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Re:How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary by GDC7 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:10PM (#29500845)
Well if he really existed as an historical figure (we highly suspect he did) then for sure he would not be displeased if he knew that the world came to a halt on his birthday and that he has 3B followers and not like Instagram followers who have an attention span of 1 minute, just the number 3 billion doesn’t really paint the whole picture . It’s the amount of waking hours that the totality of humanity spend thinking about him. Nobody even comes close . No king , no absolute dictator , no celebrity (modern or past). It’s power law on steroids

Many of the 3B dedicate at least an hour a day thinking about him and the values he tried to communicate , and in a very deep way

He was somewhat of a crossover between a magician , a cult leader an artist and a businessman self promoter so nobody can convince me that he would not the type to gloat about his success.

And honestly I can accept that . I’d rather have promotion about love and compassion than the technoutipian futurism such as crypto Jesus or rocket Jesus .

But as I said I have to point out that luck plays a huge role . So many people tried to sing the virtue of compassion and love via story telling but only Jesus broke out and became a figure with 3 billion religious followers

Re:How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary by tomcam on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:07PM (#29502263)
That was a very long non-answer
Re:How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary by GDC7 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:23PM (#29502455)
Short answer :

He didn’t dictate it, but he’d be pleased about it.

He was a human being after all, if you want to cut him some slack you can compare him with a contemporary Buddhist monk.

They too have an ego

Re:How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary by burntoutfire on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:08PM (#29514880)
Too bad it's not his actual birthday, but rather an arbitrarily chosen day in year by the Roman Church to coincide with an already-existing holiday (winter solstice).

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

Re:How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary by tomcam on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:37PM (#29536661)
> but he’d be pleased about it.

How do you know? Citation needed