Jedi religion on the census

[Mafioso]

I'm all for the side of being irritated by the census, but it took me about 5 minutes to fill in.

Seriously how the fk are you married OP!? Must be fun being you!

[Zaxxon]

Surprised anyone would get wound up because someone put whatever they wanted on a daft form.

Some people here get jolly batey for little reason.

[maniac0796]

fadeaway said:

remember people, if you're not religious for god's sake say so...

http://census-campaign.org.uk/

Spot the irony.

[checkmate91]

Couple of CofE and a couple of whatevers in my household

Me and the missus and the 2 boys, you decide which... jedi knight was discussed but not enough midi-clorian counts to our respective names

[georgejoshington]

FFS, people are still doing this?

[branflakes]

Zaxxon said:

Surprised anyone would get wound up because someone put whatever they wanted on a daft form.

Some people here get jolly batey for little reason.

Listing yourself as a Jedi/Pastafarian/Sith etc gets counted as "no religion" anyway.

[dpbird90]

Listing yourself as Jedi is so 2001. This time, list yourself under "Charlie Sheen"

[Psychobert]

joebongo said:

I don't believe in war causing religions.

I'm afraid to shatter your illusions, but thats one of the major causes of war. That and money. And pretty girls. Helen of Troy for example.

[RemainAllHoof]

Doofus said:

joebongo said:

Wasn't meant to be funny, it was meant to be what it is. I do associate with the ethos of the Jedi more than I do with CofE or anything else.

Go on then, what is the Jedi ethos?

And how does that compare with the ethos of CofE, or of anything else?

I thought the Jedi concepts were taken from Far Eastern philosophies.

[cymtriks]

joebongo said:

No I'm not. I don't believe in war causing religions.

So you do believe in non war causing religions* and choose to express this by claiming affiliation to a fictional religion of warriors?

Wierd logic.




note*: can you name a single war, ever, fought for religious reasons? Not territory, not trade, not influence, not tribal/ethnic/national, not religion being used as a cover story for these, for propaganda or to motivate troops, but an actual religious conflict? Didn't think so.

[maxxy5]

joebongo said:

I do associate with the ethos of the Jedi more than I do with CofE or anything else.

Thanks for cheering me up

[mybrainhurts]

B17NNS said:

I put Charlie Sheen down as mine.

Blimey...didn't know he was for sale

[Tiggsy]

joebongo said:

Just put me and my son (14 months old) as Jedi Knights and the missus is not happy with me.

"It's an important historical document and people will look back and think you're a cock."]

I'm not sure they'll need to look back.

[swiftpete]

cymtriks said:

So you do believe in non war causing religions* and choose to express this by claiming affiliation to a fictional religion of warriors?

Wierd logic.




note*: can you name a single war, ever, fought for religious reasons? Not territory, not trade, not influence, not tribal/ethnic/national, not religion being used as a cover story for these, for propaganda or to motivate troops, but an actual religious conflict? Didn't think so.

The crusades? People used to be very into their Christianity. I don't think that many are really bothered about it nowadays. Not in the uk anyway. OP Jedi thing was funnyish 10 yrs ago. At least you've filled yours in though. I spent the night gorging and drinking and forgot until now.

[TheEnd]

Psychobert said:

joebongo said:

I don't believe in "war-causing" religions.

I'm afraid to shatter your illusions, but thats one of the major causes of war. That and money. And pretty girls. Helen of Troy for example.

edited for clarity...

[frosted]

cymtriks said:

So you do believe in non war causing religions* and choose to express this by claiming affiliation to a fictional religion of warriors?

Wierd logic.




note*: can you name a single war, ever, fought for religious reasons? Not territory, not trade, not influence, not tribal/ethnic/national, not religion being used as a cover story for these, for propaganda or to motivate troops, but an actual religious conflict? Didn't think so.

Wow there , going a bit deep now ain't we ? There's no answear to your question because everything everywhere is muddled up and turned into anything . I know of plenty of wars where religion was a massive contributing factor , or should I say used to get the people behind it . The whole backwards middle east is doing it now , the Turks were doing it few hundred years ago , the Chinese done it for thousands of years . Don't think that the budhist were pacifist either

[slideways]

frosted said:

Don't think that the budhist were pacifist either

no your right he was a hindu

[Cock Womble 7]

It's an important historical document and people will look back and think you're a cock.

[Sam99]

joebongo said:

Just put me and my son (14 months old) as Jedi Knights and the missus is not happy with me.

"It's an important historical document and people will look back and think you're a cock."

My retort was that people will look back and see that many people in 2011 didn't take religion seriously and had more personal connection to the ethos of a religion that was in a film. That shut her up.

Jedi mind tricks rock.

Edited by joebongo on Sunday 27th March 21:38

Your wife is correct ~ You are .

[The Black Flash]

Zaxxon said:

My wife was nagging me to do the census today.

So I'm down as Jedi, she's down as Sith.

My daughters down as Padawan.

I wasn't going to do the Jedi thing, but the whole census thing is a crock of st and I don't take it seriously anyway

Crock of st? It's pretty useful to historians, if nothing else.