Re: Soka Gakkai - Ikeda's FAKE TITLES - Bodleian Library
Posted by:
The Anticult
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Date: January 02, 2012 12:11PM
You can see the SGI followers have removed the criticism section from the Wikipedia entry on Ikeda.
[en.wikipedia.org]
Classic cultic thinking, unable to tolerate ANY criticism of the Dear Leader.
[en.wikipedia.org]
Classic cultic thinking, unable to tolerate ANY criticism of the Dear Leader.
Re: Soka Gakkai - Ikeda's FAKE TITLES - Bodleian Library
Posted by:
Shavoy
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Date: January 03, 2012 08:11AM
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The Anticult
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/friends/membership
Honourable Friend
Life Friend
£500 as one payment
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(how many of these donated books are SGI books?)
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[www.bodley.ox.ac.uk]
"The largest donations of works in Japanese came from the Soka Gakkai International (a worldwide organisation of lay Buddhists). In succession to an earlier gift of 987 volumes made in 1979, in the period under review two further substantial donations were received: 2,300 volumes in 1988 and 6,700 volumes in 1989. In every case the selection of items for inclusion was made by the Departmental specialist. The President of Soka Gakkai International, Mr Daisaku Ikeda visited the Bodleian in 1989..."
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(how many of these so-called awards are just purchased? All of them?)
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[www.daisakuikeda.org]
Literary Awards
　
Award / Conferring Organization Country Year
Poet Laureate
World Academy of Arts and Culture India 1981
Honorable Friend of the Bodleian Library for Life
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford UK 1989
Honorary Chairman
Kenya Oral Literature Association Kenya 1990
1992 National Book Award
National Book Development Council Malaysia 1993
Non-resident Membership and Machado de Assis Medal
Brazilian Academy of Letters Brazil 1993
Noble Patron of the Arts
Pan-African Writers Association Ghana 1993
International Leo Tolstoy Gold Medal
International Association of Children's Funds Russia 1995
World Poet Laureate Award
World Poetry Society India 1995
Honorary Advisor
Society for the Study of Oriental Culture and Peking University Institute of Oriental Culture China 1997
Tagore Peace Award
India's Asiatic Society India 1997
Certificate of Commendation
for New Art of Living-Discourses on Life, Health, Biomedical Ethics, and Education
University of Montreal Press Canada 2001
NAPRA Nautilus Awards, winner, "social change" category
(Networking Alternatives for Publishers, Retailers, & Artists, Inc.) USA 2002
2001 Book of the Year Award, silver, "politics" category
For the Sake of Peace--Seven Paths to Global Harmony: A Buddhist Perspective
ForeWord Magazine USA 2002
2002 Book of the Year Award, silver, "political science" category
Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age ForeWord Magazine
USA 2003
International Literary Award for Understanding and Friendship
Chinese Writers Association and the Chinese Literature Foundation China 2003
2003 Book of the Year Award, silver, "health" category
On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine, and Spirituality Converge
ForeWord Magazine USA 2004
Honorary Diploma
International Society of Greek Writers and Arts Greece 2005
World People's Poet
World Poetry Society Intercontinental India 2007
Honorary General Director
World Literary Association Republic of Korea 2008
Indie Book Award for Religious Non-fiction
for The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
The Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group USA 2010
Special Member
The Camarajibense Academy of Letters Brazil 2010
World Peace Poet Award
World Poetry Society Intercontinental India 2010
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World Peace Poet Award? Alrighty, then! Sooo, that's World Poet Laureate AND World Peace Poet! Oh, wait, I missed one...World People's Poet! All from the WPSI!
He would kill to be an Oprah.....all these awards and still nobody outside SGI knows who the heck he is.
Okay....what is a mentor? And do mentors in someone's life need to occupy the brain in biblical proportions, to the exclusion of all else? That's not how most folks perceive a mentor, right?
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
Shavoy
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Date: January 03, 2012 08:17AM
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tsukimoto
Pages 314-316 of this thread discussed Ikeda's "World Poet Laureate" award. Simplify also raised a good point about Ikeda's claim that he is "a friend of the Bodleian Library," also on page 315 of this thread:
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Oh Oh Oh. I was looking at the list of Literary Awards you copied for us Tsukimoto and saw the
2. Honorable Friend of the Bodleian Library for Life, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford UK 1989
I had to go and investigate this as I studied in the Bodleian Library when I was at Oxford and wondered how on earth Ikeda could be honoured by such an unimpeachable organisation. His honours are mostly from Mickey Mouse organisations that nobody has ever heard of!
It just gets worse and worse. Ikeda has listed this as an 'honour'. As I guessed, this is a lie as it is not an awarded honour. I checked the Bodleian website and we can all be lifetime friends of the library. You pay your subscription and then you get various 'friends' priveleges. For £25 a year you can be a Friend and get all the sorts of benefits and goodies a 'friend' of any institutuion or museum or public gallery gets (access to lectures, newsletters etc.). Then after that the membership tiers go like this:
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From the Bodeian Library website
Bodeian Library website address
Honourable Friend
£40 per annum
The benefits of individual membership plus two issues per year of The Bodleian Library Record, the Library’s scholarly journal containing articles on literary, historical and bibliographical topics, especially those concerned with the Library’s collections.
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Thanks, Tsukimoto. I went back and read those posts. I like the one about your pup becoming A Friend.
It makes me wonder how otherwise intelligent people would accept at face value their leader's seemingly awesome accomplishments.
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
simplify
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Date: January 03, 2012 09:30AM
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Shavoy
It makes me wonder how otherwise intelligent people would accept at face value their leader's seemingly awesome accomplishments.
Shavoy, I'm totally with you on this, completely at a loss to see how any of the leaders or members in SGI can be taken in by this rubbish. Researching these awards was the thing that really brought it home to me that Ikeda was a hypocrite, a fake and possibly was suffering from some sort of mental health problem such as Narcisistic Personality Disorder. (Surely the behaviour he exhibits, including desperately accumulating awards - mostly from little known institutions, can't possibly belong to someone in a good state of mental health, let alone someone who through his buddhist practice is acting from his enlightened Buddha nature???). Once I'd seen that, once my eyes were opened, the validity of the SGI was totally destroyed for me.
At the moment the only explanation I can think of is that SGI members are either victims of sophisticated mind control techniques or that they do see Ikeda's hypocrisy, but don't care that his 'guidance' is completely at odds with his behaviour. I suppose it took me so long to see what was plainly in front of me (20 years) because I too was manipulated by mind control techniques.
It must be becoming increasingly difficult to hide the truth from the members now that there is so much more information available to everyone on the world wide web. In the old days, most members of SGI were pretty much stuck with the information SGI fed them through approved publications. That is no longer the case. Now that anyone can easily research the truth of how Ikeda got to claim that he is World Poet Laureate (for instance), surely current leaders and members in SGI can do their research too?
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
Nichijew
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Date: January 03, 2012 09:54AM
The SGI member owned Fraught With Peril blogsite just yesterday closed my ability to post on my blog and recently began deleting my posts. One such post was the Zennification of the Soka Gakkai that was neither vulgar nor untrue. Under an assorted bevy of false accusations and ornate reasonings they have justified their actions. SGI is adverse to truth and criticism in the United States, how much more so in Japan where they control the media and elements of the Government.
How is it that they are allowed to remove the criticism section of the Wikipedia section on Ikeda?
Nichijew
How is it that they are allowed to remove the criticism section of the Wikipedia section on Ikeda?
Nichijew
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
The Anticult
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Date: January 03, 2012 01:37PM
Wikipedia can be managed by persistence by followers of a sect.
They just keep deleting, and trying to massage the rules, and eventually others give up.
Also, Wikipedia is hardly neutral in cultic matters, there have been endless cases where some wikipedia Admins have been biased towards various cults and sects.
But in cultic areas, the cults seem to win on Wikipedia as they are the true believers and just keep deleting what they don't like, and posting what they want.
Most critics just give up, as they have other things to do.
But the SGI Ikeda promoters, they have nothing else to do. You better believe SGI-USA has assigned a "team" to monitor and post on sites like wikipedia.
SGI is highly motivated to censorship.
SGI-USA would have brought this thread down long ago, but they cannot.
SGI is afraid of the truth.
SGI can't handle the truth.
So they resort to censorship, to try and cover up the fact, that Ikeda is just a big fake-job.
That is also why Ikeda-SGI tries to get people to chant all the time, and not to think for themselves. Its a way of dulling their minds, and just blanking out reality.
Its thought-control.
They just keep deleting, and trying to massage the rules, and eventually others give up.
Also, Wikipedia is hardly neutral in cultic matters, there have been endless cases where some wikipedia Admins have been biased towards various cults and sects.
But in cultic areas, the cults seem to win on Wikipedia as they are the true believers and just keep deleting what they don't like, and posting what they want.
Most critics just give up, as they have other things to do.
But the SGI Ikeda promoters, they have nothing else to do. You better believe SGI-USA has assigned a "team" to monitor and post on sites like wikipedia.
SGI is highly motivated to censorship.
SGI-USA would have brought this thread down long ago, but they cannot.
SGI is afraid of the truth.
SGI can't handle the truth.
So they resort to censorship, to try and cover up the fact, that Ikeda is just a big fake-job.
That is also why Ikeda-SGI tries to get people to chant all the time, and not to think for themselves. Its a way of dulling their minds, and just blanking out reality.
Its thought-control.
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
Shavoy
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Date: January 04, 2012 01:16AM
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simplifyQuote
Shavoy
It makes me wonder how otherwise intelligent people would accept at face value their leader's seemingly awesome accomplishments.
Shavoy, I'm totally with you on this, completely at a loss to see how any of the leaders or members in SGI can be taken in by this rubbish. Researching these awards was the thing that really brought it home to me that Ikeda was a hypocrite, a fake and possibly was suffering from some sort of mental health problem such as Narcisistic Personality Disorder. (Surely the behaviour he exhibits, including desperately accumulating awards - mostly from little known institutions, can't possibly belong to someone in a good state of mental health, let alone someone who through his buddhist practice is acting from his enlightened Buddha nature???). Once I'd seen that, once my eyes were opened, the validity of the SGI was totally destroyed for me.
At the moment the only explanation I can think of is that SGI members are either victims of sophisticated mind control techniques or that they do see Ikeda's hypocrisy, but don't care that his 'guidance' is completely at odds with his behaviour. I suppose it took me so long to see what was plainly in front of me (20 years) because I too was manipulated by mind control techniques.
It must be becoming increasingly difficult to hide the truth from the members now that there is so much more information available to everyone on the world wide web. In the old days, most members of SGI were pretty much stuck with the information SGI fed them through approved publications. That is no longer the case. Now that anyone can easily research the truth of how Ikeda got to claim that he is World Poet Laureate (for instance), surely current leaders and members in SGI can do their research too?
simplify....you know, come to think of it, he's never said that he's reached Enlightenment, that because he is who he is and has done what he's done, i.e. protecting to the death his mentor Josei Toda and fulfilling his mentor's vow to spread kosen-rufu--that he is Enlightened.
Die-hard members feel the fear, I'm sure---that to go trolling for information that may be contrary to what they are told to accept at face value, is akin to slander and the Hell of Incessant Suffering. Fear. Their life will immediately spiral out of control and nothing ever, ever will go their way again.
Mind-control techniques, like you said. This also puts him on the pedastal of Exalted One who can do no wrong. Become like Shini'chi Yamamoto! No, Become Shin'ichi Yamato! (From a Rock the Era postcard for the Youth).
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
Shavoy
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Date: January 04, 2012 02:20AM
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The Anticult
Wikipedia can be managed by persistence by followers of a sect.
They just keep deleting, and trying to massage the rules, and eventually others give up.
Also, Wikipedia is hardly neutral in cultic matters, there have been endless cases where some wikipedia Admins have been biased towards various cults and sects.
But in cultic areas, the cults seem to win on Wikipedia as they are the true believers and just keep deleting what they don't like, and posting what they want.
Most critics just give up, as they have other things to do.
But the SGI Ikeda promoters, they have nothing else to do. You better believe SGI-USA has assigned a "team" to monitor and post on sites like wikipedia.
SGI is highly motivated to censorship.
SGI-USA would have brought this thread down long ago, but they cannot.
SGI is afraid of the truth.
SGI can't handle the truth.
So they resort to censorship, to try and cover up the fact, that Ikeda is just a big fake-job.
That is also why Ikeda-SGI tries to get people to chant all the time, and not to think for themselves. Its a way of dulling their minds, and just blanking out reality.
Its thought-control.
Highly motivated to censorship, The Anti-Cult, because they are Protecting Their Mentor!!!! Long live this Forum.
"We must always engage in open and honest dialogue..." Presidents take the heat in a democracy. P.I. can't, because he wants to be King of the World.
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
Nichijew
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Date: January 04, 2012 02:40AM
“This offer is limited to members in the young men’s division, young women’s division, junior high and high school division and the elementary school division. This offer is not retroactive and applies only to new or renewing subscriptions.”
“Mommy, mommy, please give me twenty dollars for a World Tribune prescription, please mommy.”
“But Shirley, we already have four subscriptions. I have one, daddy has one, your taiten uncle Fester has one, and Ruby has one.”
“But mommy, Ruby’s our chihuahua.”
“You can read her’s baby.”
“But President Ikeda says we should all have our own prescription. We learned that at Elementary school meeting.”
“Ok baby, I’ll get you your very own World Tribune subscription, when you enter the second grade and CAN READ!”
“Mommy, mommy, please give me twenty dollars for a World Tribune prescription, please mommy.”
“But Shirley, we already have four subscriptions. I have one, daddy has one, your taiten uncle Fester has one, and Ruby has one.”
“But mommy, Ruby’s our chihuahua.”
“You can read her’s baby.”
“But President Ikeda says we should all have our own prescription. We learned that at Elementary school meeting.”
“Ok baby, I’ll get you your very own World Tribune subscription, when you enter the second grade and CAN READ!”
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
Posted by:
The Anticult
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Date: January 04, 2012 02:51AM
That is completely correct. Some of us know some SGI true believers, who's entire lives are dedicated to SGI, who volunteer at the office, give large donations, and try to get others to join SGI constantly.
If you were to approach that level of SGI true believer with some facts about Ikeda they didn't want to hear, you can be sure that very quickly they would simply turn away, and just cover up their ears, and find a corner to chant in.
They fear if they think a "negative" thought like that, that their entire world will come crashing in with some kind of neg-karma.
Its just primitive superstitious thinking.
Similar to the deep fear of leaving SGI.
Of course, Ikeda and SGI are the ones who have created this fear, with their threats of damnation and hellfire and sickness and poverty for those who leave SGI or criticize it.
Damnation and hellfire = FEAR.
That is how you control large groups of people, using fear, and primitive superstitions, Ikeda knows that perfectly.
So SGI true believers are not generally going to search for anything "negative", they fill their days with trying to block everything out, and chant, and convert people to SGI to improve THEIR OWN "karma".
That is one of the sickest and most perverse things in SGI, that really is hard to believe when you first hear it. People trying to convert you to SGI to enhance THEIR OWN "karma"!! Which means often, more money, or career success, or whatever it is they desire and want.
Its so ridiculously anti-Buddhist, as to be laughable.
When someone is deeply locked into the SGI mind-control system, its not easy to get out.
If you were to approach that level of SGI true believer with some facts about Ikeda they didn't want to hear, you can be sure that very quickly they would simply turn away, and just cover up their ears, and find a corner to chant in.
They fear if they think a "negative" thought like that, that their entire world will come crashing in with some kind of neg-karma.
Its just primitive superstitious thinking.
Similar to the deep fear of leaving SGI.
Of course, Ikeda and SGI are the ones who have created this fear, with their threats of damnation and hellfire and sickness and poverty for those who leave SGI or criticize it.
Damnation and hellfire = FEAR.
That is how you control large groups of people, using fear, and primitive superstitions, Ikeda knows that perfectly.
So SGI true believers are not generally going to search for anything "negative", they fill their days with trying to block everything out, and chant, and convert people to SGI to improve THEIR OWN "karma".
That is one of the sickest and most perverse things in SGI, that really is hard to believe when you first hear it. People trying to convert you to SGI to enhance THEIR OWN "karma"!! Which means often, more money, or career success, or whatever it is they desire and want.
Its so ridiculously anti-Buddhist, as to be laughable.
When someone is deeply locked into the SGI mind-control system, its not easy to get out.
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Shavoy
Die-hard members feel the fear, I'm sure---that to go trolling for information that may be contrary to what they are told to accept at face value, is akin to slander and the Hell of Incessant Suffering. Fear. Their life will immediately spiral out of control and nothing ever, ever will go their way again.
Mind-control techniques, like you said.
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