Lori Alexander 18: Taking Pictures in the Closet

[Koala]

12 minutes ago, BlackSheep said:

There sure wouldn't be time for blogging, writing notebook entries for FB, and answering comments.

Or more importantly, deleting comments.

[onemama]

I'm not exposing myself to much Lori lately as I've been too busy with heathen practices such as working for money and studying to better my chances in that heathen pursuit of money.  I guess my desire to not be so dependent on my husband, to help us build up a retirement fund so we don't depend on our children, and to help my parents without putting an extra burden on my husband, is blaspheming the "gospel" of Lori. So be it. 

She calls herself a prophet, indirectly, of course, and keeps throwing in comments that allude to those prophetic virtues like this one:

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I believe the Word just as God has written it. I accept absolutes easily. Most seem to try to explain them away; I simply take God at His Word. 

Jesus said that you should love our neighbor as you love yourself. He meant it. Do you do it? 

Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before attempting to take the speck out of your brother's (or sister's eye). He meant it. Do you do it?

Jesus told us to honor our father and mother. He meant it. Do you do it? How about your frequent allusions to your mother's lack of "submission"? How is despising your father's gift of a good education, even higher education should you have to provide for yourself, honor him? 

The apostle Paul's isntruction to parents was that they should not provoke their children to anger. He meant it. Do you ever stop and think about how some of your comments may be provoking some of your children to destructive anger that they aren't even allowed to express?

The apostle Paul in a chapter you like to quote from (Romans 12) gives a long series of instructions:  don't think too highly of yourself, be devoted to one another in love, honor one another as above yourselves, share with the Lord's people who are in need.  Bless those who persecute you, rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another, don't be proud but be willing to associate with people of low position. Don't be conceited. Don't repay evil for evil but be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 

You know, Lori, I don't think I've seen any of these behaviors displayed on your blog.  Nope. You like to teach. You like to condemn. You like to point out what is wrong with everyone else but you, while you host conversations that even us "heathens" are uncomfortable with, like talk about sex with men that aren't your husband, or bashing the wives of said men. 

Jesus was very clear in the one new commandment he gave his disciples: love one another. As I have loved you, so must you love one another. By this all men shall know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

Lori says one strength of a prophet is

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He is usually more teachable than others, especially when discipline or correction is required. When a wise prophet is confronted with his sin, he sees it as God sees it and consequently is crushed (if he is walking in the Spirit and not in the flesh).

Ok Lori, we are waiting, but not with baited breath. We know you delete comments, even the kindly written ones with scriptures that clearly oppose your teachings.  We know you ban people who disagree with you. We're pretty sure you enjoy your little corner of gossip, slander and judgment.  Enjoy, Lori. But we'll keep calling you out on it. 

[Flossie]

17 hours ago, kpmom said:

Didn't PBS have a show kind of like that?  People agreed to live like people did in the 1800's?  I think the group of people they chose made up a town or village.

I don't remember the name of it but it was very eye opening.

I would have loved to see Ken and Lori participate.  No sitting on the computer all day for Lori that's for sure.  No flying off to Europe for Ken.

Maybe someone here remembers the name of the show.

There's a new one coming up tonight on PBS - The Victorian Slum House.

http://www.pbs.org/program/victorian-slum-house/

""Victorian Slum House" takes viewers back to the British slums of the 1800s, where a group of modern-day families, couples and individuals recreate life in London’s East End as their forbearers once lived between 1860-1900. Faced with the virtually impossible task of earning enough money to pay the rent and put food on the table, the participants experience first-hand the tough living and working conditions endured by the millions that made up the urban poor in Victorian Britain. It’s an eye-opening experience for the participants as they each confront the harsh realities of the past and together lay the groundwork for welfare reform in the 20th century."

 

[Koala]

@onemama

I wish I could like your comment a million times.  Very well said.  Did you post it to her blog/Facebook?

 

[AlwaysDiscerning]

Today's post:

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Blogs that make me “feel” good, talk about not judging, and enjoying their “messy” lives don’t hold much appeal to me. I love to read blogs that challenge and convict me to become more like Christ. It is why I love the Bible so much. Trey, an older man, comments on my blog once in a while and many times his comments convict and challenge me. This is why I like them. Here’s one of his great comments on my post Women Flagrantly Refusing to Submit.

 

[onemama]

2 hours ago, Koala said:

@onemama

I wish I could like your comment a million times.  Very well said.  Did you post it to her blog/Facebook?

 

Thanks, Koala, I haven't posted it but perhaps I should, just so she reads what some other people think about her, and more importantly, why.  That bubble of hers needs bursting.

ETA: I posted it but it disappeared. I guess she was sitting there with her finger poised over the delete button. It was that quick. 

[Koala]

Lori:

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Blogs that make me “feel” good, talk about not judging, and enjoying their “messy” lives don’t hold much appeal to me. 

Well of course they don't!  Gossiping, judging, and pretending to be perfect are Lori's three favorite pastimes.  

I refuse to post Trey's gibberish.  I will say this though- he has a very aggressive tone.

[louisa05]

Lori doesn't like to be challenged or "convicted". She likes to be told she is right. People who like to be challenged don't delete every comment on their own blog that disagrees with them. 

[onemama]

1 minute ago, louisa05 said:

Lori doesn't like to be challenged or "convicted". She likes to be told she is right. People who like to be challenged don't delete every comment on their own blog that disagrees with them. 

Exactly!

[Koala]

Reader:

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I will obeys my husband but I will not sin if he is not a believer and he requires me to

Lori:

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There aren't many men who ask their wives to do evil but yes, if they ask you to be involved in a threesome, rob a bank, or watch porn with him, you don't have to obey.

Yeah, it's highly unusual for men to be involved in sin, but when they are, it's usually one of the big 3: robbing banks, watching porn, and participating in a threesome 

 

[TeddyBonkers]

20 minutes ago, Koala said:

Reader:

Lori:

Yeah, it's highly unusual for men to be involved in sin, but when they are, it's usually one of the big 3: robbing banks, watching porn, and participating in a threesome 

 

But God help you if your husband wants you to work outside of the home! THEN you need to passive-aggressively get him to change his mind "without a word".

[onemama]

13 minutes ago, TeddyBonkers said:

But God help you if you if your husband wants you to work outside of the home! THEN you need to passive-aggressively get him to change his mind "without a word".

Oooooh this post deserves a million upvotes!  Without a word.... 

[Flossie]

35 minutes ago, Koala said:

Reader: I will obeys my husband but I will not sin if he is not a believer and he requires me to

Lori: Yeah, it's highly unusual for men to be involved in sin, but when they are, it's usually one of the big 3: robbing banks, watching porn, and participating in a threesome 

Actually, if you read it in another way, it looks like Lori is saying that there are only three actions those few men would ever ask their wives to do: be involved in a threesome, rob a bank, or watch porn with him.  You're allowed to refuse those actions.  Lori must have just typed off those three without thinking, because she left out a whole lot of other evil deeds that men might ask of their wives.  It's telling that Lori's short list has two things that are about sex, and one about money.

I guess she's too Godly to think of things like murder, pedophilia, genocide, or torture, etc.  I despise this woman.

[EowynW]

During the tornadoes Saturday, my husband had a brief moment of panic and wanted us to try to leave and get East to safety. He's lived through twisters before and they just really badly affect him even after his years on the fire service. I couldn't "submit" to that but immediately challenged him to to think it through and pointed out the various pros and cons and within 5 minutes he had seen how wrong he was. We are egal and joke about how we take turn being the leader and being the yes man. 

[louisa05]

23 minutes ago, EowynW said:

During the tornadoes Saturday, my husband had a brief moment of panic and wanted us to try to leave and get East to safety. He's lived through twisters before and they just really badly affect him even after his years on the fire service. I couldn't "submit" to that but immediately challenged him to to think it through and pointed out the various pros and cons and within 5 minutes he had seen how wrong he was. We are egal and joke about how we take turn being the leader and being the yes man. 

You sinner! If your husband wants you to outrun a tornado, you go do it! 

Now if he wants you to have a job, that's a different story. Endangering life and limb--do it! Contributing to the household finances so you can eat and have shelter--no way!! 

(And now I have to get off FJ and go to work...)

[Koala]

Reader:

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  I was married to a man for 9 years who had three affairs with women I knew. He was not a believer but I was. It was hard, but I was able to forgive and work really hard on our marriage. After one of the affairs, I guess in order to make it up to me, he went to church with me and practically ran up the aisle and accepted Christ as his Savior. I do not believe it was genuine. Nothing would appease his guilt so he decided in order for him to move beyond the pain he has caused me I needed to sleep with other men- to make things even. I refused. He became so obsessed with wanting me to vindicate myself that he began to abuse me in secret for refusing him. It got so bad that I finally capitulated and allowed him to arrange a meeting with another man. It was the most awful experience of my life but it wasn't the end. It did not do what he thought it would do, but turned him into a jealous Madman who tried to murder the other man and ended up stabbing me in the arm in the process. He then took off with all of our money and was planning on leaving the country when I talked him into turning himself in. He went to jail and I got a divorce. I have been remarried for 15 years now and I struggle with complete submission. My husband doesn't ask me to do anything against the will of God but there's just this fear there. It's sad. When I feel that my husband is wanting me to obey something that I feel is according to his flesh and not necessarily because of Any spiritual reason I fight it. I'm always afraid that if I allow him to have complete control like I did my ex-husband he will destroy me. I know the problem lies within me.

Now look at the sympathy and kindness Lori shows this reader:

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(Name redacted), yes, you are commanded to obey your husband in everything unless it is evil. A wife submitting to her husband does not cause a man to become a brutal dictator over her, unless he has an evil heart. In fact, in 1 Peter 3:1, wives who are married to disobedient husband are told to win them by being subject to them. Many women have won their husbands this way.

Did she even read what that woman wrote?

[EowynW]

9 minutes ago, louisa05 said:

You sinner! If your husband wants you to outrun a tornado, you go do it! 

Now if he wants you to have a job, that's a different story. Endangering life and limb--do it! Contributing to the household finances so you can eat and have shelter--no way!! 

(And now I have to get off FJ and go to work...)

Oh I had a job but the tornado leveled it. Punishment for being a disobedient woman I suppose. 

[AlwaysDiscerning]

Doesn't Trey though say the opposite of Lori in that even with all those evil action she listed, Trey has said women are still suppose to submit, because dammit EVERYTHING means EVERYTHING!

[onemama]

46 minutes ago, EowynW said:

Oh I had a job but the tornado leveled it. Punishment for being a disobedient woman I suppose. 

Absolutely! Now you have time to join Lori and her crowd and be duly "transformed". Next time the tornado will level you, but you'll die knowing you obeyed when it mattered most: when you thought your husband was making a very poor call. Or... wait.... you'll be done with life on this earth. 

49 minutes ago, Koala said:

Did she even read what that woman wrote?

If she did, she couldn't care less. She's probably wondering how to broach the divorce and remarriage subject. Keep your eyes peeled. 

15 minutes ago, AlwaysDiscerning said:

Doesn't Trey though say the opposite of Lori in that even with all those evil action she listed, Trey has said women are still suppose to submit, because dammit EVERYTHING means EVERYTHING!

I think that was Dave. 

[Imrlgoddess]

1 hour ago, Koala said:

Did she even read what that woman wrote?

I don't think she can comprehend it.  She gets posts like this one on the regular either on FB or on her blog and she does the same thing in all of them.  Somehow, someway, she will throw in that whole bit about winning them over and make the woman responsible while saying she's not responsible for her husbands relationship with God.  I think she is truly (willfully) ignorant of the idea that there are bad people pretty much everywhere you look.  Really bad ones, not the women wearing bikinis, but men (or women) who abuse because they are mentally damaged.  No amount of praying or muffins is going to fix psychosis.  That woman saved herself the best way she knew how and Lori still finds a way to put her down.  

[onemama]

1 hour ago, onemama said:

I think that was Dave. 

I know I'm quoting myself here, just wanted to add the link to the post where Dave goes on and on and on contending that wives should always submit to their husbands, in everything, but the forum didn't let me edit my original post.

Here's the post for you. He had a lot to say there.... Like this little gem:

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Why do I keep hearing discussion of ways that women should not obey? Has it not occurred to us that the ‘abuse’ of women is the direct result of women not obeying? Are we going to treat the symptom or the disease?

https://thetransformedwife.com/does-submitting-to-husbands-in-everything-mean-everything/#comments

[Koala]

Wonder what Lori will do with this one:

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I don't disagree with the post at all but I honestly hate reading any comments or posts from this Trey person. He says he doesn't want to come across as harsh but I think that's baloney. Every comment I read from him sounds angry, harsh, and frustrated. Even when I agree with what he says I just can't stand the way he says it. He has a lot to say about women in the name of "helping" others, but it really sounds like a Godly man needs to take him aside and instruct him a little (a lot!) in his attitude. 

I much prefer the messages in your own words Lori. You truly have a heart for women and although you have a blunt/matter of fact way of writing, it never comes across as unloving to me!

On one hand, she compliments Lori.  Lori loves compliments.  On the other hand, she took a swipe at one of the men.  Ken's already ran Dave off, and Storage Sociopath is still pretending to hide out in Alaska.  If she's not careful, she's going to end up with only women to teach. What's a godly mentor to do?

[usmcmom]

Sorry, readers; Lori does not care what YOU enjoy. She writes to please herself, which is rather strange considering she has already been convicted and challenged to the point of perfection. 

So, is this a blog written BY a woman, FOR women, or not? 

[BlackSheep]

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Quit thinking you are holy, your not.

Spelling alert. That's two days in a row.

[smittykins]

From a former teacher...smh.