"My life has been better without the SGI in it. That isn't meant as an insult but it should be a perspective considered by members of an org that claims chanting the mantra and being a practitioner of said org is the highest joy.
This isn't the perspective I had when I was a member, and I was right where you are now...Not a year and a half ago? Maybe more. I detested Blanche and her subreddit because it threatend the SGI, it threatened my practice, it threatened the ego and arrogance I'd gained from being within the SGI. Their anger scared me and I just blew them off as those silly people who didn't know what they were talking about and just wanted to slander the law.
...It's funny when their stories, which I completely blew off at first, aligned with my experiences not only with the SGI but Christianity as well. That set me straight and guess what? Instead of getting so upset at them for being so harsh (I'm a lion, why should that affect me?), I actually asked them for help because shit just wasn't making sense.
I spoke with them, talked to them, actually was brave enough to have a dialogue with people I deemed silly... I even publically admitted this to them. Guess what? They showed me a kindness I'm not getting now.
They're humans, who spent a significant amount of time in an org that demands you do so for the sake of its practitioners. These people were pulled in in vulnerable states and then harmed. They're humans who feel like they've been lied to.
If they're anger upsets you so and you can't see past that veil of anger to see the saddened people underneath, who've had their trust taken advantage of and shattered, that is a problem with you.”
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