Did Steve Jobs rip off Jesus. Or being the embodiment of the almighty, did Jesus know what Steve(us) would do and was so inspired that he was the rip off artist?
The iPod (for the uneducated) was a huge success. It succeeded where numerous others had failed in the past at bringing a digital music player to the masses (or Masses, pun intended). It was expensive and still is but the main thing we often forget about the iPod was that it began as a Mac only device. It wasn't available for use on Windows PCs until 2002. From the time in 2002 until 2004 the number of iPods sold grew from 600,000 to 10,000,000. Apple hit on the best way to expand market share. Start out in a niche market segment and build a cult following, then make some changes to make your product available to other groups.
Christianity (which I think was Jesus' best known film) began with an intimate group (I write that because it irritates the bigoted; those people who make me feel like God behaved the way that Jim Jeffries depicted God at a party, look it up on YouTube) of men and things were quite small and manageable but still powerful. The technology of Christianity was demonstrated by these 13 individuals and had people wanting to join (clearly demonstrating their love for their incumbent God or Gods was easily swayed, so good luck with those hypocrites).
The whole thing being executed in the same way that Romans killed other Jewish insurgents happened and then we have the christian churches that sprang up. They again were small and intimate (maybe some Christians are misunderstanding intimate and confusing it with intimidate?) Now we all know about the theory behind Source Q etc. If not the simplest explanation I can offer is that The Gospels according to M,M,L and J would be more accurately titled The Gospels According to the Church Committees of the Churches founded by M,M,L and J.
These Churches of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John sprang up in different areas and in order to market the Christian product to particular groups in those areas, adaptations to the original product were made (dogmatic law). "Oh you've already mutilated your penis for another God? That's okay this God loves all who have mutilated their penis, in fact he's very proud of you for doing it". Or the more popular, "Oh you believe that mutilating one's genitals is a cruel and sadistic way to show God that your love him/her and don't believe a kind and merciful God would want you to mutilate your body? Well I have wonderful news for you.....yes tattoos will be okay too."
The rules of entry were massaged, changed, bent and altered to get the largest influx of new clientele to denounce their Gods and pledge unending love for a different one (I know I'm covering old ground here). The purpose is not to be critical of the church, its far too short to engage in that kind of dialogue but Christianity began the method for the way that new products are launched. Just think; if the Christian churches had somehow patented the roll out method and could claim royalties for it they'd probably have enough money by now to compensate all those victims of abuse and end world poverty.........hang on.....
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