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The word Jedi is now part of the new Oxford English Dictionary.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2282572.stm

Nice

celebrations!
and I see ush is also mentioned there now

so for Bush people the word would be morons?

You DO know I vote conservative, don't you?

you cant vote in US

So YOU'RE the one.

em..no..that is so hard to understand but you DO like blair, you've said it yourself and you always agree with him.

no he doesnt

No, I don't. I have no idea what you are talking, about, Mah. He is just unfairly criticised, is all. To call a Conservative voter a Blairite is just ridiculous.

nice new adition

aha.

SO? What the hell does that prove? I never denied that! What I think of the man has nothing to do with what I think of his policies! Put some thought into what you post! To be a Blairite I would have to support his political philiosophy, and I do not, and to say I always agree with him is just plain dumb of you to say, frankly.

ah, it was just a joke! no need to get all grumpy!

I got grumpy because it was a joke based on an ill-thought out premise, but mostly because of the inaccurate way you followed it up.

sorry

Ah, never mind...

I suppose people will be trying to make Jedi a religion again soon.

Note that 'Muggle' hasn't made it in there. Bah!

Muggle.

will wonders never cease....

Jedi is a religion.

Not in the real world it ain't.

I agree with Ush

Hah, what colour is the sky in your world?

who deceides what religion is right or not.

I think we should let Obi-Wan decide.

Well, it's not officially a religion in any capacity and to try and make it so trivialises the idea.

lets make an jedi religion. sounds like fun

When they had the census in Australia where they got people to put Jedi down as their religion they ended up getting enough people to make it a valid religion, not sure if the authorities allowed it though.

misunderstood the idea corran, urban legend

Urban Legends don't exist, they're just Legends.

What have Urban Legends got to do with anything Yerssot?

a lot KJ! never saw the movie?

nah, legend is that you can make Jedi a religion

that Jedi relgion thing is somewhere on http://www.snopes.com/index.asp

No census in any Western Country has the power to create religions. All they do is classify answers given for filing purposes. If everyone wrote on the census that they worshipped clouds, then the census would note that everyone was saying they worshipped clouds- but as census officials everywhere where this nonsense came from said, these classifcations do not religions make.

If people do actually believe strongly in something and I mean really believe and even follow any teachings of, then would that not then be able to be considered a religion.
With so many different religions around they must have actually started from something, from some sort of belief or mis-understanding of something, so why would it not be possible for the same to happen again and for Jedi to actually become a religion?

sekts (spelling) are forbidden here btw

sects

close enough

close but no cigar

I don't smoke

Well not tobacco products anyhow.

tomacco products on the other hand

Highly addictive though.

yes, I love the simpsons

*Red leader voice* Stay on topic, stay on topic.

I can't hold! I have to go offtopic!
AAAAAAAAAAARGH!

The force is strong in you Simpson, but you are not a religion yet.

ha...what's religion got to do.,...got to do with it???

yes, yes a it might be done. Can you turn the religion.

Last warning. Stay on topic or this thread WILL be closed.

If you only knew the power of the offtopic threads

Anybody can create a religion. Lets start the Church Of Yerssot.

let me be the one to stay outside that religion too. I wonder how they plan to practise jedi as a religion

it's not a religion, it's a way of life

um finti...I think you may close this....but really the topic has to do with jedi now being in a dictionary...its more of an interesting point thing than a discussion

party-pooper

Though in a way the fact that it was added to a dictionary tends to support the view that languages to evolve as time goes on...

I thought that was established already!

you'd be surprised at how many totally obvious things are overlooked...

like drinks being fluid?

uh yes Yerssot......like drinks being fluid....and many many more obvious things out there

like you can hear sound?

Please don't be wasting time in the threads...

sure, at least I can spend some time with a RL then

When's Sith gonna be entered into the dictionary? Now there's a religion for me!

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Wow...

Is Sith in there by any chance?