Such undignified and inane behavior of SGI leaders captured in the video recorded during an SGI activity at a muti-million dollar SGI retreat facility in Florida. Behavior regression indeed! I was particularly impressed with the guy that's wearing a huge box on his head. A very nice symbolic representation of all the square-headed never-think-outside-the-box mental skullduggery that is pr
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Thanks for that very good list, Hitch. I took the liberty of reproducing your comment over on the sub-Reddit, SGIwhistleblowers and I added this: A note regarding #4: Short of using physical violence, SGI leaders are quick to use verbal violence (assaults), along with intimidation, character assassination, and other forms of psychological attacks and manipulation. All these repressive and
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Recently I was thinking of how I progressed through many phases and stages in my 3 decade long journey of entanglement with the SGI cult.org. The following list is not the result of a science based study, but it is based upon my personal observations, experiences, thoughts, and ideas on the subject of cult stages which are included but not limited to the ones I've listed here. Nine Progre
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Here's a prime example of an SGI leader's propensity for hubris, hypocrisy, and condensending attitudes, as reported in Phil Orenstien's remonstrative "Letter To The Members": "While it was alright for me to challenge a members behavior, that was not the case when it came to a leaders behavior. I said that we must stand up to any injustice in our organization whet
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Every religious cult and corporate entity understands the advantage of indoctrinating (brain-washing) children, the younger the better. Its the best way to enslave human beings to a cult.org corporation for the rest of their lives. free image hosting
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Hitch, that reminds me of a bad experience I had during an NSA road trip in the 70's. I was a TCD chief for a group of 5 chartered buses, driving in a caravan fashion on a 3000 mile long round trip from Texas to LA HQ and back for a big activity. During the return trip, there was a life-threatening incident. Some of the members from one of my chapters had shakabuku'd a homeless a
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Alex was indeed an SGI member. His invovement with helping to promote the SGI Victory Over Violence campaign was reported by a friend from das org.
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IMO, Alex sounded a bit taser-happy, having had a restraining order put on him for tasering someone in the back 4 times. And pointing the taser weapon at a dog didn't help matters either. Even an idiot should know that in today's Police State, when the police want to arrest you, its best to just put your hands up and get down on your knees to avoid having your body riddled with bullets
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Hey Hitch! I've been spending most of my available reading/writing time over on our sub-reddits, SGI Whistleblowers and the new SGI Cult Recovery Room. I still intend to finish the book, just don't know when I'll find the opportunity to get it done, but thanks for your kind interest! I've been fascinated by how hypnosis plays into cult methods and techniques, and have been
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Hello Hitch!!! It warms my heart to see you here again! I (and others) have dearly missed your input, and I have especially missed your great video links as well! A few months ago, a few of us from this forum created a sub-Reddit called SGI Whistleblowers. I would like to invite you, along with everyone here to stop by for a peak at some of the great threads and discussions that have bee
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Numerous ex-members for many years have been painfully aware due to their own cult experiences of how effectively the Soka Gakkai (SGI) uses hypnosis (and self-hypnosis) to maintain tight control over the minds of its leaders and members. As I am not an expert in the field of hypnosis, I will now defer to the experienced words of the widely recognized hypnotist, Marshall Sylver, author of the boo
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Kudos to meh for uncovering this very interesting quote from a Japan Times article entitled Soka Gakkai Keeps Religious, Political Machine Humming: "Soka Gakkai, which does not have priests or other religious occupations, was part of Nichiren Shoshu, a branch of Buddhism following Nichiren’s teachings, but withdrew from it in 1991 because 'we oppose Nichiren Shoshu’s attitude that p
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Hope everyone had a happy 420 celebration yesterday. I received a text message from an unidentified person yesterday. I wanted to share it, along the ensuing text responses, with all of you here. 253218XXXX: Happy Easter to all and a happy 420 to you as well. Be blessed in your day and praise God in your day. Smoke tough and abide in Him all day today. Me: I don't know who this is
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Junior Leader: As a new SGI member, I was encouraged to chant for anything I want. Now that I've been appointed as a leader, can I still chant for anything I want? Senior Leader: No, you shouldn't chant for anything you want - you should only chant for what SENSEI wants!
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ST&P, considering the fact that religion is a racket, it wasn't your faith or chanting that failed to miraculously move the Taliban - your 'prayer' failed because you didn't offer the leaders a large enough $$$ bribe... er, donation.
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Great stuff, corboy! For those that need a good chuckle, here's a very funny video satire of "The Secret". In reading critical reveiws of the Secret, it becomes painfully obvious to me just how similar spiritual scams are. The Secret reminds me so much of chanting. Both are nothing but a "recipe for a frontal lobotomy. This is not high spiritual truth passed down through
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A crude kids joke, like turning over the outhouse with someone in it. Purely mischievous. By the time I was growing up, some kids had a variation of the prank that involved putting a garden hose thru the mail slot of a front door and turning on the water. Totally delinquent and mean.
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Oh corboy - you are inspirational. Next halloween I want to set a big bag of flaming dog shit in front of HQ's front door and ring the bell. A juvenile practical joke for sure, but it would still be SO much fun to watch 23 sokahon running around in circles with flaming shit on their shoes! What a hilarious image!
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Hi Meh. Best of luck to you on your job hunt!!!
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FYI: For anybody that might be interested in having a look, or making comments and posts, a new sub reditt has been created called "sgi whistleblowers" If you decide to participate in this new sub, please remember to observe and respect reditt rules and etiquette for posting. Thanks - hope to see you over there!
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Hey Meh. I guess I was one of those exceptions that didn't need to be shakabuku'd - one of those rare birds that just "showed up wanting specific questions answered". Certainly NOT the norm - most people have to be talked into coming! I sincerely wanted to learn how to practice buddhism, so I actively searched out a meeting to attend. Of course, I had no idea how deep a rabbi
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Quote st&P: We delude ourselves into believing that WE would recognize these "monsters/demons/devils" and, thus, we reassure ourselves that we are safe from being victimized by them. No situation could possibly be more dangerous. You really hit a home run right out of the ball park with your insightful statement. It just as easily applies to the state of our country as it does
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Meh, I had to LOL when I read that you almost launched your kindle across the room. If someone gave me a kindle, that's probably the first thing I would do with it. I think of Kindle as yet another mind/information control mechanism. Only per-approved safe and acceptable books are available on Kindle - banned or controversial books - not so much. I can't help but see Kindle as a mean
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I used information garnished from this series, "Blowing The Whistle" Chapters 1, 2, and 3 to create this extensive list of similarities between the SGI, a mentor/master based cult and TM, a guru based cult. Interesting similarities between popular guru based cults (like TM) and the SGI cult: Potential/new members are “encouraged” to chant 40 minutes per day – 20 min per morning
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For a very long time, I naively believed that if I could ever finally get into a marital relationship with a woman that chanted, it would be an absolutely ideal partnership. Hogwash! I eventually proved myself wrong about that idiotic notion not once, but twice! Where did I ever get such a bone-headed idea? You guessed it - das org programming! My two years of (seemingly) self-imposed monkh
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One of the things that really reached out and grabbed me from the article was the in-depth treatment of cult-induced PTSD. I've suspected for a long time that I might suffer some degree of PTSD from my SGcult experiences, particularly from my first 3 year stint as a senior leader. Before reading this article, I was very shy about mentioning having PTSD, because I didn't develop it fro
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Here are some relevant excerpts from this Independent Research Project article about cults: Cults have become like weeds in our world today. According to West there are about 2500 cults in the country currently. They are constantly sprouting and growing where they are not wanted. Cults operate using mind control. A cult may consist of any group of people who have a set of beliefs and ritual
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Which one is it you would like to pop in to - the recently moved into rental plaza location or an already established CC? If you have never been in the rental plaza site, it would be difficult to assess a drop in attendance with no previous bar to gauge against, whereas you probably have a good idea what the attendance levels were at your old CC. EIther way, wait until KRG has started, since mo
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During a special SGI meeting yesterday, local senior leader, Ben Dover announced, "Today, our compassionate President Ikeda has sent the youthful members of this center a very special gift in appreciation of the great advancement all of you have made toward realizing Kosenrufu." The overjoyed members looked on in awe with teary eyes and gasps of wonderment as their senior leader hel
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Joke time it is: Daisuck-u Ikee-do is history's greatest ambassador of world peace and deserves the same (or even more) stature, adoration, and respect as those half-assed slackers, King and Ghandi.
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