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I’ve long been a fan of synchronicity, and the theory that there’s more order to reality than should be present by chance. I don’t believe in coincidence, but it happens often, and therein jumps the rabbit hole…

You scored as C.G. Jung. You are more of a spiritualist than would be immediately apparent. Some of your notions are questioned by the cynical, but deep down you know the human consciousness is more than the flesh and tissue can account for. You tend to take a scientific observationist look on matters the average person wouldn’t even begin to analyze. You personally are responsible for most of the ideas that are floating around in modern psychologist’s/psychic’s paltry little skulls. On the down side, you tend to be associated with that asshole Freud.

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According to the 2001 Census, Jedi Knight is the fourth most popular religion in England.

The 2001 Census was the first census that asked people to identify their religion. In addition to a check-box list of major religions, the census form had a write-in space.

When the results were tallied, it was discovered that 7 out of every thousand people in England and Wales wrote “Jedi” in that space.

The reason for the sudden popularity of the Jedi cult can be traced to an internet campaign that—inaccurately—claimed the belief system made popular by the Star Wars films might receive official government recognition if enough people claimed it. To quote one of the emails, “Do it because you love Star Wars…or just to annoy people.”

Jedi Knights Around the World

The religion of Jedi Knight wasn’t limited to Great Britain. The census turned up more than 70,000 Jedis in Australia and 20,000 in Canada. But New Zealand had the highest percentage, at 1.5%. That’s more than 53,000 Jedis.

Religion by the Numbers

The 390,000 Jedis in England and Wales made The Force the fourth most popular religion (0.7% of the population of 52 million), but what were numbers 1 through 3?

Christianity was number one, with 72.0% of the population.

Muslims made up 3.1%.

Hindus made up another 1.1%.

And 14.8%, heathens who will soon be burning in hell for eternity (Hey! I’m joking, alright…), simply said they weren’t religious.

The Creator

George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars and Jedi Knights, was baptised and raised as a Methodist. Lucas expanded his religious views through studying Eastern religious traditions. In an interview with Bill Moyers, he expounds on The Force:

I would hesitate to call the Force God. It’s designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, “Here’s the answer.” It’s to say, Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God? Just getting young people to think at that level is what I’ve been trying to do in the films. What eventual manifestation that takes place in terms of how they describe their God, what form their faith takes, is not the point of the movie.

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“The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly colored and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while.

“Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride?

“And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, ‘Hey — don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride …’

“And we … kill those people. Ha ha, ‘Shut him up. We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.’ It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok.

“But it doesn’t matter, because — it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want.

“It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

“Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.

“Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead, spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

~The Late Great Bill Hicks

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On Christmas Eve, 1914, during the first World War, German troops near Ypres, Belgium, put decorations up around their trenches. They even put candles in trees, and started singing Christmas carols, namely Stille Nacht (Silent Night).

Hearing the Germans, the British troops in the opposite trenches started singing carols in English.

As the carols grew louder, both sides began yelling Christmas greetings to each other. Then, some began to venture across No Man’s Land and exchanged gifts, such as cigarettes and chocolate. While the cannons remained still, troops from both sides retrieved the dead and took the opportunity to give fallen comrades a proper burial. At one funeral in No Man’s Land, soldiers from both sides gathered and read a passage from the 23rd Psalm.

The truce spread along the lines, and there are even tales of a soccer match being played. The truce lasted through Christmas night, and in some places through New Year’s Day.

One soldier in the British Expeditionary Force wrote a letter about the event:

My Dear Mater,

This will be the most memorable Christmas I’ve ever spent or likely to spend: since about tea time yesterday I don’t think theres been a shot fired on either side up to now. Last night turned a very clear frost moonlight night, so soon after dusk we had some decent fires going and had a few carols and songs. The Germans commenced by placing lights all along the edge of their trenches and coming over to us - wishing us a Happy Christmas etc. They also gave us a few songs etc. so we had quite a social party. Several of them can speak English very well so we had a few conversations. Some of our chaps went to over to their lines. I think theyve all come back bar one from ‘E’ Co. They no doubt kept him as a souvenir. In spite of our fires etc. it was terribly cold and a job to sleep between look out duties, which are two hours in every six.

First thing this morning it was very foggy. So we stood to arms a little longer than usual. A few of us that were lucky could go to Holy Communion early this morning. It was celebrated in a ruined farm about 500 yds behind us. I unfortunately couldnt go. There must be something in the spirit of Christmas as to day we are all on top of our trenches running about. Whereas other days we have to keep our heads well down. We had breakfast about 8.0 which went down alright especially some cocoa we made. We also had some of the post this morning. I had a parcel from B. G’s Lace Dept containing a sweater, smokes, under clothes etc. We also had a card from the Queen, which I am sending back to you to look after please. After breakfast we had a game of football at the back of our trenches! We’ve had a few Germans over to see us this morning. They also sent a party over to bury a sniper we shot in the week. He was about a 100 yds from our trench. A few of our fellows went out and helped to bury him.

About 10.30 we had a short church parade the morning service etc. held in the trench. How we did sing. ‘O come all ye faithful. And While shepherds watched their flocks by night’ were the hymns we had. At present we are cooking our Christmas Dinner! so will finish this letter later.

Dinner is over! and well we enjoyed it. Our dinner party started off with fried bacon and dip-bread: followed by hot Xmas Pudding. I had a mascot in my piece. Next item on the menu was muscatels and almonds, oranges, bananas, chocolate etc followed by cocoa and smokes. You can guess we thought of the dinners at home. Just before dinner I had the pleasure of shaking hands with several Germans: a party of them came 1/2way over to us so several of us went out to them. I exchanged one of my balaclavas for a hat. I’ve also got a button off one of their tunics. We also exchanged smokes etc. and had a decent chat. They say they won’t fire tomorrow if we don’t so I suppose we shall get a bit of a holiday - perhaps. After exchanging autographs and them wishing us a Happy New Year we departed and came back and had our dinner.

We can hardly believe that we’ve been firing at them for the last week or two - it all seems so strange. At present its freezing hard and everything is covered with ice…

There are plenty of huge shell holes in front of our trenches, also pieces of shrapnel to be found. I never expected to shake hands with Germans between the firing lines on Christmas Day and I don’t suppose you thought of us doing so. So after a fashion we’ve enjoyed? our Christmas. Hoping you spend a happy time also George Boy as well. How we thought of England during the day. Kind regards to all the neighbours. With much love from Boy.

The identity of the writer has never been discovered, as he referered to himself only as “Boy.” It’s also unknown whether he survived the war or not.

More letters from soldiers that participated in the truce can be read here: Christmas Truce: The Letters.