Yes, Meh, Wash. state has both recreational and medical. I was surprised when Wash. decriminalized before Calif. Corboy, good advise from you to keep green meds secure from both pets and children. Isn't it funny how animals love to get high just like people do. I've heard many stories over the years about the family dog getting into magic butter (licking the bowl or spoon when the
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SGI had already established doing the gay pride parade in previous years, after it had become politically correct to support that sort of event. It's just funny that so many of the spontaneous war protesters were also gay pride paraders. And yes, sgi was totally hypocritical to support the gay pride group while poo-pooing the anti-war group. Fun fact: Seattle Hempfest is Seattle's
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Only Two protest participants? Pitiful indeed. At least in my area (Seattle) we had 40 to 50 members still turn out (unofficially, without any encouragement or support from das org) to participate in protests against the illegal invasion. Yet, when many SGi members from that same group of protesters joined with the SGI gay members group, and participated in the annual gay pride parade that sam
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I can confirm ST&P's reference to the SGI-USA policy on the illegal invasion of Iraq. That was the final straw for me - I walked out and will NEVER return. The hype (mental conditioning) about promoting peace and goodwill, spreading world peace, Daisuck-u as ambassador of peace, and the tripe about how the org is anti-war because it "works" for world peace - those were all dece
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Nichijew, I wish I could have seen his face turning purple when you criticized Ikeda and Toda as being slanderers. He probably had nightmares that night and had to run get emergency guidance immediately to prevent himself from automatically going taiten after being exposed to such an "evil enemy of the SGI" as yourself. It must have been terrifying experience for him, but now he'l
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Welcome back Wakatta 1. Good to see your presence here again - we missed you.
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Okay, here's a good laugh for everyone. The maniacal Sgcult defender over on Reddit is so detached from reality, he actually said that this forum (cult education institute) IS A CULT !!! BWWWWAAAAAAA!!!!! How's that for a perfect example of SGcult mind control?
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Great post Meh. These quotes say it all: "Buddhists do not worship an image expecting worldly or spiritual favors." (Gohonzon - object of worship) "There are no petitional or intercessory prayers in Buddhism." (Chanting for your desires to be fulfilled) "A Buddhist is, therefore, not subservient to a higher supernatural power that controls his destinies and w
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Hey Nichijew! Good to see you around!
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Check out this creepy one minute Scientology superbowl promo ad. Yet another cult that claims to bring together science and religion. It's rather easy to image this clip as a promo ad for the SGcult. Both cults make the same absurd claim - that science upholds the magic of their religion. According to the SGI, the law of cause and effect is scientific, right? Therefore, praying/chant
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I do appreciate you sense of sarcasm, Meh, but there's no such thing as a perfectly harmless Fascist pig - especially one as rich and powerful as Ikee-do. Since many people may have never seen those Daisucku quotes, I made my previous post just to establish and clarify a few of the factual reasons we carry such disdain for King Fatboy around here. The King of Soka Kingdom can kiss my gri
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Let's use his own damning words to discern the true nature of tyrannic King Ikeda. Here are some very revealing quotes from the megalomaniac himself: ON SOKA DOMINATION; " We must place the Soka Gakkai members in all the key positions of Japanese government and society. Otherwise Kosenrufu will not be accomplished. " September 6th 1957, Seikyo Shimbun ( SG's daily organ n
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Damn, your right Meh, the cult.org mentality would indeed twist and pervert Amend's words to support their "stand alone spirit" mindset. My devious plan to crack open their mental prison with unbiased poetry would fail miserably (haha). So for the sake of clarification, here's how I prefer to interpret and apply his statement (before it gets read at some cousin rufus meeting):
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I wanted to share this wisdom-filled piece of poetry written by Mark Amend: "Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes" These sparse lines contain so much more richness and beauty, and rings so much truer than Daisucku's shallow presentation of his "stand alone" concept. Mr. Ike
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Quote: "See, Spartacus, YOU and your magical chant should have been in the Garden of Eden that time. Just sayin'... - Daisaku Ikeda". Wow ST&P! The great powerful OZ, umm I meant Daisucku, addressed me directly right here on this forum. What an awesome benefit from the gohonzon! Just how did he know I was chanting millions of NMRK repetitions for his majesty to "con
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One can never, ever chant enough, according to the SGcult. Just when you begin to think your practice is making you happy, the cult leaders provide you with some arbitrary or unattainable benefit to chant for (just in case you can't come up with something stupid or impossible yourself). Then they "guarantee results" if you to spend 3-4 hours minimum time chanting everyday until you
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Well Meh, as you may already know, xmas was ripped off from the pagans, and as a matter of fact, the red and white colors of santa's outfit originally represented the red and white psychedelic magic mushrooms traditionally used to celebrate the winter solstice. Yep, magic mushroom santa - no wonder he thought those reindeer were flying!
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Through the expert usage of cult propaganda, failure of a predicted miracle DOES indeed deepen the cult member's faith and conviction. I recall how the SGcult used to constantly pressure the members to "chant for your own impossible dream". Members were being set up to fail by being programmed to pick an "impossible" goal. A genuinely impossible goal equals a mirac
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You better not shout You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why Magic Law is coming - to town It knows when you are sleeping It knows when you're awake It knows when you've been bad or good So be good for Senseless' sake
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Meh said, "I'm saying that this is a result of my own hard work and efforts. The time I used to spend chanting for a certain thing to happen I now spend doing things to make it happen. I'm no longer passive, and turning my will and fate over to some mystical hokey-pok". ST&P said, "People, though, desperately want to believe that this sort of thing CAN happen, tha
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Here's my response to freeyourmind's question: "how do other former members feel about those who remain in the org and insist that it benefits them? Do you have a to each his own mindset or something else?" Well, freeyourmind, I guess I sorta do have an "to each his own" mindset, as I don't feel its my place to tell somebody else what to do or not to do, or wha
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Here's some relevant excerpts from an article entitled, "Are You a Member Of a Cult?" on buddhistchannel.tv. I have added my comments in bold italicized script with my interpretations of how closely these descriptions of a cult accurately correlates with the SGcult and it's leader(s). "The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘cult' as a system of religious worship, espec
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I followed ST&P's link to www.cappex.com. Here are some chilling student reviews of Soka University that reveal just how closely the school reflects the commonly employed use of indoctrination and mind control that earmark the control-freak Soka Gakkai cult. Soku U is part of the SGI, which rakes in a phenomenal 2 billion dollars a year (tax-free), while masquerading as the ONLY relig
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Rothaus wrote: 1) "SGI claims such high goals and it takes some time of observation that SGI does not really engage in those areas." 2) "I guess I thought for along time that I was contributing to something noble, unseen before and it just turns out at some point as a simple cult." 3)"Personally I believe that SGI is in rapid decline anyway, also due to message b
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meh, Mark Rogrow used to be a regular contributor here before the great crash of '13. Not sure now that its been a while, but I think his username was nichijew. Maybe we could give out a shout out to him over on his website and encourage him to return here and give us some more of his insightful posts.
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During phase one, the WT subscription campaigns were completely over the top. It was not unusual for one member to maintain 10, 20, even 25 or more multiple subscriptions to the World Tribune rag. Can't even begin to calculate how many stacks of untouched WT newspapers I threw away when they begin to stack up too high in my chapter house. The common excuse for such excess was "to prov
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Around 1990 the use of an embedded copyright protection device in VHS tapes became widespread. The embedded device scrambled the video signal (but not the audio) making it difficult to get a coherent picture. There were nefarious claims made that watching the scrambled screen (you could still see fleeting images) would blind you or severely damage the eyes, but those were only scare-monger tac
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Meh poses a legitimate question. I don't know if they embedded subliminal messages in their cult.org issued video tapes meant only for member-viewer's eyes, but I do know HQ was extremely paranoid regarding control of these cult.org produced videotapes of dear leader. As I mentioned in a previous post, SGcult spent huge amounts of money (somewhere around 1990) to install satellite
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I've been hearing the bovine-covered claim that the "youth" are going to take over for 42 years. 42 years!!! We have clearly seen that "youth" are never allowed any sort of significant leadership or control by the cult.org. The SGI HQ overlords' jealously guarded control over all facets of the organization is extremely unlikely to relent, now or ever. Considering
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Apologies for the double post. Once again, the site wont allow me to edit my post, so I am re-posting it with the new edits and additional text. Meh said (in reference to mind control), "They've refined to an art the ability to deny reality and capture thought-processes." You have described the essence of modern mind control. Abusers, be they governments, cult.orgs, or individu
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