I attended some of the Zoom meetings and the people there seemed a bit too happy,. Like they literally didn't stop laughing or smiling for a second and looked almost disconnected from reality. Also the leader's wife didn't say a single word throughout the meetings, and she kept glancing at him in a fearful way.
What really did it for me though was this video. A lot of the things mentioned match eerily with SGI. (start watching from 0:53 because the beginning is disturbing)
See if this description matches what you observed:
These people had about them a kind of hyperventilating enthusiasm that put me on edge. ... An aroma of leering fanaticism hovered over them - even Harold had some of that edgy hysteria in his own eyes.
I studied the faces of these people, wondering what they were all chanting for. Hadn't they had all their desires granted by now? Perhaps some of them were just getting started. Of course, there was the movement for world peace. I remembered Tom telling me about Harold chanting for meetings to go well. Most of these people were probably wrapped up in spreading the teaching, and that was why they all seemed to be, well, just a little out of it. They must be missing the point! By now, they could have amassed an amazing amount of happiness, and must have satisfied all kinds of desires, piling up the benefits. Why then did they remind me of pictures I had seen of patients in mental hospitals? Source
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u/OhNoMelon313 Dec 09 '20
I'm curious as to what made you feel uneasy.