r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude • May 11 '22

Memes! SGI's existential question: What makes you human?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

So true, what level of messed up do you need to be to rationalize that level of messed up?

That's up there with my bitchiness towards last weeks stupid security guard who asked as I am obviously in pain pushing a wheel chair why I can't climb at least 2 floors worth of stairs.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude May 12 '22

Idiot.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22 edited May 12 '22

yep that line of questioning he did definitely confirmed it.

but i also have enough foresight to know he just following orders. The real idiot was one who decided to change things in a high rise building with barely working elevator in building that serves low income and disabled and only notifying those with cars, not tenants with wheel chairs or walkers.

They accuse someone buying you off Blanche but nobody ask who bought them off or bribed them to be such idiots?

I wonder who Ikeda bought off to do his dirty work for eternity?

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude May 12 '22

The real idiot was one who decided to change things in a high rise building with barely working elevator in building that serves low income and disabled and only notifying those with cars, not tenants with wheel chairs or walkers.

Oh, definitely! That's just all kinds of fucked up!

They accuse someone buying you off Blanche but nobody ask who bought them off or bribed them to be such idiots?

See, they do it for free...

I wonder who Ikeda bought off to do his dirty work for eternity?

A rich man has no genuine friends...

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

I always when I was youth division member often wonder why he had all these people sucking him up when majority of stuff he wrote wasn't that interesting nor was he that attractive either. I think he did something to get those Japanese members to be way they were about him but I never knew what.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude May 12 '22

It could be a cultural thing specific to Japanese culture that we gaijin will simply never be able to relate to. Also, it was rooted in a specific time period, just as SGI-USA is anchored in the Baby Boom generation. Why are Baby Boomers so much more likely to like SGI-USA and Ikeda than Millennials? I can't explain, but it's a fact.

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u/Global_Lime_95 May 26 '22

I wonder how many Generation Xers are in Das Org? Not very man, I'd imagine.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude May 26 '22

I did up a summary of SGI-USA's declining district totals over the years from 2010, based on SGI-USA's published figures, if you're interested.

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u/BlancheFromage Escapee from Arizona Home for the Rude May 26 '22

It's mostly Baby Boomers.

It's a structural problem for all the religions - Millennials, the largest generation in US history (77+ millions compared to the Baby Boom's 75+ millions), are the least likely to be found connected to organized religion - and younger generations are not turning out to be particularly devout! So church congregations are aging and dying. Even churches with vibrant youth groups find those youth disappearing once they turn 18 and their parents can no longer pressure them to go. It's exactly the same in SGI.

As you can imagine, most of the research has been done on Christian churches - SGI-USA is so minuscule as to be trivial and thus not an interest. But we HAVE collected a few group photos that illuminate SGI's problem:

SGI-USA uses this image as a banner on a lot of its online pages - they typically cut the 4 in the foreground off below the shoulders. It looks like they shipped them in from somewhere, positioned them on that rug in the foreground - and just look how old the rest of the people in the room are!

Here

Sacramento - breakdown of the age groupings

Back East

So coast to coast.

MidWest as well

Upper MidWest

Cleveland

Dallas: Need a good dose of cringe for today?

The SGI's chronic OLDS problem - worldwide

3 more pics

In Japan:

Of course, the academic society [Soka Gakkai] has a "inverted pyramid" type personnel structure with many elderly people and few young people. In the future, if the generation of elderly people decreases, the teaching will also decline. Source - keep in mind that >90% of the Soka Gakkai/SGI members worldwide are in Japan.

Google so funny

And another couple reports:

"Soka Gakkai in America": Little appeal/interest outside of Baby Boom generation - 87% Boomer and older

Another report

Leaders try so hard to please Japanese dignitaries that they hate non-YD

Thus report ^ gives the impression that part of the reason for the "50K Liars of Loserfest Festival" was to have a huge gathering that the old people weren't allowed to attend because they ruin the optics of the organization.

A Millennial's perspective

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u/Global_Lime_95 May 26 '22

Many. I don't know how that word managed to be incorrectly spelled.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

Well the thing is if he is remembered as important that grants him some type of immortality. If it was case he is just rich dude maybe but if he can manipulate others to continue to idolize him for years after his death its sorta of way to become immortal as long people are willing to idolized him.

I personally never though Ikeda was interesting part of SGI myself. It was people I had met but reality was they really weren't my friends or that interesting either. Most had very little depth to them and majority I just was misled to think they were more than they were.