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Hi to All,
This is my first time posting. I have been reading these post for awhile and i have to say thanks for all the insight. I was introduced to the practice by a friend or looking back someone who i thought was a friend. I saw how things were changing in his life and i thought id give sgi a try... when i started practing in 06' i was looking for a job and a relationship. things that the sgi said was easily obtainable.
Welcome goodgirl. It's very easy for cults to scoop people up when they are at their most vulnerable, as we all are at different points in our lives. You definitely don't need the gakkai cult to achieve any of those things in life, but they will definitely attempt to hijack any successes in your life and take credit for everything. It's BS and its brainwashing to get you
dependent on the so-called "practice." If you succeed, it's because of them; if you don't, it's because of your lack of devotion to cult org.. It's a no win situation, either way. It's also the beginning of the psychological manipulation.
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I became a district leader in 3 months and i joined byakuren in 3 MONTHS of practice i was so new... there's no way i should have been given such resposibility. I was even about to be appointed byakuren leader but things happened in my life that prevented me from taking the resposibility. Thank God. I was kind of snatched out of the practice. things started going so bad on the home front and i just couldnt chant.. i felt like there was an elephant on my back in the mornings and basicully when i was alone and just couldnt do it. i went to my leaders again and of coarse just dumb looks and no response..
It's common to quickly put sincere, new, green members into "leadership" positions. It's a way of immersing you into the cult environment and demanding more and more of your time. It's also the first step to making you into an uncritical thinking gakkai automaton. Do well, you get promoted and deeper immersion. Do "ok" and it's smooth sailing until the next campaign. Screw it up and get the guilt trips, home visited and more forced manipulation. It doesn't matter how well you do or not, it all just means more manipulation opportunities. All gakkai "leaders", from my experience, are not the sharpest crayons in the box and the "deer in the headlights" look (followed by gosho thumping, dear leader cult-speak guidance, or a quick lame change of the subject) is a common response from the cult zombie "elite."
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Dont get me wrong the people where of coarse very nice sincere people but i got a little ticked off when if i wasnt available to do things for the sgi they would scream at me.. DO IT FOR THE SGI... I started a group for the youth in the sgi.... little did i know that there wouldnt be that muchh understanding if i couldnt keep up... I only started it because i was over zealous... and young and dumb.... i should have never taken on that resposibility.. but i did.. i hear its still growing strong... so i guess i made tremendous cause..
Ahhh, yes,
that's the ol' nsa / $oka cult I remember! The younger, more naive and easily manipulatable you are, the more they will do it, too. Don't contribute to tenderizing more brain meat in the "YOUTH!" for the cult org.. All they want is more bodies. Whether you stay or not, is of ultimately no concern to them. You cultivate a dozen people for them and if they manage to extract even a single person from that group to become another brainwashed automaton, then that's all that matters. Repeat the cycle all over again, with the new meat. What happens to you in the long run is of no concern to them, but if you stay or come back, then it's just icing on the cake for the cult org. (more numbers, more $$$, more subscriptions, more free labor, etc.).
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Recently ive been thinking about chanting. not with the sgi but i dont know if thats because ive been devoid of it for so long and those cult mind thoughts are seeping back into my head... Ive been going to church but the message has been a little scathy. there is so much i want to accomplish in my life im in my early 30's and i think that the idea of doing something tangible to receive results is starting to way heavy or do you think thats just the programming of the cult... that no dream impossible speak?
You can accomplish anything with or without the cult. It's completely non-sequitur. Any attempts to connect the two are confirmation bias, magical thinking and psychological dependence manipulation.
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I feel like im falling into a scared season. scared to chant scared not to chant i do constantly pray and thats been helping and reading about how the sgi is a cult... just so i remeber and not get suckered back.. a few months ago a ywd called me went for lunch.. she didnt talk about sgi at all really.. i was so nervous. but i havent heard from her in a while i wonder if she was just spying.
No gakkai cult "leader" ever contacts you without an agenda. Period. Sooner or later, it will become apparent. They're sizing you up and deciding how to best deal with you - the next step. In short, yep, it's just spying, before they try to lure you back based on some of the "innocent" non-gakkai talk that you relay to them during your lunch meet-ups. Whatever you share with your "leader", will be shared with their "leader" (and so on), until somebody tells the automaton what algorithm to run to try to get you back.
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anywho thanks for letting me vent please any replies would be greatly appreciated....
question: do you think me pondering chanting is the result of brainwashing by the sgi?
Note- things are ok in my life... there are still things i want to accomplish and sometimes i revert back to thinking that chanting can somehow help in the process
thanks please respond.
The magical chanting is the carrot on the yellow brick road that leads to the gakkai cult Land of Ikeda Oz and all of the brain candy rewards that come with it. Eat the candy though and it has no nutritional value. It will eventually leave you feeling sick and regretting the fact that you did. If you return to the cult org., I can tell you exactly what is waiting: more manipulation, more guilt and more bizarre dysfunctional behavior if you don't become a model cult automaton.
Put distance between yourself and
all contact with the cult. Stop the chant and shake the cult cobwebs out of your brain to be able to start thinking clearly again. Eventually, you'll be glad you did (and so will any of your loved ones, now and in the future).