"The Swedish word smörgåsbord consists of the words smörgås (open-faced sandwich) and bord (table). Smörgås in turn consists of the words smör (butter) and gås (goose). Gås literally means goose, but later referred to the small pieces of butter that formed and floated to the surface of cream while it was churned.[3] These pieces reminded the old Swedish peasants of fat geese swimming to the surface. The small butter pieces were just the right size to be placed and flattened out on bread, so smörgås came to mean buttered bread.
...guests can help themselves from a range of dishes laid out for their choice. ... In a restaurant, the term refers to a buffet-style table laid out with many small dishes from which, for a fixed amount of money, one is allowed to choose as many as one wishes."
Well, recently an anonymous commentator on Jeff's blog noted this ntcc trend: "A minister and his family have a teenage daughter that’s about to graduate or shortly after she graduate’s High School; gawd calls this family back to Graham. Within 6 months the daughter is married off to a minister riding the bench at Graham 10 years older than her and life continues in NTCC." Anonymous comment from "Daddy, Can I Invite A Girl Out To Play"
We note the similarity of the borg practice to the Swedish meal custom called Smorgasbord:
In like fashion we see the ntcc forcing families back to Washington to lay out a feast of open-faced young girls ready to be goosed and ogled by desperate ministers who have been living a forced life of celibacy due to ntcc rules prohibiting normal dating. These fellows have lowered their standards to where they now think it is normal or okay, or worse, acceptable or desirable to want to hook up with a young teen, a minor, far younger than they are. This is what so-called 'sinners' call jail-bait, in reference to the illegal nature of the relationship. But in ntcc it is full-speed-ahead. These things ought not to be so. If the brothers would have freedom to choose whomever they want, in or out of ntcc, they would not be lusting after barely pubescent girlies. It just isn't normal. And in America it is illegal. But in ntcc, the drool is flowing over these young girls, the cream of the crop, while the ministers prepare to flatten them into a life of servitude to the borg's rules.
Yes, for the mere price of asking the 'pastor's' permission, and running the gauntlet of fellowship-hall humiliation, these 'guests', the ministers, can 'help themselves ...to a buffet-style table laid out with many small [young] 'dishes'..." smorgasbord aka smorgasborg!
Seriously, folks, if you plan on being a minister of holiness, you should not be lusting after little girls. If you are a minister, you should not need someone else's permission to talk to a woman. And if you are a minister, you should have enough sense to recognize that these young girls are still children, not dating material. They are souls to be guarded, not exploited!
Repulsive? Disturbing? Inciting? It is the ntcc that creates, nurtures, and approves of this twisted environment. The board members' families lead the way in these smorgasborg lopsided relationships. ntcc is a very unhealthy environment. The Word says to let all things be done decently and in order. These relationships are indecent and disorderly.
