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It seems to me that the Soka Gakkai makes money internationally, launders money in highly creative ways and evenmore, uses the SGI as a marketing campaign to show domestic Japanese how great their organization is, as from research and talking to some japanese members, the pressure tactics for getting money from members in Japan is high pressure, tactics that Americans wouldn't put up with. Realize this, the SGI brow beats members to give their money in a high pressure way in Japan. Why would you condone that through your continued support?
The cult org. in its homeland is an entirely different monster than it is abroad and make no mistake about it, the soka gakkai is not regarded in a good light by your average Japanese citizen. Assuming that you are "normal" to begin with, tell somebody who you have gotten to know (a non-member Japanese) that you are a gakkai member and then sit back and watch the shock register on their face for a split second.
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People too smart for Christianity and yet end up trapped in a cult,
HAHA! IMO, stepping from one trap, right into another.
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Apparently a respected member is someone who is materially successful. This is the ideal model for the organization. Not someone who contributes to society in some grand way or authentically overcomes "obstacles" or difficulties, no the final measure is how much money you make. If you are a shiny middle income earner, then you become a model Soka member. A respected, let's kiss your ass, member who is given the keys to future leadership positions.
Perfect summation, as that is EXACTLY how it works. The more $$ you make, the higher your "position" in society, the more you will be buttered up and used; how many and what doors open up for you all depends on how well you play along with the game.
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I saw a big leader at a meeting come and give a carefully crafted experience about giving money and getting so much more back, you could see that this person , as slick as they were, they were having a hard time spouting off such bullshit.
It's interesting that you mention this, because I did get the sense from certain big whigs from Santa Monica that they were on automatic pilot, with their feelings and emotions placed in neutral as a self-imposed buffer against what they were doing. I honestly don't know how some of these people even live with themselves. This also goes back to that "automaton" behavior that I have mentioned before.
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Between the cult daddy worship of Ikeda and the money in your pants pocket twisting of the teachings, it is beyond me why anyone would stay. There is a song on youtube with some young woman singing "all I need is Sensei" some cult garbage like that, and it's not even Buddhism! This is the growing trend. Constant reading of Ikeda, which is elementary human sciences essays written by god knows who, over and over again.
I wouldn't even dignify it by calling it
that. Vacuous, pretentious, shallow and ignorant verbiage is more like it. I couldn't stand the stuff, it just reeked of sheer ignorance.
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Oh, I did some research, do you know who else recieved awards, keys to cities, honorary doctorates and other shiny garbage? Reverend Moon. The exact same pattern. I mean, you could take the two, Ikeda and Moon and put them side by side and you would think that they were competing for the most trinkets and baubles from third world nobody's.
I would classify the phantom dear leader Ikeda as a bit more sophisticated, but the similarities are indeed many, right down all the way to their son's taking over the cult org. in their absence. I'm still waiting for the hidden cameras to expose the gakkai cult org. for what it is and they are indeed paranoid about this in Japan (especially when it comes to Komeito election topic meetings, where they screen you multiple times for recording devices before entering). With technology the way it is now, it wouldn't be too difficult to expose them in this manner. One can hope.
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The Ikeda worship, the ethnocentric energy that treats japanese like the chosen people, and yeah, the japanese members, those who can speak english and participate , they eat that shit up. It's disgusting.
HAHA! You got
THAT right!!
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Nichiren Daishonin never intended for common mortals to be mind controlled and manipulated for money under his name.
I take a different view here. To me, at its core, it's
all ultimately delusion and manipulation.