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Started by joeactor, October 10, 2009, 01:49:08 AM

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joeactor

October 10, 2009, 01:49:08 AM
If you're not familiar with the Duggars, they are a deeply religious family with 18 children (plus another one the way).

Here's an article announcing their first grandchild's birth:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33238369/ ... nd_family/

How say ye, or ye of little faith?,
JoeActor

LoneMateria

#1
October 10, 2009, 02:02:30 AM
Why are we as a society fascinated with people who are trying to hump the planet out of its resources?  4 kids are too many 18 kids is ridiculous and with someone growing up in that environment he is likely to have just as many kids.  I'd almost advise dumping some uranium in the house ... you know make it so they can't have babies.  Save the planet by taking out people who think every time they hump a baby must come out.
Quote from: "Richard Lederer"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages
Quote from: "Demosthenes"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Quote from: "Oscar Wilde"Truth, in matters of religion, is simpl

Big Mac

#2
October 10, 2009, 02:14:38 AM
Quote from: "LoneMateria"Why are we as a society fascinated with people who are trying to hump the planet out of its resources?  4 kids are too many 18 kids is ridiculous and with someone growing up in that environment he is likely to have just as many kids.  I'd almost advise dumping some uranium in the house ... you know make it so they can't have babies.  Save the planet by taking out people who think every time they hump a baby must come out.

Humans are hypersexual beings. It's almost a morbid "WE could achieve that if tried" subconscious yearning. We're wired to boink out a lot of offspring in the shotgun style that will ensure that at least 1 survives to pass along our genes. Our bodies are not yet adapted to our advances in medicine.
Quote from: "PoopShoot"And what if pigs shit candy?

AlP

#3
October 10, 2009, 02:46:13 AM
Two thoughts. Firstly, I find it disturbing that all the boys have the same haircut. Secondly, she didn't give birth in 1993, 2003 or 2006.
"I rebel -- therefore we exist." - Camus

Ninteen45

#4
October 10, 2009, 01:31:41 PM
It's a vagina, not a Clown car.
Now I can be re-gognizod!

Ultima22689

#5
October 10, 2009, 04:06:39 PM
yeah, thats jusd wild and depressing.

rlrose328

#6
October 10, 2009, 10:21:10 PM
Quote from: "Ninteen45"It's a vagina, not a Clown car.

My thoughts exactly.

Speaking as an only child of an only child dad with an only child son, I do not understand the desire to populate the earth completely on your own.  We had two families we were friends with when I was growing up, and both families had 4 kids.  Their houses were always chaotic, games never had pieces, kids fighting and picking on each other.  I always dreamed that if I had siblings, we'd be great friends and we'd never fight.  Then I married a man who has 2 younger siblings... and they never talk.  NEVER.

I believe that anyone who has more than 4 kids... and especially those who have into the double-digits... are irresponsible and unreasonable and illogical and many more adjectives than I can even type here.  I don't care if they can care for them or not (and they obviously can't because they needed donations to build their house and the Gosselin's are a mess despite the money they've earned on their reality show).  With 18 (soon to be 19) children, it's the older children who are raising the younger children and NONE of those children has adequate parental attention.  And they homeschool, too.  UGH.

Now the oldest son who just had a kid has made the "no comment" when asked how many kids he and his wife will have.  FSM forbid they decided to have 20 and homeschool them as well.  Makes me throw up a little in my mouth.
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AlP

#7
October 11, 2009, 02:07:37 AM
If Mr and Mrs Duggar's children also have 18 children each, they'll be grandparents to 18 * 18 = 324 grandchildren. I wonder if they could remember all their names? And how would they choose holiday gifts for them all? They would have just over a day throughout the year to choose each gift. An most days it would be one of their grandchildren's birthdays. And what if their grandchildren do the same thing? 18 * 18 * 18 = 5832 great grandchildren. Lol.
"I rebel -- therefore we exist." - Camus

Reginus

#8
October 11, 2009, 03:05:22 AM
Since they clearly have the ability to support all 18 children, I don't really see anything wrong with them having so many. I also find it pretty unlikely that each one of the 18 kids is going to have a lot children (any studies to support this view?)
"The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

AlP

#9
October 11, 2009, 03:09:08 AM
Quote from: "Reginus"Since they clearly have the ability to support all 18 children, I don't really see anything wrong with them having so many. I also find it pretty unlikely that each one of the 18 kids is going to have a lot children (any studies to support this view?)
Haha, no studies to support it. It was tongue in cheek. The likelihood of a couple living in the US having 18 children is low, never mind their children doing the same thing =).
"I rebel -- therefore we exist." - Camus

LoneMateria

#10
October 11, 2009, 07:21:10 AM
Aren't they the people on television?  If so then yes the currently have the means to support it, say the show got canceled then what?  Would it still be okay for them to have that many kids?  I understand its some biological need to have children but there eventually is a point of diminished returns.  If one kid doesn't fill a gap you have inside yourself what makes you think 18 will?  All they will do is keep you distracted enough so you don't have to face yourself.
Quote from: "Richard Lederer"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages
Quote from: "Demosthenes"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Quote from: "Oscar Wilde"Truth, in matters of religion, is simpl

MikeyV

#11
October 13, 2009, 02:27:31 AM
Quote from: "Reginus"I also find it pretty unlikely that each one of the 18 kids is going to have a lot children (any studies to support this view?)

Quote from: "AlP"The likelihood of a couple living in the US having 18 children is low, never mind their children doing the same thing =).

No study needed. It's inference. The Dugers belong to a conservative Evangelical Christian sect (cult) called Quiverfull. The style of dress should have been a dead giveaway.

Quiverfulls believe " Its viewpoint is to receive children eagerly as blessings from God, eschewing all forms of birth control, including natural family planning and sterilization."

So, if even a few of the children follow the cult of their parents, then it is very likely that they will have an insane amount of children.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things. One is that God loves
you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the
most awful, dirty thing on the face of the earth and you should save
it for someone you love.
   
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Ihateyoumike

#12
October 13, 2009, 05:56:35 AM
Quote from: "Ninteen45"It's a vagina, not a Clown car.



 :headbang:
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You were my greatest mistake, I fell in love with your sin
Your littlest sin.

Haight

#13
September 09, 2010, 09:15:11 AM
Mikeyv: Can't get a message to you, personally in this forum, sorry - email me if you happen to run across this haight@hotmail (dot) com - it's about baylink bbs

Whitney

#14
September 09, 2010, 11:43:08 PM
Quote from: "Haight"Mikeyv: Can't get a message to you, personally in this forum, sorry - email me if you happen to run across this haight@hotmail (dot) com - it's about baylink bbs

Are you a spammer?

Mikeyv hasn't been active on HAF since '09 and you could have PM him if you had tried (not that he'd get it).
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