Many sects and cults use the exact same threats on their own people.
In this very forum, Royal Way told their perceived critics they would suffer what happened to Judas in the bible...that is, your guts would blow up, and/or suicide.
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They try to use those supernatural sounding threats to scare superstitious people.
Also, the reason Ikeda and his people told people not to take what he said literally, as it was so extreme, would be because there are different levels of SGI involvement.
Ikeda sends his extreme message to the hard-core SGI shock-troops, he wants them to be miltant and extreme, those are those brown shirts of the movement, the lifers who sacrifice everything to SGI.
But of course there are also a large base of more casual members, who are there to buy things, give money, and recruit. So they tell the more casual people not to take Ikeda literally in his extremist ideas.
But that is a mistake. There is no evidence Ikeda is really thinking about future generations, he's thinking about himself, his fake Honorary Degrees, his billions, his ego, putting his name on buildings.
Guys like Ikeda always hold onto power until they are dead or incapacitated.
And the SGI street-recruiting, its very interesting how SGI just pushes people to do it. Again, very smart, keep it simple.
Hopefully a former SGI leader will post here, and talk about the process of coverting people to SGI that occurs after they get them into the SGI meetings.
And SGI is not the only sect to claim it can travel to other planets...The Raelians and countless others do the same.
The cult leaders know that humans can literally believe anything.
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A really cool teaching was that if a person went against the SGI, his head would split into seven pieces and his back would split open and flames would come out...meaning that the person would go mentally insane and experience horrible illnesses. I have known ardent members who have died of painful illnesses and have mental illness, but of course, they are "changing their karma" and will reach "eagle peak" through the divine intervention of "shoten zenjin" or the powerful positive forces in the universe. Wow. God and his angels. One leader even told us that if the world blew up, we could choose any planet we wanted to live on and do shakubuku there...that it was stated in the Gosho. Wow.