Mortons are back from Paraguay...

[ophelia]

That's right. Pa Morton must be very proud!

[Pianokeeper]

14 hours ago, PsyD2013 said:

The Golden Rule of dating is priceless! It could be made into a drinking game.

 

I love Capt Bret's Movie Shows-  

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At 29:38 or so -- did they have a Jewish wedding photographer? I see a yarmulke!

[uber frau]

Fake Jew,probably.  These ppl cherry pick whatever suits them.

I just watched the Biblical Betrothal video. Holy leaps of logic Batman. If this is the level of intellect required to produce a Homeskool curriculum,the subsequent generations have no hope.

[hoipolloi]

2 hours ago, uber frau said:

If this is the level of intellect required to produce a Homeskool curriculum,the subsequent generations have no hope.

Yes, and it could certainly explain the Morton daughters' strange affect -- there's nothing wrong with them but they've never been treated with expectation that they have minds. Dollars to donuts their home "schooling" consisted mostly of being substitute mothers & Bible reading. 

[LurkerOverThePond]

Please tell me I'm not an exceptionally violent individual because I seriously want to smack the whining "Captain Bret" and burn his stupid ass Love Boat uniform.

[divadivine]

Sweet Baby Jesus that betrothal video is super creepy. How can the parents justify this to their children when they (parents) didn't follow the same model? These people have a screw loose. I was totally grossed out by Alan stroking Katie's face during the washing of the feet. I'm surprised she didn't dry his feet with her hair like Mary Magdalene. 

[dramallama]

How many internal groans there must be in the Smith family when Captain Bret says he wants to "say a few words".  It always translates into an hour of ranting about goats and shekels and betrothals and tabernacles and socialists and evolution and government schools,

Michael Morton looks like a serial killer.  He's "never allowed [his] lips to touch a woman's"?  As if he had to fight hussies off with a stick.  Sure.

Alan Smith carries himself and speaks like a complete douchecanoe, utterly convinced of his own superiority as a Real Christian Patriarch and deserving of the fawning adoration of Katie and all the other silly little wimmins.  Funny that Papa Morton also mentions the Sanders patriarch as the close friend who advised him when he was deciding for Katie whether or not she'd marry Alan.  A reminder that the Sanders' are just as bad as the rest of them in many ways, appearances aside.

[PsyD2013]

Weighing in  Katie and Kressant's affect.  They have that blank Stepford wife look.  In the Biblical Courtship video, there was mention that the woman adapts her personality to what her future husband wants.  The girls never forged a strong identity.  They were brought up with the expectation that they would change their personalities to suit their husband.  Back to Capt. Bret's channel for some more snark material.  

[RosyDaisy]

So glad I took my meds before watching those videos. Awful doesn't even begin to describe how bad they are.

[Jasmar]

Ragey. Those men are deplorable.

[ophelia]

It looks like Ma and Pa Morton are heading back to Paraguay, but I don't know which of the unmarried kids are going with them. I saw a post on Katie's IG.

[hollyandivy]

15 hours ago, divadivine said:

 I'm surprised she didn't dry his feet with her hair like Mary Magdalene. 

 

This!!!! My thoughts exactly!

I have never really looked at the Smith/?Mortons before but after watching the two videos I am dumbfounded. The logic they use is mind boggling. I sit here shaking my head, not quite understanding what I just saw. The courtship nonsense and the paying of a redemption price????? That whole video could pass as comedy, especially the part with the bad trumpet and the whole wedding after. I mean, seriously? 

 

And they actually let Katie go through almost 40 hours of labour without taking her to the hospital? Poor girl! I bet she is looking forward to having her next "blessing".... After a birth experience like that i would not let my husband come within a mile of me! I mean in this day and age there are pain meds that work quite beautifully, and the Pitocin has a reason too, namely not having to suffer through a 40 hour birth nightmare! And Mama Morton is something else -  not knowing to answer the "how much longer?" and having to cry over it yet completely unwilling to get medical help!  This makes me soooooooooo angry! (can you tell my last birth experience was not the greatest? But I used pain medication and Pitocin. My only regret is that I did not ask for the epidural earlier!)

[ophelia]

@hollyandivy Katie got pregnant soon after her 1st baby and is now probably pregnant with #8. In good old Morton family fashion she had another baby every year and was constantly pregnant for the first 6-7 years of her marriage. Apparently she has slowed down a little bit within the last years.

[hollyandivy]

I should have known, we are talking crazy people here.....

[ophelia]

Well, you can actually never know how crazy those people get. And there is a HUGE amount of craziness in the Smith-Morton family.

[hollyandivy]

@ophelia Yes, i gathered that much after those videos :)))

[JMO]

Such a difference between those early marriages/betrothals and the most recent.  If I didn't know better I'd say Kressant's betrothal was from 108 yrs ago and not 8.   And the renaissance wedding, whoa.  I'm not surprised he was stroking her face all creepy.  He's not known the touch of a woman and not he's allowed!  The wedding video from Kressant is still my fave.  That Cap'n Brett is a piece of ... work. 

[Grimalkin]

That strange affect the girls have that is similar to Pris is from having a broken spirit.

[fundiefan]

Captain Bret makes my skin crawl. His screechy voice is amplified by his absurdity and constant - constant - rambling. I'm always thankful I wasn't born a Maxwell but I really have to say that not being born (or adopted or married) into the Smith family is pretty damn high on my list of things to be forever grateful for. They are really creepy. 

[ViolaSebastian]

I'll tell you one thing, whoever is whispering in Bret's ear about the Frankfurt School has totally missed the boat (see what I did there? ). The Frankfurt School held that ideologies (including Christanity...) and mass media KEPT people from having the glorious socialist revolution promised by Marx. Also, the irony of Bret using the mass media HIMSELF to sell HIS ideology that keeps people dumb and confused is just deafening.  Adorno and Horkheimer are rolling over in their graves...

ETA: THAT VIDEO...He literally says he's purchasing her with silver...I have no words. 

[picklepizzas]

13 hours ago, ophelia said:

It looks like Ma and Pa Morton are heading back to Paraguay, but I don't know which of the unmarried kids are going with them. I saw a post on Katie's IG.

well we can safely assume addie's going - bc it would be crazy to think that a 25 yr old unmarried woman could live out from under her parents umbrella of protection!

honestly this paraguay thing is so weird to me, still. why would they do this when they have all that land at calathora? they didn't lose it right? michael & crescent moon still live there? i just don't get why a family that had its sons build houses on the parents' property would want to move half its members to another continent.

[NachosFlandersStyle]

An IG post from a Campana seems to say that Addie is returning to Paraguay. I'm fascinated by what they're doing there too-- keep waiting for them to update the blog but I think it's been abandoned?

[dramallama]

47 minutes ago, picklepizzas said:

well we can safely assume addie's going - bc it would be crazy to think that a 25 yr old unmarried woman could live out from under her parents umbrella of protection!

honestly this paraguay thing is so weird to me, still. why would they do this when they have all that land at calathora? they didn't lose it right? michael & crescent moon still live there? i just don't get why a family that had its sons build houses on the parents' property would want to move half its members to another continent.

THE GUBMINT.  Something something freedom, taxes something persecuted something something prophesy, end of days blah blah blah God's abandoned America to the gays and feminists something something etc.  If they think south Georgia is too liberal I just don't even.  

[hoipolloi]

2 hours ago, dramallama said:

THE GUBMINT.  Something something freedom, taxes something persecuted something something prophesy, end of days blah blah blah God's abandoned America to the gays and feminists something something etc.  If they think south Georgia is too liberal I just don't even.  

Did they actually say something along these lines at some point as an explanation for the move to Paraguay?

[SolomonFundy]

5 minutes ago, hoipolloi said:

Did they actually say something along these lines at some point as an explanation for the move to Paraguay?

If I remember correctly, one of the DIL's (Kressant or Rachel, I think) was sniffing around on a ex-pat forum a few years ago in search of info about moving large groups of people/large families to Paraguay. The forum in question was rife with the kind of "gubmint" ideology that is favored by self-sufficient nuts (as opposed to dependent-on-city-services nuts like the Maxwells). 

Other than that, it's just mainly coincidence, I think. Paraguay has become something of a destination for a certain segment of the "Government, Financial, and Social Collapse Is Coming" crowd.