When I saw Pastor Steve Griffin’s post, "Existence is Futile,"on his blog, Just Thinking (and Writing), I immediately thought of the Borg, a fictional alien race featured in the Star Trek series of films and television programs. The Borg are a frightening race of living beings who have been forcibly enhanced with cybernetic implants and assimilated into a group mind culture. All individuality has been erased.
The Borg are frightening because your only value to them is what your forcible assimilation can add to the collective. Their ominous trademark phrase is "Resistance is futile." The Links below exhibit the menace of the Borg.
The Borg are frightening because your only value to them is what your forcible assimilation can add to the collective. Their ominous trademark phrase is "Resistance is futile." The Links below exhibit the menace of the Borg.
Many people see the world to be like the Borg. The individual does not matter in any way. The hopes and dreams of the individual are meaningless, there is ultimately no meaning to existence. The individual will be crushed. This is the philosophy of nihilism, that there is utterly no meaning to existence. The grafitti artist in Pastor Grifffin's post seems to be trying to express this philosophy.
Pastor Griffin and all other Christians know the real truth. We are of infinite value, bought with the Blood of Jesus. Jesus, the Second Person of the Trinity. Jesus, who was present at the creation. Jesus, the Lord and Sustainer of the universe.
The Blood of Jesus, the most valuable thing in the universe, was given as a totally free gift and is offered to each one of us as if we were the only one.
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