"Benefits" - no one ever chants for anything that isn't readily available or easily possible

Bonnell tells the story of one skeptic who joined Soka Gakkai to humor his girlfriend. He secretly chanted for a goldfish and gave the practice two weeks to deliver. Fourteen days later, no fish. Thinking that was the end of that, the man was bathing one night after work when his girlfriend came in and dumped a goldfish in the tub. "On her way home she had passed a pet store," Bonnell says, "and they were giving away goldfish. A woman shoved one in her hand as she passed by." Source

That's a nice story, of course, but notice no details that would enable anyone to discover whether there's any truth to it at all. No names. No location. No time frame!

And why chant for a goldfish? Goldfish are plentiful and cheap - we've all seen them being given away as prizes at carnivals for playing a silly game. Why not chant for an asteroid made of pure gold or diamond to crash in one's backyard? Why not chant for someone to walk up to you on the street and give you a million dollars? Why not chant for a photographic memory? Why not chant to grow 3" or for someone's amputated limb to grow back? Why not chant for a dodo bird or a nice stegasaurus?

Someone on here recounted the time an SGI friend of hers was trying to introduce a woman she knew. This woman had lost her teeth and asked if she could chant for them to grow back. Sure you can! They won't grow back, of course, but you can chant for whatever you want!

And - here's the kicker - if the proselytizer can simply get you to chant the magic chant long enough to become addicted to it (it generally takes only about 90 days/3 months for a new behavior to become a habit, and we all know how difficult THOSE can be to change), it won't matter that they didn't get what they were chanting for. By then, simply explaining, "Oh, you'll have a full set of teeth in your NEXT lifetime" might satisfy them, if their brains have been damaged enough at that point.