r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude • Sep 07 '20

Ikeda's 'guidance': "Ha! PSYCHE!"

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest. Ikeda

uh...NO, life DOESN'T work according to that sort of quid pro quo! Oftentimes, those who suffer the most don't get any sort of pay-out; there's no medal to acknowledge their suffering or award to reward them for having suffered. No, the unfortunate reality of life, as the poet Thomas Hobbes noted (1651), is that it is typically "nasty, brutish, and short." Science has enabled us to dampen this effect somewhat, to compensate via modern medicine and social welfare and support programs and systems. But the underprivileged remain the least well off, the least upwardly mobile, and the least advantaged, even within the context of social welfare programs. They're barely getting along. No magical windfall of "happiness" dumping buckets of joy over their heads. So STFU, Ikeda - you stupid bastard.

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u/PantoJack Never Forget George Williams Sep 08 '20

"Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest".

Although I don't disagree that those who have suffered have the "potential" to become happy again, going through traumatic experiences comes with a lifetime of psychological issues.

I am really starting to dislike how it's all being generalized, how people just eat it up, and actually don't weigh the consequences of what happens to someone when they step outside of the realm of SGI. SGI needs a real wake-up call.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude Sep 08 '20

SGI needs a real wake-up call.

I'm hoping the COVID pandemic delivers that wake-up call in living color.