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Canadian Census: 20,000 Jedi Worshippers
Lev13than writes "Canada.com is reporting that some 20,000 Canadians listed "Jedi" as their religion in the last national census (2001). Apparently this is the offshoot of an Internet joke which originated in Australia a few years back. The results are interesting on a couple of levels. While it show that some people may have too much time on their hands, it also raises questions of privacy rights, Internet activism and data integrity. Although it's not statistically significant given Canada's population of 31.5 million, 20,000 lightsabre-wielding census-takers is nothing to sneeze at. StatsCan's full report (with no mention of Jedis) can be found here."
This is indeed serious.
It is fine if these people said that their religion is "Jedi" for fun, but if they really mean it, they are sick and only shows how easily people can be MANIPULATED by the media. I want to believe that people are more clever than this, to truly create and believe in a "universe" that was created from George Lucas in order to make it big in HollyWood.
If the idiocy of these people go into such lengths to believe that the Matrix is real, that the Force is real and that Wolverine has a penis made from adamadium, then these people are rightfully kicked by the system and controlled by the media. Losers.
*cough*figure*cough*
We Americans pride ourselves in our spelling, though.
In a related story...
Aetheism is a religion. Agnosticism is not.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
You should question religion instead
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We Canadians live in an environment of totally crappy government on all levels, an unaware and basically ignorant populace on all levels of local and global political awareness. With all the crap that this country is going through, a percentage of our voting public are going to subscribe to some mythical "religion" from a movie ? No wonder things don't work here. No wonder the rest of the world can't take us seriously.
This isn't the country I was looking for, sadly
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Glad us HMO's are so greatest here that even Canadians wished they had. It beats communism anyass day. Just glad these poor suffering Canadians are in Asia and so closest to ya America. Otherwise they would move down here or form a revolution in Canada.
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I'm a Canadian who scored a 148 on his last High School IQ test, didn't apply to the mutual masturbation that is Mensa, and threw away said IQ test because it's useless as an indicator of intelligence & was never meant to be a general test in the first place.
I would just like to say that you are a pretentious fuck, not funny, and I'm embarassed of your being a citizen of this fine country.
Oh, hahaha! A Simpson's quote! Oh haha! I get it! But this one's not as funny as the parent, as you can tell from the karma. Oh, haha, you can always tell how funny the Simpson's quote is from the karma it whores. In fact, that's the only way to gauge a Simpson's quote humour level since the Simpson's aren't funny. But OH HAHA! I GET IT THOUGH! Simpson's quote, oh hahaha!