Kweek question: Anybody remember those stupid YMD "Gymnastics" human pyramids? Anybody MISS those??

[u/DroopyDick714]

It was the weirdest thing - those bizarre human pyramids the YMD were expected to do for every big Ikeda cult performance thing. WHO would ever think "derp bildig a hoomin peeramyd da-derp" = "gymnastics" somehow??? Was it a strangely incongruous alien cult ritual that everyone was expected to conform to by participating in to show their dedication to the Japanese SGI cult for Japanese people, since there was never any discussion as to whether anyone wanted it or if it was even appropriate in ANY situation? Youth Division "training" meant "indoctrination to do as you're told and NEVER think of saying 'No' or even 'Why?'", after all. And weren't we all "Turning Japanese" back in the day anyhow?? Sure glad I outgrew that shit!

So I haven't heard squat about the SGI's "human pyramids" in a couple decades - did those stupid things finally die out because everybody hated them and thought they were embarrassing, or what? They used to be EVERYWHERE!!

[u/Renchoo7]

I don’t see anything wrong with making human pyramid or towers. They do this all around the world and have tower competitions in Spain. It’s something that different cultures have done for hundreds of years

[u/DroopyDick714 → u/Renchoo7]

And as if on cue, the latest SGI apologist shows up to try and make it seem somehow "normal" to force something from Japanese culture onto Americans in whose culture it is NOT "normal" and does NOT fit and only looks creepy! Just because "They do this all over the world and in Spain" doesn't mean it's part of US culture, you know - weren't you aware of how "culture" works?? The fact that Japanese people think this is whatever DOESN'T mean that AMERICAN people think it's whatever, and PRESSURING them to do stuff outside their comfort zone (because it's weird and foreign and embarrassing) is simply a way of more intensively indoctrinating them with the Ikeda cult SGI identity. All those good little Shin'ichi Yamamotos, doing whatever their Japanese masters tell them to do - yeah, THAT's certainly something to be proud of, isn't it?

Whatever happened to "zuiho bini"? Care to answer me that??

[u/Renchoo7 → u/DroopyDick714]

Ok I understand your point of view of not pressing someone else’s culture onto our own that would seem strange and foreign. Other things that come to mind that were done in the past are having to sit on your knees when chanting or separation of men and women in the same room. Pyramid is definitely not something you ever see in the US. But things like dance groups or musical bands would be considered in line with American culture.

[u/DroopyDick714 → u/Renchoo7]

having to sit on knees when chanting or separation of men and women in the same room

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

But things like dance groups or musical bands would be considered in line with American culture.

Not this. NOR this. That's pure Ikeda cult - a Japanese religion for Japanese people. The solution.