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@Rothaus and Nichijew and everyone else. I still want to know, how do 10 million honorary doctorates bestowed upon Ikeda make the lives or practice of SGI members any better? I fail to see the connection. I also fail to see why the members should get all excited about the ones he has already gotten or why some should be working to get him more. So what? Unless a particular member is "getting" or earning one and benefiting or profiting from it, s/he is simply counting his neighbor's riches without a accumulating a penny for himself. Even if Ikeda were to get the Nobel Peace Prize, although I cannot imagine why, how does this make the lives or practice of the members any better? If this is not an interesting question, I will leave it alone.@Rothaus, I agree that pilgrimages to Ikeda's burial site will be strongly encouraged.
I'm going to write this again. NSA members discouraged me from pursuing Graduate school education because it would get in the way of activities. I thought that was a ridiculous idea at the time. Why not seek that as a great benefit? Ultimately, I stuck with the activities. I stepped down from the educational direction I was pursuing.
All those honorary degrees are like all those photo-ops with famous people. They're like Ikeda's having a meeting or two with someone like scholar Arnold Toynbee, and then claiming that Toynbee is a close personal friend and colleague. They're like the ghostwritten books. It's all about feeding Ikeda's bloated, oversized ego -- a desperate attempt to make him look like a great world leader and intellectual.
From the Rick Ross archives -- the article "Sensei's World," by Benjamin Fulford and David Whelan, for Forbes International:
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What are Ikeda's aims? Five years after gaining command of Soka Gakkai, he told a Japanese writer: "I am the king of Japan; I am its president; I am the master of its spiritual life; I am the supreme power who entirely directs its intellectual culture." --------------------------------End of Quote--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To me, this quote says it all. "I am the king of Japan." "I am the master of its spiritual life."? "I am the supreme power who entirely directs its intellectual culture."? Who would even think things like that? Only a person suffering from extreme narcissism and delusion. Outside of the Soka Gakkai, who is he really? Non-SGI Japanese mostly see Ikeda as a corrupt power-monger. Outside of Japan, who has even heard of him, unless they were in SGI?
I think we all agree -- Ikeda's degrees do
nothing for the members; they're just food for Ikeda's huge ego. I'm sure he has some rationalization as to how this benefits SGI, world peace and the individual members, but I couldn't even begin to imagine what that rationalization would sound like. Is anyone here crazy enough to even go there? I don't think so.
What I was told about Mentor/Disciple is this: the disciple learns from the mentor so that he can one day surpass the mentor. If that's true, then SGI has completely botched Mentor/Disciple. In SGI,
nobody surpasses the mentor. In a narcissist's world (ie SGI) there is only room for one star, one leader, one set of goals.
It's awful to think of all the SGI members who have been encouraged to neglect their educations, jobs, families, social lives, romantic relationships, health, and personal interests -- to do SGI activities. To feed the beast, Ikeda's ego.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2010 10:08PM by tsukimoto.