Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[ginger90]

How much is a stamp now? Send a freaking card.

Jill should have made it clear to him, not to send such things. I bet that cost him at least $35-$40, that’s what it would be here. They’re both idiots, IMO.

5 hours ago, Talky Tina said:

Can you recommend a good starting point? 

Here, http://rodriguesfamilyministries.com/main/?page_id=1783 and click on “blog” . If you drink, drink!

[GeeGolly]

So Tim takes an 'extra few minutes' in the shower and is wracked with guilt. He prays and asks for forgiveness and then sends his mom flowers for good measure because - God is going to DEEPLY bless his life because he has greatly honored his parents.

[JoanArc]

I kind of hope Timothy had fled his bible college captivity, but is still sending Jill gifts like this to throw her off. He could be anywhere but with Jill!

[kaleidoscope]

I hope Tim isn't buying flowers instead of food:(

[Mindthinkr]

18 minutes ago, kaleidoscope said:

I hope Tim isn't buying flowers instead of food:(

Or school books and supplies, but you know he is still putting his mother first so he can be God’s best son. 

[allonsyalice]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

How much is a stamp now? Send a freaking card.

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but if she just sent a card, how would the whole world know that her son is so godly and loves her?? the whole world needs to know or i guess it didnt happen

[Heathen]

3 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

Or school books and supplies, but you know he is still putting his mother first so he can be God’s best son. 

Or because she guilted him into it. 

[sheshark]

9 hours ago, tabloidlover said:

DEEPLY/DEEPEST - She DEFINITELY reads here.

[Normades]

14 hours ago, Nysha said:

My grandmother was big into naming children one name and calling them by either their middle name or a completely different name. Of the three kids who didn't go by their legal first names as children, one continued using her middle name, one reverted to her first name, and one had his name legally changed to his"nickname". My youngest goes by his middle name with friends & family and by his first name with doctors and others, it doesn't seem too confusing for him. I'm sure Kade and Carson will survive and end up with their own Quinn and Carter.

I never thought much about the name thing until my mother ended up in a nursing home due to a stroke and dementia.  She goes by her middle name, but she named my oldest sister her first name.  My oldest sister has passed and my mother has had times where she is very mixed up about that and gets upset.  It is pure hell.  When she first got there, the staff kept calling her by her first name (my sister's name).  It was so upsetting because I thought, here she is sick and confused and they keep saying my sister's name.  Even though she can't articulate it, I'm sure it had to be upsetting to her.  We've finally gotten staff used to calling her by her middle name, but the whole thing was upsetting all the way around.  I think this is a good lesson when we name our kids.  I know this is not a happy story, but it is food for thought when naming your children.  The name needs to serve them through their whole life.

[Mindthinkr]

22 minutes ago, allonsyalice said:

but if she just sent a card, how would the whole world know that her son is so godly and loves her?? the whole world needs to know or i guess it didnt happen

Her picture on Instagram with a card just wouldn’t look good enough for Queen Jill. 

[Nysha]

If one of my kids sent me a flower arrangement while struggling financially to pay college and be self-supporting, I would not be over the roof happy about it. In fact, I'd be a little pissed that he/she didn't use common sense and send me a card from the dollar store. Or post a cute gif on my Facebook feed. Whatever psychological tick that causes these people to have a quiverful of kids for the Lord seems to also cause them to be selfish and self-centered.

Edited November 14, 2018 by Nysha

[beckie]

He probably told her he wasn't coming home for Thanksgiving, and she made him feel so guilty, that he sent the flowers.

[farmgal4]

10 hours ago, kokapetl said:

“He is paying his own way through Bible college and has to be VERY careful with his money to be able to pay all his bills. YET, he saved and scraped together enough money to do this for me. ? It just blessed me SO much that the tears flowed! ?”

Huh?

“Timothy, God is going to DEEPLY bless your life, because you have greatly honored us- your parents.“

?

FU, Jill, you self-centered POS.

[Mindthinkr]

I know all I need to about Jill R. She doesn’t feed her children enough and always puts herself first. That’s enough for me to dislike her strongly. I might even have stronger feelings but I’ll be keeping those 4 letter words to myself. 

[Temperance]

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

[Scarlett45]

2 minutes ago, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Belief? Hope?

[Normades]

50 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

Belief? Hope?

Yeah, I was thinking hope, too. That Stevehovah what a deep thinker!!  We heathens couldn't "hope" to grasp his deep thoughts.  He's so speshul.

[awaken]

It’s going to be something like honor. Except he says it seems rare to see the elderly with it. A phone?  Strength?

[Heathen]

2 hours ago, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Having hope gives hope? If that's the answer, it must be some bullshit riddle that a poor, suffering atheist like me couldn't begin to understand. 

2 minutes ago, awaken said:

It’s going to be something like honor. Except he says it seems rare to see the elderly with it. A phone?  Strength?

Honor makes more sense, especially the line about marriage. 

[crazycatlady58]

12 minutes ago, Heathen said:

Having hope gives hope? If that's the answer, it must be some bullshit riddle that a poor, suffering atheist like me couldn't begin to understand. 

Honor makes more sense, especially the line about marriage. 

But that means  the elderly  are without honor . To me Jesus  embodies  love, but sports  do not give love?

[NotFundie]

As for Stevehovah:  A future?  I can't seem to make any spiritual words fit with the "It seems rare to find the elderly with it."  

 

And, as for JillRod:  I am so angry with her.  If she had an ounce of real love for her son, she'd cut expenses for a month and send him $75 back so he can eat.  He's working at what appears to be a job with manual labor and then he's taking classes.  He can't be expected to fast to make "Mamma" happy.  Suggested areas to cut back would be - hair dye, eye liner, hair spray, Plexus drinks, Plexus vitamins, desserts for David, and teeth whitening strips.  (If you're lurking, Jilly,  it's possible that those strips are accelerating your problem with receding gums.  If your teeth get much longer, you're going to start looking like Mr. Ed.)

 

Yeah.  JillRod is on my last nerve.

Edited November 15, 2018 by NotFundie

[Marshmallow Mollie]

 A Fundie Will Shortz?! I am here for it!!

Except I think I am going to be really disappointed in the answer to the riddle.

[madpsych78]

3 hours ago, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Mojo.

I know that's not his answer, but I like mine better.

[EVS]

Obedience?

Security?

[peachybean]

Spirit?

[GeeGolly]

Guidance? Support?

Edited November 15, 2018 by GeeGolly

[Nysha]

Fulfillment?

[McManda]

My guess is purpose.

Anyone googled it to see if he's ripped it from somewhere? I don't really care if he did, but I also don't care to wait for him to provide the list answer.

[GeeGolly]

These families are all kinds of fucked up, but this dude better be careful especially in regard to this part of the riddle: "It seems rare to find the elderly with it."

Eagerly awaiting his answer.

[Jynnan tonnix]

1 hour ago, McManda said:

My guess is purpose.

Anyone googled it to see if he's ripped it from somewhere? I don't really care if he did, but I also don't care to wait for him to provide the list answer.

I was thinking something like this, but couldn't find the right word for some reason. I kept thinking things like "direction", but couldn't get it to really be close enough to summing up Jesus in one word. 

Whatever I'd come up with, even if it fit most of the other words, seemed always counter to  at least one of them. As @GeeGolly said, a lot of things which could work for most seemed very dismissive of the elderly. Or too narrow to sum up Jesus, etc.

[JoanArc]

10 hours ago, Heathen said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Pepsi?

[Celia Rubenstein]

Optimism?

[BitterApple]

Strength? 

Edited November 15, 2018 by BitterApple

[TeeMo]

It makes my blood boil that we had to hear all about poor Tim not being able to afford one of his books and now we have Jill flaunting a flower arrangement he sent her on her IG. Any parent who thinks a kid struggling to make it on his own needs to be “honoring” his parents in this way is no parent at all. And posting about it like she does just encourages poor Tim to continue to sacrifice his own well being to keep making Jill happy. It is gross. 

[Minivanessa]

6 hours ago, Nysha said:

Fulfillment?

 

2 hours ago, JoanArc said:

Pepsi?

 

52 minutes ago, Celia Rubenstein said:

Optimism?

 

34 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

Strength? 

Sexual prowess?

[Churchhoney]

17 hours ago, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Willingness to tolerate Stevehovah? ...

If he pays people money, they'll briefly tolerate him. The elderly don't give a shit about what he thinks any longer so they won't bother to tolerate him. He's such a control freak his kids are screwed if they can't tolerate him -- and he doesn't know any other young adults. Once you're dead you don't need to tolerate him. Any adult who tolerates him is clearly misguided. Marriage suggested Terry would tolerate him, but she quickly found she couldn't do it either. The only person who really tolerates Steve is [Steve's] Jesus. 

Edited November 15, 2018 by Churchhoney

[floridamom]

JRod should thank her son profusely for the flowers, then send him a check for the money BACK to HIM in the form of a grocery store gift card. No, but she won't.

[Natalie68]

19 hours ago, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Gift cards to Chili's?

[Wishing Well]

Sex and the variety of ways it happens?

[SeamusOreilly]

41 minutes ago, Wishing Well said:

Sex and the variety of ways it happens?

? ???

We have a winner!!!  

[Annb67]

12 hours ago, JoanArc said:

Pepsi?

Sex? Crap I didnt look at the above post..

Edited November 16, 2018 by Annb67

[awaken]

10 hours ago, Jeeves said:

 

 

 

Sexual prowess?

Omg, yes, that’s an awesome answer!!  Young adults are lost without it. The elderly rarely have it. Death kills it. Except Jesus embodies it would be weird.  ?

Edited November 16, 2018 by awaken

[Enya Face]

7 hours ago, Wishing Well said:

Sex and the variety of ways it happens?

??ding ding??

win!

[OpieTaylor]

How about "family" for the answer to Steve-hovah's riddle. It works pretty well for everything except "Money often gives it," but maybe money "buys" family staying close? 

[Fuzzysox]

21 hours ago, TeeMo said:

It makes my blood boil that we had to hear all about poor Tim not being able to afford one of his books and now we have Jill flaunting a flower arrangement he sent her on her IG. Any parent who thinks a kid struggling to make it on his own needs to be “honoring” his parents in this way is no parent at all. And posting about it like she does just encourages poor Tim to continue to sacrifice his own well being to keep making Jill happy. It is gross. 

Because I don't trust Jill, I think she got it from some funeral or a nursing home and came home and put a card to it. Why would Timmy be wasting money he doesn't have on her?

[Normades]

13 hours ago, awaken said:

Except Jesus embodies it would be weird.

Didn't you know?  Jesus is part of the Pepsi generation!

As fun as snarking and guessing is, it kind of pisses me off because we all know Stevehovah would seriously love that he has all of us heathens talking and thinking about his precious words.

Edited November 16, 2018 by Normades
Stevehovah not Stevehoval

[drafan]

On 11/14/2018 at 8:03 PM, Temperance said:

Steve Maxwell has offered his readers a challenge. In his Seriously, Steve? column he offers this riddle:

Young adults are lost without it. 

Adults may have it, but often it is misguided. 

It seems rare to find the elderly with it. 

Having it gives hope. 

Money often gives it.

Sports often give it. 

Marriage proposes it. 

Death kills it. 

Jesus Christ embodies it.

What is it?

Steve's answer next week.  Any predictions on the answer?

Porn.

Just ask Joshley.

[riverblue22]

It could be that Timothy is actually making some real money from a job, something he has never seen in his family.  He was broke in the beginning (couldn't afford the books) but by now maybe he has some savings.  Having an actual job may be the best part of this experience for him--I hope it sticks!

[NotFundie]

2 hours ago, riverblue22 said:

It could be that Timothy is actually making some real money from a job, something he has never seen in his family.  He was broke in the beginning (couldn't afford the books) but by now maybe he has some savings.  Having an actual job may be the best part of this experience for him--I hope it sticks!

I agree, but I have a sinking feeling that Jill and David are putting the bite on Tim for anything extra that he makes.  If he makes "good money", then they'll expect him to contribute something back to them because of the "ministry" and all those starving siblings.  My hunch is that Tim will probably drive home for Christmas break (getting free room and meals along the way from the churches that Jill cultivated on the way up).  He'll give them his extra money and they'll send him back in January broke and hungry.

I hope I'm wrong but grifters are gonna grift -- even from their own children.

Edited November 16, 2018 by NotFundie

[Heathen]

I doubt Tim is making enough money to have any extra, anyway. He's an eighteen-year-old kid with no education, no vocational skills that I know of, and maybe no work ethic to boot. Add in his lack of open availability for a job, and he's left with pretty much the most menial of work.