brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Invite folk to respond about supernatural belief systems and you're gonna get some strange answers.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That’s not the point
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
What is the point?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Putting Jedi is daft and a lie
So is Christianity. At least Jediism doesn’t pretend you can physically come back to life, just that you can be a spooooooky ghost.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Christianity is a religion though and its adherents are (largely) not pretending
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Not if those responding believe it to be true, and it is a voluntary question so it's not an offence to put whatever you like in those.
It rather begs the question of what value voluntary questions are and why the state wants to know about supernatural beliefs in the first place.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
People only put Jedi down as a joke. It’s not real.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
If they truly believe, who are you to say otherwise?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Would that include “none”?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
The Force is strong with this one. This is not the thread you are looking for.
Hardly any Christians I know have any real hard belief in the Bible as the literal word of God, as evidenced by their ignoring of its doctrines (surely the last thing you’d do if you really believed it). They are just soft C of E types that like the community of it.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, they offer the box labelled "Other" (write in) and, if you wanted to respond to the census, and that's how you describe your nationality, then...yeah, go for it!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They don’t
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
We don’t get the option until ‘22, but it’s worth the troll.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Just don't let Theresa May know!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Seeing into others' souls...impressive.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Come off it, you know it’s not a religion and is just put down as a laugh
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Genuinely don't know what unknown people believe?
How do you know?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he doesn't
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Stop with this daftness. You’re aware of the films
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
An elegant post from a more civilised age.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
There’s a Church of John Coltrane. They know he was a jazz musician. It’s tempting to think they’re just jazz fans with a heightened sense of metaphor, but they claim to be sincere.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I once saw that shitty Robert Powell film about Jesus; doesn't mean I know whether Christians' believe all the stuff they say they do.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You can’t really compare them.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I just did, but I still don't know how you know what these folk all believe.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
If the state regarded some responses as invalid expressions of supernatural belief systems they could, of course, make that explicit on the census form and offer a list of unacceptable religions.
Otherwise, we have to assume that the state values all these responses.
Otherwise, we have to assume that the state values all these responses.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I’ve seen the films. They’re definitely made up.
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