We've spoken a lot about the FNCC (US) $oka Gakkai Cult Org. retreat and have shared many clips, thus far. Trets, France - The European Gakkai Cult Org. retreat equivalent, seems to be a rarer bird to spot on YouTube. However, here are two very short clips that demonstrate that the modus operandi is the same no matter where the cult retreat is located in the world: 1. Forever Dear
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New CULT affirmation video, just went up a few days ago. For Cousin Rufus Day & Renewing Your Vow To Your "Master" (Ikeda). A very interesting view, v-e-r-y i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g indeed. Notice The Dear Leader mini-placard sitting next to the butsudan behind some of the speakers. There isn't a single speaker whose "experience" I find compelling. Of part
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QuoteShavoy People would poop in their pants for the Man. They also would, if Sensei decided every SGI member must die for KR, do so without question. Most likely not everyone, some I'm sure would come to their senses. "'Kosen-Rufu' Warriors" = more (oxymoronic) gakkai specific cult doublespeak that just washes over most of the unthinking members. **** Bigger b
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Quotesleepy skunk I have more stuff to PM when I get to the ones I've been waiting to get to. Not terribly interesting, I'm afraid but it's all starting to pick up again. I haven't forgotten you Corboy or T&P. Hitch I tried PMing you a while back a few times your box was full. Oops! Sorry about that! Thanks for telling me, I've done some Spring Cleaning of my mai
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Quotesleepy skunk QuoteHitchYou can either laugh, cry or give respect after watching the following clip . I give my respect to the lady in the front, wearing a gray t-shirt, off to the left side of the room when the camera pans around (she shows up a few times, at 0:25 seconds, 1:13, and 2:14 minute marks, before they stop including her in the pan around). I know exactly how she feels. B
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The FNCC US Gakkai Cult Org. Retreat, celebrates its 15th Anniversary: "Hosted by the youth division This is the opening of the meeting Feels so good" Let's play with tri-colored $GI Cult beach balls and all go back to mental Kindergarten for our cult meeting. This stuff makes roller-skating human pyramids look downright sophisticated. - Hitch
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A (rare) reverse propaganda gakkai cult org. video clip. This one uses the American $GI movement to brainwash all the Japanese homeland members into the notion that The Dear Leader & his cult org. are helping to save America, with a "Victory Over Violence." Part I Part II Lots of gakkai cult org. kool-aid in these clips. They are killing several birds with one stone in
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Quotecorboy Maybe (we need some former high ranking insiders who can tell us if I am taking this too far) --Maybe there are instructions given to find something, anything, to make a member feel shame, so that he or she can be shifted off balance. The Japanese WD (Women's Division) were the queens of this kind of stuff. Info. was usually obtained either by a) direct, unannounced, spy, ho
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QuoteShavoy @Hitch=since I still cannot download the videos, what exactly is The Lady in Gray doing that speaks volumes for her individuality? Sorry about that. She's a younger (20's?), short haired brunette, asian (?) lady in a packed Gohonzon (magic chanting) room full of members. The stage is full of a dozen or more ladies all leading a pre-school-like cult exercise-dance to inc
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Quoteholly_golightly QuoteHitchYou can either laugh, cry or give respect after watching the following clip . I give my respect to the lady in the front, wearing a gray t-shirt, off to the left side of the room when the camera pans around (she shows up a few times, at 0:25 seconds, 1:13, and 2:14 minute marks, before they stop including her in the pan around). I know exactly how she feels.
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Byakuren, Ikeda Kayo-Kai, $oka-han, Gajokai, ... all of these stupid names are just that, silly names given to manufactured groups with The Gakkai CULT Org. "YOUTH!" division, created for the sole purpose of manipulating and CONTROLLING (in gakkai cult-speak = "training") its most vulnerable members. It was an understood "No-No!" that anybody give their bodily fun
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You can either laugh, cry or give respect after watching the following clip . I give my respect to the lady in the front, wearing a gray t-shirt, off to the left side of the room when the camera pans around (she shows up a few times, at 0:25 seconds, 1:13, and 2:14 minute marks, before they stop including her in the pan around). I know exactly how she feels. Bless her heart. My respect
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My own observations from The Cult Org. Motherland is that a good portion of the membership is comprised of uneducated people. I don't intend this statement to be a pejorative one, just a statement of fact, nothing more. I also noticed another strata of members, comprised of the physically and mentally handicapped. There is also yet another strata of people who are second or third generati
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SGI Venezuela sings Forever Dear Leader - The $GI Cult Master . Notice the large color photo over their shoulders on the wall behind them. They've got the cult fever, bad . The $oka Cult spreading like wildfire in South America. Pretty hardcore stuff. - Hitch
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QuoteSpartacus Herbie Hancock joined the SG cult in 1973. I saw him many times during the 1973 Tozan/Shohondo Convention, as he was assigned to the same sobo (lodge) that I stayed in. A jazz musician friend of mine (Dave Robertson- pro bass trombonist) pointed him out to me - I had never heard of Herbie at the time. I don't think he had attained the widespread success and fame of later yea
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QuoteSpartacusQuoteHitchJust couldn't resist posting this . A song, especially for The Dear Leader and about Cousin Rufus, on the occasion of completing (here's that magic rounded number again) 1 million daimoku (the magic chant, NMRK). Enjoy! "Sensei, you are wise man, kind man, marching in the street, gonna take on the world today, got a smile on your face, you are full of
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Btw, I just wanted to add to my post above - The manipulative, controlling and mentally oppressive nature of tozan-kai was 100% a gakkai cult org. creation. Anybody who went on personal tozan, without the gakkai, can probably attest to this. There was no "strictness" to it, unlike the gakkai. It was relaxed. There was no "control" to it, unlike the gakkai. There wa
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Holly_golightly's post has reminded me, the exact same kind of emphasis was placed on tozan-kai in the old N$A cult org. (Nichiren Shoshu $oka Gakkai of America). Although tozan didn't happen as often, the same kind of propaganda was fed to the members. "If you want to change your life or make a breakthrough, then you had to do tozan" and amazing miraculous things would happ
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"fncc PPT 03 - ruff draft 3" . Translation = FNCC (Gakkai Cult Org. Retreat) Power-Point (?) rough draft #3. The "Master-Slave" indoctrination lecture. Lots of photos of The Idolized Dear Leader, people gobbled up by the cult org., The Human Revolution propaganda images and The Motherland. Looks just like something taken right out of present day N. Korea.
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Quoteholly_golightly QuoteHitch The Master & Disciple (I like the term, "follower" better, too) thing is a significant cognitive dissonance trigger for many members. In fact, that's precisely why the cult org. rewrote history (again) and changed it to the less loaded baggage terms "Mentor-Disciple." For most of my time in, it was always referred to as "Master.&
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QuoteThe Anticult In reality, the concept is more like Master/"Slave" psychologically and economically. How many SGI members do years of unpaid labor for SGI, which is worth countless billions of dollars? SGI has billions in the private asset holdings of the Ikeda family, all made off the backs of unpaid labor of SGI followers. What is unpaid labor called? Definition of SLAVE
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Excellent points and perfect analogies, Corboy & Anticult. "Slave" is definitely a much more appropriate term. This is one of my favorite quotes, that I've shared before, which sums up perfectly what I saw in the YMD and how people were treated: Quote: Elie Wiesel "A slave runs. And we were exemplary slaves, therefore you had to run." Getting screamed at,
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The Master & Disciple (I like the term, "follower" better, too) thing is a significant cognitive dissonance trigger for many members. In fact, that's precisely why the cult org. rewrote history (again) and changed it to the less loaded baggage terms "Mentor-Disciple." For most of my time in, it was always referred to as "Master." I remember well, because
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Seeking "Sensei" through Cousin Rufus Towers. "Timing, precision, grace, balance, witness how bravery can defy gravity. Please give it up for the YMD Gymnastics!" Mission Impossible for Cousin Rufus & The Dear Leader - Sensei! (I admit, I only watched the first few minutes and just glanced at the remaining portions.) What is the purpose of these kinds of cul
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Just to add to this theme, I've mentioned before that a similar event happened to me, too. I came down with pneumonia right after serving as soka-han, stationed outside on a cold, windy winter night, until the early a.m. hours (after midnight). I still remember how cold I was that night - freezing cold. I went to the ER that same day, after getting off soka-han duty, going home, changin
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Directly from $GI's charter , specifically, article number 9, stating: 9. "SGI shall promote, based on the Buddhist ideal of symbiosis, the protection of nature and the environment." Consider the following: BEGIN EXCERPT - "Nuclear energy and political parties - Komei Party (Part 2) August 28, 2011 Soka Gakkai features pro-nuclear series every year Soka Gakk
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Quotetsukimoto Kyrl, I can also relate to your experience...SGI members love to talk about how much SGI loves and cares for its members, about the importance of compassion and taking care of others -- and yet, if you look at what they actually do, there is a huge disconnnect. Classic cult doublethink at work. There are so many examples of it in the gakkai cult org.. **** Remember my pos
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At the gakkai USA cult retreat (FNCC) recently: Start off with magic chant, daimoku sansho , then, let the thought stopping, behavior regressing rituals commence . I feel sorry for the older gentleman at the 0:37 second mark. He's obviously not having any of their ridiculous dance moves at the very end (see from 1:40 minute mark). Poor guy. I wonder what happened to him, that he got
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More cult fascist behavior: Here's our old friend (posted previously on this thread) at the FNCC recently, determine minded performing to screaming cult fans, The Dear Leader's Cult Fan Dance . Somebody screams out "SENSEI!" at the 1:19 minute mark. (I was personally waiting for him to back up into the glass door at the 1:35 mark). I can't say it enough, ... CULT!
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The $oka Gakkai Ikeda-Dear-Leader Cult Org. in India . "Young Lions of India." The cult song starts around the 1:00 minute mark. Notice the Hitler-esque arm thrusts, but with fists, and the fascistic themed melody music. "Young Lions of India Awaken to the power in you Fighting with sword of the Mystic Law And Sensei to guide you through This is the time to take an oath
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