Yes! Give SGI $10,000 a year and you will be rich!! You see, this is how it works. You work hard at your job, and then you take your 10K and give it to Ikeda, so Ikeda can dump another 10K into his pile of billions of dollars. You can never have enough billions of dollars, Ikeda knows that. By giving Ikeda 10K a year, you have 10K less, so you are richer! Don't invest that 10K your
Forum: Former Cult Members and Affected Families

It is very likely that James Ray financial system is more sophisticated that Werner Erhards in that article, as that was from years ago. They have really refined these techniques, and all it takes is a meeting with experts in the field, which are referred by others. For example, James Ray could have simply hired the same financial experts that Tony Robbins or others use. And again, those are the
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

Beckwith and Agape promote the New Thought idea of "prosperity", and as everyone knows, prosperity begins at home, his home! So the Agape and Beckwith focus on money, is something they would be very focussed on. One expect they also "teach" people, like SGI, that making huge financial "gifts" to the church is going to give you good Karma and make you rich too. T
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Guy Finley is a very accomplished salesman. He is actually doing the highest level of salesmanship, that is where you have the skill to present yourself in an awe-shucks manner and make strangers think you are their buddy. Guy Finley is a natural born salesman, and he is also very skilled. Just look at his website, which is laced top to bottom, and sideways, with product marketing. As far a
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Cutting and pasting some stuff is very helpful in many ways. First off, there is so much info, one can never read it all. Also, tons of stuff gets deleted from the internet, so its good to have an archive of it in a safe place, like this thread. SGI has tried to get information like this deleted from the internet, but its here. A mix of personal experiences, as well as factual data is a go
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Ikeda and his associates are very smart about human nature. They know if local SGI leaders find themselves dealing with envelopes with large amounts of cash, some of them are going to get sticky fingers. That kind of thing would drive Ikeda insane. SGI does not trust anyone, not even their own local "leaders", never mind the regular members. So they would have the money mailed to oth
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yes, and then the money gets transfered to offshore tax-havens located all over the world. Never mind the billion(s) in the USA in the investment holding company called Soka University... what about the rest of the world? What about the dozens and hundreds of offshore tax-havens where these sorts of groups put their billions, far outside the eyes of regulators or governments, which are then
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Fasinating and 100% accurate comment below about these "worksheets" people fill out at LGAT seminars. Its absolutely 100% factual and true. People fill out these forms, and they go into the database. And not just the psychological deep dark secrets and traumas. Just as important, and MORE important, are the FINANCIAL details you fill out at the "financial" seminars. They
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It certainly is outrageous SGI propaganda and lies that those lazy "Americans" were not giving enough money. Its just another tactic meant to try to shame and guilt people into give more money to SGI-USA. SGI-USA is an unbelievable cash-machine. Who knows how many hundreds of millions they are collecting and leveraging in the US? They have been around since 1968 in the USA. Wh
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also, reportedly a chief Landmarkian named Nancy Zapolski was just piling on the BS by the bucketload. Doing some Werner Erhard style gobblygook about Transformation, and also trying to spin-doctor around people cleaning the toilets, and other issues. Also, a total load of rubbish is put forward about the financials. Apparently its a cringe-inducing performance by Nancy Zapolski. Its will b
Forum: Large Group Awareness Training, "Human Potential"

Antibigotry, I am not going to get into a personal war of words, as that is just a distraction. I was simply pointing out that getting someone to come down alone, onto the recruiters turf, is the oldest technique in the book. I happen to think, based on the posts in this thread, that those who are identifying themselves as Royal Way, are quite smooth operators, except when they are asked tough q
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QuoteRW ManDear Anticult, ...You don’t have to consider any point of view contrary to your own. When you know, from an empyrean perspective, what thoughts are good for people and what thoughts are bad, you get to toss rationality, and the critical thinking that you profess to value, out the door. ...you get to say that countering lies is a “Thought Stopping (sic) tactic.” No, Anticult, coun
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Its interesting to analyze when a sect member tries to do an attack on someone who has the "nerve" to think critically about their sect, and not worship them mindlessly. Its an interesting object lesson. They feel they have the skills to play mind games with people, and try to put them off-balance. So lets have a look at what they tried here. First off, they will open with some type
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