[HN Gopher] Tokyo's internet Jesus uses secret creed to command ... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com) (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? | | 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. | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-10-14 23:00 UTC)