the new online only VF catalog is up....

[danvillebelle]

....same shit, different day.

There really isn't much new stuff there; they recycle the same tired old items year after year. The look on the girl's face on the inside cover is priceless (not Jubilee, the other one), to me she looks like she's thinking "WTF am I doing here?"

It's always squicked me out that Doug and Beall have filled the catalog with pictures of their kids from the very beginning. They never had a choice in the matter. The worst one was 2012, when Virginia was on the mock Titanic cover *actually crying* (you could tell). I don't know want to know what was said to her to make her cry. Sick.

Doug Phillips is a tool.

[nelliebelle1197]

Will you post the link? I can never find anything on the VF website...

[danvillebelle]

catalog.visionforum.com/2014/

Sorry if I did that wrong, first time I've ever posted a link.

[lemonhead]

I wonder how LEGO feels about VF co-opting their mini-figs into the propaganda pieces movies on page 25 :evil-eye:

Blech.

[MissBitters]

Okay this line from the ad for Heritage Defense enrages me with its hypocrisy:

"An anonymout tip is all that separates your family from a social services investigation over parental decisions regarding corpreal punishment, sanctity of life, and medical choices like vaccinations and midwifery"

Those asshats are trying their best to chip away at access to contraceptives and abortion rights but God forbid the government "threaten" their right to make decisions about their own health. It makes me so freaking angry!

[Becoming_Me]

I read through the catalog and here is a list of what I ordered.

A book about how to delight in your babies, Delightfull(I don't have children but it is SO hard to be delighted by little babies, hopefully this book will have some pointers for me.)

I am going to learn how to eat and live like a man in Christian Manhood and the Seven Pillars of Exceptional Health (The description says America the beautiful has become America, the home of the obese, the undisciplined and the slothful. Thankfully, I am in the obese category. Slim people please divide yourselves into the undisciplined and slothful categories.)

I also ordered the DVD Should We Starve Grandpa? (Out of curiosity, I am wondering if it shows different VF families asking each other this question about their respective grandfathers. Why isn't there a companion DVD, Should We Starve Grandma?)

Finally, the one I am most excited for is the economics course. In the catalog the question is asked, what is wrong with Obamanomics? To my surprise the answer they give right below in red is "biblical economics". I can't wait to learn why how Obama snuck biblical economics into his evil plan to destroy America.

I would have bought more but my evil job doesn't earn me tons of money. Hey, Doug Phillips is a tool, if I didn't have a job I would be on welfare and wouldn't be buying any of your stuff!

P.S. Gotcha, Doug Phillips is a tool! I wouldn't really buy your stuff! :disgust:

[anjulibai]

I find it really bizarre that for all the history stuff they use people in costumes and not actual photos of the events or portraits of many of the real people or drawings from the eras in question. Just lots of reenactment crap.

The focus on reenactment is really, really bizarre to me, and I like history reenactment.

[nelliebelle1197]

The whole catalogue is weird. The "history" stuff makes me bat nuts. BAT NUTS.

[marmalade]

I wonder how LEGO feels about VF co-opting their mini-figs into the propaganda pieces movies on page 25 :evil-eye:

Blech.

People have already emailed LEGO about this.

There also was a Botkinette sighting so I guess Geoff and Dougie the Tool aren't on the outs as many previously speculated.

(damn trying to type on the phone with a lot of glare)

[Dinorah]

For some reason, their appropriation of WWII history depresses me. Maybe because of the idea of harnessing something related to so much death and destruction to some pseudo-theological triumphalism?

[Hane]

For some reason, their appropriation of WWII history depresses me. Maybe because of the idea of harnessing something related to so much death and destruction to some pseudo-theological triumphalism?

Yup. It all flies in the face of what the actual motivations behind WWII really were. This is yet another case of Dougie et al taking something and contorting it to fit their religio-patriarchal agenda.

[galaxy]

OMG. The "Hazardous Journeys" page is KILLING. ME. SOFTLY. These could all be titles/taglines of gay porns.

Dominion, Risk, and Manhood at the End of the Earth

Men Wanted for Hazardous Journeys

One Lost World, Thirty Men, Seven Mysteries ... OH MY!

[Mary C Doates]

I'm so disappointed. There's something special (or is that "special"?) about actually holding a print catalogue of Doug (Phillips who is a tool) and his balderdash tools for taking dominion over Satan. It's much less expensive to throw a paper catalogue, rather than your laptop, in disgust.

It does appear that the online catalogue lets you access free (I know, hard to believe from Vision Forum) audio and video clips, including samples of Doug (Phillips who is a tool) pontificating sharing his wisdom about God, "history", manhood, cute costumes, and and everything else you need to know about taking dominion over life, the universe and everything (as long as you have a penis. If you lack one, Doug Phillips who is a tool will be happy to sell you the Implements of Womanhood, like brooms, aprons, a lobotomy, and tea sets).

Need I remind you, and Google, that Doug Phillips is a tool?

[Patsy]

Delight-Full has an endorsement from

Nancy Campbell, mother of 8 and editress of Above Rubies Magazin

:roll:

[loulou]

Even if there was something in that catalog I wanted, the prices are ridiculous.

[snarkyjan]

I find it really bizarre that for all the history stuff they use people in costumes and not actual photos of the events or portraits of many of the real people or drawings from the eras in question. Just lots of reenactment crap.

The focus on reenactment is really, really bizarre to me, and I like history reenactment.

It's not that surprising to me. Most of the real people in those photos and portraits would spit in his eye if they were alive.

[MamaJunebug]

Mary C Doates made me chuckle:

I'm so disappointed. There's something special (or is that "special"?) about actually holding a print catalogue of Doug (Phillips who is a tool) and his balderdash tools for taking dominion over Satan. It's much less expensive to throw a paper catalogue, rather than your laptop, in disgust.

I am going to ask my local library to find the book about Darlene Deibler Rose (page 11), a woman who survived a Japanese prison camp in WW2 - her husband died in another camp. An elderly acquaintance told me about the ordeal her friend went through as a captured American Army nurse in the Pacific - really awful stuff. That lady didn't live too long after being liberated, and she was only in her late 20s, early 30s. Ms. Rose's story of survival and a long life afterwards intrigues me.

So, surprise of surprises, the VF catalog has something I really, really want to read. But not so much that I'll order a copy from them.

I notice that there's trademark or copyright registration symbols by every use of the LEGO word, so it's probably that the LEGO people have made their money off Doug Phillips Is A Tool and VF already and doesn't mind the use of the li'l things one bit. ;) But it's always fun to poke at VF, so, well done!

[DarkAnts]

Many of the toys in the catalog look like cheep knock offs.

[TrueRebel1]

Many of the toys in the catalog look like cheep knock offs.

Back when I was a teenager (so 12-15 yrs ago), my family ordered several times from Vision Forum. Back then the toys we got were actually a pretty good quality -- better than we'd find at Walmart anyway. :-) I have no idea if they've continued to offer quality items.

[docmom]

There are three things on my heart as I write the introduction to the 2013 Vision Forum Family Catalog

I guess he's talking about his left anterior descending artery, his circumflex artery and his right coronary artery, right? Those are the only three things I can think of that are "on" the average heart. Yeah, petty and pedantic but Doug makes me feel that way.

[DifferentGurl]

I hate how they have a book that says that authors like Steinbeck, Hemingway, and Hawthrone "demoralized" people away from God. Seriously? I read "Of Mice and Men" and there wasn't anything in there that was insulting to Christians.

[treemom]

Oh look a two page ad for Scamaritan Ministries. Yet again they don't understand the parable of The Good Samaritan. It was definitely not about Christians caring for Christians.

[GeoBQn]

The history stuff reminds me of the line from "Lies My Teacher Told Me" about how history textbooks always have titles with value judgments in them. Other textbooks aren't like that--they have names like Chemistry, not Rise of the Molecule.

[thoughtful]

How I wish the catalog was, indeed, "A Mystery Hidden for the Ages."

[twin2]

How I wish the catalog was, indeed, "A Mystery Hidden for the Ages."

I just wish it contained the Greece Trip Pics. :(