Job centre apologises for evicting Jedi fan

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Sigh... I made the mistake of looking at the actual website, now I think I am an atheist. No god would allow a church of Jedi to form...

Ok... that's kinda... odd... But heck, I am odd so who am I to question people's choices! Without getting into a massive religious debate, I think that anyone who is wearing a hood shouldn't have to put it down unless they are behaving in an intimidating or threatening way (although trying to get THEM to remove their hoods wouldn't be easy!) because I am SO ANGRY with people telling me what I can and can't wear. I like my hood up sometimes because I have Tourettes and it hides my tics a little... ok so I would probably be asked to remove my hood because of the rule I made... Damn my doofus mind...

LIVE ON THE JEDI!! !

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The two Jedi shown as example both have their hoods down. Other than rain, snow, cold, lurking in the shadows, which I doubt could be found at a jobs center, down is the usual position.

In The Phantom Menace, we saw the entire Jedi Council in session. These are the highest-ranking Jedi of all - and not one of them was wearing his/her/its hood up. (Admittedly, in the case of the guy with the bifurcated head, raising the hood would have been difficult under the best of circumstances...)

It was established in The Return of the Jedi that in order for a Jedi to advance to the level of Knight, he would need to actually construct his own lightsaber. (Inferred from Vader's statement to Skywalker, that Skywalker's construction of a new 'saber marked the completion of the boy's Jedi training.) While we don't know for certain that the young man in question was without such a weapon, it seems unlikely that he could have been ejected had he one.

In other words, this guy was about as much a Jedi as a man with a propeller beanie is an orthodox Jew.

This may really take off. Isn't L Ron Hubbard's Scientology based upon his science fiction? You pay them millions to get rid of the aliens possessing you or something like that. Now the Jedism will come and conquer the....um....darkside?
I think I'll just stay an atheist.

What happens when the next guy claims to be a Knight Templar and comes in wearing chain mail, a steel helmet and a really big sword?

Or, what do they call those holy men in India? The ones who rub themselves with ashes and walk around naked?

Or claim you are a Voodoo priest and wear some shrunken heads hanging around your neck.

Jedi mind tricks cannot work on those with no mind...

Hmmmm, he sounds like a Sith to me by his behaviour.
At the very least he is an apprentice slipping down the dark path.
"Yes my young apprentice. Feel the anger, unleash the litigation..."

"Any religion that isn't at least two thousand years old is a cult."

--Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner.

i'm rifling through my old army stuff right now to try and find my dogtags. i have 4 sets of dogtags from my time in the u.s. army. 1 set says "no-rel-pref" for religion because the guy at the army surplus store (way faster than waiting for uncle sam) wouldn't put "jedi" on them. the other 3 sets all say "jedi." even my original set from basic.
that said, i am not a member of this religion.
believe it or not, i caught less sith-spit for claiming "jedi" than any of the other 6 admitted atheists.

i'm a bigger starwars geek than most, however, and i can't find any basis for being a douche about wearing a hood. i think obi-wan would have taken it off and apologized. only that whiney brat annie would have made an issue out of it.

As long as I can bring my light saber into Starbucks, I'm happy.