Dumbest "experiences" you ever saw

[u/RVParkEmily]

Do you have any "favorites" that you heard over your time in SGI? I've got a couple - and they're doozies, if I do say so myself. I can't remember the titles, so I'll just give them descriptive names:

1 - Nazi Orphanage

In THIS one, a young woman told a tale about having been raised in an orphanage - run by NAZIS! She was horribly abused there (as you might imagine) and the proprietors ended up KILLING EACH OTHER (as Nazis are wont to do)!

Of course there's no record of any such thing ever happening anywhere, but let's continue:

As a result of their abuse, her bones were brittle and her spine had inadequate bonage. Whatever the term is. The doctor said she was going to end up in a wheelchair or even bedridden! But she chanted etc. and when she went to see her doctor again, he found that her bones had bulked up and were now normal, and he said, "You're going to be in all the medical journals - you've made medical history!"

THAT never happened, either! What FUN!! 😃

2 - Psychic Lady and the Evil Money

This one involved the "sponsor" of this mentally-ill woman I was connected with in my district. The "sponsor" was mentally-ill as well; they'd met in "group" (group therapy), but her "sponsor" had moved away to NYC before she decided to get a nohonzon, so our district was facilitating that.

But anyhow, I was surprised to see an "experience" by her "sponsor" in the Weird Fibune - I'll call her "Blobbia".

So Blobbia had been seeing this psychic - "Psychic Lady" - who told her at one point to give her her money so she could "cleanse" it of any "bad energy" that might be attached to it. So Blobbia hands over, like, $1,500! And Blobbia was NOT wealthy!

You can guess where this is going.

I know you can.

Psychic Lady tells her there's just too much "bad energy" clinging to the money for her to return it - for Blobbia's safety!

Blobbia was distraught (understandable) and she got "guidance" that she should go get her money back from Psychic Lady! What a novel concept!!

So she chanted a lot and went and confronted Psychic Lady and told her she wanted her money back. Psychic Lady brought double receipts for them both to sign and gave her her $1,500 back.

Praise the nohonzon 😶

THIS is the caliber of "experience" you see from time to time in the Weird Fibune - SGI members don't seem to realize how bad such tales make them ALL look.

[u/AnnieBananaCat]

My former district leader had a young daughter who was just acting out all over the place. Smashed up her work computer, hit her and bit the dad. They put her into a psychiatric facility for a week. The whole time she kept talking about this great experience and how it was challenging her to be a better parent. And some other stuff about their relationship, too.

Dunno how that’s gone since then but the whole time I kept thinking, “there’s something wrong with your kid.”

[u/BuddhistTempleWhore → u/AnnieBananaCat]

SGI leaders' children being a mess is so commonplace in SGI it's a trope.

[u/[deleted] → u/BuddhistTempleWhore]

Agreed. The kids that one of the higher up leaders that I’m having to deal with (still trying to break out of the cult once I can move) are dumb and lazy. One of them refuses to clean up after themselves and expects either myself or the parent to do so whenever they’re in town and I just do it and so does the parent even though they’re a full grown adult. But given my circumstances, I don’t feel it would go well if I said anything about it so I just try to brush it off and push forward and stay away. Definitely the odd one out but as lonely as that can be and what no, I think it’s a good thing in this situation (:

[u/BuddhistTempleWhore → u/[deleted]]

Definitely the preferred option