Thanks for your insights about the Japanese mentality and your story about Mr. Gelbaum. I'm sure he will be very pleased to see his name up in lights. Vice General Director, really? At least David Kasahara was a disciplined Ikedabot. Every once and a while a New York member will contact me and call me an "ungrateful pig" or some other unwholesome creature. I guess SGI interfaith is
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That's another key point for me. The noble philosophy that is supposed to imbue the hearts of the members was never translated into the interpersonal relationships in actions and behavior between the actual members, ESPECIALLY in the YD (but I've seen it the other divisions as well). ZERO humility and very little to zero appreciation for those that freely slave in support of the act
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QuoteKRGiven that one of the overriding themes to SGI is "free work," (In which I once faithfully performed for the sake of cause and effect) In my 2 years of SGI I find all of the free work preformed has actually served as a benefit. QuoteThe AnticultSGI gets people to work for free. Many other sects do the same I must confess that I find a disconnect with a lot of postings in r
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How true Hitch. One day they are your comrades, your best friends, your confidant, your brothers and sisters, the next day, when you are found to have Stage III or IV colon cancer and dying in the VA, they are no where to be found. When you no longer have anything to offer the SGI, when you fail to resolve or cure a serious problem or disease expeditiously, you are thrown out like an orange peel.
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You would think that's all that Nichiren talked about. Actually, there are only ~ ten phrases, "fundamental darkness"; one phrase, "possessed by devils"; and "fighting evil", zero phrases . "Break and subdue" is one translation of shakubuku. Another is "forceful practices" and still another, "to refute." Nichiren rarely performed th
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I was doing some "teeth of the castle" or Sokahan activity in Trets, the brainwash center in France. It was like two in the morning. Some big muckety muck pulls me aside and escorts me outside to a wooded area. It was absolutely dark. In between a grove of trees, about fifty yards from the building, he leads me to brass plaque on a concrete base on which is etched a dedication to Pres
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The inner workings of the SGI cult: Nichijew
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Great Hitch. I name name and leave no prisoners. Here is a letter I received about a year ago that I just opened and happened upon today: "I somehow knew SGI started out for the post WWII poor and hopeless. In order to raise to the heights they have is amazing. Sensei is a sharp man who has his hand in everyones pocket in SGI. SGI members are led to believe under Sensei that Chanting will
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Good question Hitch. I deal with my SGI ordeal by fighting them tooth and nail so no one has to experience what I experienced and so no one need encounter men such as they. In a sense, many of us were complicit and we too brought many people down. Fighting the Soka Gakkai, for me, is also an act of repentence. I also have another agenda, to promote what I believe is a better way because it is fai
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QuoteShavoy@The Anticult.....so in a way, too, this fusion, this One with Ikeda, means in essence that followers will lose their individual identities, and become mini-Ikedas? Is this also a end result desired by the Masters? Who or what one devotes oneself to determines one's identity. Since SGI members devote themselves to Ikeda, a greedy liar, they become greedy liars. Another example
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Quotebobze39Well, I've just realized, that I have something in common with our dear leader sensei Mr. Ikeda. Both of us have Doctorate degrees, but while my degree is real, Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Southern California, his degrees were bought with members money and phony. But I don't want to be ungrateful, because in some way SGI helped me to get my Doctorate. How is tha
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QuoteHitchSgi leaders' code of conduct = SIEG HEIL!![/quote HAI SGI leader: Hai! SGI member: Hi! SGI leader: No. HAI SGI member: How high? SGI leader: Can you give an experience at the next Area meeting?: SGI member: Ok. How about the time I went to Atlantic City and lost all my money. I had to beg the toll man to let me through the Lincoln tunnel. I chanted to myself and he
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Quotebobze39Hitch, you are absolutely right, I totally brought it all on myself by screwing around, (I am not the only one, who brought bad stuff on himself by screwing around, I mean, look at Clinton, there is a new PBS documentary about him) in fact, because of this realization, for a while, I didn't even feel angry at SGI, I almost felt, that they were punishing me fairly. But the time pa
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That is crazy Bobze. I am a professional but an employe and I am well positioned to fight off any attacks by them. A letter from a lawyer might help. They leave me alone because I think they actually believe something terrible will happen to me. If it does, it will be because I smoke, not for criticizing their horrible cult. Mark
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alariedQuotebobze39Dear Nichijew, I received your private message, I replied with a thank you note, but it said that your mailbox was full, so I decided to write to you right here. Thank you for believing in my story (after all it's just another human story, all human stories have some drama, some emotions, some interesting twists and so on, I am sure your own story is just as interesting).
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Quoteholly_golightlyThanks ScoobyDooby and Nichijew When reading what you have to say some examples of being told what to think spring to mind ........... Being told as a leader that when you are exhausted and really feel that you have to devote a bit of time to yourself, then that is exactly the time you should 'dig deeper' and 'open your heart to others' - i.e try and
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Quoteholly_golightlyThank you for the welcome, bobze39 and Hitch. Yes, for many years I remember being told that shakabuku is not about getting members, it's about revealing someone's buddhahood. I think that's where the doublethink comes in. Deep down I felt a great pressure to 'inspire' more people to practice. However I suppressed the negative and awkward feeli
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Sydney Daily Telegraph, Sept 26 2001 COURT JESTER'S SCAM NO LAUGHING MATTER An American Buddhist claiming to be the world's only official court jester has sparked a political row in the Kingdom of Tonga over millions of missing dollars. The row centers on the disappearance of money that the Pacific Island nation made selling citizenship to Chinese. The nation&#
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QuoteThe AnticultCan't believe no one has written the book...as part of SGI-USA... "Chant and Grow Rich". As a take-off of Think and Grow Rich. Its just the kind of thing people would buy, sadly. Former SGI members, Greed is Good, Chant and Grow Rich Can you imagine a "Buddhist" group appealing to man's most base desires as the the key to Enlightened
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And from the very beginning they appropriated the teachings of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin to bolster and give their philosophy of greed ["gain"] an air of respectability. Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin would be appalled. It gets me sick that they teach that "we are all Buddhas" but act as if some Buddhas are more worthy than others or that only some Budd
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Hi Wakatta! Patrick Duffy is the SGI front man for Victory Over Violence. Good stuff Hitch and Moderator. Mark
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QuoteScoobyDoobyQuote list is great! I like especially "Singing "Forever Sensei" for the umpty millionth time and wondering if any of those "smiling people" truly were." I liked that one, too. My teenaged son always comments on the photos of people in the WT with their forced smiles. My this place has been very quiet... We've all rejoined the Soka Gak
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and they hurt people just like the majority of MLM's Nichijew
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Perfect Anticult. They even plagiarize the SECRET. SGI has absolutely nothing to do with Buddhism. A giant MLM scam is what it is. Instead of falsely claiming to sell vitamins, cosmetics, or financial education resources, they falsely claim to sell peace but just like the MLM's, it's really only about recruits who donate money for the benefit of those at the top. SGI is one big ponzi sc
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Nichiren talked about winning and losing ["victory or defeat"] in Buddhism in ONE writing but never at the expense of honesty, honor, and leading an ethical life. In another writing he stated: "However wretched a beggar you might become, never disgrace the Lotus Sutra." Even Nichiren is considered a loser among many SGI top leaders because he never amassed wealth nor status wh
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Great post KR!
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They are the most blind and arrogant people on the planet, bar none.
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Yes Shavoy. The reality is that SGI is a wasteland of shattered lives. The cause is their false distorted teachings and the evil in the hearts of the top leaders. Nichijew
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Jean Gilbert, Ireland’s Womens Division Leader Brutally Murdered In Front of Her Three Children Earthly Desire Equal Enlightenment in the Soka Gakkai is taught from the perspective of a common mortal rather from the perspective of the Buddha. The members are taught by their leaders that any desire or goal the member has, as long as they chant Namu Myoho renge kyo, is equal to Enlightenment.
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“This offer is limited to members in the young men’s division, young women’s division, junior high and high school division and the elementary school division. This offer is not retroactive and applies only to new or renewing subscriptions.” “Mommy, mommy, please give me twenty dollars for a World Tribune prescription, please mommy.” “But Shirley, we already have four subscriptions. I have
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