This chanting 3-6 hrs a day, is clearly a deliberate technique of control coming right from the top of SGI. That amount of SGI-chanting, is literally brainwashing.
They know full well, that if people are working, then that means all of their non-work time, will be spent in SGI chanting, and other SGI activities.
Here's the Catch-22.
The more a person chants, the less they are involved with life, and the worse their life is going to get.
Instead, if a person spent only 1 hour in direct focussed problem-solving action in their life each day, then things might get a bit better!
But one of the worst things a person can do, is to just avoid their problems, with some form of distraction.
So again, SGI has set this up brilliantly.
They know for the average person, anything more than 1 hr a day of chanting is almost impossible to do, and keep up.
So when "shit happens" in life, then they can say to the person...CHANT HARDER AND LONGER, that is your problem.
So they TRY to chant more, but who is going to chant 4-6 hrs a day and keep it up? Almost no one. So then the person blames themselves for not chanting enough.
Or if they do chant more, the get sucked deeper into the SGI brainwashing.
So its a win/win for SGI.
What is it for the chanter?
Its really a type of Catch-22, lose/lose.
The more you chant, the more you avoid active problem solving, the worse one's life can get.
Or if a person is a "normal person" they will stop chanting much, and be lucky to do 30 minutes. Then they SELF-BLAME themselves for not chanting enough.
Its a TRAP, and its very common in cultic groups to get people caught in these "Double-Binds", they all do it. A Double-Bind is like a Catch-22, and makes people passive and locked-in.
the Byron Katie sytem also does this to people.
Byron Katie Catch-22 [
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If a person's life is not so great, then they tell you to chant harder and longer. But what if it is doing nothing, and is just a distraction? Then their life gets even worse, and their life becomes all about SGI.
The questions is how to deal with life's challenges and problems?
Instead of passive distraction, and obsessive rituals like chanting excessively which are counter-productive...and set people up for more failure.
Active problem-solving and other helpful strategies are going to work much better. (not perfectly, of course).
SGI is giving directions for people to engage in extreme amounts of SGI-chanting, for many reasons, including the deep deep indoctrination, and also to lock people into SGI.
Its possible only the people at the top have thought it through completely, but its just one of many techniques of social control, that SGI uses. They are very skilled at managing the behavior and the minds of large groups of people, and blocking critical thinking, and locking people into extreme amounts of SGI-chanting is one of them.
And they also use FEAR, in that they tell people if they stop chanting, or leave SGI, then something horrible will happen to them. They are just taking advantage of the superstituous nature of people.
So they have locked people into an SGI Catch-22 Double-Bind, and they try to use FEAR to keep people locked into it.
Not so easy to get out of, for some people.
One way to get out of it, is to keep a journal, and track the good-bad things that happen in life. One may see that is has nothing to do with "SGI chanting", and is just the Confirmation Bias. [
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2009 05:48AM by The Anticult.