Thank you for giving me a new rabbit hole to explore! I hadn’t heard of SGI.
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meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month agoCould easily be SGI too, they have some very culty elements to their practices. And they are all over with many convenient locations, like all the best cults.
disgrunty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
No problem! Say hi to the rabbits!
I was born into North America’s Own Original Real Estate Sex Cult. I coped by learning about all the other cool cults out there. Turns out they are all really about getting locals to pay for real estate owned by the inner circle.
Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What kind of real estate cult now?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The wife-swappin’, land-speculatin’, rootin’-tootin’ rascals we know and love, The Mormons™️!
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 month ago
@disgrunty@lemmy.world
You all might enjoy this book on SGI written by a prof I know:
McLaughlin, Levi. Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan. Germany, University of Hawaii Press, 2018.
www.google.ca/books/edition/…/AVgEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&…
It’s an unbiased view on SGI. McLaughlin’s position as the religion as a mimetic nation is quite interesting too.