by ness21 18 Replies latest jw friends
I have always thought the similarities of the WT mentality to the Borg of Star Trek very interesting. One thought One mind Total unity Total assimilation. Giving up personal identity. Giving up family connections. Giving up feelings. Giving up what it is to be human.
To join thre WTS is to do all of the above. Just like a Borg drone
No mind. No sense of self. No identity except what is dictated to you. The fit is actually quite amazing
hi,,,,and welcome,,,,nice to meet you..
Welcome Ness
A borg is someone who plays tennis.
A gift that not many of us are bjorn with.
Englishman.
lol @ bjorn
The BORGanization ASSIMILATES you - RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, WE ARE THE BORG.
Got it?
If you are a Star Trek, The Next Generation fan, you will no doubt be very familiar with the Borg. Those race of robot creatures who attached themselves to other living creatures, and gradually took over their entire being. They were mindless, drones, with one mission, to assimilate and control and grow. They were very powerful. If one became implanted, it was a very difficult if not impossible task for "others" to disassimilate the human without causing death.
This is exactly how the WTBTS is. They are the Borg in every sense of the meaning.
Welcome. Glad you are here!
Sentinel/Karen
Good explanation by Karen, and of course, previous threads will prove quite helpful.
The Borg also made appearances in Star Trek-Voyager; and it was in that series that one human girl was assimilated by the Borg when young. She was designated Seven Of Nine and later, as Karen mentioned, an attempt was made to "disassimilate" her. But that process could not be fully completed; part of her remained Borg. That seems to be the case with any who get involved in the Witness organization; it seems they cannot totally be seperated from it, their best attempts and the attempts of others notwithstanding.
I've sometimes wondered how many would just love to 'walk away' as it were, and never look back, not even needing to visit boards like this for support. I would imagine that such individuals would number very few, if any.
There was also an intriguing Voyager episode, maybe someone knows the title of it, in which some of the Borg began to experience 'independent thought' and kind of met, not bodily but in some time of place mentally, and shared some of these thoughts and actually experienced an awakening of sorts of their former selves. The Borg saw this as a tremendous threat and actually destroyed their own members to keep such a contagion from spreading. Anyone recall that episode? It certainly bears similarity to what many have experienced with the JW faith.
Kinda makes you wonder which came first the borg or thw WT org
