Divine misconception of the day: “Force strong for new Jedi church”. I have no clue what these people are thinking. Star Wars is unabashed fiction. Religions are supposed to be the truth, so using pure fiction as the basis for a religion is not valid. There is not even a hint in this article of these Jedi realists giving any proof that the Force is real. The reader may take it as obvious that lightsabers do not exist. Scarily, the UK Church of the Jedi is not the only example of a fictional religion making the jump to real religion; Bokononism, Matrixism, Thelema, the Church of All Worlds, the Cthulhu Mythos, and Orange Catholicism have made the jump to various degrees. Similarly, some religions started as excuses (Reformed Druids) or jokes (Discordianism), only to end up as serious. Fair to say none of these are any more valid.
Today’s news and commentary:
- “Stock Market Crash (1983)”
- “Lights On, Nobody Home”
- “BBC Doesn't Deny HR Report Findings”
- “NYC Insists Calorie Content Be Included on Fast-Food Menus”
- “How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle”
- “Just one more year! Good riddance to George W Bush” (Not necessarily. We might get lucky and see Bush and his cronies impeached.)
- “Jerusalem merchants forced to hold solidarity strike for Gaza” (Lame.)
- reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books (Not news or commentary, but an intriguing way to reclaim otherwise wasted time and effort.)
- “Origami spaceplane to launch from space station” (I cannot make something like this up.)
- “Analysis: Metcalfe's Law + Real ID = more crime, less safety” (Considering Bush’s policies of aiding and abetting abuse, maybe no one ought to be surprised.)
Aaron
1 comment:
Why say you fiction it is? A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it happened, did it not?
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