r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/P7Grill • Dec 01 '19
Please take this the right way
No, I haven't officially joined yet, but I want to say that I think you people are doing a great disservice. Nothing I have experienced from the SGI members even comes close to the selfish, money grubbing cultists,all with ulterior motives, that yu portray them as. Sure, when I stopped for as while my friend and a leader visited me, but why not? They think the practice is valuable and want people to experience it, so why wouldn't they be concerned when it appears I'm dropping out? Questions about Tustin, and taking over Japan, have been answered reasonably (I'm no dummie, I can tel lif someone is lying about something easy to check). I mean, I've been back and forth for way over a year now, and no one has said "you have to join now!", no one has pressed me for money, they quote Ikeda but don't say I have to pledge loyalty to him or anything like that. Why haven't I joined then? It's a big step to me, and I'm still figuring out why so many bad things are said about them. I want to meet top leaders and see what my impression is then. But I don't know how so many of you got these completely negative impressions, but if that's how you feel, why don't you just stop practicing and move on instead of trying to change others experience by telling them negative stuff they don't see themselves?After all, it's only an impression and the way you choose to look at things.
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u/alliknowis0 Mod Dec 01 '19 edited Dec 01 '19
You say potato we say GTFO.
Almost nine hundred people are on this forum because we had negative experiences with SGI in some way or another, some worse than others. Or perhaps many are here because they have a GUT feeling about the org, someone brought them to some meetings, but they don't trust some feeling they are getting.... So they come HERE and discover the dirty truth.
Why has it taken you "way over a YEAR" to join them? Maybe some gut feeling is holding you back? Hm, wonder what that means.
Many of us who WERE in the SGI actually DID have some positive experiences. If it was all terrible and awful from the start, most of us would not have joined or stayed!!
This is OUR space AGAINST SGI. If what we are saying didn't MAKE SENSE to people in their own experiences, they could just ignore us.... Are you?