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4 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

You would think they would go with a more comfortable and stretchy skirt for a plane ride. I hate airplane travel because it’s so uncomfortable. So I tend to wear my most comfortable clothing. They should have worn a stretchy work out skirt. I remember my mom telling me that people used to dress up for plane travel. However planes were probably more comfortable back then too. I wear comfy clothes on a plane. No way am I dressing up to be cramped and squished for hours.

If they're comfortable on the plane, they'll enjoy it too much and run away and become lesbian devil worshippers. #SteveLogic 

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3 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

If they're comfortable on the plane, they'll enjoy it too much and run away and become lesbian devil worshippers. #SteveLogic 

Hey, it happened to me.  I was a good God fearing girl and then after I wore yoga pants on a flight I moved overseas and realized I was a lesbian.  And a socialist.  And an agnostic.

Of course I was Catholic so my soul was probably easy pickings :5624796c41285_DastardlyEviledevil:

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55 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

Now I’m remember Sarah’s post about traveling safely. That was one sad post. 

I found that interesting. I can understand, but if Steve concluded that he can't keep his ADULT children from being out alone in the world like he used to think, he could come out and say so. But that's hard, I know. Pride. We all struggle with it, don't we, Steve? Isn't it better to come out with it rather than pretend it doesn't exist? Poor Steve.

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21 hours ago, Odd1Out said:

I wonder how they will deal with being away from the family. It must be odd, they’ve never even gone to stay with grandparents or aunts and uncles for a weekend or so. 

I guess Sarah will get a taste of what’s it’ll be like just being with Steve and Terie all day once her sisters are married. 

And Jessie may be there but I get the feeling that, like John, he isn’t home all day like the girls are. 

As the title of this thread indicates, we don't know everything that goes on in Maxhell.  Remember that the Maxwell image is carefully curated.  They do some things that they hide from us all because it contradicts Steve's message.  

Both John and Joseph were allowed to travel independently as pre-married adults.  Joseph even had his super-secret courtship.  The young women seem to be more closely watched and usually travel in pairs, sometimes with a brother, but Sarah has actually traveled solo.  Anna was also off "traveling" all by herself a couple of months ago.  All the siblings were accounted for in Sarah's post so she wasn't with them.

And poor forgotten Jesse.  He has such a servant's heart, and the only initiative he has ever been reported to have taken was cleaning up the wood pile.

I often want Jesse to break out and tread the light fantastic - almost even more than poor Sarah.:D

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16 minutes ago, Palimpsest said:

As the title of this thread indicates, we don't know everything that goes on in Maxhell.  Remember that the Maxwell image is carefully curated.  They do some things that they hide from us all because it contradicts Steve's message.  

I think this is partly why the Maxwells fascinate me. My family didn't have a blog or anything, but from the outside we looked like the perfect fundie family. Behind closed doors...shit was going down. 

I actually hope that the blog isn't the real truth of their lives, because who would want to live like that?

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I thought the clown was Lolly.

Anyhow, from the previous thread:

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Uh-oh, Steevus is allowing his arrows to go out husband-hunting.

Someone must be feeling desperate indeed.

Now I'm imagining them dressed as Elmer Fudd.

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"Be vewy, vewy qwiet! We're hunting godwy men! I wuv my daddy! [heart sign] Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh!"

Sorry. Kind of punchy after a topsy-turvy month.

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Husband hunting with an IBLP mission trip? Possibly a shoebox distribution, but those are pretty hard to get on. Let's hope God SPEAKS to Steve and a decent guy at the same time.

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"Historically, most of Barbuda's 1,638 residents have lived in the town of Codrington. However, in September 2017, Hurricane Irma damaged or destroyed 95% of the island's buildings and infrastructure and as a result, all the island's inhabitants were evacuated to Antigua, leaving Barbuda empty for the first time in modern history."

 

Wow.

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17 hours ago, Palimpsest said:

 

The young women seem to be more closely watched and usually travel in pairs, sometimes with a brother, but Sarah has actually traveled solo.  Anna was also off "traveling" all by herself a couple of months ago. 

And poor forgotten Jesse.  He has such a servant's heart, and the only initiative he has ever been reported to have taken was cleaning up the wood pile.

I often want Jesse to break out and tread the light fantastic - almost even more than poor Sarah.:D

 

1. Since Sarah is closing in on 40 she ought to be able to travel alone!

2. Jesse is just waiting for a derelict bi-level to come on the market and then he can fix it up and get married.

3. So, so, so hope one of these two young women get to marry someone decent.

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Here's a picture from April of a Samaritan's Purse group in Barbuda. Not a frumper in sight:

 

 

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I checked ATI/IBLP, but have they been "let out" to attend Journey to the Heart?  hmmmmm

Samaritan's Purse IS a possibility and they DO have skills from "helping" their brothers. Interesting to see what/where they have gone.

Could also be staying with some missionary while the wife gives birth--doing the house, the homeschooling. Esp if she's on bed rest. I hope not. I hope it is a chance to meet a husband.

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It appears those volunteers are also helping to rebuild homes. I can’t see the Maxwell building anyone’s home that is not a Maxwell. They don’t seem to be about helping others do anything other that letting them know where they go when they die and putting together those shoe boxes. I can’t see them interacting with those women who are willingly wearing pants. What if one of the women tries to talk about wearing clear lip gloss or about how much fun they have doing something non-Maxwell (which is just about everything). Mary and Anna could be corrupted by such heathen talk. 

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On 6/2/2018 at 10:50 PM, JermajestyDuggar said:

I remember my mom telling me that people used to dress up for plane travel. However planes were probably more comfortable then.

Yes, we did and yes, they were. You got dressed in your very best to fly. Men in suits and ties, women in suits and pillbox hats and gloves, kids in their Sunday best. Flying when I was a kid was a Major Event. To give you another idea how flying has changed, we once had to make an unscheduled stop in Washington, DC on the way back from Florida to Idlewild (that’s JFK for all you young folks) and the National Airlines was so apologetic that every adult passenger got a travel bag and a big woolen National Airlines blanket.

I’m in the camp that thinks this mission is two-fold—some nebulous voluntourism charity mission and a husband-finding mission, emphasis on the latter. Steve may carefully curate the image they show on the blog, but there’s no way he can get around the fact that he now has three unmarried daughters, including one who is well past the typical fundie marrying age. And since the pickings are mighty slim now that they’re not spending months on the road, he really has no choice but to loosen up and go further afield. Sarah may never marry (frankly, I think she’s pretty comfortable with her life and might have a lot of fears about leaving it) but I have no double that Anna and Mary will.

On the other hand, though, I don’t think either one will EVER wear pants, even if it means working the refreshment table rather than working on an actual project that requires proper attire. These are people who used to go to the airport for the express purpose of critiquing what other people were wearing and discussing why their attire was sinful. There’s no way they’re letting go of that brainwashing.

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1 hour ago, sparkles said:

Yes, we did and yes, they were. You got dressed in your very best to fly. Men in suits and ties, women in suits and pillbox hats and gloves, kids in their Sunday best. Flying when I was a kid was a Major Event. To give you another idea how flying has changed, we once had to make an unscheduled stop in Washington, DC on the way back from Florida to Idlewild (that’s JFK for all you young folks) and the National Airlines was so apologetic that every adult passenger got a travel bag and a big woolen National Airlines blanket.

I’m in the camp that thinks this mission is two-fold—some nebulous voluntourism charity mission and a husband-finding mission, emphasis on the latter. Steve may carefully curate the image they show on the blog, but there’s no way he can get around the fact that he now has three unmarried daughters, including one who is well past the typical fundie marrying age. And since the pickings are mighty slim now that they’re not spending months on the road, he really has no choice but to loosen up and go further afield. Sarah may never marry (frankly, I think she’s pretty comfortable with her life and might have a lot of fears about leaving it) but I have no double that Anna and Mary will.

On the other hand, though, I don’t think either one will EVER wear pants, even if it means working the refreshment table rather than working on an actual project that requires proper attire. These are people who used to go to the airport for the express purpose of critiquing what other people were wearing and discussing why their attire was sinful. There’s no way they’re letting go of that brainwashing.

I agree, I think Anna and Mary might marry but Sarah never will.  And at this point, I think Sarah is OK with that.

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I picture Anna with a kind of quiet but nice fundie guy. Like JD Duggar but Steve won’t allow that. Maybe a Staddon. Do they know the Staddon’s? 

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1 hour ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I picture Anna with a kind of quiet but nice fundie guy. Like JD Duggar but Steve won’t allow that. Maybe a Staddon. Do they know the Staddon’s? 

It would be a perfect match. Both families are so bland and beige. And there even might be an unmarried Staddon boychild in Sarah's age.

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4 hours ago, sparkles said:

Yes, we did and yes, they were. You got dressed in your very best to fly. Men in suits and ties, women in suits and pillbox hats and gloves, kids in their Sunday best. Flying when I was a kid was a Major Event. To give you another idea how flying has changed, we once had to make an unscheduled stop in Washington, DC on the way back from Florida to Idlewild (that’s JFK for all you young folks) and the National Airlines was so apologetic that every adult passenger got a travel bag and a big woolen National Airlines blanket.

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I remember in 1969 when TWA relaxed the standards for Non Rev travel and women could wear pant suits.Men still had to wear a coat and tie, and boys khakis and button down shirts. I bought my first pant suit at the Sears store at the Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu. Was so much more comfortable than pencil skirts. Now it's anything goes pretty much. I wear tunic shirts and jeans and flat shoes and enjoy my flights. 

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7 hours ago, sparkles said:

On the other hand, though, I don’t think either one will EVER wear pants

Ok now I'm hoping that they come home from this trip wearing pants. Forget husbands, just some comfortable, practical, loose even, totally modest pants. Swearing like sailors would be a (ok, highly unlikely) bonus, but even a pair of extremely baggy skirt-lookalike culottes would likely cause Steve to flip.

And now I'm imagining culottes as a gateway drug for pants... finally, a drug I can get behind! 

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17 hours ago, IReallyAmHopewell said:

I checked ATI/IBLP, but have they been "let out" to attend Journey to the Heart?  hmmmmm

The Maxwells aren't IBLP/ATI, so there's no chance of that. Their only connection is that the Duggars promoted their books, which are sold through the IBLP website. 

More to the point, since Steve and Teri weren't speakers at the IBLP Family Conference this year, after doing so last year, and the Tits 2 logo is no longer on the IBLP website, it seems like there's even more of a separation between the two. 

9 hours ago, ophelia said:

It would be a perfect match. Both families are so bland and beige. And there even might be an unmarried Staddon boychild in Sarah's age.

There are two: Donald and Michael are both older than Sarah. Then there is James in his late 20s; Jonathan is around Anna's age; David is around Mary's age.

But it would never happen. Apart from the IBLP thing, and living too far away in WV, I don't think the Staddons have a lot of money, other than James who does well enough out of his photography business to spend most of his time travelling. There's no way Steve would approve a guy like Donald, who seems to spend his time playing with art, like a middle-aged manboy version of Mary, or Jonathan, who seems to play with drones and not a lot else. Michael might be doing OK out of his beekeeping thing, but it's still not enough to buy a home debt free.

I get the impression that the Staddons can live frugally because of the money Donald Sr, the father, earned when he was an engineer (like Steve, but that's where the similarity ends), and they own their own property and farm because of that previous career. And they make just enough money/grow their own food to sustain themselves and to allow the kidults to not have to work, but not enough to meet Steve's standards. Steve wouldn't approve of the Staddons secondhand cars and clothing, either: not because he values material things, but because they should be working harder in Maxwell-approved careers to ensure they can have them. 

I don't think it's a coincidence that the only Staddons who have married are the ones who have proper jobs, with IBLP

That said, Donald Sr has cancer, so maybe he will be keen to get a few more of the kids married off. It's just more likely to be to someone in their circle though (Neelys, Wilkeses, a few other families). 

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Still, they know other IBLP folks and if they were going to approve of the "girls" traveling the mission trips IBLP does would be very likely to be approved due to the values and statement of faith.

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8 hours ago, Ozlsn said:

Ok now I'm hoping that they come home from this trip wearing pants. Forget husbands, just some comfortable, practical, loose even, totally modest pants. Swearing like sailors would be a (ok, highly unlikely) bonus, but even a pair of extremely baggy skirt-lookalike culottes would likely cause Steve to flip.

And now I'm imagining culottes as a gateway drug for pants... finally, a drug I can get behind! 

You just revived a 50 year old memory of my school principal stalking the halls with a yardstick, which he would poke between the legs of any girl whose skirt he suspected was a secret pair of culottes. (Strict dress code: no pants, no culottes, only skirts of a certain length,  meaning no granny dresses, but mini skirts were just fine) Skirts with one inverted pleat in the front and one in the back were popular that year so anyone wearing one could expect to get the yardstick poke, but if he was in a mood, even gathered skirts were suspect.

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I remember those days too, @Black Aliss

Hopefully today a principal poking a yardstick between girl's legs  for any reason would be looking for a new job.

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