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Date Posted: 15:36:57 10/24/04 Sun
Author: Joe
Subject: SOT & the centrality of man in UBF
In reply to: PECAS 's message, "Re: Systematic Obedience Training, the limits of" on 11:28:18 10/22/04 Fri

>The psychological and emotional
>state of the sheep impacts how they will react to love
>bombing and the subsequient systematic obedience
>training (SOT). Some sheep share in testimonies that
>their parents neglected them, so some sheep may be
>looking for the parents they never had. The sheep may
>conclude that the overburdening intrusive shepherds
>are better than neglectful parents so they submit. I
>heard one growing sheep cry out that his shepherd was
>his spiritual father.

But the sheep probably isn't solely responsible for putting his shepherd into such an exalted position in his life, in spite of his predisposing family background. The UBF system imposes the shepherd on the sheep as someone extraordinarily important. Week after week, in sogams and prayers, the sheep has to show his gratitude and admiration for the shepherd (and maybe for his shepherd's shepherd, and so on); the gratitude and admiration rarely flows in the opposite direction, though. UBF is in too many ways a man-centered system. The culture of UBF encourages much boasting, much pride, much self-aggrandizement and exaggeration of people and their accomplishments ("Ph.D. Shepherd Doctor Professor..."), which probably contributes to the sheep's submitting fully to the SOT program.

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