@chirider you said:
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Ok! Now, that we see the writing in black and white.
Now what you going to do about it.
How does this effect you in your everyday life?
How would you stop the maddness or the spread of ignorance teaching to others?
My approach has been to ignore them in general.
When confronted by a member trying to shakubuku me or to dispute my point of view, I try to keep in mind that the individual, although misled, is trying to do something positive for me based upon their value system.
SGI folks of today seem to be pretty thin in the theoretical department and inevitably break down to the basics they were taught - they just keep saying "it will make you sooo happy" and they will staunchly recommend that the victim "just come to a meeting with me and you will see" (translation, I need a bunch of support to make this shakubuku happen.).
When confronted by someone knowledgeable in the cult's background, it's many empty promises and implied and veiled threats, the individual ends up abandoning the effort due to their lack of "buddhist" depth and even their own lack of awareness of SGI history.
So, to accomplish what you are suggesting, I believe it needs to be a reverse shakubuku activity, question the individual, ask them questions like "so where does all that money go", "do you know what the KOMEITO is and how SGI supports that political party", "why did Ikea want to change the silent prayers?", "why did SGI split with the temple since it is a 'LAY ORGANIZATION' and is nothing without the priesthood (Remember the Three great treasures...)". You can use the SGI dogma to refute the organization easily.
Insofar as carrying out a world-wide campaign to eradicate SGI, good luck with that! I suspect the best that can be done is to keep repeating those inconvenient "details" where thinking people can see them and recognize that in general, people are drawn to the truth. (By the way, hello to the very patient Tsukimoto who always manages to come up with a web page excerpt or a news item that embodies those "inconvenient details" too!).
At the core of US SGI are people who initially were searching for the promise of buddhism, and I'd like to believe they eventually become so frayed and disillusioned with the pale copy known as Ikedaism and that they will finally begin voting with their feet.
Just my 2 cents.
Wakatta1
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2010 07:21PM by wakatta1.