Hey there good folk, Thought I would share some insider info I got from a friend of mine who is still in SGI, although barely (yes!)

Per our predictions around SGI membership tanking during the covid shutdown...

My friend was made the YWD leader of my old district after I quit in 2018. Spring of 2020 rolls around and SGI moves to Zoom for meetings. We all knew that was the beginning of the end for their stupid cult.

My friend haaaates the zoom meetings. She is already fairly against technology and social media, strange for a 30 year old. So her involvement dropped off pretty quickly last year.

Last year, she kept her leadership position, though she complained to me that she had ZERO youth to lead in the district. (Shocking bc we had like 15 youth back in 2017). She didn't understand why she couldn't step down and give the position to someone else. Ohhh summer child 🤣

This year, she bought a home further away from our original district so she asked to be transferred to a closer one. She actually was really excited to meet some new people in her area this year and asked about going to a meeting.

She was sorely disappointed when she found out they are STILL ONLY doing official meetings on Zoom. She attended her new district meeting online anyway with the hopes of talking the new people into meeting her in person to chant.

She's very confused as to why nobody from the district would meet her in person even after she confirmed that they all were vaccinated. She's upset that SGI made it mandatory to have a vaccine to go to the center, and will not allow district meetings to be held in people's homes.

She feels abandoned by the SGI: she said nobody is coming to "enshrine" her gohonzon so she hasn't been chanting. I pointed out how strange it was that they won't enshrine anymore considering how it was such a BIG FUCKING DEAL to enshrine it IMMEDIATELY in the past.

She said that when the pandemic happened, it was like all of SGI's "values" went out the window, such as being a "grassroots organization" Ha ha ha! She said she's going to write a letter to HQ, as she's so unhappy about everything now. I told her she would also need to write a letter to SGI in Japan, as they were the ones likely handing down the orders not to allow members in each other's homes. She was shocked by that suggestion and said "but that's SGI and we are SGI USA, they're different." Ha ha ha ha. Oh sweet ignorant soul. I reminded her that leaders are appointed and not voted in.

It's sad that it took a fucking pandemic for my friend to open her eyes to the selfishness of SGI, and I think she's still holding onto some desperate hope, but at least she's seeing SOME of the truth now.