Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!61.196.174.72!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I've finally figured this puppy out Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:55:56 +0900 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1g4uaz9.1gmir4f11oo72N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <3FC02BEE.81232F4@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.196.174.72 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069559758 61591773 61.196.174.72 (16 [101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8101 "Eric Takabayashi" wrote in message news:3FC02BEE.81232F4@yahoo.co.jp... > I was just thinking last week that Jesus was > homeless and a freeter. I bet he squatted in a lot of doorways in his time, too. And knocking over the merchants' tables in the temple was a very "punk" thing to do -- as in knocking over the rotting establishment. > Ryan Ginstrom wrote: > > Another thing that's kind of a puzzler is that while most Japanese aren't > > really *kind* in the Western sense, they are very honest. That might be part > > of the reason why they are so easy to dupe and scam. > > This refers to naive, a belief or expectation that everyone else is honest like > most people used to be but no longer are. Yep, and that's why dishonest people are very hard to scam -- they expect everybody to be as dishonest as them. The way to get over on crooked people is by making them think they are doing the scamming. That's probably why the nigerian scams are so effective on Japanese corproate types. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom