Star Wars

Any · 02-19-2003, 09:01 AM

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Originally posted by bulliver
We had a national census about a year ago in Canada, with a question polling for religion. There was this email going around that said to enter your religion as "Jedi Knight" because if there is over a certain amount, the "religion" must be recognized by the government. Well, our government learned that there are over 2000 "Jedi Knights" in Canada, myself included.

Had the same thing here with the 2001 census.
390000 put Jedi

MasterC · 02-19-2003, 09:26 AM

Yeah, I saw that on CNN recently for the UK.

That's awesome

Cool

carrja99 · 02-19-2003, 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by yadavankur
Here are some parallels I drew between an inter galactic battle far far away and cyber war near home.I have left many of the characters untouched because I have not seen any of the recent editions and its been long since I saw the orignal ones.

Dark Side : Copyright
Emperor : Bill Gates
Dart Vader : None(no one will change for good)
DeatStar : Internet Explorer
X wings : Visual Studio
Stormtroopers : M$ programmers

Force : GPL
Jedi : Copyleft
Obi : Richard Stallman
Luke : Linus
Tie figters : gcc
Rebels : The LiNUX comunity
Jedi Council : Free Software Fondation or LQ.org
Jedi Knights: Jeremy, TrickyKid(Drew), MasterC etc.

The Galaxy : Internet
Netscape : The planet that Death star blew up.
Star Wars : Internet wars

Phontams Mennace : Bill's Pen** (not pennys)
Attack of the clones : Attack of the clowns
???
A new begining : A new Unix
Empire Strikes back : XPires Dies Dead
The Return of Jedi : The Return of Mithais (Hindi)

I could not decide on these:
Yoda,Jedi council,Princess Lea, Quenn Amadila, Naboo, Bounty hunter, Hansolo, Falcon Mellenium,Jar Jar Binks, C3PO, R2D2(Though I do think some wise guy who wants to attack Iraq because its a threat to his daddy will fit here but then he never appeared in star wars).

or

The judge who ordered M$ split up, M$ Redmond Office, Windows XP, Dos, Linux, RedHat, Debian, Slackware etc.

May GPL be with you.

Of course, you could apply anything to Star Wars, as it quite actually is a modern mythical story that acts upon certain human archetypes.

Stephanie · 02-19-2003, 02:38 PM

Jedi as an actual religion? It already parallels other religion pretty well, but I suppose I could go for it.

What I want to know is why you have to have so many sigs to make it a official religion?

I mean hell if Dianetics folks can get away with calling themselves a religion, why cant Jedi's?

Any · 02-19-2003, 04:28 PM

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Originally posted by Stephanie
Jedi as an actual religion? It already parallels other religion pretty well, but I suppose I could go for it.

What I want to know is why you have to have so many sigs to make it a official religion?

I mean hell if Dianetics folks can get away with calling themselves a religion, why cant Jedi's?

People said that if so many people put Jedi on the forms then the goverment would recognise it as a real religion and everyone could get religous holidays and all that.

All complete rubbish.

Pcghost · 02-19-2003, 11:25 PM

R2D2 Ran Linux..

bulliver · 02-20-2003, 01:04 AM

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People said that if so many people put Jedi on the forms then the goverment would recognise it as a real religion and everyone could get religous holidays and all that.

I don't think that was the point at all, the point was just to have a little fun with a boring government form. What's wrong with that?

crichards · 02-20-2003, 01:23 AM

Remember when Frith was asking about converting to Scientology?

</memory>

I'd say that Microsoft vs. Open Source could be more analogous to the French revolution. Either that, or the immense social change during the Progressive Era.

But if it IS Star Wars...

Can I be the Force?

Ztyx · 02-20-2003, 02:25 AM

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Originally posted by davee
Seeing we're on a Star Wars theme. This guy must be rewarded for his dedication, or locked up...

http://www.asciimation.co.nz

You can even download this for PalmOS. I found it @ www.download.com
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