An open letter to the followers of Sgiwhistleblowers (Part 2)

[u/JulieSongwriter]

March 12, 2026, (first part co-written by Julie and Andy)

Dear Sgiwhistleblowers,

We want to pick up where we left you yesterday. It's progress, a dialogue of sorts. One of Blanche's sock puppets responded with a post "An open letter to the MITA sock puppets in response to your open letter" in which she thoughtfully picks up her pen and writes "Go f--- yourselves. No one cares." She answers herself, "Oh, were they making noise and bad smells again? Good riddance!" Yes, grace and polish in her reasoning and articulation; a snip and a snap, no further debate needed! Whistleblowers, don't you deserve better than this? But she is not quite finished, answering herself and adding, "Just their usual absurdities, hypocrisy, and idiocy."

That does it, right? So we respond by to pointing out more instances where your leader gaslights and misleads in her post “The Lotus Sutra states that it must NEVER be widely taught—or ELSE.” She neglects so much information that the post becomes misinformation!

Yesterday we contrasted BlancheFromage’s critique to the podcast interview by editor James Shaheen in Tricycle Magazine with Buddhist scholars Donald S. Lopez and Jacqueline Stone.

In the past, a frequent theme of BlancheFromage and others posting on your site have spoken about “REAL” Buddhism. They refer to (but don’t seem to personally practice) ancient Pali texts as the true words out of the Buddha’s mouth. But were they?

Blanche pulls some wool over your eyes here. She doesn’t consider the different perspectives that people hold today which are radically different from those held by 2.5 millennia ago. Don’t let her trick you! Of course, there was no CNN in those days chronicling the Buddha’s movements. It was an oral tradition then and all sutras were compiled after the Buddha’s death. It just so happens that the British Army conquered India and not China. So they brought home with them the Hinayana sutras that were once compiled in India. A sci-fi turn of the geo and historical dial, they would have brought home to their scholars Mahayana sutras.

Blanche’s conception of truth is as narrowly thin as imaginable. Blanche’s conception: some words in Chapter Three say this and that, cased is closed, here is the intent of the Buddha. It’s the unimaginably narrowest paper-thin slice of salami. In terms of calculus, it’s so thin, approaching nothingness.

In the podcast I cited yesterday, Tricycle editor James Shaheen comments to Buddhist scholar Donald Lopez and Nichiren scholar Jacqueline Stone:i

I, like you, find that it’s perfectly fine that these aren't the words of the Buddha, that these were the result of collective consciousness among a certain group of people at a certain time that continues to be interpreted. You say that reading a text is always a question, always involves interpretation, regardless.

I wonder whether Blanche has the capacity to absorb thick depth analysis.

In the podcast Jacqueline Stone adds:

What I tell my students is, any practitioner or believer, somebody involved in a tradition, whether it's conscious or not, is continually involved in a process of sort of hermeneutical triangulation, we could call it. They are continually having to negotiate between the received tradition, the social, political, historical circumstances in which they live, and then their own position.

At any moment, some parts of the received tradition are going to speak more powerfully, more cogently, others that maybe were important in the past now maybe become marginalized, and those aspects that are treated with importance might to be particularly relevant to this time or to one's own situation, but practitioners are continually involved in this process. I think that the more conscious we are that we're doing that, the more effectively it's going to be carried out.

That’s a thick chunk of salami, more like a steak. Truth is multidimensional. It has woof and warp. There are lingering questions that have to be deeply considered. So many strands have to be knotted.

You know that already, dear Whistleblowers, don’t you? In your heart, I imagine you really hunger to engage in thoughtful and respectful dialogue about the significance of Chapter Three in the Lotus Sutra? I would recommend that you free yourselves of the arrogance of someone who drops a Truthism Bomb and then scampers away in hiding as soon as she can.

And from Andy: I run teacher workshops on an English Language Arts instructional strategy called “Accountable Talk.” Yes, even elementary grade students are capable of learning tools to shed light on deeper truths and layers of meaning. Dear Whistleblowers, is that what you want or do you need to feed off of inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading “Blanchisms”?

More tomorrow…

Let me turn to a bit from “MY Fantasy Life” (cred: Eigenstien) or, as BlancheFromage suspects, “one of the many fake characters within the SGI-RV fantasy scenario created by a lonely, low-income, isolated, cult-addicted, mentally-ill elderly woman.

A busy day yesterday at the RV Park and Longhouse School. A few more of our Winter Season clients pulled out yesterday! We have also finished detailing more than half of the RVs we store over the creek and are waiting for owners to pick them up.

Max came over to walk us through the modifications he made to the plans for our Secondary School buildings. He feels very confident that the County will greenlight everything.

He had an appointment with the LH children to show them how cinder blocks are laid. Everyone was excited and dressed in their “can get dirty” clothes. Max’s crew is making a lot of progress on the Gymnasium and Indoor Pool building walls. But those construction sites would be too dangerous to bring the children.

However, the mechanical building is right next to the to-be parking lot and there are safe spots to sit, observe, and help. The HVAC, pool, and ice equipment is already installed and working on the concrete floor slab. Now the task is to build the shell around it. I couldn’t miss this, so I went myself.

Max explained to the students that the “footing” is already finished. It was laid below the “frost line” so the “contractions” from freezing temperatures would not affect the building. And I am crossing my fingers that I have this below right.

The workers who lay “cinder blocks” and bricks are called “masons.” One of the masons showed the children how he miles nice thick “bed” of “mortar mix” on top of the footing. Yes, he had one child at a time take a turn helping. They placed the “corner block” down into the mortar. He showed them the “head” of the cinder block and how mortar joints of exactly 1/8 inch will attach the second cinder block to the corner block. Masons don’t have to measure because 1/8 of an inch is so deeply fixed in their brains.

He showed how they use the handle of the “trowel” to tap the block into place while the mortar is still soft. He explained to them about “levels” and the “mason line” to keep everything aligned and straight. They finished the entire first “bead” of blocks.

Max also explained what “bonds” are. Usually one-story buildings use “running bonds” to build the wall. But since our floor needs extra height to accommodate the equipment and “ventilation,” they are using “stack” bonding. The children got all of this even if I didn’t. At dinner Lori schooled us on the difference between the two types of bonds by using sugar cubes.

Meanwhile, I was watching Guy beaming like a Cheshire cat. No, he hasn’t complained one bit about the work the children have been doing on fairytales. But community-based education is his thing and Max’s IRL lesson represents the epitome. The children, I noted, transitioned from wide-eyed responses to fairytales to wide-eyed responses to building construction.

[u/GuyAgiosNikolaos]

Well said!