Titus2's Steve Maxwell: Seriously Anti-Fun

[blessalessi]

I really want "Playing the Christian Man-Card" to be a new user title. 

He's been playing that fucking Christian Man-Card to get his own way all his married life. And Nathan has played it frequently too, when he has talked about running a "Daddy Day-Care" just because he had to look after his own children while Melanie was on bed-rest during and after pregnancy. 

[kpmom]

Glad you bumped this thread.

I wanted to mention his most recent Seriously Dad from March 30th, entitled, "R" Your Kids Missing the Boat.

He talks about the 4 "R"'s being taught to children, readin', rittin' and rithmetic (Steve adds responsibility making it the 4th R).

Steve says those should be mastered before schooling is finished.  I don't disagree, but look at his own kids.

According to their own schedule, they didn't study higher mathematics.  The recent post Mary wrote about her OCC experience had to be deleted and rewritten.  Steve himself said the Maxwells don't read, they write.

Their school schedules (which I think are still on their site) seemed very skimpy on academics, especially during the high school years.

Seems Steve could have taken his own advice.

[BullyJBG]

Yes, bumping it just in time for April Fools. I saw too many stupid stuff on social media and am comforted by the fact that the Maxwells would never play an April Fool joke on each other or others.

[Rubaiyat]

On January 7, 2016 at 6:03 PM, DaffyDill said:

Well, I'd concede one point to him there: Encouraging kids to get some sort of exercise as well as the parents, isn't a bad thing for the most part. Too many people (and I include myself in this ) are way too sedentary, which isn't healthy. 

And yeah, I used to take my kids when they were little to the park to play, and run about and wear themselves out a bit - nothing wrong with that really.

It's because Steve is saying it, and makes it sound like parents should wear them out to get them worn out so that it's easier to make them go to bed at 6pm, or some other soul sucking reason, that it sounds bad.

But as for the rest of it? 

Fuck you, Steve.

Good lord.  Our family is like yours, our kids desperately NEED to be worn out.  We've got 4 high-energy circus monkeys for children.  The difference?  We try to wear them out with fun and the sheer joy of movement!  Sports! Trampoline Park! Bike riding! Swimming! Go play outside! Homeskool PE classes! Hiking!  The Beach! There's no reason to be active and miserable, especially not when there are so many fun active things to do.  

Whatever giant stick is jammed up your bum, steve-o, maybe you should actively reach up there and see if you can't pull it out.  I promise you'll feel better.  

[blessalessi]

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I wanted to mention his most recent Seriously Dad from March 30th, entitled, "R" Your Kids Missing the Boat.

He talks about the 4 "R"'s being taught to children, readin', rittin' and rithmetic (Steve adds responsibility making it the 4th R).

I don't know who Steve thinks he is kidding!

Those "children" of his are all about puppies, cookies and outings these days.

And since Teri's retirement from homeschooling, and her February Corner about Guarding time for Priorities, she's not managed to rite another encouraging word at all!

Steve is looking quite the (April) Fool!

[Granwych]

6 hours ago, Rubaiyat said:

Good lord.  Our family is like yours, our kids desperately NEED to be worn out.  We've got 4 high-energy circus monkeys for children.  The difference?  We try to wear them out with fun and the sheer joy of movement!  Sports! Trampoline Park! Bike riding! Swimming! Go play outside! Homeskool PE classes! Hiking!  The Beach! There's no reason to be active and miserable, especially not when there are so many fun active things to do.  

Whatever giant stick is jammed up your bum, steve-o, maybe you should actively reach up there and see if you can't pull it out.  I promise you'll feel better.  

Nah, that stick is cemented in with rebar.  Along with a bible and a few million dollar tracts.

[picklepizzas]

On 3/31/2016 at 4:35 PM, kpmom said:

The recent post Mary wrote about her OCC experience had to be deleted and rewritten.  Steve himself said the Maxwells don't read, they write.

wait really? they took it down and reposted it with better grammar? i remember reading the original (it was painful) but i didn't realize they took it down and rewrote it! wow. off to read that now and see if there's been an improvement in quality.

On 3/31/2016 at 3:57 PM, blessalessi said:

 

He's been playing that fucking Christian Man-Card to get his own way all his married life. And Nathan has played it frequently too, when he has talked about running a "Daddy Day-Care" just because he had to look after his own children while Melanie was on bed-rest during and after pregnancy. 

 

wow again! is this on a blog post i can read? don't want to let my eyes get rusty from not rolling enough..

[blessalessi]

The image of someone reaching into their arse, pulling out a million dollar tract and offering it to a supermarket checkout operator is now making me choke on the last of my chocolate Easter bunny. 

 

 

6 minutes ago, picklepizzas said:

wait really? they took it down and reposted it with better grammar? i remember reading the original (it was painful) but i didn't realize they took it down and rewrote it! wow. off to read that now and see if there's been an improvement in quality.

 

wow again! is this on a blog post i can read? don't want to let my eyes get rusty from not rolling enough..

I apologise for an error.  I misremembered Daddy Day Care.  It was actually worse, it was "Mr. Mom". 

http://blog.titus2.com/2012/06/28/update-and-thank-you-from-nathan/

[picklepizzas]

10 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

The image of someone reaching into their arse, pulling out a million dollar tract and offering it to a supermarket checkout operator is now making me choke on the last of my chocolate Easter bunny. 

 

 

I apologise for an error.  I misremembered Daddy Day Care.  It was actually worse, it was "Mr. Mom". 

http://blog.titus2.com/2012/06/28/update-and-thank-you-from-nathan/

bahahahaha thank you for this link. the long rambling paragraph on getting the girls to "rub rub" their hands properly was funny but the part about adjusting abby's helmet made me laugh out loud. don't worry guys, he does in fact know how to adjust helmets. #SOTDRT

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We’ve often marveled at the sharp-eyed blog readers. Yes, her helmet wasn’t adjusted correctly. I have no good excuse for that. I know how to adjust helmets; it simply hadn’t happened yet. You’ll be happy to know that her helmet is now correctly adjusted (see below picture)!

 

[mango_fandango]

23 hours ago, picklepizzas said:

bahahahaha thank you for this link. the long rambling paragraph on getting the girls to "rub rub" their hands properly was funny but the part about adjusting abby's helmet made me laugh out loud. don't worry guys, he does in fact know how to adjust helmets. #SOTDRT

 

 I love how the Maxwells make a huge drama out of the simplest things. Well, I say love, but also kind of despair. You guys know what I mean, right?  

[kpmom]

I remember that bike helmet post, and we talked about it here.

I thought Nathan sounded just a little embarrassed that he was "caught" not being perfect. 

After his smug posts about everyone else but he and Melanie watching t.v. while in the hospital, and how he has Samaritan instead of real insurance 'cause he doesn't want to help support overweight people with diabetes, it was kind of satisfying to see him humbled just a little.

[VodouDoll]

The latest Seriously is up. His metaphors are so tortured: Birds get cold in the wintertime. Don't look at porn.

[SPHASH]

19 minutes ago, VodouDoll said:

The latest Seriously is up. His metaphors are so tortured: Birds get cold in the wintertime. Don't look at porn.

Just read it.  Thats 15 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

 

[hollyandivy]

12 minutes ago, SPHASH said:

Just read it.  Thats 15 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

 

And his point was?????? Arrgh, he just makes me angry!

[bertnee]

I don't understand. It's not that hard to not look at porn. 

[molecule]

Wow, that is a poorly written article. He makes the assumption that birds know that an open garage represents danger. It might just be that birds prefer trees to indoor places because, you know, they're birds.

This jumped out at me as a little bit odd:

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May I share candidly with you that perhaps it is not confidence but foolishness. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (2 Timothy 2:22).

The "share" and "candidly" make it sound like he's about to say something about himself. He doesn't, but I can't help but wonder if there was a personal failure on his mind while he wrote that. Did he recently look at porn because he'd figured he didn't need filters? Obviously we'll never know, but the wording just seemed odd. Then again, he is Maxwell, and writing in a way that would make sense to the world would be too much like being of the world.

[Black Aliss]

3 hours ago, bertnee said:

I don't understand. It's not that hard to not look at porn. 

It is if/when you are obsessed with that sort of thing.

[Sundaymorning]

8 minutes ago, Black Aliss said:

It is if/when you are obsessed with that sort of thing.

Another thing is that for most people, and fundies are no exception, the things which are forbidden are much more interesting than those which aren't.

There is also this phenomenon called ironic process theory, where people are prone to think about things they were told not to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory

So these fundies, with all their talk about how ebil porn is, reach the exact opposite of what they want to achieve.

[blessalessi]

5 minutes ago, Sundaymorning said:

There is also this phenomenon called ironic process theory, where people are prone to think about things they were told not to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory

And just to take irony to the eleventieth level, there is then the classic memory verse that encourages you to meditate upon the fact that there are forbidden things you know you shouldn't do, and yet you just can't seem to help yourself.

Rom 7:15  For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

[mango_fandango]

1 hour ago, Sundaymorning said:

Another thing is that for most people, and fundies are no exception, the things which are forbidden are much more interesting than those which aren't.

There is also this phenomenon called ironic process theory, where people are prone to think about things they were told not to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory

So these fundies, with all their talk about how ebil porn is, reach the exact opposite of what they want to achieve.

Time the Maxwells learned what reverse psychology is.

[VodouDoll]

7 hours ago, bertnee said:

I don't understand. It's not that hard to not look at porn. 

Right? I'm an adult alone in my house right now, no internet filters, no belief in God or hell to scare me out of it, and I'm not looking at porn. I didn't yesterday and I won't tomorrow either, because I'm not into it. It's not my thing. In fact, unless I run across a news story that mentions it, I can sometimes go entire weeks or months without even thinking about porn. Why is it on Steve Maxwell's mind so much if he's so pure and holy?

[Black Aliss]

58 minutes ago, VodouDoll said:

Right? I'm an adult alone in my house right now, no internet filters, no belief in God or hell to scare me out of it, and I'm not looking at porn. I didn't yesterday and I won't tomorrow either, because I'm not into it. It's not my thing. In fact, unless I run across a news story that mentions it, I can sometimes go entire weeks or months without even thinking about porn. Why is it on Steve Maxwell's mind so much if he's so pure and holy?

I know, right? I likes me some erotica once in awhile, and I do make a distinction between erotica and porn--one makes me horny and the other makes me queasy. I don't judge people that get off on porn, either, as long as there's no actual exploitation or abuse of other living creatures involved, i.e., words and drawings, not photographs. Hopping on the idle speculation bus, I'm guessing that, like a certain eldest son of a large family with its own reality TV show, Steve likes the rough stuff.

[fiery redhead]

Today Stevehovah compared refusing to open his garage for birds because he knew they wouldn't go in even though they were cold (he was surprised they were chirping in frigid temperatures) to people not having software that blocks porn on your computer. The "silly little birds" apparently have boundaries while all the men who aren't him do not. Has he heard of migration? Warm blooded creatures? They have these things called wings, are in the weather they are in because their bodies and instincts lead them there... Yes Steve, the "silly little birds" know not to seek garages on purpose because they are fine with where they're at. Just like how people are not going to seek porn and be addicts just because they don't follow your system.

 

Smh. 

 

[blessalessi]

It's a good one! 

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WHO’S SMARTER?

This was posted on April 6, 2016 by Steve Maxwell.

It was a very cold morning, and Jesse mentioned that the birds were singing despite the frigid temperatures. I felt sorry for them. I would have opened a garage door and let them come in out of the cold, but it wouldn’t have done any good. They would not have come into the garage even to get warm. Silly little birds know what lines not to cross. They stay free because regardless of how tempted they may be by the flesh, they know to avoid danger that might cost their freedom.

Are we smarter than the birds? So many Christians are ensnared by their own lusts because they do not have sense enough to flee from danger. Sadly, many dads and pastors are so “confident” in their own ability to resist temptations that they do not have filters on their computers and mobile devices safeguarding their Internet browsing.

May I share candidly with you that perhaps it is not confidence but foolishness. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (2 Timothy 2:22).

Steve

Foolishness, indeed.

If Steve and Jesse are reading, here is the SCIENCE part:  http://birding.about.com/od/birdingbasics/a/howbirdskeepwarm.htm

And here is where it probably all went wrong for the birdies this winter, Jesse: http://blog.titus2.com/2015/09/02/initiative-every-parents-dream/

Now, Steve, April Fool's Day is over.  Finished. Kaput.

Seriously.  

[CyborgKin]

Steve, you really don't want to know what reverse psychology is.  You'd better resist looking it up.