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0 pointsgradschoolfail1y ago0 comments

Temple construction happens also to be concern of the world’s 10th oldest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura_Shaji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

(Of course, since wiki page hasn’t been updated for the first, it might also have quietly passed into the ether)

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thedailymail1y ago

It looks like it is still a going concern - the company website and phone line both seem to be active.

https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/

aebtebeten1y ago

A recent SMBC* explores "what if religion was freemium?", but the existence of temples and sacrifices suggest that, whatever model deities may have had in mind, their worshippers have always been eager to sign up for a premium plan.

* https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-3

gradschoolfailOP1y ago

I love SMBC so much that i once suggested a joke idea to Weinersmith. Sad day for me and my ideas lol. In particular, to discover that my heroes Rao and Weinersmith selfidentify as hypernormies T_T

[Cue yada yada the batman snowclone “live long enough”, eg you either die a batman or live long enough to become Batman)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military)]

[another source of hypernormie pro weirdos, from my personal anecdata, are psychiatrists, im guessing the sibboleth is the high neuroticism to __ ratio, which comes off as wisdom (after discounting for age).. weird pronormies would then be econs profs? This is prob why both trigger the So[Ha]Ri(veign/vian) Taleb lol]

Also should have replied to alephnerd in a more timely fashion

0823498723498721y ago

Finally someone who pronounces sibboleth properly!

At one point I ran across a US book which noted that children of psychiatrists tend to wind up in treatment themselves, with the exception having been just after WWII (when the army's need for psychiatrists meant they retrained many people who had studied as regular GPs), and concluded that it may be a field many people pursue due to the attraction of self-diagnosis.

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