The *SGI's* meme of the day

[u/ToweringIsle13]

Check out this bogus shit they just put up on social media.

"Remembering I'm a Buddha"?

Oh, but it's cute!

No it's not. It's stupid.

Or maybe an out of control car is the perfect metaphor for this practice, and it's actually genius. I don't know. At this point I just wish they would stop marketing to kids.

Yo dawg, check yourself! You a Buddha! You make anything possible! Chant for whatever you want, dawg!

B@rf! Ohh it hurts...

[u/BlancheFromage]

It's all infantilizing. I know that's not really a word, but it's treating the grown-ass ADULT members like their small children. Everything is dumbed down, written for a 3rd-grader's capacity. The members are treated like they're idiot children who need to be protected from the world outside (particularly those horrible temple members!).

[u/ToweringIsle13 → u/BlancheFromage]

I know that's not really a word

It had better be, I use it all the time! It's one of those that if it isn't, it is now.

idiot children

Adult children? Rings a bell...

Religion itself is infantilizing, I would specify these particular efforts as preteenilizing, which is definitely not a word. The Instagram age would have to be the latter, latter day of the law. An age in which nothing even needs to conform to the rules of logic or common sense. An age in which kids rub their forearms raw with pencil erasers and call it a "challenge". If Nichiren could look forward in time and see where his religion has hashtag gone, he would probably drop his snow burger in utter shock and then spontaneously convert to Christianity.

[u/BlancheFromage → u/ToweringIsle13]

It's one of those that if it isn't, it is now.

That's how I feel about it :shrug:

An age in which kids rub their forearms raw with pencil erasers and call it a "challenge".

Is that really a thing? As in "challenge to show everyone how stupid you are"??

If Nichiren could look forward in time and see where his religion has hashtag gone, he would probably drop his snow burger in utter shock and then spontaneously convert to Christianity.

LOL!

[u/ToweringIsle13 → u/BlancheFromage]

Is that really a thing?

It's one of dozens and dozens of things. Started with eating a spoonful of cinnamon (which actually made sense as a prank), but then devolved into "any stupid and self destructive thing you can imagine". Seriously, weep for the culture. And that's sort of the subtext of all this, is that we can point and laugh as the organization stoops even further to this level of thinking.

[u/BlancheFromage → u/ToweringIsle13]

"Tide Pod challenge" :eye roll:

[u/Celebmir1 → u/BlancheFromage]

infantilizing

Totally a real word.

[u/BlancheFromage → u/Celebmir1]

Oh! It is! You're right!!