Yes, its official, heard it on the radio this morning, there are 70,500 people in Australia stupid enough to actually put Jedi Knight as their religion on the 2001 census.

That is a fair percentage. Does this mean they are l337?

Its not really all that impressive, Christianity weighed in with 12.8 million people.

I thought that the statistics board werent allowed to release this info ??

I'm proud to announce I'm not part of this statistic!

Its actually pretty sad that some star wars fans would take it so seriously

that put simply STUPID!

also do you have linkies to the figures anywhere, I was just the other day talking to a colleague about the "jedi" religion and she didn't beleive me :/

But by being one of the people that didnt, you're vicariously part of the statistic in a negative way!!

muahahah!H!HAHAHAH!HHHAHHA

/me evilily laughs off into the distance

I was a Jedi Knight but i have graduated to Jedi Master now so i will have to change it in the next census

i reckon most people would put 'christianity' cause they have been brainwahsed... not necessarily because they are christians...

Topic: 70,500 Jedi in Australia

That should read: 70,500 self confesed geeks placed for future steraliztion.

I'm proud to announce I'm not part of this statistic!

As am I.

also do you have linkies to the figures anywhere, I was just the other day talking to a colleague about the "jedi" religion and she didn't beleive me :/

Not sure if theres a link to it, I heard it on the radio this morning on the way in to work.

LAMERS!

that is all....

Linkities for all

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22113.html

well i put jedi down. why? religions a joke. and i am not a star wars freak either.

but snt that sort of like putting in the Sex column "Not Yet." some of them could be jokes.

or at least i hope there are or else australians as a human race are doomed

I only have one word to say about these people..

LOSERS

Uh, hello, f***heads.
I'm sure the majority of the people who put down "Jedi" as their religion did it as a joke. Basically to take the piss out of the Government.
Jesus, get a sense of humour people.

Oh, and religion takes cock.

Uh, hello, f***heads.
I'm sure the majority of the people who put down "Jedi" as their religion did it as a joke. Basically to take the piss out of the Government.
Jesus, get a sense of humour people.

That's what they say now, at the time they ran retard fantasies of getting fudning from the government for a new death star or some other geekish project of some description, I'm sure.

Give them a break fools. Those people who did put it down seriously have every right to. You know, freedom of religion? I wish them the best of luck, they have just as much right to follow thier beleifs without persecution as christians or muslims. Ill be damned if id ever join an organised regilion of any description, but I dont begrudge the Jedi for thiers.
*gets down off high horse*

Well you figure it, if they gave the jedi guys 150 billion dollars they could build a death star which doubled as a detention centre, as well as a place to put all those troublesome bulldogs players. As well as anybody who has spent more than 2 days in the media spotlight, this includes those guys who were rescued from that mine-shaft and a whole lot of other people.

Somebody think of the children.

Sif, they'd end up putting me in there too :|

I put none down as my religion.

Jedi has eveything that a religion needs, right down to a cool story.
If people are willing to live by the Jedi code as Christians should live by the bible then let them.

As a religon I rekon Jedi has got alot of things covered. So while you people call them geeks and idiots, I call them Jedi, because guess what, they are now.

Religion is just another excuse to be extreamly crappy to each other.

Too right it is. I'm from Northern Ireland, lived in Straban and Derry...to say that religeon is f***ed up, is an understatement. The South is so much better, no Protestants ;)

And also so you can be really nice to the people you know :p

I reckon they should put some assylum seekers in the big brother house, have the australian public vote someone out once a week, then get deported, the winner gets australian residency.

Everyones a winner.

thatd be awesome :D ... pity it'll never happen :(

Uh, hello, f***heads.
I'm sure the majority of the people who put down "Jedi" as their religion did it as a joke. Basically to take the piss out of the Government.
Jesus, get a sense of humour people.

Oh, and religion takes cock.
It may well be crap but what of the people who will appeal for funding in various areas, they may be from a religious group and need to justify a care centre or a shelter by the number of people in the area who prescribe to a certain faith, If they missed out because some stain put down jedi as their religion then that is very f***ed up..

The people who did it to be cool are just f***ing with the statistics, the information that tells people in power which areas are lacking, which areas need development, which pockets of the community are in need, it is not a place for a bunch of f***s to go on some sort of anti-government preach the new religion campaign...

You know, freedom of religion?

religions created by George lucas dont fall under that clause

I put down Jedi in all my families religion (I did the census for everyone), not because I'm serious about it, but because I think religions in general are a joke and I'm going to treat the question about them as one too. I don't even think Jedi is a religion in Star Wars, but more of a government organisation like the FBI that has a particular code of ethics.

This is what I don't understand.. What is there possibly to gain from filling out the census incorrectly? It doesn't earn you a bag of money or anything, but it can disadvantage people in your area.. Why fill out incorrectly? to look cool to mates? make a Huge political statement?

but it can disadvantage people in your area

it can disadvantage religious people

I gotta say these people piss me off as much as donkey voters do. Don't they realise that they spoil it for everyone else by feeding the government incorrect information?

how stupid as if u would put jedi knight on the census.

if people do this it is suprising that what people do. and it is in the uk not aus so people can't have been in the census anway.

I wasn't talking about the UK, I was talking about the census here, just someone happened to post an article about it happening the UK as well.

I think i once heard that if in a census 50000 people choose a religion it becomes an official religion in this country.

Which means they can apply for subsidies and rates cuts for land and buildings and can apply for religious holidays to be avialable as days off for employees.
And wouldn't they get tax breaks and charity recognition and stuff? There could be a real financial boon for them.

As a Jedi knight one must not work more then 4 standard republic days in any 7 standard republic days (a standard republic week).

No religious discrimination allowed when going for a job and you get it. Then start on Tuesday with the above reason. You can't get fired :)

I'll join :)

Which means they can apply for subsidies and rates cuts for land and buildings and can apply for religious holidays to be avialable as days off for employees.
And wouldn't they get tax breaks and charity recognition and stuff? There could be a real financial boon for them.

Exactly the reason to why this sort of s*** should not be allowed to go ahead.. they are denying *worthy* (i use this term with much hesitation as i know the implications it infers) charities and religious organisations funds and tax breaks...

The point is I would put down any minority faith or non-religion, because it does represent me just as if I had answered truthfully.

Next time round I will put Sith when I get some dark powah skillz.

I don't believe the census is asking a philosophical question.. its asking for facts as to what denomination you belong to..

That would assume I'm a Christian though. My answer could be anything in such a circumstance.

Nevertheless the social implication of me saying I belong to minority religion X (my own beliefs or whatever) to minority religion Y (jediism) are the same, since I'm not part of the major influential Christian "denominations". In reality the religions other than the ones that make up the majority are just there so that people don't feel left out and discriminated against - our vote (?) doesn't affect anything.

I gotta say these people piss me off as much as donkey voters do. Don't they realise that they spoil it for everyone else by feeding the government incorrect information?

Why is the information incorrect? It is showing that 70,000 people would rather choose Jedi religion then the others, that says something.

I think i once heard that if in a census 50000 people choose a religion it becomes an official religion in this country

UK says that the Censes is only a tool to see what answers people put down for a particular question and to count those answers. It does not validate any religons.

Also the Religion question is the one question that cannot be fined.

Exactly the reason to why this sort of s*** should not be allowed to go ahead.. they are denying *worthy* (i use this term with much hesitation as i know the implications it infers) charities and religious organisations funds and tax breaks...

It wont go ahead because the censes dosnt valid religions...

Why is the information incorrect? It is showing that 70,000 people would rather choose Jedi religion then the others, that says something.

Because most people only put it down as a joke, no sane person would actually believe that Jedi has any thread of truth in it... if that were the case then why can't I create a cult of the CS haters and instantly CS players are blown off the face of the earth by whatever means I happen to make up? See what I'm getting at, it's stupid.

s*** most of the people who post on this forum regularly would be classified "geeks" so who cares??

i think its classic!!

Are you in the geek class Fireblood?

ohh have a f***ing bitch ya tards! :D

I'm noticing most of the people defending putting Jedi down as a religion have alternating caps in their name, or stupid names with ascii characters, or a stupid sig... could this possibly be saying something about thier maturity level?

(no offence intended if you happen to fall into the lamer catorgory mentioned above)

I gotta say these people piss me off as much as donkey voters do. Don't they realise that they spoil it for everyone else by feeding the government incorrect information?

I don't know about you, but I think Mickey Mouse deserves to be Prime Minister :P

I think most of you miss the point of what a religion means.

No, I understand what religion means - it's something created to prevent people from realising that they are insignificant, disposable and part of nature. If we had no religion, no concept of god, people would soon go crazy due to lack of hope or meaning.

Ha it's funny that you guys mention that it f***s up the funding cause I think poseurs (e.g. people who say their christians but haven't been to church for 20 years and that was cause their parents made them) would also f*** it up. Thus christian's get more funding than they deserve and throw their weight around more than they should. So I don't really care.

As if you'd put Jedi down as your religion. At least call yourself a Ranger/An'La Shok :D

why can't I create a cult of the CS haters

You can. You can put that down as your religion. If you spend more time thinking about hate and counter-strike than praying to Jesus, then you may well have justified your faith.

and instantly CS players are blown off the face of the earth by whatever means I happen to make up? See what I'm getting at, it's stupid.

No that's just a stupid statement.

hmmmmmn counter-strike cult......... sounds good. could be like the KKK. cept 1337er

shotgun geting to put bed sheets on myself and go around putting burning hostages in people's front yards!!!!

seriously though, star wars is cool and that, and its funny when a few people do it, not 70 500!!!! argh i find that slightly amusing but the more i think about it the more stupid it becomes to even think of doin such a thing....

im putting down on the next one that i worship weebl and bob...

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm pie.

i think its gay because its royally f***ed up the census, and being a nuisance isnt relaly looked upon favourably.

if it was serious id think they were sad, and if its to be a d*******, i think that thats sad too.

The censes is for collecting answers for questions, they got an answer.

the question needs to be asked, how many of you can actually fill the cenus out legally? Do you have to be over 18 to fill it in?

i think you do either that or the government just assumes that most people under the age of 18 still live at home so their mum or dad would fill it out.

easiest way to get out of doing the census make sure on the night you are at someone else's house so they have to include you on their form and you don't have to do it. lol

How can people claim it screwed up the census? Hell, I don't think there are really 12.8 million serious christians in Australia. Voting "christian" is every bit as much a donkey vote for many people as voting "jedi".

And as for needing x number of votes then it officially gets recognised as a religion - sorry that's just not true. To get a religion officially recognised takes a lot more than that. Which in turn means that it doesn't really disadvantage the "poor needy christians" out there (or whatever religion cult you belong to).

And honestly subsidies for religion - piss off! What a bloody stupid idea. Just because someone says they're catholic they don't deserve any more money than someone who is an athiest. I'd rather see a big investigation into all the subsidies and whatnot that organised religion gets. Might stop the catholic church paying hush money to the families of altar boys they've abused.

If we're disadvantaging other religions in some way well tough s*** to them. I get really annoyed by bible bashes that come to my door to "preech the good word of the lord" they're wasting my time in doing it. I personally didn't write down Jedi, I chose catholic although realistically I should have said athiest. But I have no problem with all the people who did choose Jedi!

I'm betting Jerds did!

religions created by George lucas dont fall under that clause

Bulls***. To begin with, they dont beleive in starship, lightsabres or any of that crap. The beleive in the ideals of the jedi order, resisting temptations like greed, hate etc. Read their site. Secondly, what makes the jedi any different from any other religion, aside from their relatively recent birth. Ive said it before and ill say it again, people in this country have the right to beleive in whatever the f*** they want to beleive in, and morons like you cant stop them, thankfully.

I think i once heard that if in a census 50000 people choose a religion it becomes an official religion in this country

Not true. When I was researching my feature article on the Jedi I cam across several quotes from the census beareu refuting this.

I'm noticing most of the people defending putting Jedi down as a religion have alternating caps in their name, or stupid names with ascii characters, or a stupid sig... could this possibly be saying something about thier maturity level?

You sir, are a f***ing moron.
Personally, I think they are a lot better than some of the other bats*** insane 'religions' out there. *cough* Scientology *cough*. At least they beleive in something worthwhile, self improvement with a strong moral code. What more do you need a religion.

its a democracy, so i spose people can do wat they want. its good that people have a sense of humour though...

Personally, I think they are a lot better than some of the other bats*** insane 'religions' out there. *cough* Scientology *cough*. At least they beleive in something worthwhile, self improvement with a strong moral code. What more do you need a religion.

Correct. At least the jedi don't lay death sentences down on women adulterers.

I'm noticing most of the people defending putting Jedi down as a religion have alternating caps in their name, or stupid names with ascii characters, or a stupid sig... could this possibly be saying something about thier maturity level?

(no offence intended if you happen to fall into the lamer catorgory mentioned above)

This coming from a person with an acronym as a nick and possibly the worst (though nicely designed) sig on the forums? It's not really your place to run around insulting people like that, especially when you fall into a very similar catagory