I happen to be eclectic agnostic, if it exists. Taking bits and pieces from many sources, but still not choosing, but classifying the many mainstream entities in a hierchey(though, not necessarily the celestines of solar systems ruling over the planetary celestines.............nevermind, I'm too groggy this morning to go through the finer details of my terms relating to what I call my religion(if you can call it that, it is just a belief system). A book is a book. If someone wants to take sound ideas from the material and create such and such religion off of it, so be it. From my understanding of the Bible, Old and New Testament, Old being the backround to the system, and the New being a sound way to live up to standards of ethics. In my opinion, that's what the "Order of Jedi's" did, only foward in our technological understandnigs and/or imitating something that has the possibility of existing someplace in the omniverse and manifesting as such rich detail. #-o Some other points, just that halfway through, I caught myself ranting about controversial topics, deep topics, too. I stopped because I was going nowhere with what was originally expressed. Read at your own discretion. Ah well, I might be able to shed some light on what I can comprehend to be a religion based on trivial ideas. Though, some of my ideas are based upon sound fiction, mind you. And I'd rather make a report, as I'm groggy this morning and don't feel like extracting information I really haven't touched in a while to explain my points. I suppose I could say something about my points, and then elaborate when necessary.....and this is without researching into this "Jedi" religion. Point One: In chaos magick, an egregore(collective idea manifested as a being) can bring people together for a common cause, thus forming this controversial religion. Point Two: Since Star Wars was watched by a goodly number of people, and taking in account of what usually happens when any fiction adored or kept in minds of a great amount of people(a common event that happens if any fiction held in the minds of at least t * 10^8(should be enough people at least)), becomes its own umbral realm held in the near umbra. This makes it easier for the egregore to sway select paradigms of people to its cause. Point Zero.....(knew I forgot the crucial piece to this debate): If you know about Templar Knights, a side-religion off of Catholicisim back in the Middle Ages, one that took ideas from some neighboring religions........... :idea: I'm ranting, and I caught myself spewing out information instead of keeping to the recent subject this topic has evolved to. :wall:
