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08-04-2008, 06:00 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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So, you're not referring to the dominant mindset in the UPC? Well, maybe not so dominant since there seems to be an exedus of among the anti-tv crowd. What exactly is it you are referring to as "The Borg", and how would someone qualify as a Borg member?
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The Borg is interdenominational. It consists of all who seek to intimidate hapless souls into brainless, thoughtless submission to a code of social conduct built to empower a few.
Questions posed to The Borg are met with frowns. Resistance is futile. Resistance, in fact, is rebellion. It's a "do as I say" scenario.
Differences are evil, sameness is extolled.
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08-04-2008, 06:04 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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Not an entire denomination OP Carl.
Just about ten percent of us.
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This is confusing. An explanation would be appreciated.
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Who mentioned anything about an organization?
The Borg is an ideological group.
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CC1 and I both inferred that you were discussing the UPC.
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Leave out the UPC and you're correct.
The Borg is interdenominational. It consists of all who seek to intimidate hapless souls into brainless, thoughtless submission to a code of conduct built to empower a few.
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This makes it even more confusing.
Are we talking about a CHURCH????
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08-04-2008, 06:04 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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The Borg is interdenominational. It consists of all who seek to intimidate hapless souls into brainless, thoughtless submission to a code of social conduct built to empower a few.
Questions posed to The Borg are met with frowns. Resistance is futile. Resistance, in fact, is rebellion. It's a "do as I say" scenario.
Differences are evil, sameness is extolled.
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So, what you are really talking about are control freak pastors, not necessarily the one organization.
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08-04-2008, 06:06 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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This is confusing. An explanation would be appreciated.
CC1 and I both inferred that you were discussing the UPC.
This makes it even more confusing.
Are we talking about a CHURCH????
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A group of people with a sameness of ideology. People who threaten and intimidate the masses into submission. People who exert religious influence in an evil manner. The Borg is the cult of out-of-control kingdom builders.
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08-04-2008, 06:09 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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A group of people with a sameness of ideology. People who threaten and intimidate the masses into submission. People who exert religious influence in an evil manner. The Borg is the cult of out-of-control kingdom builders.
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Speaking of which, is that your phone ringing? Possibly the DS? LOL!!!!!
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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08-04-2008, 06:10 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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So, what you are really talking about are control freak pastors, not necessarily the one organization.
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No, one does not need to be a pastor in order to be part of The Borg.
The Borg consists of religious tattle-tales, Christian conformists and I-put-my-dime-in-the-meter-and-bless-God-you-will-too-even-if-I-have-to-blackmail-you-in-order-to-gain-your-submission types.
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08-04-2008, 06:22 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
Do you have something or somebody specific in mind, PP?
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Engineering solutions for theological problems.
Despite today's rising cost of living, it remains popular.
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Sir Winston Churchill
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." - Benjamin Franklin
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08-04-2008, 06:29 PM
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Re: Just How Powerful is the Borg?
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Do you have something or somebody specific in mind, PP?
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I think I have been rather specific.
I have never focused on the "somebodys" as much as I have focused on the "something."
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