hey look at this

[befear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-augemgRFU

[Andy]

I think this interview gave us a pretty fair face to the world. They didn't go out and find someone who runs around in robes or carried plastic toys. He seemed pretty down to earth as far as expectations go.

They could have talked about the universality of religion and joseph campbell's influence, but all in all, it didn't make us look like goofballs.

[befear]

i think we need to get everyone to together on one website and set up how we really are and not have separte communties

[Kitsu Tails]

Interesting.....

[befear]

if anyone is online , go in to chat

[Kitsu Tails]

i think we need to get everyone to together on one website and set up how we really are and not have separte communties

This has been tried many, many times before, and it just doesn't work like that.

[Andy]

No kiddin. If you can get everyone on one site, i am totally there. Infact if you can just get 30 people on the same site i am there.

[Kitsu Tails]

I've considered a couple times re-starting Just Jedi again.... I just don't see enough people interested to put time into it >_<

[Justaguy]

I've considered a couple times re-starting Just Jedi again.... I just don't see enough people interested to put time into it >_<

Kiddo, with you and your man possibly getting some permanent digs and your daughter on the way. You won't have much interest either.......:p

But, in all seriosness. I think the idea of getting everyone at one site just won't happen because, quite honestly. People stay where they are comfortable. The amount of sites out there are dwindling, so I think those that are left are staying put out of loyalty, or comfortability, or even complacency.

Just my two cents.

[Kitsu Tails]

Kiddo, with you and your man possibly getting some permanent digs and your daughter on the way. You won't have much interest either......

Actually...i find myself having more time on my hands now :-p but who knows, perhaps that will change

[jdmcowan]

he he. Perhaps?!?! Enjoy it while you can.

[RyuJin]

not bad, with the increasing number of children being raised as jedi it may become a widely accepted system within the next 10-15 years

[Charles]

I considered something similar Kit but I thought against it. Everyone has a different view of what a Jedi is and spearheading any kind of movement puts your own "flavor" on it. That can be an incredibly good thing but you have to be willing to stand up against the river of turmoil you'll run into in the process. I know you know that though. Likewise the general focus each Jedi has over time becomes "more personalized" that is, less diffused. That isn't a bad thing but that means the more time someone trains in one area they less accepting they generally, but not always, are of other areas.

For me it's just not worth the increased acid reflux to run a site, and honestly I don't think anyone would want to go to a site I ran anyway.

[Kitsu Tails]

Well I wasn't going to give it focus and direction like I tried last time. But even plain ol'fashion discussion boards tends to have 'drama' about them. So unless I have 30 so odd people poking me to revive Just Jedi...I likely wont.

[RyuJin]

personally i think this is a usefull site for allowing the various jedi groups to share ideas...i'm mainly on temple of the jedi order, which is linked with the jedi praxeum oklahoma, temple of the jedi force, and temple of the sith...

when you think about it, catholocism,christianity, buddhism, islam, all have multiple branches in them it's only natural that jediism be the same...each branch has it's own focus, it's own views, it's own requirements...

each order is a different branch off the same tree, each jedi a different leaf on a branch of the same tree...

this particular site is alot like a string of moss going from one branch to another connecting them, allowing for sharing of ideas and philosophies.

i have no doubt that there are other strings of moss as well. it's best to allow each branch to grow on its own...

jedi will find the order that best fits them

[Mindas Arran]

Just watched the video... that's the best they could come up with to represent the Jedi Religion?

[Zaron]

Sadly I think that it will nearly imposible to get all jedi on one site because we all belive diffrent things and many have a habit of bumping heads. Not offense to RJK but if what happened there happens on a unified site we will practically tear each other's throats out in heated debates. Just look at what happened to Master Mi-Zen Fu and Adam way back when on RJK they nearly took the whole site down with them. Come to think of it I think they did at one point. Another sad thing is that if you look up real sith orders on google you will find only a handful out their and they are all working together granted not in a health way but still.

[Charles]

I dunno Mindas, I gotta give the guy props for getting up there. He showed some courage, this isn't meant as derogatory what follows, it's not like people aren't already going to look at him funny. He admitted the limitations of the Force and his ability with it to cure his own pain and ills. He seemed, comparatively, rather well grounded. He could have got up there and made claims of levitating cars, or just about anything else, instead the explanations he gave seemed rooted (if not completely so). Lets face it, they could have done better, but also they could have done a great deal worse.

[Kitsu Tails]

I think he did alright...but umm...he could of left out the 'blowing one's nose on film' out of it...highly un-professional...>_< and nasty besides.

His daughter was SOoooo Kyoot!!

[Mindas Arran]

His courage is not what I question. He blew his nose into his hand. No kleenex. On camera. During the interview. That right there tells me they chose the wrong guy.

[Charles]

I didn't even notice that haha, tells you how perceptive I am. It also tells you the image they wanted to show that they left that in the cut as I'm sure not ALL of the footage shot was used.

[ren]

Considering that usually we have to put up with Daniel Jones in the news, guy-with-only-one-arm-blowing-his-nose-possibly-without-a-kleenex seems refreshingly normal in comparison.

[ren]

PS: the guy actually uses a handkerchief... Not so weird after all.

[RyuJin]

ouch...is the bus gonna back up?....lol

[Mindas Arran]

Okay, he did have a kleenex or something. I still think he's a schmuck.

[Kitsu Tails]

kleenex, no kleenex...it doesn't matter. It is un-professional to of used the footage and/or of done it on screen. It sets a poor example to the community as a whole.

As I said, he wasn't...bad....per-say. But he forgot one of the key elements necessary when representing an entire community.

[Charles]

I dunno about the having done it on screen being unprofessional. It shows a certain level of comfort in a situation that most people would feel stress under perhaps. It also could be he had a severe head cold or sinus infection of some kind, or perhaps the levels of injury he has sustained affect his sinuses. I think in this instance the editing is reflected more than the interviewee. Take a look at any interview blooper reel and you see everything from stutters, to mispronounced words, coughs, hiccups, any and everything. The trick is when your trying to show the subject in good light you edit those things out. When you want to degrade the subject you include those in. Likewise it's obvious he was being heckled at certain points. All in all this is what we can expect of any interview or publicity paid to the Jedi Community as a whole. We will be heckled, picked apart, prodded, and poked.

Mindas: On the schmuck part are you referring to how he says something along the lines of "I could break your arm, and then take the pain away" yeah, I have been/am into metaphysics quite a bit and even I was there going "What in the...heck..." easing someones pain is possible, heck Adana did that in PA for me else I'd not have been able to use my shoulder or arm at one point nearly as well, but there is a limit to what can be done generally. Course then again I'm not a certified healer so what do I know.

[Mindas Arran]

On the schmuck part are you referring to how he says something along the lines of "I could break your arm, and then take the pain away"
Interestingly enough, I was laughing more at his claim that he could break the guys arm with that sloppy technique more than the claim that he could heal it afterwords, but yeah...

[Charles]

Haha, I didn't pay attention to it since it wasn't a jab, cross, hook, uppercut, or shovel hook :sHa_thumb:

[Setanaoko]

Commenting on the idea of one site: The problem is in how the sites are run. Like any government, some people prefer one government to another. I like Myrrden's idea, a symbol is a great place to start.

But we also need to put out our REAL information. I am really glad the guy who interviewed the person in this video was smart enough to seek an outside source from the Church of Jediism in the UK, rather than jump to conclusions and do a story on it.