Gwen Shamblin 7: I am the Potato Chip of Life

[JermajestyDuggar]

9 hours ago, OperationSunshine said:

Okay former RFers... I NEED someone to explain the crossbody bags that both Gwen and Elizabeth wear. I swear they're wearing them in 90% of the pictures I've seen of both of them. At one point I truly wondered if they were diabetic and those were supplies or a pump or something. If it was just a standard handbag I wouldn't have noticed, but it's always the exact same style of bag. I've asked RF people I know but they look at me like I'm nuts.

I’m wondering if she keeps emergency travel size hairspray and makeup in there. 

[AmazonGrace]

Warning: EATING IS SUPER DUPER DANGEROUS. If you eat, you will have no money, no clothes, no figure, no self esteem, no family, no peace, no time, no devotion, no health, no emotional well being, no nothing. 

Spoiler

 

Let us start by exposing the false god, this master, this friend called food. Just how good of a friend has excessive food been to us? (Note: Our daily allotted food is not a false god—we are referring to excessive food.)

Does overeating help our finances? No, it robs us. It is expensive to keep eating extra calories every day. Diet programs have emptied our savings accounts as well. Does it help us with our clothing? No, we tend to find less and less to wear as we find ourselves obeying food more and more. Does it help us with our self-esteem? No, the more the excessive food is a friend to us, the more it gathers on our hips and in other locations of the body, and the more our self-esteem drops. Does it help us with our relationships? No, it seems to put a wedge between us and our family or spouse.

Again, extra food turns out to be a false friend and a parasitic leech that robs us of our time, passion, finances, devotion, peace, and self-esteem. It is a false master, a false friend, or a false god that leaves us with increasing troubles, guilt, emotional deprivation, and physical ailments.

 

So lucky that Weigh Down is free.. *rolleyes* 

[quiversR4hunting]

6 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

from Gwen's post - "Does it help us with our relationships? No, it seems to put a wedge between us and our family or spouse."

Across a lot of cultures food is what brings people together. Together to celebrate new life, death and all sorts of accomplishments along the way of life. How awkward would a family reunion be if there wasn't food? 

And I for one will celebrate with food this weekend!  This weekend my friends and I are having an "end of the school year" celebration at a bar that has good BBQ and a live band at 9 pm. The food will bring us together and celebrate friendship! On Sunday I will be heading out to a cousin's open house for graduating HS. Food, food, and more food will bring us together. 

I think what she is trying to get at is that food can be a wedge for those that are supposed to be following a diet* and don't. *And I don't mean weight watchers or Atkins, I mean a diet for diabetes or a heart diet or a renal (kidney) diet. That could be a topic of strife in a family. 

[CTRLZero]

Does it help us with our relationships? No, it seems to put a wedge between us and our family or spouse.

Is Gwen offering us an explanation for divorcing her first husband?  Or worse, are her children (specifically Michael) pulling away from her?  Blame it all on excessive food.

[Alisamer]

13 minutes ago, quiversR4hunting said:

I think what she is trying to get at is that food can be a wedge for those that are supposed to be following a diet* and don't. *And I don't mean weight watchers or Atkins, I mean a diet for diabetes or a heart diet or a renal (kidney) diet. That could be a topic of strife in a family. 

I think you may be giving her too much credit here. I think she means "when one person in a family GETS FAT it gives me the other, skinny partner good reason for divorce." She doesn't care about special diets, she just wants people to be skinny. Not healthy, just skinny. She won't even allow overweight people to attend her church in person if they aren't actively losing weight. It's all about being THIN. 

She should visit a Baptist church on a day they're having a social or business meeting after preaching. She'd be clutching her bony chest pearls. Baptists like the food. My church has at least one or two lunches after church each quarter, supper every wednesday evening, and the youth either have supper or go out to eat with the pastor on Sunday evenings. Our church kitchen is about three times the size of some of the ones I've seen on shows like Kitchen Nightmares. Youth fundraisers are dinners with silent auctions for items, and a live auction for home-baked goods that can go up to or over $100. Especially the cinnamon buns made by one of the single fathers in the church. 

[mango_fandango]

Damn, Gwod’s arms look like twigs. And Tarzan looks like he smelt a really bad fart. Perhaps he took his cue from Joey Tribbiani and learnt “smell the fart” acting...

[quiversR4hunting]

19 hours ago, Fashion Forward said:

Deep thoughts by Joe Lara - "Hmm. I wonder if the sky is cornflower, aquamarine, ultra blue, pacific blue, robin's egg blue, ocean blue, cadet blue, sky blue, air force blue, navy blue."

His look also reminded me of the bad joke that husband and wife are together, missionary style, and the wife is looking up and she says: "Beige... I think I'll paint the ceiling beige..."

[ajknowsthings]

On 6/2/2019 at 3:03 PM, luv2laugh said:

My husband asked me why I was listening to someone that was dressed up as a character from the Adam’s Family and I had to explain the whole story...

Literally dying laughing right now

[SuperNova]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

(Note: Our daily allotted food is not a false god—we are referring to excessive food.)

Again, extra food turns out to be a false friend and a parasitic leech that robs us of our time, passion, finances, devotion, peace, and self-esteem. It is a false master, a false friend, or a false god that leaves us with increasing troubles, guilt, emotional deprivation, and physical ailments.

Using words like "extra" or "excessive" with no clear guidelines is purposely ambiguous. What is an excessive amount? Gwen says that the food pyramid is junk and allots too many calories. The Remnant eating journal example had someone eating a few tiny bites here and there. This devotional makes it sound like you can eat a normal amount of food but all of her teachings are contradictory to this. Then she throws emotional manipulation on top of the mess by attributing any and all bad feelings in life to overeating. Nice job, Gwen. 

[AmazonGrace]

Just to keep it simple:  If you eat an "excessive amount" of food, you have eaten, "too much", which is "somewhat more" than "just enough", which is about the same as, "if Gwen thinks it's okay". 

The excessive disclaimer is once again something that's directed at her critics, so she can claim she's not pro-ana, she's anti-over-eating.  

The daily "allotted" terminology also makes no sense in the context of her previous devotionals that said you should eat if you're feeling hungry  and not count calories or points or follow any diet that would allot you a defined portion of food. If you eat according to your feels there's no allotting. 

[quiversR4hunting]

A client came into the courthouse with extra special hair, reminded me of Gwen. So I told my co-worker to look at the person in the lobby and then showed her Gwen and gave her the explanation that this lady built a church around a diet. My co-worker said "oh so they eat 2 m&ms and a couple sips of a drink". OMG! She summarized it so well! 

She couldn't believe Gwen's hair. 

Edited June 4, 2019 by quiversR4hunting

[luv2laugh]

1 hour ago, quiversR4hunting said:

Deep thoughts by Joe Lara - "Hmm. I wonder if the sky is cornflower, aquamarine, ultra blue, pacific blue, robin's egg blue, ocean blue, cadet blue, sky blue, air force blue, navy blue."

His look also reminded me of the bad joke that husband and wife are together, missionary style, and the wife is looking up and she says: "Beige... I think I'll paint the ceiling beige..."

(Joe in @Fashion Forward‘s photo of him with Gwen)

Edited June 4, 2019 by luv2laugh

[AmazonGrace]

Exercise: Can you infer Gwen's priorities from what she chooses to mention and in which order? 

1 ---our finances

2--- our savings accounts

3 -- our clothing

4---our hips and other locations of the body define our self esteem

5 --- our relationships and family

6---emotional troubles

7 --- physical ailments 

Money comes first and health comes last. Of course. 

The number of times she mentioned Jesus, David or Abraham: Zero. 

 

 

[WorseThan1Thinks]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

Money comes first and health comes last. Of course. 

The number of times she mentioned Jesus, David or Abraham: Zero. 

Makes sense, the number of times Jesus mentioned over eating or being skinny in the Bible is zero too.

Whatever Gwen preaches, it has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity.  That is for sure.  It doesn't matter if they claim Remnant is based on Judeo-Christian principles, it's not true.   It's based on Gwen's principles.

Edited June 4, 2019 by WorseThan1Thinks

[Insightful]

On 5/27/2019 at 8:59 PM, RFSurvivor_2 said:

Unfortunately if someone wants to reach this site, they literally have to dig a few pages deep (if you’re searching Gwen a Shamblin) in order for FreeJinger to show up now these days. This was not the case months ago. Clearly they have been at work. 

I spoke to Mr. Insightful about this issue...he used to design websites... we need to use Gwen Shamblin Lara's name in our posts as much as possible so the little bots pick up her name.  We should use Remnant Fellowship rather than RF as well.  I just wish we could use hashtags here.  Each post could be #GwenShamblinLara #RemnantFellowshipisacult #Gwensux (the last one is just for me!!!!)

[Christian Clueless]

On 5/29/2019 at 3:38 PM, formergothardite said:

I've seen a picture of her cabin, it seems to be bigger than my house. 

That picture of them is so contrived looking. She is trying hard to make it look like they are deeply in love. 

 

Edited June 4, 2019 by Christian Clueless

[Briefly]

3 hours ago, Insightful said:

I spoke to Mr. Insightful about this issue...he used to design websites... we need to use Gwen Shamblin Lara's name in our posts as much as possible so the little bots pick up her name.  We should use Remnant Fellowship rather than RF as well.  I just wish we could use hashtags here.  Each post could be #GwenShamblinLara #RemnantFellowshipisacult #Gwensux (the last one is just for me!!!!)

OK, so Gwod needs to be referred to as Gwen Shamblin Lara and RF needs to be Remnant Fellowship.  Got it!

@Alisamer, having been to a few Baptist Churches I agree with you 100%!  The one we went to occasionally when I was a kid was well known for it's member dinners at Luby's - I think the manager at Luby's just about went nuts when the group showed up, because he sold so much food!

And the only way I can see food coming between spouses, at least in Mr. Briefly's case, would be if I told him he wasn't allowed to eat!

[sajetime]

Candace Anger (now pronounced An-JAY because Gwen Shamblin Lara didn’t approve of the actual pronunciation) has another side hustle.

Apparently the curious Rare Wine Specialists gig she and Tedd have wasn’t bringing in enough cash. The sometimes host of Remnant Fellowship’s You can overcome Show is  now a Realtor for Gwen’s son in law Brandon Hannah. And she has a podcast.

I couldn’t listen after the introduction . Um, no, Candace, your not a Real-a-tor, you’re a Realtor. If you can’t pronounce your profession, you can’t sell my house.

 

 

Edited June 5, 2019 by sajetime

[Evangeline]

8 hours ago, mango_fandango said:

Damn, Gwod’s arms look like twigs. And Tarzan looks like he smelt a really bad fart. Perhaps he took his cue from Joey Tribbiani and learnt “smell the fart” acting...

I was literally JUST about to look for a You Tube clip of Smell the Fart acting so I could make this exact post. Great minds..... have a Friends reference for every occasion. 

[sajetime]

And now that she’s a Real-a-tor, Candace Anger (An-jay) says they’re looking to buy a home in Irsina, Italy.

What is the deal with all the Remnant Fellowship people and Italy all of a sudden? It started with the Days who bought a home there/have family there. Now it seems monthly they’re constantly going there with other church members, the Bakers, the Anconas, now the An-jays.

Why Italy? These are Remnant people. I can’t imagine it’s for the great food or to be closer to the Vatican! Hmmm, they do have wine!

 

Edited June 5, 2019 by sajetime

[ajknowsthings]

Is anyone else having a major hankering to crash Remnant Fellowship's Desert Oasis Owen Wilson/Will Ferrell style?????

 

Also, in case anyone from the "other side" is watching - ya spelled welcome wrong.  Also, anytime is actually any time.  #grammarandspellingpolice

[AmazonGrace]

1 hour ago, ajknowsthings said:

Is anyone else having a major hankering to crash Remnant Fellowship's Desert Oasis Owen Wilson/Will Ferrell style?????

 

Also, in case anyone from the "other side" is watching - ya spelled welcome wrong.  Also, anytime is actually any time.  #grammarandspellingpolice

And ticket

[CTRLZero]

1 hour ago, sajetime said:

What is the deal with all the Remnant Fellowship people and Italy all of a sudden?

Do you think they are planning a mass exodus?  Do you know if they are buying property in Italy near each other?   Does Gwen own a home there?

[speculation] Gwen may be thinking about retirement to Italy, so of course the elder leadership would migrate with her.  Maybe they are scouting out properties for her and her sweet Joe.  Who could live without their wealthy prophetess?  She can leave the Brentwood facility in Elizabeth's capable hands.

That realtor video did not show the house well at all. 

[AmazonGrace]

If you're Gwen Shamblin Lara, God will  fix your car. (I know a guy who runs a car repair shop so I can give God a break here.) 

Spoiler

 

If somebody needs a counselor, please go see a counselor. A competent one. 

Thanks and have a nice day. 

[danvillebelle]

10 hours ago, sajetime said:

Candace Anger (now pronounced An-JAY because Gwen Shamblin Lara didn’t approve of the actual pronunciation)

I wonder if the An-JAYs shop at Tar-JAY?