I apologize if I misrepresented you. In fact, I have always enjoyed your posts as they cut right to the heart of the matter. Plus, your SGI Cult knowledge is deep. You are definitely on the right side of history. On that note, here is a video that made me vomit in my mouth. Youtube
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Let me just state this clearly. When we reduce those who spent time in a cult as merely being "stupid" we take out the fact that cults prey on people. If you want to abuse people who were taken advantage of by cults, you turn into an apologist for those that craft these manipulative systems. You want to puff up and say, "I didn't have a choice whether to be in a cult, b
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I tried to get rid of the video link as it's irrelevant to the discussion of the thread. Secondly, it has the potential to derail the subject. On a third point, I am not welded to the content in such a way to defend it. Basically, I stand on science and facts, but in the last couple of years, I started opening my mind to certain potentialities, versus the concrete foundations of verificatio
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Now, now Hitch. It's not as if people are offered a pill that has "dupe" written on it and then it's stupidly swallowed. For example, I became interested in Buddhism as a means to learn more about meditation practices, something that researchers in the field of science were starting to look at closely, especially in regards to health. I have a genetic disease that req
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HItch: " One thought that entered my mind as a kid and never left me, is the bizzare fact that people are chanting to a piece of paper. A piece of paper. It's reality knocking on the door, to be let in." While I tried to see the practice as a meditation type ritual to empower myself, I was also polluted into thinking that the practice arranged the environment in one's fav
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One more. I awoke this morning and got a flood of insights to how I could have been manipulated. This seems like a good place to share. Why does the "human revolution" have Ikeda with a fake name of Yamamoto Shinichi? Because it's fiction. If they were to have used his actual name, the SGI cult could get sued for lying ( I don't know the legal term). Any material with Yama
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Sorry for the cult speak faux pas. Let me exchange the term "arrogance" for self inflated importance. SGBYE, Glad you got out! This site , especially through contributing is really opening my eyes further to what I was involved in. It's odd that I somehow glazed through all of the glaring red flags, oblivious to what is so clear now. Which has gotten me thinking. Wha
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Here is the math. Total views: 192,923 Total pages:467 Total views per page: 413 No doubt SGI cult members are viewing this thread.
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Thank you Hitch, another round of hard hitting videos that expose the SGI Cult. The fan dance allows each member to experience dear leaders creative expressions and bind further into Sensei's brainwashing, uh I mean heart. Unfortunately his heart pumps for your mind, energy , money and obedience. I don't think mimicing him will gain these cult followers billions of dollars, but a
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Yes, thank you as well. Just one thing to say about those two videos hitch just shared. "ORIENTAL SCIENTOLOGISTS" OR "SGI CULT"
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Hopefully Hitch, you don't leave too soon as the party is just getting started. Besides, your videos and ability to summarize them is invaluable as you offer a side of this cult that is highly useful in uncovering the big picture. Beyond that, your posts are gold. Yes, it's interesting simplify that one day you are looking at a thread making incorrect observations and then down the
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One issue that keeps people practicing in the SGI is this idea that you can change the organization if you see anything wrong. This supposed granting upon members as a proof that the organization is open and this gets people from walking away. Let's see how well you actually can do to change the SGI into a normal organization. How far will you have to go? Perhaps oust Ikeda who because o
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Hitch, I agree. While the SGI cult has bastardized Nichiren and Buddhism in general, if one goes beyond doctrinal issues and steps back at a distance, it's better with a neutral eye to see clearly that SGI is indeed a cult. In Cuba, there are air raid drills every Tuesday in Havana, as part of a larger tactic of generating a constant threat of war which keeps the citizenry on it's
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Interesting Hitch, as you have described the reality further. It's not just the acceptance from one's peers, it's usually one or two individuals that you know on a personal basis in which that dynamic is being manipulated. For example my "sponsor" would attempt to ingratiate himself as a Father figure attempting to generate a deeper bond and giving obvious, basic guida
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Thank you Corboy, I enjoyed the article you linked. The recruitment techniques of the SGI are to get you to a "discussion" meeting where people give testimony or "experiences" about the cult practice and overwhelm the person through the sheer unfamiliarity of chanting and the Buddhist topics. It's overwhelming to the point of suspended disbelief. Once this is achiev
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Hey guys, Could you let me know how long my posts will continue to be moderated, as I replied to Hitch four posts ago. Basically, I am barred from participating in a timely fashion. If this is a new permanent policy for new users, then i'd like to know as this is definitely a barrier to having any timely dialogue or ability to share. If there is a feeling that I have posted too much
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Wow, that's really creepy. I didn't notice that pink shorted individual.....very good eye. In fact, when dealing with the SGI cult, it's about having a discerning eye and studying what the organization does in it's mind control programming. It's good to see that a book called "creepy cult" sold out. It's gasoline that fuels our hearts to have the con
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Well, regarding Nichiren Daishonin, I look at this individual as a historical character who left a legacy of letters in which others have poured over and developed even more complicated systems beyond Nichiren's own position regarding the Lotus Sutra, itself a historical work which perhaps expresses the highest form of Buddhism in it's attempts at universal equality. I see chanting
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Thanks Corboy. I felt your passion in that post and didn't take it as something to personalize. I must be on a roll today. I reread my recent posts and I am reading them the way a SGI member would read them. I talk about money and yet, I wasn't a huge giver to the SGI Cult. I had one leader tell me to spend vital money that I needed for everyday survival( Rent), to put it tow
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Hello Rattboy, I agree with you. Since I have left the SGI Cult, I can tell that my brain is processing through everything. My dreams are heavily influenced as my mind is jettisoning all of the artificial mind control elements that clouded my thinking. In fact, because I started working through a process before making a clear determination to be thoroughly done with the organization, I slo
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Thanks for the welcome Freeheartandmind and Hitch, I have always liked your posts and your concise reasoning, not to mention your good sense of humor. The links you provide give a bigger picture of the SGI, especially from a international standpoint. Also Anticult, your insights into human behavior and subsequent templates for cult tactics, especially the efforts for applying them to the SG
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Yes, it seems that within the SGI, everyone and everything is objectified. It's similar to Amway or other pyramid schemes where the core focus is showing one's faith and determination through bringing people into the organization. But rather than making money, one is paid with attention (hand claps and being given compliments) and the opportunity to become a leader, in which one can
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Fair enough Corboy. Not wanting to enter this forum with the wrong foot. You do seem to be giving me a lecture, which is fine, so please continue to do so if you see something that should be corrected for the sake of this thread's health. You make some very good points and perhaps you are right. Because I used a set of reasons to leave this cult, some of that residue remains and
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Hello Forum Members, I have been following this thread and felt the need to let you know that Sensei is a great person who knows each of your hearts and cries out when you stab at his precious organization with your harsh words. Working for peace, the Sucker Gakeye................. Interesting how brainwashed members of this organization always have the same bullet point sheet that they
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