Quotewakatta1I have really enjoyed reading everyone's insights into the questions posed by the new arrivals. Certainly there is a lot to be shared amongst us both in regards to insight into the practice, but also to put form to the many concerns that each of those of long standing have had. Someone mentioned about old members and their reasons for holding on to the SGI. I agree, there a
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QuoteevergreenHitch - former fortune baby here. I didn't get to bypass anything nor did I get a get out of jail free card either. evergreen Hi evergreen, I know you didn't. I'm just sometimes a bit sardonic in my posts. On that note: I'm sure that members have told you already that "your karma must be very, very heavy", even more so than most other fortu
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QuoteThe AnticultThat is planned Social Engineering by SGI-USA. It really is. After all, in Japan, there are planned socially engineered SGI towns, right? People live and breathe SGI in those areas, that is the mothership. ..... All the power is in Japan. 100% correct. Everything starts and ends in Japan, like a finely tuned machine that operates flawlessly. Sgi-usa is just a bastardize
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rrmoderator - Thank you for your reply and links. Nsa-sgi does fit better under the "thought reform" category. My usage of the term "brainwashing" is that I equate it to "mind and thought control." Perhaps because sociology and psychology are some of the more imprecise sciences, semantics can sometimes be confusing (at least for me). "Thought reform" an
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I know that they tend to stress the more substantive shakubukus now, but I find that the organization has and always will ultimately appeal to a specific spectrum of individuals: the sick-feeble, weak minded, ignorant lost soul type of people who are destined to be followers on one end and the other more minimally educated, but with their own psychological pathologies (in some cases power hungr
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Quotewakatta1Re: The last detail Back in the 70's there was a Jack Nicholsen movie called "The Last Detail". In it, two navy shore patrolmen are charged with taking a "kid" across the country to evenutally put him into Leavenworth prison. At one point in the story, the "kid" meets an attractive girl who tells him she would like to "take him home wit
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