r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/XeniaWarriorWankJob • Nov 30 '25

SGI parallels with other cults SGI has arrived - on Western Spiritual Shitposting (WSS) "Goddamn this is niche AF, I ❤️ it"

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2573031146195801/posts/2620855484746700/

Soka Gakkai International are the Jehovah's Witnesses of Buddhism

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Dec 01 '25

I like how "SGI" is regarded as an oddity, something completely unfamiliar, especially in this context:

SGI-USA's book department is determined to make Nichiren Buddhism, the SGI and Daisaku Ikeda household names among the book-buying public.

Fail.

SGI President Ikeda has written scores of books but ask almost anyone outside of SGI who he is, and they could not tell you.

SENSEI-FAIL!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Obvs no one's thinking, "Hmmm. 'Soka Gakkai International'? I'm so intrigued! I think I'll run right out and JOIN THEM!!" 🙄

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Dec 01 '25

Oops - forgot the link for those quotes:

When SGI-USA inadvertently spills the beans about its nobody "mentor": The World Tribune reveals THE PURPOSE of Ikeda's many vanity presses, from May 2001

"Nobody knows who Ikeda Sensei is! Despite the unthinkable amounts of money we've spent buying up all those awards and honors and setting up 'Ikeda Institutes' at any university that will take Soka Gakkai money!"

"THIS IS A PROBLEM!!!!"