QuoteKRQuoteNichijewMay Contribution Video One video given to each District.... I love the Japanese YMD telling about how he didn't even have a bowl of rice before donating his last penny to the SGI and now he's driving a Lexus. I also love how Nathan "Brainwashed" Gaeur and Danny "DON'T YOU THINK SO" Nagashima shill, lie, and cajole to get every last cent ou
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May Contribution Video One video given to each District.... I love the Japanese YMD telling about how he didn't even have a bowl of rice before donating his last penny to the SGI and now he's driving a Lexus. I also love how Nathan "Brainwashed" Gaeur and Danny "DON'T YOU THINK SO" Nagashima shill, lie, and cajole to get every last cent out of even the poores
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The real question Simplify is, do they disappear people? Do people who cause them real trouble disappear like within so many other governments and government like entities around the world? Is there proof that China, the US, Russia, Opus Dei and countless smaller countries and organizations "disappear" people who are deemed a danger? Of course there is very little hard evidence of such
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QuoteNichijewQuotesimplifyQuotetsukimoto ...I was thinking of some videos I saw of a 1993 SGI meeting in Santa Monica. Ikeda was utterly obnoxious at that meeting -- mocking and interrupting Fred Zaitsu, who was trying to give a speech, pounding the table, and saying "Grrreaaaaat.....guuurrrreeaaaatttoooo!" and "Mahalo....maaaahaaalooo....maaahallllooooo!" He was actin
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QuotesimplifyQuotetsukimoto ...I was thinking of some videos I saw of a 1993 SGI meeting in Santa Monica. Ikeda was utterly obnoxious at that meeting -- mocking and interrupting Fred Zaitsu, who was trying to give a speech, pounding the table, and saying "Grrreaaaaat.....guuurrrreeaaaatttoooo!" and "Mahalo....maaaahaaalooo....maaahallllooooo!" He was acting like a todd
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"Try it anywhere else, and there is a good chance SGI-USA will try to get it shut-down with their internet monitoring." -- Anticult SGI finally shut down my Nichiren Buddhist and anti-SGI blog. The owner of the blog site is Nancy Thomsen, an SGI Chapter Leader. I had 1.3 million views over the last several years. Fortunately, I managed to save much of my work but lost at least a thi
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Welcome Spartacus and Anti-cult India. Great Posts. Nichijew
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QuotesimplifyQuoteNichijewThat Hitch doesn't know well Gerry Hall and Al Albergate proves that SGI has a shadow leadership. Why would a religious organization have men who set policy and create legislation who nobody even knows. There's a lot about SGI-USA that we don't know, especially their finances. We also don't know if they have a lobbying division, a policing division, t
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That Hitch doesn't know well Gerry Hall and Al Albergate proves that SGI has a shadow leadership. Why would a religious organization have men who set policy and create legislation who nobody even knows. There's a lot about SGI-USA that we don't know, especially their finances. We also don't know if they have a lobbying division, a policing division, the nature of their excommu
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QuoteSGByeQuoteNichijewHere's a new one I heard yesterday from an SGI member who quit a couple of days ago.... "They are saying that thanks to the Hokke the Buddhist Gods have left the land"..... Implying that we are the reason SGI is not growing and not getting benefits. I love it. The Hokke is so powerful that the Buddhist Gods have left the land but the 12,000,000 Ikeda worship
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Here's a new one I heard yesterday from an SGI member who quit a couple of days ago.... "They are saying that thanks to the Hokke the Buddhist Gods have left the land"..... Implying that we are the reason SGI is not growing and not getting benefits. I love it. The Hokke is so powerful that the Buddhist Gods have left the land but the 12,000,000 Ikeda worshippers are so powerless t
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Hi Tsukimoto. I actually knew it after the first several months of a twenty year stay: "Come to a meeting with me. We're a group that adulates a Japanese billionaire whom none of us has ever met. We all consider him our mentor in life and an unerringly benevolent father figure. We quote his writings incessantly. We praise him incessantly. We liken him to Gandhi and Martin Luther Kin
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In 1979 I was talking to a top young woman.s division leader who was sure that thanks to the SGI there would be no more nukes within ten years. I tried to educate her about geopolitical realities, the SALT agreement, bubble economies and the role of militarism, and the fundamental nature of man's greed, anger, and stupidity and all she had to say was, "you will see. Thanks to SGI and S
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It is because of people like you and what they have done to the Sublime Dharma of the Lotus Flower Sutra that I will continue to fight them until my last dying breath. Thanks for your experience. Study the teachings as did Nichiren and fight the SGI with us. Nichijew
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Here is an interesting response I got from a former "connected" Santa Monica friend regarding your question: "i have many. i just need to recall them. one thing that popped out as a member some years ago is that the gakkai would classify their members as A, B , or C members. A being very good. B being average and C being weak members. "he/she has lots of potential". p
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"Isn't Joe Shmoe leader GREAT!" = Act like him or her "Ichinen" = Bust your butt for SGI "A true disciple of Sensei" -- An absolute unabashed Ikedabot "What would Sensei do" -- Don't think for yourself "Victory or defeat. Buddhism is win or lose." = Bust your butt for SGI "Follow no matter what" -- No interpretat
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Daisaku Ikeda's Relics: "Presented With a Piece of Mentor's Necktie"... "After the dinner, Mineo-san presented every men attended the dinner with a piece of Sensei’s necktie. This necktie, which either Sensei used before, or being with Sensei before, had a deep significant to me. The moment I received it from Mineo-san hand, I pledge in my heart, I will give my
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QuoteSGByeBoth of my parents know that I left the organization, quit practicing, and ceased having any religious beliefs. Yet, I can’t shake the feeling that in the back of their minds they are convinced that I will return to the SGI someday. I’ve heard many SGI leaders say that people who have left the organization will always come back because “a seed has been planted in them.” How arrogant
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QuoteHitchI forgot to add - QuoteredroseI never ever saw Ikeda as a great leader or writer. One of my first experiences with the obsession with Ikeda's lame writing was back in the early 80's when they were pushing REALLY HARD for the ymd to memorize the poem "To My Young American Friends." I never did, simply because I couldn't stand the thing. I never understood
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Animality. When times were tough, with few members attending the YMD meetings, the leaders were often congenial, like the comportment of alpha males in a small pack of dogs in which every member of the pack was necessary in order to successfully hunt and who didn't have to worry about getting their share of the kill. But when many people were participating, the alpha male leaders became ins
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QuoteShavoy Tons of chanting and tons of activities create a situation where you don't have to face the painful nitty-gritties. High "life-conditions", too. Therefore, that's why members' lives don't always have a lot to show for "actual proof" with what would be considered on-going Karma--karma that never seems to go away. That's the co-main reaso
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Hi Hitch. Being that the Lotus Sutra "is an important literary, historical, moral and ethical document." and the Human Revolution "is simplisticaly transparent, amateurish, and just plain stupid.", why do you think SGI members assiduously study and covet the Human Revolution at the expense of the Lotus Sutra? Nichijew
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hi Hitch. I would just like to point out to you that the SGI's practice is only superficially similar to the actual practice of Nichiren Lotus Sutra Buddhism. Have you read the Lotus Sutra? Most SGI members have not even read the entire Lotus Sutra but they have read all twenty or so volumes of the Human Revolution, New Human Revolution, and New New Human Revolution. Nichijew
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Thank you all for your spot on analysis and experiences with the Ikeda Cult. SGBye and Hitch you guys really have it going. I would like to help our readers protect themselves. How to Home Visit Proof Your Home And now, with winter closing in, all those senior leaders have their beady eyes trained on you, an easy mark for the May Contribution Campaign. Your house is prime territory for a ho
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QuoteShavoyQuoteSGByeI had gotten access to the latest issue of the World Tribune today. Since next month is their all-important May contribution campaign, it was full of reminders about how the members should feel appreciation towards the organization (hint, hint). Most disgusting was the propaganda aimed towards children. Following a 2-page comic strip about giving a contribution was a “How
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Check out this video and tell me what you think. SGI's version of Jesus Camp only more hip. That Japanese-American youth cult leader should be imprisoned. It made me want to puke:
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He could as easily have been a persona non grata. If he was donating a few thousand a month or he had he been converting several people a month, a vice general director would have been knocking on his door. Nichijew
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I would love to know the traffic to this forum. Moderator or Anticult, can you help me? Nichijew
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You keep this up Hitch and the top leaders will give strict guidance to all the members to avoid you like the plague, neither to contact you nor even to read your messages. But they themselves will be reading your notes every day. Nichijew
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If there is one thing about the Soka Gakkai that irked me more than the stupid planning meetings, it was their obsession with claimed "accurate" statistics but which were actually manipulated in a fast and loose manner and their harping on "victory" and "winning". I may have posted this before, if so, please excuse me. It is nearly word for word from an SGI Headqua
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