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holly_golightly
Now, I am happy to say it has lost its power on me. But it really does encapsulate the SGI mentality about people who leave. It could never be that it was actually a good thing for their lives, it would have to be due to something being terribly wrong with them like fundamental darkness or delusion, or not trying hard enough - always a personal failing.
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Thatsmeinthecorner
Once you walk away, you'll eventually ask yourself one day, "How did I ever fall for it and what was I scared of?"
Hitch,
It's hard to find the words to describe how true this statement is for me. I was going to say, "Amen Brother!" but then thought that a little too religious. I also thought of saying, "HAI!" but that made me laugh.
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TaitenAndProud
WTF?? Where is the "protection of the Gohonzon"??? What's the deal when people who presume to be models for the rest of us aren't even taking basic, necessary care of their own bodies??
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Hitch
All the authority in the cult org. (The Mystic Law / The Dear Leader / etc.) is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Clear the fog from your mind and you'll eventually see that there is nothing there. It's ridiculous psychological manipulation. Once you walk away, you'll eventually ask yourself one day, "How did I ever fall for it and what was I scared of?"
You fall for it, because you are brainwashed and conditioned to by the cult org.. You were scared, much like a child is of the dark before they grow up - to later realize that there is no monster lurking under the bed.
It's all a psychological construct. A prison to control your mind and keep you shackled to the cult.
Again, once they have to resort to fear tactics, the have lost the game. It's a tactic of desperation and last resort, employed only for one reason - to control you / put you back in your place.
It's disrespectful to human dignity, dysfunctional, abusive and just plain wrong. I would never stay with ANY "organization" that treated people in such a manner.
- Hitch
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Hitch
I've watched members collapse on the floor, others crying with tears flowing down their face and limbs shaking as they gave some delusional experience, bring their dysfunctional family fights to a meeting and go stark raving nuts on each other, have seen hardcore gakkai kamikaze members practically physically attack temple (danto) members, and have witnessed more than my fair share of seizure-like NMRK chanters.
I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that some are out of their minds.
- Hitch
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sixtyseven
I think as far as I can remember, Anticult mentioned it before. The chanting/ meditation technique can switch off our higher intelligence, the reasonable mind, the critical thinking and operates directly on those deeper layers - far beyond the good and the evil.
The video of the friends with the doggies reminds me of the old SGI site, KANSAI SUPER FRIENDLY SPACE and their slick TV ads of super friendly super happy people. The advertising company for Bud Light has nothing on SGI's.Quote
Hitch
The Dear Leader = Fraudulent shell game huckster.
The $oka Gakkai's version of buddhism [www.youtube.com]. (The chanting starts about half-way thru.)
And on the topic of nutso gakkai members:
Let's mispronounce gongyo to the sunset in Santa Monica [www.youtube.com]. (Gongyo mercifully finishes around the 4:24 min. mark, then she sees a boat in the ocean and goes off on a tangent about "a ship to cross the sea of suffering", next, she mentions dolphins, then finally, a crazy scooter couple appears.) This is the typical kind of gakkai cult member I remember most and this clip is as crazy as she is.
- Hitch
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Hitch
Public reach out performances by The Soka Renaissance Vanguard (V = symbol on their uniforms, aka: Victory!) Brass Band:
1. Performing for the opening and celebrations for Tokyo Sky Tree Tower last year - [www.youtube.com] (The start playing the song "Forever Sensei" at the 0:40 sec. mark and repeat it at the 3:20 min. mark. The Dear Leader's song, played for the public, by the cult org. official band.)
- Hitch