The fundies are invading!

[terranova]

Over the last few weeks I've noticed an upswing in the number of women with long plaits, long frumpers, running shoes and socks pushing pushchairs and driving people movers around town.

We already have a large Exclusive Bretheren community here, we don't need anymore crazies, but I wonder if a commune has moved here from somewhere else.

I just hope they're not the doorknocking kind.

[CrazySister]

Funny, I've noticed the same thing here. I live in the mountain states in the U.S. I've been hoping it was a bizarre anomaly! Maybe not, though. ;)

[Glass Cowcatcher]

Scary I've noticed it too. :O

I hoped the same thing. Maybe some new people moving in. I really don't want to think that the lifestyle is actually growing.

The poor people are always so standoffish. Went to Home Depot once and saw a fundy lady with 4 or 5 kids in tow. The moment my worldly children started to talk to her godly ones, she zoomed off into another aisle. :(

[Inky]

Over the last few weeks I've noticed an upswing in the number of women with long plaits, long frumpers, running shoes and socks pushing pushchairs and driving people movers around town.

We already have a large Exclusive Bretheren community here, we don't need anymore crazies, but I wonder if a commune has moved here from somewhere else.

I just hope they're not the doorknocking kind.

Just answer the door in your underwear. It worked for us. JW's came to the door. DS was sitting in the living room in his underwear (he was around 18 or 20) They were clean and non-revealing underwear :) but the JW's couldn't get off the porch fast enough and didn't come back for years.

It's too bad, really, because he was in the mood for a good chat about religion that day.

[ladypuglover]

I live in batshit crazy fundyville and hippy-redneckville. Aka, Colorado Springs, so I see these types all the time. It is hard to tell sometimes if they are fundies or hippy-rednecks. You sometimes have to listen for key words to see the difference.

You all know I am the worst dresser ever and was out shopping wearing a frumper when a fellow frumper wearing woman got in line check out behind me. The cashier knows me through my oldest 3 sons and asked about how they all were doing. Well the other lady heard and asked if i had any other children. i told her that I had 2 more sons that were still young as the other 3 are adults. Fellow frumper asked, no i meant if you have any daughters. :? I told her no and then she just about had a fit! How on earth can I do anything if I didn't have daughters to help out? How did all my chores get done without daughters? I laughed and said I do my own chores and my sons do theirs and my husbands does his. I thought she was going to have stroke right then and there. She then went off on a rant that I was hand delivering my sons and husband to the devil and my sons would turn out gay if I had them do my chores. At this point I was just trying to avoid eye contact and get the hell out of dodge. My cashier was just a giggling away as she thought of her former classmates being gay in a handbasket on their way to hell. Fellow frumper went on and on about how evil I was and demanded to know who my pastor was. I told her that it didn't matter as he was a stay at home dad Monday through Friday. That left her speechless and sputtering and I was able to make my merry escape.

So I live in batshit crazy fundy town. :whistle:

[geniebelle6901]

They've been here in in my small town in AL for a very long time and not well liked. Most of the people around here are Conservative Christian, but they still don't like these people. Some are known for being snooty by the lack of good stuff at the Goodwill store. Um, excuse me, this ain't Macy's, and economy in the area is bad. People are hanging on to their clothes and stuff until they have no choice but to donate. Go find some material at a flea market and make your own damned frumers!

[StarrieEyedKat]

Just answer the door in your underwear. It worked for us. JW's came to the door. DS was sitting in the living room in his underwear (he was around 18 or 20) They were clean and non-revealing underwear :) but the JW's couldn't get off the porch fast enough and didn't come back for years.

It's too bad, really, because he was in the mood for a good chat about religion that day.

Lol, that totally worked for us too, just a month or so ago. Husband looked out the (open) window and said "It's Jehovah's Witnesses." I told him to answer it in his boxer-briefs, so he did. They stuttered and walked away and we haven't been bothered since! :dance:

[Glass Cowcatcher]

Lol, that totally worked for us too, just a month or so ago. Husband looked out the (open) window and said "It's Jehovah's Witnesses." I told him to answer it in his boxer-briefs, so he did. They stuttered and walked away and we haven't been bothered since! :dance:

I wonder if they keep a list of underdrawer doors.

[marmalade]

They can't afford to live here. Despite the "NO SOLICITORS" sign on our front door, we still get the occasional stray Jehovah's Witness if we don't catch them wandering around the buildings (another building faces ours and we share the driveway) before we can shut the doors and curtains before they get to us - we're at the top of the first flight of stairs so we have to work fast.

We see the occasional Mormon pairs since we have a major Temple in town, but since the building owner bought 3 buildings in a row on the street and painted them all crap beige, it looks like the projects despite the multi-million, well-fenced or gated homes across the street. I think the buildings themselves scare off the Mormons more than the JWs.

But fundies? I'd KILL for a sighting! No one I know has more than 3 kids.

[Maude]

I wonder if they keep a list of underdrawer doors.

My grandpa took it a step further and answered the door naked. To my knowledge, they haven't had any proselytizers since, so maybe word got 'round. :lol:

They can't afford to live here. Despite the "NO SOLICITORS" sign on our front door, we still get the occasional stray Jehovah's Witness if we don't catch them wandering around the buildings (another building faces ours and we share the driveway) before we can shut the doors and curtains before they get to us - we're at the top of the first flight of stairs so we have to work fast.

We see the occasional Mormon pairs since we have a major Temple in town, but since the building owner bought 3 buildings in a row on the street and painted them all crap beige, it looks like the projects despite the multi-million, well-fenced or gated homes across the street. I think the buildings themselves scare off the Mormons more than the JWs.

But fundies? I'd KILL for a sighting! No one I know has more than 3 kids.

We have a large Mennonite community. They're basically the only recognizable fundies I've seen around here, aside from my burqa sighting in the city last month. I actually smiled and said to my father: "Well, I'm no longer a burqa virgin" for which I received an odd look. :D

[FJismyheadship]

My ex showed up at the door naked (does anyone else think butt ass naked is really redundant? I know people who say that and I almost typed it)

holding a porn magazine.

Anywhosits the JWs dusted their feet and ran away.

[ladypuglover]

Maybe I need to start answering the door butt assed naked* more often. :whistle:

*Yes you can say it that way. It's a southern thing that my southern side of the family always say.

[mrs]

Residing in the DC region means I get to see vacationing fundies often! Homeschooling field trips to DC seem to be popular with the fundie crowd.

I think I bought my Christmas tree from a fundie family we snark on here, in retrospect.

Fundies seem to live in the DC bedroom communities. Best sightings occur at the gun show when they travel into the suburbs. Husband has begun pointing them out to me.

[Sola]

Over the last few weeks I've noticed an upswing in the number of women with long plaits, long frumpers, running shoes and socks pushing pushchairs and driving people movers around town.

We already have a large Exclusive Bretheren community here, we don't need anymore crazies, but I wonder if a commune has moved here from somewhere else.

I just hope they're not the doorknocking kind.

If they are EB they shouldn't be door knocking so you should be safe :D

There's an EB community in my town which is my local source of fundie watching. Unusual I guess because fundies are thin on the ground here in the UK. The EB here keep themselves to themselves, they don't door knock or anything like that. The most anyone ever sees of them is when they are out shopping.

I did run into some last summer at a local science museum here. I'm sure they thought that I was one of them as one of the mothers was giving me puzzled looks as if to say, 'do I know her?'. I had a long denim skirt on, long sleeve top (I nearly always wear long sleeve tops as I have some horrible burn scars on my left arm which are ugly and need to be kept out of the sun) and because i was having a bad hair day I had a scarf on too. They were in front of us in the queue to get in to the museum and the mother kept glancing my way. I think she finally realised that we weren't part of the EB when she noticed my husband wearing a Ozzy Ozborne T shirt! :lol:

[fluttershies]

Where I grew up (in the West Midlands) I went to school with some Brethren girls (not sure what group). They were nice enough. My city in particular was always extremely multi-cultural so it wasn't really a big deal but like Sola says, fundies (or at least fundies that are distinctive-looking) aren't common in the UK. I know the girls had to go home for lunch as they were not allowed to eat with non-believers and did not attend religious studies lessons (these weren't Bible classes or anything but studying different religions), but to be honest when I was at school with them me and my classmates thought the fact that they didn't watch tv was the weirdest :lol:

But yeah, Exclusive Brethren don't do door-knocking so you should be OK. They're very much a group that keeps themselves to themselves.

[JesusFightClub]

The JWs do indeed keep a list. My brother's pal in high school was one and he told us about it. When you come back from your rounds you make a note of where you received good reception, indifferent, not in or bad. Really bad don't get revisited.

[Loveday]

I live in batshit crazy fundyville and hippy-redneckville. Aka, Colorado Springs, so I see these types all the time. It is hard to tell sometimes if they are fundies or hippy-rednecks. You sometimes have to listen for key words to see the difference.

You all know I am the worst dresser ever and was out shopping wearing a frumper when a fellow frumper wearing woman got in line check out behind me. The cashier knows me through my oldest 3 sons and asked about how they all were doing. Well the other lady heard and asked if i had any other children. i told her that I had 2 more sons that were still young as the other 3 are adults. Fellow frumper asked, no i meant if you have any daughters. :? I told her no and then she just about had a fit! How on earth can I do anything if I didn't have daughters to help out? How did all my chores get done without daughters? I laughed and said I do my own chores and my sons do theirs and my husbands does his. I thought she was going to have stroke right then and there. She then went off on a rant that I was hand delivering my sons and husband to the devil and my sons would turn out gay if I had them do my chores. At this point I was just trying to avoid eye contact and get the hell out of dodge. My cashier was just a giggling away as she thought of her former classmates being gay in a handbasket on their way to hell. Fellow frumper went on and on about how evil I was and demanded to know who my pastor was. I told her that it didn't matter as he was a stay at home dad Monday through Friday. That left her speechless and sputtering and I was able to make my merry escape.

So I live in batshit crazy fundy town. :whistle:

She was angry with you for not having daughters? Like it was your 'fault?' Did she think that just having sons was something you planned in advance, like going to the SPCA and choosing boy pugs over girl pugs or something? :shock: My mind is boggling at the possibility of such rank stupidity! :doh:

[Talitha Cumi]

She was angry with you for not having daughters? Like it was your 'fault?' Did she think that just having sons was something you planned in advance, like going to the SPCA and choosing boy pugs over girl pugs or something? :shock: My mind is boggling at the possibility of such rank stupidity! :doh:

Obviously you should have kept going until daughters started coming out. :shifty:

[Elle]

I lived in a small town with a large JW hall (for the size of the town), and they were well-known for ignoring the no-soliciting signs and the cops saw it as their religious right to knock on doors even with signs saying they were trespassing. At least weekly they'd hit up every door in town (1,500 houses, population 6,000 in town., about 300 members who were teens and over, that's just 15 houses her group of three per week), until the Mormon population picked up. They they avoided the Mormon houses. Once day a Mormon friend was at my house and some Jovies came a-knocking, and my friend answered and invited them to dinner, and they accepted, and I was wondering what the hell? Then she said she hoped they didn't mind that we were hosting Mormon missionaries as well. Those Jovies hightailed it out of there literally without a bother word and didn't come back. We were clearly blacklisted. :)

[lilwriter85]

In city I live in, I rarely see hardcore frumper type fundies. There are some fundie lite types that I used to see at my college campus often. They were apart of a megachurch that used to send out their church members to the college campus to hand out pamphlets. I grew up in a town about 3 hours away from where I live. It was a town of about 10,000 and they were a few large JW families that were well known around town. They went door knocking quite a bit. I had a friend in that town whose family was JW but they were a small family and they weren't as hardcore as some of the other JW families. Most of the JW families homeschooled and were really strict with their kids. My friend's parents are no longer JW and my friend converted Catholicism prior to marrying her husband. I have encountered JWs and Mormon missionaries a few times in the city I live in. The ones I encountered weren't the aggressive types. I told them I wasn't interested and they left me alone. Other friends and relatives have dealt with aggressive JWs and Mormons. I figure someday I will have to deal with them.

[Kaylee]

It's strange where I live. I'd say there are fewer organized fundies (the IFB type churches have gotten smaller and the revivals and camp meetings have really shrunk), but more people who are identifiably fundy from their clothing, mostly because of the internet and home churches. Most of the fundie churches that have been around here aren't that identifiable - lots of dresses/skirts only, but usually not the matching homemade jumper types and, for years, I was the only one I knew of around here who wore a headcovering. In the past 2-3 years though, I met one other woman who covers (we were both fans of Candy at the time - I still like Candy really, I just think she maybe tries to hard to live up to the image she's made of herself on the blog instead of feeling free to be herself and be honest about it), and saw a woman right down the road who who wears a large covering and more obviously religious modest clothes, then found out it is a church group similar to the people from Monett - they're really nice though and I haven't gotten any sort of judgmental vibe, so I'm not gonna be snarking on them.

[Anxious Girl]

I'm glad that where I live in N.J, we don't have much... This reminds of the Pink Elephant scene from Dumbo, sadly:

Look out! Look out! Pink Elephants on parade! Here they come. Hippity-hoppity. They're here. They're there. Pink elephants are everywhere. What'll I do? What'll I do? What an unusual view!

[Elphaba]

We only get mormons out where I am. It's pretty handy to just inform them that I'm a witch, but the last time one of the elders, aka barely 18 year old boys, was curious and asked me about ritual garb in Paganism. The discussion became a bit much for him because he left blushing all the way to his ears and we haven't seen the Mormons around in months. :D