May the Force be with you.

[alphekka_alpha]

"Two self-styled Jedi Knights are stepping up an intergalactic campaign for formal recognition. Umada and Yunyun, also known as John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law, want the UN to acknowledge "The Force" is worthy of being called a religion. The couple claim to be part of the UK's fourth largest religious group, after 400,000 people recorded their

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[juliabk]

The couple claim to be part of the UK's fourth largest religious group, after 400,000 people recorded their faith as "Jedi" in the 2001 Census."

WOW! I love it!

Now, about The Flying Spaghetti Monster and his Pastafarian adherents...?

My position as a founding member of DBAA (Don't Be An Asshole) prevents me from taking up with any other religious group. However, if I were, I'd have to ask, 'with meatballs or without?' and then there's the question of crushed red pepper and the age-old conundrum "Parmesan or Romano: which is the true way to Pastafarian Salvation?"

[alphekka_alpha]

LOL! It's clearly turned into a Real Religion already!

You know - as soon as a religion develops a big enough group of dedicated adherents, that group automatically divides, amoeba-like, into assorted cults and factions, each of which has The True - and only - Interpretation of "What The Founder Really Meant."

With the passage of time, this will mutate into the polar opposite of what the founder actually said.

Cynic? Moi? ::flutters eyelashes innocently:: 8-)
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[juliabk]

The afternoon that DBAA was formed (in a hotel room in Boston, AAMOF), the four of us sat around talking about it (no dogma, no holy writ, just the injunction "Don't Be An Asshole" which is what the best religions boil down to) and before it was over, we already had a schism. Should we get t-shirts or bead bracelets?

AAAAHHHH!!!!!

But I don't guess you can have a religion without a schism. It's sort of a rite of passage.

[alphekka_alpha]

LOL!

Of course, you do realize, don't you, that with the passage of time,"Don't Be An Asshole" will be interpreted and translated and reinterpreted and mistranslated thus:

Do - Japanese = copper; wan - Chinese = curving; tabi - Tagalog = way; anas - Latin = duck; ol - Gaelic = drink.

And will thus mutate into 'The meandering copper pathway of the drunken duck.'

It will then be shortened to 'The Way,' and will require much imbibing of alcoholic beverages from copper goblets. It's slogan will become, "Fuck a duck, that stuff packs a punch!"

Wars will ensue.

And it'll be All Your Fault... {BFG}
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[tylers_abyss]

Now, about The Flying Spaghetti Monster and his Pastafarian adherents...? 8-)

May you and the world be formally touched by his noodly appendage.

RAmen.

[juliabk]

That does it. I've got to pop "A Very Scary Solstice" in the CD player on the way home.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen,
everywhere you go..."