Another Maxwell fast

[Eternalbluepearl]

This upcoming fast on May 18 is on the one year anniversary of Grandma Maxwell's death. Maybe they are fasting for her soul.

But I thought if you "believed on Jesus Christ" you went to Heaven. No works required. That's what PP says. So therefore, no need to fast and pray for her soul?

[uber frau]

This is a good point. Can they say no? :think:

Of course. They're choosing to do this out of their own free will. Just like 33 year old Sarah chooses to live at home and chooses to share a room (complete with bunkbed) with her much younger sisters.

Steve isn't the sort to lock them in the basement if they don't comply. He doesn't need to. He incorporated them all into the Borg long ago.

My antiFast will involve my usual Monday activities: dropping off my Blessings to the tender, loving care of the Education Department, buying myself a large cup of coffee and a ridiculously calorific pastry from the posh bakery, and attending the den of Socialistic/Humanistic/Femanistic/Evolutionistic debauchery that is University. And I'll where a short skirt and heels because I can.

It's nothing out of the ordinary (apart from the pastry-I save that for antiFast days) but I'll dedicate it to Steve because I know it will piss him off. Oh, and I'll make a donation to the Zonta Club for the Maxwell 'girls'.

[Eclipse]

This whole day of fasting and prayer seems rather Catholic to me.

[HermioneSparrow]

Tooooootally doing the antifast! I'm graduating from College so that means a weekend and beginning of the next week with lots of beer, partying, fast food with my friends, having lunch with my mom and a dinner date with my dad and stepmom. In the words of Barney Stinson this antifast is going to be LEGEN... wait for it... DARY! :lol:

[gibbsgirls]

Matthew 6:18 - That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward ye openly.

They should not to be announcing a fast. This is drawing attention to yourself. Not what God wants you to do according to the Bible. I used to fast when I was fundie lite, but I didn't proclaim it. I didn't tell people when I was finished. I just did it, prayed and contemplated. It was a private affair between me and God.

[Eternalbluepearl]

This gives me a creepy feeling about Steve. Something about his control. Would his adult children know what abuse was? Is Steve ever wrong? Yikes.

[socalrules]

So this fast is from after dinner on Sunday night to breakfast on Tuesday morning. Do they realize that is basically a day and a half without food? That is probably around 36 hours of starvation. For what? Anyone know if they are even allowed water? I feel like someone took a step out of line so everyone in the family is being punished. Either that or they are working their way up to Jesus’ level in order to go 40 days without food and water. I had a breakfast sandwich today around 9:30 a.m., missed lunch because of work and didn’t eat again until after 7pm. I felt like I was going to throw up I was so hungry. I don’t see how they are going to do it for a day and a half.

[Trynn]

Sadly I'm in the middle of my yearly 30 day long fast, or I would have a one or two person drinking party in their honor.

Maybe I'll just go to the cupcake store.

Wait, this fast lasts a month? I'm really starting to worry..

[darkplumaged]

Steve appears to be tightening the food control more and more. This will only get worse.

Steve is absolutely batshit. I cannot even imagine what it must be like to live in Maxhell. The thing is, though, that I don't think any of them realize just how sick Steve is and how abnormal their home environment is.

The silver lining here is that we get to do another anti-fast. Weekdays are a tough time for me to really indulge because I'm home all day with my little helpmeet-in-training and don't like to cook, but maybe I could pray that the headship remembers our Living Social deal for a local pizza joint...

[Coco]

oh my word, if they ever had the idea to try a 40 day fast, there would be mental breakdowns.

living systems need sustenance.

[FloraDoraDolly]

Steve is absolutely batshit. I cannot even imagine what it must be like to live in Maxhell. The thing is, though, that I don't think any of them realize just how sick Steve is and how abnormal their home environment is.

In a normal crazy family, the adult children who live at home would just nod and say whatever when their religious fanatic parents propose a fast, but then they'd make a stop at McDonald's on their way to/from work or school. But the Maxwell chidults aren't allowed to just go to McDonald's, or to the 7-Eleven, or to the grocery store. They have to take an accountability partner. I wonder if they can sneak over to Gigi's, do some chores for her, and then she'll offer them some pie or ice cream?

[shedemei]

He's going to starve his family to death.

[ILoveJellybeans]

This gives me a creepy feeling about Steve. Something about his control. Would his adult children know what abuse was? Is Steve ever wrong? Yikes.

Teri isn't even allowed to remind him things when he forgets, and the "kids" are so naïve to know what abuse is, and they don't have a frame of reference for how normal people are supposed to act and what red flags for abuse are. They probably think that everyone is like their family, or worse than their family. They also would be too afraid to ask for help because they've been taught that the people who want to help them are not to be trusted and just trying to lure them into Hell.

Teri is too beaten down to protect her kids anymore, and even if she does feel anything negative, she is so beaten down she cant leave, and she has been brainwashed into believing that what Steve is doing is right. The little part of her that realises that things are messed up, or feels sad looking back on the things she used to have and the things that her children will never experience, is gone, hidden away where she will never find it. Also she has depression, and back problems, and she isn't getting any help for either of these things, so she relies on Steve and his schedule to keep her mind busy. She cant protect her kids under his schedule. She cant protect them outside of it either, without the schedule she would be as absent as she was in Sarah's early childhood that she writes about in her Moody books. And where would these poor adult babies be without someone to look after them, they are used to the schedule too, and would find real life incredibly stressful and scary, and Teri just isn't strong enough to help them because she has been brainwashed and her medical needs have been neglected.

They might realise things deep down aren't right, like they know that fasting makes them feel terrible from lack of food, or that they feel tired from lack of sleep and early morning Bible time, or that they are bored and maybe catch themselves wishing that they could do things. Or they might feel afraid of Steve and getting him mad...but doubts are from Satan, and even if they did want someone to come and save them, they don't know who as there is nobody they can trust, and they don't have the words to say how they feel.

[rosastrohhut]

Hallo everyone, this is my first post.

I can only imagine the fasts are a money saving strategy, food budget seems to be tight these days. The fasts seem to get longer, too.

And Teri with a history of mental illness should not be fasting before contacting a doctor. I suffer from depression myself and regular meals and good nutrition as well as enough night-time sleep are crucial to stay healthy if you have a tendency to mental illness.

Even at the controversial TV Show "the biggest loser" they (the contestants) are told to eat - because otherwise they will feel miserably and get depressed.

[Jana814]

Steve appears to be tightening the food control more and more. This will only get worse.

Agree!!

[Jana814]

This gives me a creepy feeling about Steve. Something about his control. Would his adult children know what abuse was? Is Steve ever wrong? Yikes.

I think his kids think he is some kind of G-d. So they follow what ever he says!!

[Eternalbluepearl]

Aside from how creeped out I am by Steve's control, another thing that strikes me about the Maxwells is they do absolutely nothing for others besides prayer. Gee thanks. So glad you starved yourself and prayed, but how does that help anyone? It reminds me of Abigail, that catholic blogger Who believes her job is to pray all day. How self-serving.

[BullyJBG]

I checked; the last fast was almost 2 months ago. Stormie Omartian, and at least one other, recommends a fast once a week. (and yes, those fasts they mention, water is the only thing they're allowed, though some who have medical problems only consume water and veggies)

I think Steve is getting desperate; he knows he's under attack because of what a control freak people make him out to be. He may be crying out to God "I let John leave the country without me for 2 weeks; what more do You want?"

[VodouDoll]

This gives me a creepy feeling about Steve. Something about his control. Would his adult children know what abuse was? Is Steve ever wrong? Yikes.

Oh, sure. He was wrong to let Nathan and Christopher play baseball. He was wrong to send the older kids to school when they were younger. He was wrong to get a vasectomy. He was wrong to work outside the home. Lucky thing the Lord points out his mistakes so he can beg his family's forgiveness and isolate them more.

[SPHASH]

I'm sure NR Anna, Elissa, and the little ones are excused from fasting, but what about the married brothers and Melanie, do they have to fast too?

[gustava]

Hallo everyone, this is my first post.

I can only imagine the fasts are a money saving strategy, food budget seems to be tight these days. The fasts seem to get longer, too.

And Teri with a history of mental illness should not be fasting before contacting a doctor. I suffer from depression myself and regular meals and good nutrition as well as enough night-time sleep are crucial to stay healthy if you have a tendency to mental illness.

Even at the controversial TV Show "the biggest loser" they (the contestants) are told to eat - because otherwise they will feel miserably and get depressed.

[JillsFlowerHeadband]

Count me in on the anti-fast.

This weekend (Saturday, to be exact... a little ahead of the Maxwells but close enough) Mr JFH and I are going out to dinner at one of the best pizza joints in our area... I shall feast on whatever pizza my little heart desires, along with deliciously buttery garlic knots and Pepsi by the pitcher (gasp)...

Then Sunday morning, we're all going out as a family for Mr JFH's birthday. His choice, Cracker Barrel (usually approved by most fundies, haha, but horribly sinful to the denizens of Maxhell, no doubt). I'll have pecan pancakes and a side order of hash brown casserole and coffee.

Monday, I'll probably stop at a local bakery and cafe and pick up a giant red velvet cupcake and some of the best coffee I've ever tasted as I go off to my ebil, ebil workplace outside the home.

(On re-reading this post, I realized that I sound like a horrible glutton :lol: )

[kpmom]

Count me in on the anti-fast.

This weekend (Saturday, to be exact... a little ahead of the Maxwells but close enough) Mr JFH and I are going out to dinner at one of the best pizza joints in our area... I shall feast on whatever pizza my little heart desires, along with deliciously buttery garlic knots and Pepsi by the pitcher (gasp)...

Then Sunday morning, we're all going out as a family for Mr JFH's birthday. His choice, Cracker Barrel (usually approved by most fundies, haha, but horribly sinful to the denizens of Maxhell, no doubt). I'll have pecan pancakes and a side order of hash brown casserole and coffee.

Monday, I'll probably stop at a local bakery and cafe and pick up a giant red velvet cupcake and some of the best coffee I've ever tasted as I go off to my ebil, ebil workplace outside the home.

(On re-reading this post, I realized that I sound like a horrible glutton :lol: )

Ooh, I love Cracker Barrel even if it is fundie approved!

We're going out Saturday too. A movie (Avengers probably) and then the Cheesecake Factory. So that will be my anti fast.

[nomoxian]

Oh, sure. He was wrong to let Nathan and Christopher play baseball. He was wrong to send the older kids to school when they were younger. He was wrong to get a vasectomy. He was wrong to work outside the home. Lucky thing the Lord points out his mistakes so he can beg his family's forgiveness and isolate them more.

He was also wrong to let his wife drink Pepsi and to allow his family to watch The Beast. :cray-cray:

On Saturday my flatmates and I are planning on going to the beach. I'm going to fast from wearing clothes.

[Toothfairy]

Why can't Steve fast by himself? Steve nobody wants to fast with you.