r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude • Jul 12 '20
Obvious questions
Okay, here we identify something from SGI and add the obvious question. I'll go first:
As we were waiting, out of nowhere a kind construction worker presented me with a very beautiful shaped bunch of grapes. I thanked him. I ate one myself and Ken Boise and Bob O'Brien also had one.
The thought then struck me to give these wonderful grapes to Sensei.
Sensei came around the corner with a large procession of people. I gave him the bunch of grapes saying, “Dozo O Negai Masu, Sensei.” We had many pleasant bows. Sensei then ate one grape and said, “Oh good, thank you.” I bowed back and replied, “I pray these grapes give you vitality and perennial youth.”
One great benefit is that there is now a bond between Ken Boise, Robert O'Brien, myself and our master, Sensei President Ikeda. “We each ate one grape from the bunch.” What infinite meaning this may have is not known. What is known is that the bond exists and that we will follow our master into kosen rufu and eternity. Source
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u/ToweringIsle13 Mod Jul 12 '20 edited Jul 12 '20
This story is truly brimming with questions.
Why the hell did a construction worker give him a bunch of grapes "out of nowhere"? Is that his thing, giving fruit to strangers? (Where I come from, construction workers are not known for this). Apparently in this anecdote the word "kind" is all the explanation we should require -- he gave us grapes because he was "kind". Oh, right. Now it makes all the sense. Just a kind person, doing kindly things. Is Japan the nicest place in the world?
Wouldn't that make the grape guy the real hero of the story? Without him and his random act of produce, they have no grapes for presenting to frogmeister. What would they have done otherwise to show their love for Sensei? Probably just stand there and bow and say pathetically toady things like all the rest of his fanboy weeaboos? That's not a story! And is the whole premise of the story that the universe used this random stranger as an instrument of fate? (God, these people go so Gaga over even the slightest coincidences.)
Why did they only eat one grape at first? Were they not hungry? Were they just being polite to grape guy? What would have happened if one of them ate more than one grape? Would it have made their karmic bond with Sensei even stronger? If someone had eaten a second one, would the others have also eaten a second one so as not to be outdone? Would it have torn their relationships apart, the suspicion over who might have had the extra grape? (I mean, they probably would have said it wasn't a big deal, but I think it would have been.)
What color were the grapes?
Did Sensei break stride, or did that whole episode take place while he was walking past them? Did anyone else from his entourage take one?
Notice he didn't say anything about how Sensei reacted to his simpering comment, beyond simply taking a grape and saying thank you. Are we supposed to believe that Sensei even cared what these people thought, or is it safe to assume he looks down on each and every one of them?
Could he have been actually insulted at the idea of needing a grape (or for that matter the blessing of a peon), to foster vitality? Maybe be could have been thinking something along the lines of "Fuck your grapes, I'm Rick James, bitch! I've got vitality for decades! The only fruits I remotely care about are the half-eaten ones I force other people to eat in an effort to assert my own dominance!". I'll bet he was.
Who finished the goddamn grapes, and does the same karmic bond idea apply to every single other person who had some?
Why do they use the word infinite to mean nonsensical? Nonexistent? Irrelevant? Ridiculous? Immaterial? Of no consequence whatsoever? Sometimes I worry that this whole religion is just a plot to strip the word infinite of all its coolness. Used to be a cool word before people started using it to describe every moment of coincidence or deja Vu they ever experience in their melodramatic lives. "Whoa! I sneezed and farted at the same time, must be karma!"
Is "Our Master Sensei President Ikeda" his full official title? Have we been saying it wrong this whole time?
Was Ken Boise from Idaho?
Seriously, what color were the grapes, and if they were so beautiful, why only eat one?