so...Jedi is really a religion?

[Amby 490]

The Jedi church has no official doctrine or scripture. The Jedi church recognizes that all living things share a living force and that all people have an innate knowledge of what is right and wrong, and the Jedi Church celebrates this like no other religion.

Basic concepts of the Jedi faith that we at the Jedi Church would like to promote are the following:

The Basic Concepts

There is one all powerful force that binds the entire universe together. It is "an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together". This is a concept that most religions of the world concur with. Some refer to it as their deity, some refer to it as a life force, but the one thing nearly all religions agree with, is that there exists a single unifying force.

There are 2 sides to the force, the dark side and the light side. "Beware of the dark side... The dark side leads to fear. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering". Good versus Evil is a common element through most religions. The issues of good versus evil, right versus wrong permeate through the doctrines of all religions. Most religions attempt to state what is right and wrong, to establish their moral code. Sometimes religions make codes that don't reach a great consensus. Outsiders, and sometime insiders, begin to judge their religious code by something more powerful, something more innate, an innate ability to know what is right and wrong. This is the Jedi's belief, that morality, good and evil, are all axioms of the force, and that we must listen to the force so that we will know the right thing to do.

Can good exist without evil? The Jedi believe that good and evil are only axioms of the all powerful and unifying force. The force contains all that is good and all that is bad. We all are free and sentient beings who have the capability to do good or evil. It is our choice of direction that determines if we do good or evil. The existence of good and evil is necessary for freewill.

So in summary, listen to the force, and beware the dark side!

http://www.jedichurch.org/

[Chica Yeyé 41]

May the Force be with you Amby

[Nessa 23]

cool, i have religion now

[Hannah+Vito 0]

speachless.

this I gota show to my trekkie/starwarsy geek

though i aint joining no starwars church

[Chica Yeyé 41]

[Amby 490]

May the Force be with you Amby

Thanks

[Jasman0717 9]

Luke, feel the force

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

New Zealand? I would have thought the home page would be from Skywalker Ranch, Lucas Valley in Marin County, California. Leave to the Kiwis to subscribe to a fictional religon created from the mind of our favorite hippie around here, George Lucas! Pass the bong, Jorge!

--Bullwinkle

[alienlovechild 75]

The Force is loosely based on Hinduism and Joesph Campbell's ideas about human myths.

"My thesis is simple. Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," was heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell, the famed mythologist. Campbell's preferred stock of philosophical stories comes from India. This is well known. Campbell explained the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the principal epics of contemporary Hinduism, to Lucas, who digested their many stories and gave them back to us as "Star Wars." Lucas himself says that he was "influenced by Eastern myths." Here's one example I use in my forthcoming book, drawing on the first film of the series, which was released in 1977"

http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Mov...a-And-Yoga.aspx

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

The Force is loosely based on Hinduism and Joesph Campbell's ideas about human myths.

"My thesis is simple. Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," was heavily influenced by Joseph Campbell, the famed mythologist. Campbell's preferred stock of philosophical stories comes from India. This is well known. Campbell explained the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the principal epics of contemporary Hinduism, to Lucas, who digested their many stories and gave them back to us as "Star Wars." Lucas himself says that he was "influenced by Eastern myths." Here's one example I use in my forthcoming book, drawing on the first film of the series, which was released in 1977"

http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Mov...a-And-Yoga.aspx

It is probably closer to Taoism in philosophy, than Hinduism, although there is no reason Hinduism would not include any religon, including "The Force". And, Star Wars resembles a Kung-Fu movie, more than Bollywood!

--Bullwinkle

[almaty 19]

I think scientology started out this way

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I think scientology started out this way

It did -- out of the reeeeeeally blah books of sci-fi author Ron L. Hubbard.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

The force has been with me always, therefore if I were to choose between Scientology and Jediism, I'd choose Jeddism.

Besides they have kick a$$ lightsabers

[Chica Yeyé 41]

and cooler outfits for gurls

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Na,

A true Jedi master should be an hombre

Maybe a Jedi nurse