Joyful Christian Homemaking- All things Candy

[Jessica]

I remember how I found her! I was looking for whole wheat bread recipes. And there was Candy's blog. That was August 2008 and I've never looked back. LOL

[jerkit]

I haven't been able to find it for you, maybe someone with better Google-Fu can. It was basically their imaginings of life a few years into the future (dystopian, post-revolution under Obama) filmed as though they'd survived it as recent history. I don't think they explained why anyone would want to kill all the dogs. It was truly bizarre. I remember them filming themselves driving round some bleak landscape and turning the camera to their dog lying on the backseat to show that they'd managed to get a dog that was immune. It ended with Candy lunging towards the camera to warn that this would come to pass if Obama was elected.

You're not making me want to watch it any less. I'll have to do some searching later.

[Cran]

And do you remember the couture dress she sewed out of a sheet?

Of course, she had never sewed before and nobody heard anything of this dress after that, but Candy did it PERFECTLY, no doubt. She does everything perfectly, she's an expert on everything. I think this is her greatest weakness and shows her insecurity, she has to be right on everything and an expert in everything. Gardening? Her first summer trying her hand at gardening, but she's perfect at it! Has only small children, but gives perfect advice on raising teenagers! And so on and so on. Many fundies have this particular quirk, but she takes it further than most and doesn't even attempt to disguise it.

[Mac1138]

I have seen precious few of her videos. When she gets a lot of criticism she is quick to delete. (like a lot of our favorite fundies) I'd love to see any videos anybody is able to find. I remember the rattlesnake one, and of course her breadmaking videos, and she still has a few videos in her side bar.

Remember when she started a group on Meez? I made an account just to watch the train-wreck! I'm not even ashamed. :lol:

[clarinetpower]

The thing on her husband is gone already.

HI CANDY!!!

[Lynn18]

I remember how I found her! I was looking for whole wheat bread recipes. And there was Candy's blog. That was August 2008 and I've never looked back. LOL

She was my introduction into funiedom as well. Someone on another board (who can remember) said you have to check out this, this....person. It was like a train wreck...you can't stop looking.

[fundiefan]

They regularly try to scrub their Internet tracks. This one has been around for 12 years though, never scrubbed. I can only guess it's because he believes the message is so important that it has to stay up for lost people to find.

It's a slight glimpse into his arrogance. Only slight though.

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[Mac1138]

They regularly try to scrub their Internet tracks. This one has been around for 12 years though, never scrubbed. I can only guess it's because he believes the message is so important that it has to stay up for lost people to find.

It's a slight glimpse into his arrogance. Only slight though.

antislavery.freeservers.com/profile.htm

Wow, is he really 52? I think Candy is my age-ish; 34. I knew there was an age gap, but wow! Also, I like how Erik needs the knowledge that he would get caught (God is watching) if he tried to do any 'wrongful actions' to keep him honest. How about you just be honest?! :angry-banghead:

[fun2beme]

I recall an incident with CPS a while back. It ended up going nowhere - seems that the oldest wandered away from home one morning, which kids will do, but I think CPS looked into the issue a little further because the kid couldn't give his address or something basic like that, IIRC. But Candy turned it into the devil attacking her family.

[Georgiana]

I have seen precious few of her videos. When she gets a lot of criticism she is quick to delete. (like a lot of our favorite fundies) I'd love to see any videos anybody is able to find. I remember the rattlesnake one, and of course her breadmaking videos, and she still has a few videos in her side bar.

Remember when she started a group on Meez? I made an account just to watch the train-wreck! I'm not even ashamed. :lol:

Oh man! The Meez! I remember she told one person that Catholics go to evil Satanic Witchcraft black masses on Sundays!

I know you're probably thinking, "Ok, yeah, she hates Catholics so she's probably not a fan of the mass", but she clarified. She didn't mean the actual Catholic mass. She meant that in addition to their normal mass, Catholics also do black masses on Sundays.

Meez was crazy unedited.

[Georgiana]

Wow, is he really 52? I think Candy is my age-ish; 34. I knew there was an age gap, but wow! Also, I like how Erik needs the knowledge that he would get caught (God is watching) if he tried to do any 'wrongful actions' to keep him honest. How about you just be honest?! :angry-banghead:

Yes, he is really much MUCH older than she is. That wouldn't be a big deal, but they started living together when she was in her late teens, which I believe put him in his 30's. Creepy shivers all around!

[docmom]

Today's post leads us right down the rabbit hole. It's all about space, and the planets, and angels and demons. There's the usual anti-old earth stuff (proven because comets), then some cut and pasted basic stuff about the planets, but the real cray-cray comes when you click on the "angels" link under earth. From there you get to learn about how there are actual human-alien (demon) hybrids out there and they RULE THE EARTH. Apparently Pope Benedict was one. Don't know about Francis- probably though.

Amazing stuff. Although since she is so clearly crazy it's unlikely anyone will be much swayed by her. I worry more about Lori's blog in actually convincing people to do what she says.

[Cran]

"True science always matches up with the bible". Bless her heart.

The argument with dust on the moon alone made me laugh, because dust is mainly composed of dead skin cells and similar stuff, and as there are no life forms on the moon who could shed dead cells, well, there'll be no dust in this sense, and dust from the soil, sand particles etc. won't form thick layers of soft dust a man would sink in, but over time will simply form new soil.

And in Joshua 10 the sun is commanded to stand still so a battle can be finished... uhm. Yeah. And hares are ruminants. For sure.

But the angel/demon-stuff is old she's been harping about that for ages. Hold on to your headcoverings, ladies, or the demons will make you demon-offspring!

[docmom]

"True science always matches up with the bible". Bless her heart.

The argument with dust on the moon alone made me laugh, because dust is mainly composed of dead skin cells and similar stuff, and as there are no life forms on the moon who could shed dead cells, well, there'll be no dust in this sense, and dust from the soil, sand particles etc. won't form thick layers of soft dust a man would sink in, but over time will simply form new soil.

And in Joshua 10 the sun is commanded to stand still so a battle can be finished... uhm. Yeah. And hares are ruminants. For sure.

But the angel/demon-stuff is old she's been harping about that for ages. Hold on to your headcoverings, ladies, or the demons will make you demon-offspring!

But one of them might grow up to be Pope or leader of the one world government. I can't wait!

I'm thinking that maybe the demons are kindof infertile because there's MILLIONS of un(head)covered women walking around and very few hybrids....

[Mustang Sally]

Doh, for future reference, I'm putting up the permalink to her husband's guest post on Obamacare:

joyfulchristianhomemaking.blogspot.com/2014/04/obama-care-is-wrong.html

[spud]

Doh, for future reference, I'm putting up the permalink to her husband's guest post on Obamacare:

joyfulchristianhomemaking.blogspot.com/2014/04/obama-care-is-wrong.html

Erik certainty loves random CAPITALS doesn't he? As though it wouldn't be Difficult Enough To READ without them.

[darkplumaged]

Candy is so awesomely insane that it's hard to believe I've never followed her, but I think it has a lot to do with her crappy site design and disappearing archives.

She's really only 34 or so? Good grief--she's so frumpy I would have thought she was about 10 years older than that. (Not that her level of frumpiness is the norm for 45-year-olds, or even 65-year-olds.)

[Muriel]

Candy is so awesomely insane that it's hard to believe I've never followed her, but I think it has a lot to do with her crappy site design and disappearing archives.

She's really only 34 or so? Good grief--she's so frumpy I would have thought she was about 10 years older than that. (Not that her level of frumpiness is the norm for 45-year-olds, or even 65-year-olds.)

Candy is 36, her birth date is January 18 1978, it's not a secret she put it on her blog several times. I can't give reference of course because she doesn't have any archives ;)

[julie paradox]

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Oh my word. This is a Poe, right?

An acoustic chamber which will take ambient air and separate hot air molecules from cold air molecules which can then be used for heating or cooling.

A high RPM magnetic motor which uses geometry rather than electrical current to produce rotation.

Not actually kissing a baby, but at least demonstrating a non-fear of babies

[Phoebe]

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Oh my word. This is a Poe, right?

Y'know, all of those words are in English, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what on earth those particular words in that particular order actually MEAN.

[nelliebelle1197]

I did think the baby thing was kind of funny.

But didn't Candy live with him while she was underage, not late teens? Yuck.

[Georgiana]

I did think the baby thing was kind of funny.

But didn't Candy live with him while she was underage, not late teens? Yuck.

I thought she moved in with him when she was 17, which is underage but also late teens. I'm almost certain she was working at the time (at a mall, IIRC), and since you have to be at least 16 to formally do non-agricultural work in most states, she must have been at least 16.

I said late teens because I wasn't completely positive that she said 17, and I didn't want to make an accusation like that and have it be incorrect. Since someone else remembers that she was underage too, it makes me think that it was the case.

[fundiefan]

Supposedly, Candy homeschooled herself through highschool then lived with a (male) roomate who was 'just her best friend'. She was working at a Taco Bell, inside a Casino. At 17 she met Erik. She wasn't his type at all (and she's been trying to make herself into his type ever since). Together they moved to another state and that's when they lived in the mansion and the government tapped their phones and followed them because of the work Erik was doing/things he was inventing. The were not married but found their god during this time. I think this also the time-frame when Candy had her high powered IBM career. She's been vague about that, but never failing to remind anyone who will listen that it existed. After the government drove them to abandon Erik's super special work, they moved back to their original state and married themselves and began the life as especially blessed and chosen super Christians. Some time after they married themselves they got legally married - I think it was three years later. So, they officially lived together without marriage and then pretended to be maried while living together and then got married for real.

[Cran]

Today, we're back at UFOs. Don't want to be mean, ah, scrap that, I'm always mean, but isn't this talk about aliens/mind control by higher powers etc. commonly found in people who suffer from psychosis?

And all this talk about rapture! Jesus himself said nobody knows the hour, only the father, so she shouldn't be so concerned with it, and live a Christian life instead of brooding over such things. As it is frequently daid, the mark of true religion is that it teaches how to live in the first place. They shall be known by their fruits, and what fruits has Candy grown?

[anniebgood]

Left this comment on her site:

Extraterrestrials: Do they exist?

The head of the Vatican Observatory thinks there’s a good chance they do, and that their existence would be in keeping with the faith.

In a May 14 interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano May 14, headlined “The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother,†astronomer Jesuit Father José Gabriel Funes said that according to his “scientific judgment,†the existence of extraterrestrials is a “possibility.â€

“Astronomers contend that the universe is made up of a hundred billion galaxies, each of which is composed of hundreds of billions of stars,†he said. “Many of these, or almost all of them, could have planets. [so] how can you exclude that life has developed somewhere else?â€

The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, and has its headquarters at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome.

Its main research telescopes, however, are located at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Father Funes, who took over as head of the observatory in 2006, denied that the existence of other intelligent life-forms would contradict Christian belief.

“As there exist many creatures on earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God,†he said. “This doesn’t contradict our faith because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God. To say it as St. Francis [of Assisi], if we consider some earthly creatures as ‘brother’ and ‘sister,’ why couldn’t we also talk of an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? He would also belong to creation.â€

The Argentine Jesuit explained that scientists studying the question of extraterrestrial life have made much progress in recent years, and will soon be able to identify if other planets have the conditions necessary for life. He added that, in theory, forms of life could also exist in parts of the universe without oxygen and hydrogen.

Redemption

When asked how aliens could be redeemed, Father Funes referred to the Gospel parable of the lost sheep. Aliens, he speculated, could already be redeemed because they could have remained in full friendship with God, while the human race “could be precisely the lost sheep, the sinners that need the shepherd.â€

But what if they were sinners like us? Father Funes replied that just as Jesus is believed to have come to save mankind, so he was sure that they, “in some way, would have the chance to enjoy God’s mercy.â€

Father Funes’ comments are not novel: Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, a fellow astronomer at the observatory, discussed similar themes in a booklet he wrote for the Catholic Truth Society in 2005.

The question has also been debated within the Church since the Middle Ages and was discussed by Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, whose fictional “Space Trilogy†featured extraterrestrial beings.

In an essay Lewis wrote in 1958, originally called “Will We Lose God in Outer Space?â€and later retitled “Religion and Rocketry,†he argued that the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life would not necessarily contradict Christian theology.

And like Father Funes, Lewis said it was possible that such beings, if they exist, might have fallen from a state of grace and in that case might be redeemed through God’s mercy. Lewis added that it was even possible that other beings with souls might be redeemed through Christ’s sacrifice for the redemption of humanity at Calvary, citing St. Paul’s comment in Romans 8:19-23 that the whole of creation is longing to be delivered from slavery and that this deliverance will occur only when Christians fully exercise the “glorious liberty†conferred on them.

If intelligent life did exist, had fallen and could not be redeemed by God, either through Christ or in another way, this could pose a challenge to the Christian faith, Lewis acknowledged.

But, he said, “I think a Christian is sitting pretty if his faith never encounters more formidable difficulties than these conjectural phantoms.â€

Added Lewis, “Christians and their opponents again and again expect that some new discovery will either turn matters of faith into knowledge or else reduce them to patent absurdities. But it never happens.â€

Brother Guy believes there have been no theological statements on the subject by the Vatican apart from one allegedly made in the 1950s that he has so far been unable to track down.

Nonetheless, contrary to many reports in the secular press, Father Funes’ comments to L’Osservatore Romano do not represent an official Vatican statement but remain merely his personal views.

However, the fact they were published in the Vatican newspaper signifies support of the wider Church for the acceptability of his position regarding the possible existence of intelligent aliens.

“Essentially, it is evidence that the Vatican hierarchy agrees that there’s no problem,†Brother Guy said May 14.

He also added that the article’s publication is an “indication of its support†for the observatory following “inaccurate reporting†in some secular newspapers last year that the Jesuit astronomers had been told to leave their home at the papal summer residence.

Vatican on Darwin

Elsewhere in the L’Osservatore interview, Father Funes said that science and religion need each other and noted many astronomers believe in God.

“Science and religion are two allies that elevate the human spirit,†he explained, quoting Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. “There can be tensions or conflicts, but we mustn’t be afraid. The Church mustn’t fear science and its discoveries.â€

The Vatican is demonstrating its willingness to dialogue constructively with science by sponsoring initiatives that discuss scientific theories and discoveries. Next March, the Pontifical Council for Culture, in association with the University of Notre Dame, will host a Rome conference marking the 150th anniversary of the On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the theory of evolution.

Conference organizers say the meeting is intended to chart a middle course between the antagonistic ideological positions of an antireligious metaphysical evolutionism and a fundamentalist creationism based in a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis.

Another co-sponsor of the Darwin conference is the Rome-based “Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest,†also known as the STOQ project. Six pontifical universities are participating in the STOQ project with the objective of improving dialogue between science and philosophy.

“We hope this will really be an example of how to hold an open discussion without overtones,†said Professor Gennaro Auletta, director of the specialization “Science and Philosophy†at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a leading contributor to the STOQ project. “We simply wish to dialogue between people whose mission is to understand a little more.â€

This should blow her middle earth =- aliens theories to who knows where. At least these guys are real bonafide scientists as opposed to CB who is the queen of cut and paste.