[HN Gopher] Tokyo's internet Jesus uses secret creed to command ...
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       Tokyo's internet Jesus uses secret creed to command CEOs
        
       Author : gscott
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2020-10-14 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | newbie578 wrote:
       | Reading this article, I feel like I read a satire?
       | 
       | I mean come on, comparing your executives to priests and yourself
       | to Jesus has to be on the high end of arrogancy?
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       | Especially when your company is not THAT kind of a big deal. If
       | we convert the yen to usd, his "conglomerate" which is almost 30
       | years old had revenues of $2 billion dollars?
       | 
       | Don't get me wrong, it is a lot of money, but if you are going to
       | compare yourself to Jesus then better start pumping those
       | numbers..
        
         | TulliusCicero wrote:
         | I think comparing yourself to Jesus probably has a different
         | connotation in a Japanese context.
        
         | PinkMilkshake wrote:
         | I wouldn't mind hearing from a Japanese person if comparing
         | yourself to jesus has the same creepy vibe as it does in the
         | west. It may not.
        
         | mudlus wrote:
         | The better comparison was the zaibatsu (which was actually
         | legitimized by the emperor [a Shinto God] at the time)
        
           | christiansakai wrote:
           | which probably will have backlash by the Japanese society.
           | Also if he compares it to other <insert other religion
           | prophet/god here>, also get backlash. It is better for him to
           | compare himself to Jesus.
        
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         | noizejoy wrote:
         | to be fair, it took a couple of millennia to get to the current
         | numbers ...
        
         | anonymfus wrote:
         | What are Jesus' numbers? I found Vatican's financial report, it
         | seems to be a significantly smaller economy than that
         | conglomerate:
         | 
         | http://www.ior.va/content/dam/ior/documenti/rapporto-annuale...
        
           | lainga wrote:
           | Jesus has significant but un-exercised IP rights on a lot of
           | technologies underpinning the modern economy (e.g., all the
           | waters under heaven, dry land, every living creature that
           | moveth, etc.)
        
           | omginternets wrote:
           | The Vatican isn't Jesus, either. Your comment completely
           | misses the mark.
        
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