Why all the problems, frustrations, and trouble for the cult org.? I thought the magic chant NMRK was supposed to work miracles. Hmmm, it didn't work for Williams-Sadanaga or Zaitsu. I guess it only works for people who The Dear Leader chooses for it to work for. Sometimes, not even then! HA! - Hitch
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QuoteNichijew Kazue Elliot reveals the truth about the Ikeda pseudo-Buddhist cult at the ~ 5:40 mark, "...Everyone is looking for power..." Actually, the Buddha renounced his position of power and Nichiren Daishonin never sought power. Fascism and fascists seek power at any cost. Ikeda is a disciple of Machiavelli, not Buddha and the Lotus Sutra ["The Machiavellian personality is c
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They say that after a while, the little slave dog starts to look like its "Master" (or vice versa) - Napoleon-Ikeda & Squealer-Elliot, perhaps?? (From "Animal Farm"). A 100% apt analogy. One could write a book discussing all of the Gakkai Cult Org.'s doublespeak, cult gobbledygook, alone. Ikeda pseudo-buddhist cult propaganda piece , featuring Elliot an
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Brilliant insight Spartacus. A perfect summation. Gakkai cult "senior leaders" are nothing more than cult org. goons who are living a lie and excel at manipulating others (who happen to fall under their spell) without conscience. For a perfect example, go to the "Eccentric Ikeda" video clips hiding out there on the web (the same videos that the cult org. keeps getting r
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Quotecorboy There are various states in which one cannot say no. * One still has stamina, is being treated well and its all still stimulating and rewarding. So one says yes to everything. Its honeymoon stage. No doesnt even appear on the horizon. * Fear of pain/social consequences One is afraid to refuse (for fear of being shamed, gossiped about, losing rank, etc) * Too tired to
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These first two points describe the exact thought process that I went thru, slowly, on my way out of the cult org.. QuoteTaitenAndProud Are you scrubbing toilets for free at the kaikan? Congratulations! You are making cause to be taken advantage of and to be in a position where others manipulate you into working for nothing. You are demonstrating - with your life! - that you do not deserve
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North Korea, Cult of The Dear Leader clip? No, but close. $oka Gakkai Cult of The Dear Leader Ikeda clip. Many of the people in the comments section also thought it was N. Korea. Ikeda must have been wetting his pants for this show. Clip shows The Dear Leader with various foreign (Russian / China) dignitaries. Clip also has snippets of various gaijin (foreigner) celebrities on dis
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Here's a clip from the gakkai cult motherland: A Yamato delivery person (gakkai cult member) (this deliver company is kind of the equivalent to UPS in the U.S.) doesn't like anyone talking bad about his $oka Gakkai Cult Org. and The Dear Leader. She's criticizing $oka Bu$ine$$ holdings. First, he walks away, but then returns and says, "Stop saying bad things about the $oka
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Corboy, I have no doubt whatsoever that so-called gakkai cult "senior leaders" are living behind a manufactured facade. QuoteNichijew Very few top leaders are willing to post and use their real names because they give a poor showing. Some of the anonymous ones state "Top Senior Leader" but who knows. I am not sure if Ian McCaillraith is still head of the SGI internet commit
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QuoteTaitenAndProud Do you speak Japanese? Yes, I do. **** QuoteSpartacus I did a giburu (google) search for two words, "ikeda cult". Lots of interesting results and one big surprise. On the third page of the search results I found this strangely familiar line: Regarding Ikeda worship. Who's da Master? - Cult Education Forum There's a reason it had a familia
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The front of the sign says Gakkai "CULT Eradication." The back (where she is giggling) says, "Not their deadly poisonous mandala/idol" (which can be taken to mean either the gakkai gohonzon and/or Ikeda). The second clip is a gakkai audience targeted commercial (CM) with testimonials for butsudans. - Hitch
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Please don't forget to appreciate and support Gakkai Cult businesses, too Magic box makers for the magic scroll. This butsudan manufacturer caters to gakkai cult members. Notice the tri-colors everywhere and the golden gakkai logo'ed gohonzon stabilizer weights in the inner doors (replacing the former nichiren shoshu crane logos). Gakkai Cult = Big YEN ($$$$$) in Japan, too.
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"Hello everybody! Today we are at Shinanomachi Station. What do you think? Over there is Keio Hospital. And this is $oka Gakkai Cult Town." "This is incredible, look (!), there's a gakkai sign up ...." (Voice in the clip is disguised.) The sign reads, in Japanese, "CULT!" It even has the tri-colored gakkai cult flag logo on it. Oh yes, folks,
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More zeitgeber: Celebrating the 3rd annual "Daisaku Ikeda Week" "Whenever the Lion raises his voice, "ROOOAAAARRRR!" Deep in the Earth trembles, too So shall we when answer the call World Peace For You! Raise the sword of truth and power Banish evil away For one day This is our New calling Day." Performed by the "Elementary School Division.&quo
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QuoteSpartacus Dehydrating the mind directly. Neh? HAHA! That explains so much now, looking back. - Hitch
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Shirohisa is with Cousin Rufus now . - Hitch
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Mandatory dietary restrictions would have went over like a lead balloon in the gakkai USA cult org., those Japanese WD were always stuffing their faces with food, whether it be on cult trips or in the "spontaneous" parties that broke out right after daimoku sansho at meetings. Many of them were / are pretty plump and lived for their food fests. Corboy got me thinking though. One th
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There were never any dietary restrictions involved with the $oka Gakkai Cult Org.. In fact, on tozans (pilgrimages to the motherland head temple before the priesthood split), you were kept pretty well fed (buffet breakfasts, luxurious obento lunch-boxes, and dinner was usually back again at the hotel, which again, was pretty plush. They controlled everything else while on Tozan, but not you
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QuoteSpartacus To those who are considering leaving, or have already left the SGcult, bewarned. They may not come after you as hard as they came after me. But rest assured, they will come after you. Sooner or later. Again and again. Resist! Rebel! Fight for your life! Your doubts and misgivings are justified. Don't let them fool you AGAIN! They want you and they want your money! Do
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QuoteTaitenAndProud QuoteI'm sure there is even more I'm forgetting. Don't forget the August Shakubuku Campaigns!! They've no doubt taken away the capital letters, but there's still that emphasis - "August has always been the month of shakubuku campaigns" O_O And in February, there will be the Women's Division General Meetings, and, of course, there wi
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Quoterattyboy Was it a couple of years ago that they made a celebration out of the anniversary of Ikeda's visit to Harvard University to give a speech? 20th year since? Ikeda + speech in front of people + world peace as subject + Prestigious Harvard....it looks good and typical show of Gakkai 'greatness'. Small rented room + Ikeda not actually invited by Harvard University + not
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Quotecorboy Zeitgeber ---in SGI, especially long term, one may have learned to measure time differently than in the outside world. One measures time according to devotions, assigned SGI tasks, the SGI events and meetings, the big SGI rallies. This can be a 'wrap around world' with its own way of meauring time. To leave SGI is to leave that and feel oneself like an alien in anot
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Gakkai Cult Steppenwolf --> "Born To Be Lions." "Get your motor running With fighting Daimoku United with our Mentor Time to do Shakubuku Yeah Sensei will make it happen Second act of Kosen-Rufu Inside the ranks of Bodhisattvas That's what we'll do" "Like a true Buddha's son We were born, born to be lions Like I say, so high, we are Higher
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Just read the $cientology, Astra Woodcraft piece. She keeps saying things that I said about the $oka Gakkai (N$A) CultOrg. growing up in it: "I hated it." "It's ridiculous." ""If you're not raised in , this all sounds *crazy. But when you're brought up in it, it's all you know," she said. "You think there's something wrong
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QuoteTaitenAndProud I don't know of *anyone* who was born into a gakkai family over here in the states who continued practicing into adulthood - I think that's more of a Japanese thing. A handful of us (or less) (mis)fortune babies that I personally knew and grew up with, all got out. They did the brief obligatory stints in the YMD, like me, but in every case, we all gradually dri
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Quotesleepy skunk I should also mention I found my only shakabukus and I apologized for potentially getting them into a bad situation. I feel quite a lot better since I've done so, like I've restored the balance in the universe somehow. I really did worry about that for the last while. The good thing is they never mentioned that they ever went to a meeting when I talked to them. I don&#
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Thanks, T&P, SleepySkunk & Rattyboy. I'm positive that any photos of The Dear Leader in or on the butsudan area, when I was in, would have been verboten. Seeing it being done now, is just plain creepy and an obvious sign as to how sick things have gotten. Quoterattyboy Hitch - Looking at the video you posted, around the 1:01 mark when one of the dragsters is doing the splits or
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Quoterattyboy Hitch - There was a small 3 mentor 3-fold photo card that people were putting on their altars front and center! In line with the scroll! I first noticed Chapter leaders doing this. I noticed this on many altars in my area. Even putting it front and center before gongyo and removing it to the side again. Its the same 3 mentor picture they have up on the screen at FNCC while shovel
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Regarding the men's division in drag, bunny ears, Nagashima & Malone absurd dirty dancing YouTube clip : I just noticed, if you look very carefully at the front of the butsudan table area, where the person who leads gongyo sits, over on the left side, you'll see a small B&W framed photo. It's about 6 inches tall and guess who it's of? The Dear Leader, Ikeda-sama. T
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I forgot to include the comment, too: "Guest • 10 days ago I really could've used this article in the physics class I took. Wish I had known of this then." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I'll bet that class was at $oka Cult U., too! If so, sounds about right! hahahahahahaha!!! **** Thanks for making my day, opendoor. :-)) hehehehe!! - Hitch
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