Oh boy - another SGI-USA campaign. With "50,000" in the name! NOW it's a "50,000 Home Visits" campaign - yippee!!

The first time we saw a national campaign with a "50,000" in it, it was about trying to raise the number of publications subscriptions from 35,000 to 50,000. Then we saw a "Nationwide Campaign To Gather 50,000 Youth" "50,000" seems to be the SGI-USA's magic number O_O

Now they're out to log 50,000 "home visits". In SGI-USA-speak, the "home visit" serves one of two purposes - either to motivate a member who isn't very active to become more active, or to put the smackdown on a member who's getting out of line. These are apparently of the former variety. You can see an SGI-USA webpage where the members are supposed to log their "home visits" here.

But oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be any description of this latest "50,000" campaign on the website! Fortunately, Google is my friend, and here's what I turned up:

The Great Joy of Home Visits

Stop it! Yer killin' me!! I'm gonna pee!!

Advancing toward our gathering of 50,000 determined youth in 2018.

Three experiences, three odd (and obviously obligatory) references to Ikeda:

I’m determined to visit more and more young men so that none of them miss out on this precious time with SGI President Ikeda!

My goal is to always connect young women to the Gohonzon and SGI President Ikeda, whose encouragement will enable them to win in life.

I’m determined that none of the young men’s division members miss out on this golden time to advance kosen-rufu with our mentor, SGI President Ikeda!

What is this "time" - alternatively "precious" or "golden" - they are referring to as "with President Ikeda"? Ikeda has not been seen in public since about 2010, and in all the pictures of him since then, he appears vacant and expressionless - see for yourself. Even the obviously photoshopped ones. Sources in Japan have also noticed and are speculating on Ikeda's obvious decline.

"Madame Tussaud, we've found your missing dummy!"

So what's Ikeda actually doing for anyone now??