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The Anticult
Both on the bookshelf for ages.
Also this Feynman book is terrific,
The Character of Physical Law.
The live audio of Feynman, which was the source for the Lectures, is great, fun to hear his Brooklyn voice.
Why get brainwashed with SGI cultic nonsense and wreck your life, when you can listen to a smart, practical, funny guy like Feynman explain stuff like that?
Especially now its on the net for free.
Replacing New Wage cultic nonsense, with real science and real philosophy and real psychology...that is one way out of the rabbit hole.Quote
Hitch
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(The "red-box" set and his "QED" are essential reading. They are BRILLIANT and also have the extra added advantage of being true.)
Ahhhh! A breath of fresh air!!!
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Hitch
Incidentally, here is their 2011 commencement video, with Hiromasa's keynote address (starting at ~30:00 min. mark). An extraordinarily BORING and vacuous speech that talks about some photo the dear leader took and donated to the univ., the dear leader's dialogues (lots of name dropping) and an exceptionally lame joke (perhaps ironic?) about the graduation class being known as the class of "7-Eleven" (the convenience store business / "konbini" in Japanese parlance).
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rattyboy
The practice of Nichiren Buddhism centers on chanting NMRK to the Gohonzon. It is so wondrously simple that anyone can do it, yet so profound it can unlock the highest potential in any individual. it is, therefore, the ultimate reality of life and the universe.
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The Anticult
Sorry, that is a complete load of bullshit.
Sheer nonsense.
Its a lie, a fraud.
Chanting cannot and will not either: make your realize your potential...only practice and hard work does that.
Chanting does not reveal the secrets of the cosmos...only hard intellectual or creative work can do a little of that...maybe.
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rattyboy
Shakabuku Card story: Around one of the times I was trying to get pumped up about the practice some leader gave me a few NMRK business cards from SGI-USA. On the back there was an explanation that kept me from sharing this card with any non-member:
The practice of Nichiren Buddhism centers on chanting NMRK to the Gohonzon. It is so wondrously simple that anyone can do it, yet so profound it can unlock the highest potential in any individual. it is, therefore, the ultimate reality of life and the universe.
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rattyboy
Who needs Feynman when you have scientific explanations like this. I am also a Feynman fan, but the logic of this statement above is so profoundly...uh....
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Freeheartandmind
HUH? These defects have long since been corrected? From what I can tell, the structure of the org has remained substantially unchanged. Does anybody know if this Mark Graber is in SGI, he doesn't say what his status is, except he is not representing SGI in an official capacity.