445/Jediism-THOUSANDS-believe-religion-based-Star-Wars-franchise.html


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One of Jediism's prominent members, Kevin Trout (known as Opie MacLeod in the community)

made my day... opie committing suicide in 3, 2, 1, :silly:

Sweet...

It's like I told M earlier ...

... I'm not that keen on this really, albeit in an of itself not a bad article.

It's the press. The Daily Mail is a popular tabloid - not what I would call a reliable news/information source.

It's on par with having the very same article in the National Enquirer in America or in Paris Match here.

:blush:

This is based off an article which will appear in the November 2013 issue of Details magazine. I have not seen it yet. Their fact checker said it should also be online at the magazine's site.

John, such a time traveller you are.

Also, I will be interested to see it indeed! These kinds of articles are always so interesting to me.

That's the November 2013 issue of Details Magazine, not 2012 as I originally posted.

Alexandre Orion wrote: It's like I told M earlier ...

... I'm not that keen on this really, albeit in an of itself not a bad article.

It's the press. The Daily Mail is a popular tabloid - not what I would call a reliable news/information source.

It's on par with having the very same article in the National Enquirer in America or in Paris Match here.

:blush:

It's actually not too bad considering it's the daily mail.

Skeptophilia (Blog)

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Obi-wan... has taught you well.

http://skeptophilia.blogspot.com/2013/10/obi-wan-has-taught-you-well.html

We must be doing something right if a skeptic/atheist is willing to accept our perspective as being morally better than other perspectives...

I don't understand what about Jediism there is to be skeptical about...

Some skeptics are like that....just gotta find something to gripe/dislike/question about everything...I think they just like arguing their own perspective...

Connor Lidell wrote: I don't understand what about Jediism there is to be skeptical about...

really only the origin by now, connor. and upon reflection thats still quite a bit preferable to the origins of many other religions.

I'll apologize to the skeptics if I don't understand why the origin is any reason to judge a "religion". They must not understand what a religion is.

I think many people view religions as "answers". Or, that they are meant to be the vessels of answers.

In my opinion, religion provides more questions than answers.

They miss that life is supposed to be fun, as well as serious...

Like, serious fun!

Its why we have to continue to improve, yet not lose our core...

And remember to laugh, of course....

Ren, can we get a forum for news related articles? Or is there a good one already existing?

One better than the miscellaneous forum?

I like having Serious Fun!!!! :woohoo:

I would do it all the time if we weren't suppose to practice moderation in all things.

Phewy on moderating fun!

hahahhahahhahahhahahha

If you set the bar on having fun very high, which I recommend, the moderate level should still be great.

RyuJin wrote: Some skeptics are like that....just gotta find something to gripe/dislike/question about everything...I think they just like arguing their own perspective...

Since when has taking things at face value become a virtue?

It's always good to do your research and ask questions before making decisions...what I was thinking of are the ones that get obsessively argumentative and seek to attack/crush others for taking things on "faith"....wolves and sheep....wolves need sheep, and sheep need wolves...how would either survive without the other....

ren wrote:

One of Jediism's prominent members, Kevin Trout (known as Opie MacLeod in the community)

made my day... opie committing suicide in 3, 2, 1, :silly:

LOL! :laugh: :lol: