Saturday 3 January 2009

'A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind.' [Yoda]

I have just realised I haven't addressed the issue of membership... until now that is.
The Jedi Church is an accessible website and so too is it's membership. While there is no fee to join the Jedi Church they do ask for you to part with some cash and support them by purchasing a certificate of membership of the Jedi Church.
But you don't just get the membership certificate, oh no, there's more.
All certified Jedi Church Members get:
  • An A4 glossy laminated certificate as above.
  • Access to the inner circle forum, where Jedi orders from around the world discuss what they are doing with their orders, without the clutter of the public forum, and access to a Treasurers summary of the Jedi Churches financial accounts.
  • Their own optional web ministry page, that they can update themselves. These pages facilitate those ordained members who wish to set up their own orders.
  • Participation in suggesting questions for the voting section of our website.
  • Discounts on some businesses advertised in the new Jedi Economy page
As I live in Britain the price for joining would be £12, which may not sound that bad if I was a devotee of the Jedi faith and wanted membership. However if you don't pay for the certificate and want to join the Jedi Church then you are excluded from the Jedi Council area of the website; which sounds all mysterious and will remain a mystery as I'm not coughing up the money to join.

While the Jedi Church website is quite open with its membership this is not the case for all memberships in the Jedi community. For example the House of Sith requires all member to pass an initiation process and offer no other information to the public apart from a method of contacting them. Very (and here's that word again) mysterious.

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