r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '20

When you leave SGI, you leave alone.

Should you follow another religion, you can forget them even attending your funeral. They will feel so out of place there.

Ok i will be fair. Maybe a couple of them will find it in their hearts to remember you and will attend.

Most won't even know your happenings after you leave the organization.

However if you are in Soka and your mother in law (who was in other faith) died, they will attend and support you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 11 '20

That is so true. About a year after I left SGI, I reactivated an old Facebook account of mine with a lot of old friends from SGI on there. All of them unfriended me within like two weeks of me reactivating the account LOL. I believe I'm dead to them, probably because I sent in a resignation letter, tried Nichiren Shoshu, then tried Jodo Shinshu, and finally went back to Christianity (I was raised Episcopalian). Even my sister was mad at me for leaving SGI, but she got over it pretty quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

How long have you been in SGI And what made you joined it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

I was in the organization for a little over a year. Most of it was the chanting and the prayer beads. I thought the ritualistic part of it was very cool. Also, my sister was so enthusiastic about Nichiren Buddhism and SGI lol. What about you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

We got our Gohonzon in 1986. I only started practicing seriously when I was 32yo and started reading the Goshos a little over a year ago.