I always check to see if something is an official SGI pub prior to forwarding to friends/family. The internets has all sorts of shit on it...."
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
SGI's bizarre fan dance Ifu No Doodoo No Uta
Let's follow Ikeda Sensei into hell. It's better than following his every peculiarity.
TEPCO doublespeak. How reassuring!
"For the work in the reactor building, it is important to decontaminate/shield the contaminated area etc. from the viewpoint of reducing radiation exposure. In selecting decontamination methods, it is required to select them on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of decontamination performance, applicability, radiation exposure and the processing characteristics of secondary wastes etc., but since the data on the decontamination performance of each decontamination method for each contamination situation is limited at present, evaluation of the applicability will be conducted."
Destabilization of the "sangha"
Wherever goes the SGI, Japan, Italy, Argentina, Singapore, the United States, Ghana, and Spain, for example, both their "sangha" and our sangha [the sangha of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth] splits and destabilizes. So evil is their permutation of the Daishonin's Lotus Sutra Buddhism that, should they be permitted to continue freely to advance, the people's realization of peace in this lifetime and a fortunate birth in the next will be destroyed. I will not let them cause disunity in our sangha without confronting them until my last dying breath.
Why don't you offer a yearly peace proposal for the abolition of nuclear weapons like Sensei?
There are several reasons. I am not in the peace "business". I do not and never will soliciit donations for what I offer. My daily peace proposal for the abolition of nuclear weapons is the same as the Master Nichiren's. It can be found in his Rissho Ankoku Ron [Establishing the Right Law for the Peace of the Land]. Ikeda's peace proposals are strategies other than the Lotus Sutra. Mine is only the strategy of the Lotus Sutra.
Why do you point out the evil of nuclear power plants rather than the evil of nuclear weapons?
Anyone with half a brain and half a heart knows that nuclear weapons are the greatest evil ever invented and ever utilized. Some very smart and exceedingly compassionate people actually believe that nuclear power plants are an answer to some of the problems confronting mankind.
Excess mortality due to Chernobyl and Fukushima
What is the cost in human lives? Difficult to ascertain. For example, regarding Chernobyl, the estimate of excess deaths [cancer alone] range from 62 [United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation or UNSCEAR] to ~9,000 [WHO and IAEA] to 965,000 [The New York Academy of Sciences] with others estimating excess mortality from 30,000 - 250,000. Let us throw out the range extremes [arbitrary though this may be, not knowing the merits of the studies]. We have therefore from ~ 9,000 - 250,000 excess deaths [from cancer alone, not including deaths from birth defects, Chernobyl heart disease, immunological disorders, etc]. At the very minimum, we have approximately four times the deaths of the World Trade Center Disaster and at the maximum, we have more than two times the United States military deaths in World War I.
Probably, due to Fukushima's location, lack of fallout on Tokyo, relatively poor evacuation plan, reliable estimates of present and future [implied] contamination of the environment, the amount and nature of Fukushima reactor fuel, and failing to sarcophagize the plants, the excess mortality due to Fukushima [if things don't get worse and the truth of the matter is actually revealed] will probably fall in the upper range of Chernobyl estimates of excess mortality, if not exceed them.
As a caveat, assumptions, some arbitrary, were made and I did not compare estimated excess deaths due to more traditional and less obvious and less immediately noxious electricity generating systems. I have also purposely excluded controversial and unstudied environmental effects such as radiation induced massive storms. However, it is still apparent that Fukushima is far more deadly than the Bhopal disaster, and, at the very least, we should ask ourselves, is nuclear power worth it?
From a Nichiren Lotus Sutra Buddhist perspective, realizing that one human life is worth more than all the treasures of the universe, the answer is, it is not worth it.
Monday, December 30, 2013
What will have been the eventual cost of Fukushima electricity?
$50.00 per kilowatt hour, $500.00? [kwh cost would be for example, the cost of operating a medium sized air conditioner for an hour in the United States and is ~ $0.25].
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Like Clarence Carter, "It wasn't me"
Top SGI leader:
I do agree that we need to be careful about circulating guidance and notes of any kind. Things are often taken out of context or may even be bogus. A bit ago, someone was circulating "guidance" from Dr. Kawada (IOP) that turned out to be phony--he never said it.
You my dear readers do know about Clarence Carter don't you? He was cheating on his wife and caught red handed on video in bed with the woman. It was the clearest video imaginable . Again, again and again he tells his wife, "it wasn't me". Just like the deceitful lowlife SGI leaders when their lousy guidance backfires or reveals their ugly face, "it wasn't me". Stick to Nichiren Daishonin and the Lotus Sutra lest you regret it for ten thousand years and more. That's my guidance to you, especially if you are determined to realize Buddhahood in this very life.
"Good-hearted member"... You know what that means don't ya?
Hmmm...
First off, I have an issue with things being circulated that are not officially translated by the SGI. Not that other people aren't intelligent enough to translate it correctly, but if it doesn't come directly from the SGI(-USA), I don't know who it originally came from, if it's been tampered with since its translation, etc. I hope that members understand that it's not that the SGI is trying to control what we can and cannot read, it's that they want us to have the cleanest, best translation of it. Honestly, there are people out there with grudges against the SGI or Sensei or specific members who could & would change things as they got forwarded & posted & forwarded.
Secondly, while Mr. Bloom is a world-famous actor, heart-throb, etc., etc.--doesn't he deserve some privacy? I'm sure he okayed the publishing of his poem & the report of his meeting with Sensei. But, as soon as I read that poem I thought about the times I have written to Sensei. I have written things to him that are so deep & close to my heart--things I'm not comfortable (yet) to say to others--to him. The thought of other people reading one of those letters feels almost violating...like someone reading my diary, you know? I know that the SGI members who are reading this are not trying to violate Orlando's privacy or anything like that. It's exciting (for me, too!) to tell my friends that Orlando is an SGI member. Just as I'm sure it was for my mother to say that Tina Turner is a member when she was my age (and so on).
I guess my thought is: where's the line for more famous members between their privacy & their ability to encourage a broader or different audience? Who draws that line? I think that the SGI does its best not to exploit these 'celebrity' members. I have never, ever seen differently. I just worry & hope that the members, as well, will do our best to do the same--to be aware & show compassion.
Thoughts?
~Niki~
Omaha, Nebraska YWD
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