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Lady Lydia's hypocritical views on The Multi-Generational Church

Neither Lady Lydia, her husband or her two sons practise or practised multi-generational faithfulness. Yet to fit into the Vision Forum-LAF crowd Lady Lydia also mouths of peity about the Multi-Generation Church.

Facts:

• Lady Lydia did not stay with her parents or other relatives when they moved to Australia. She chose to stay in America, attend Bible college and marry Stanley Bumpfries at the age of 18. She has been attending a different church from that of her parents for more than 40 years
• Stanley Bumpfries also never practised multi-generational faithfulness. Going against his father's wishes, who wanted him to pastor at the local church, Stanley Bumpfries preached in different countries for more than 25 years. Finally, when they came back to Junction City, Lancastor, Oregon, he still chose to go to a different church and pastor a different church from that of his father.
• Stanley Bumpfries eldest son is married and a pastor. He also lives very far from his parents and is not given into regular visits. Some family members say there is a breach - whatever the reasons, he has not visited them in the last two years.
• Stanley Bumpfries's youngest son Stevie Bumpfries, is a Christian, unmarries and lives in the same city. Even though he lives within a one-hour's drive to his parent's home, he has chosen to get a bachelor accomdation elsewhere and work. He goes to a different church and is quite sucessful in his work, unlike the other Bumpfries.
• Stanley Bumpfries's only daughter Lollybeth Rosie Bumpfries does stay with them. But that is because her husband, doesn't have a job. Since he is a student, he deemed it unaffordable for them to live independantly. So now they stay in Mr Stanley Bumpfries's garage. His personal expenses, education, educational loans, expenses in raising a family of four children - Joseph Bumpfries, Issac Bumpfries, John Paul Bumpfries and Lillian Bumpfries. They attend the same church as Stanley Bumpfries because they have no other choice not as a shining example to multi-generational faithfulness.

But Lady Lydia never practises what she preaches. 

So in this article, you will find her preaching: 

The Multi-Generational Church

Parents and grown, married children and grandchildren, can benefit greatly by attending the same church. They need each other. The multi-generational lifestyle that includes the grandparents, children and grandchildren, is a great testimony of Christ's word, to the church and the world.

My husband recently preached a sermon to encourage the young people to put the church first, and to stay in the congregation where they had worshipped with their parents, to help the work of the Lord, rather than going somewhere else when they became adults. It is sad to see parents work so hard raising their children to become faithful, productive citizens in the Kingdom, only to see them leave the little congregation where they grew up, and go somewhere else, when in three-fourths of cases, with some effort, they could stay and contribute a lot to the church they grew up in.

Stevie Bumpfries tells Lady Lydia to get a job

Stevie Bumpfries, who is the only decently-earning member of the Lady Lydia family, is a little bit different from the traditional cast of the rest of his family. But only a wee bit different, mind you! He also wants a 10-children bearing, Victorian-woman cum husky-prairie-girl to greet him at home with pie and dumplings at the end of a hard day of labour! Typical of LAF manly-men!

Anyway this is the story of how Stevie Bumpfries told Lydia to get a job and stop goofing off at home. It can be read at The Unpleasant Times being run by Lollybeth Rosie Bumpfries.

The story goes: 

Cousin Lee said several years ago, when he was living at the house, that Ma should go to McDonald's and get a minimum wage job, and hoist the old family up a bit more. "Who would make your lunch, clean your room, clean the bathrooms, do your laundry, find your hunting accessories and power bait, iron your shirts, and make you dinner when you got home?" asked Ma.

"Well, you would!" replied Cousin Lee.

"After working all day on my feet at McDonald's?"

"Sure!"

Ma rolled her eyes. There went her son's marriage prospects-- no woman would put up with such slavish treatment! (By the way Stevie Bumpfries is still not married. Interested heiresses with immodest fortunes can apply) But instead she replied "No, I'll be coming home and playing video games all evening" (which happened to be Cousin Lee's favorite thing to do after work).

I think the story would be more effective if it read:

Stevie Bumpfries: Why can't you get a job, mom, instead of lazing around the job? How about a minimum wage job at McDonald's? Hoist the family a bit?

Lady Lydia: "Who would make your lunch, clean your room, clean the bathrooms, do your laundry, find your hunting accessories and power bait, iron your shirts, and make you dinner when you got home?" 

Stevie Bumpfries:"Well, you would!"

Lady Lydia: "After working all day on my feet at McDonald's?"

Stevie Bumpfries:"Sure!"

Lady Lydia: "No, I'll be coming home and playing video games all evening"

Letters to the Editor or The Rudenx series at The Unpleasant Times

Since rude comments or any comments are unwelcome at The Unpleasant Times, we have to make do with the Letters to the Editor column. Lollybeth is a lot more fun and a lot more humorous than her mom Lady Lydia.

Letters that do get published are of course duly censored by Lollybeth for form and content.

What if there are not enough nice letters?

Lollybeth says: "Since we did not get enough mail to publish letters from last month, I will have to make some up. Any mail received in the month of August will be published at a later date when I have more mail to add to it. Until then, we thank you for your very great patience and continuing interest in The Unpleasant Times."

Ms Uspishus asks: Dear Editor, Are your letters to the editor real or just made up?

Lollybeth says: Dear Miss Uspishus,

That depends on who sends the letter.

Rudenx asks: Dear Editor,

I think it is very mean of you to spy on your neighbors. Just because they aren't as rich as you are doesn't mean they are beneath you. Also, I think that this letter to the editor business is ridiculous. I think you should open comments and let us have our say, without your just picking and chooseing which things you want to post (which are always just the cheerleaders of your blog). -Rudenx

Dear Rudenx those poor Bumfries are actually Lollybeth's family!

Lollybeth says: Dear Rudenx,

Rich? Well, in a way:)

I'm afraid you wouldn't be happy if I did open comments--they would be moderated. Then I would get a lot of those anonymous dares: "I know you are not going to post this" with added insults. This blog strives to be as stress-free as we can make it! -The Editor

On her hyper-critical article on people sporting body piercings and tattoos,

Lollybeth says: We received a letter from a reader, which we do not have permission to publish, concerned that perhaps our Etiquette Expert was not promoting compassion in her recent post on piercings. She would like to assure our readers that she indeed has great compassion for the poor people who have holes in their ears, would like to see the practice abolished, and may publish more on this subject in the future.

RudenX says:

I am fed up with your blog. You don't let the rest of us have our say. I think I have the right to be heard at all times. You only post what you want to post. Your "etiquete expert" is rude, the movie reviews are boring (of course--they are boring movies you are reviewing) and you are obviously biased about a lot of things. Why don't you keep your fluffy mind busy with housework!

P.S. I know you probably will not publish this, but oh well, you're "Letters to the editor" are probably all made up anyway. I'm not sure I'll be back in the future. -RX

Lollybeth says: The Unpleasant Times needs a User Agreement. You know, a few dozen paragraphs in small print...some light reading to go with your morning coffee. That way you would have fair warning as to what you are in for when you read this blog, you will know your rights and responsibilities, and be informed of mine as well.

There are always other places to go on the web, you know, that would be more agreeable to you, and where you can have your say, but we would miss you every month if you didn't drop by!

The authors of the various Letters to the Editor know who they are, and I do try to protect their privacy by initials, etc. 

RudenX says:

Your crafts look so tacky. Why don't you just give up and go and buy something.

Lollybeth says:  Dear Ms. Rudenx,

I hope that you will consider buying a copy of "Stuff I made with Garbage," by my mother (and perhaps myself) which I hope will be published in the upcoming year. We'll even sign a copy for you. And if that does not tickle your fancy for shopping, be sure to check out the poster store and books at the bottom of the page!

Rudenx says:

I can't get over your obsession with tea parties and tea cups. It is so funny. There is more to life than tea. Why don't you try a beer? You need to get out and socialize with other people than your family. Liven up!

Lollybeth says: Dear Rudenx,

Thank you for your concern, but I think I will just stick to tea parties, if you don't mind! I guess you will mind, but at least you can be amused every time you think about it!

I would prefer a hot pot of tea with friends, who provide lively, uplifting and intelligent (and innocent) conversation to any buzz or hangover a beer would give me. Tea parties are a wonderful way to socialize! Tea parties with the family are a pleasure! And I am sure I have never seen anyone who exclusively visited with their family, though I am sure that many would prefer the company of their family to many social events the world has to offer them.

Rudenx says:

Your opinions make me ill! Your advice is terible. You people are sick!

Lollybeth says:

Dear Ms. Rudenx,

Well, there are those seasonal "bugs" that go around. However, overall I think we have been in excellent health this Summer. I hope you get to feeling better soon! Could it perhaps be something you ate?

Rudenx says:

The way you go on and on about that child makes me nauseous. Why don't you get that kid out of those ugly dresses and into some pants where she can actually get up and do something! You remind me of those mothers who put makeup on their daughters and put them in beauty contests. I feel sorry for her having a family like yours.

Oh, and I think your rug looks like it has been chewed on by the dog. I sure won't be making one of those!

Lollybeth says:

Dear Rudenx,

You certainly are under no obligation to make the rug (we call it "folk art")!

Regarding the baby: I have posted pictures of Miss Lillian in pants twice on this blog. But I am afraid your theory did not hold true in those instances, she didn't get up an do anything, she just sat there. And I do not have to put makeup on the baby, she is blessed with a flawless complexion that needs no man-made help.

We have no need to take the baby to a beauty contest, as we just had our own. Yes, it is true. We crowned her "Miss Humphrey" this afternoon. She won't ever have to go to any other beauty contest. Of course, she had an edge, having no competition for the title, and her father does run the contest so there was probably some partiality there. But there was no one to be disgruntled about this, as there were no losers! She also won in all the categories, including "best two front teeth." I'm not sure that any other beauty contestant could win with only two teeth! And all judges agree that she won in the "roly poly" category as well!

Rudenx says:

Editor,

I found it interesting that you would post a picture that looks like "modern art." If you read your mother's blog it seems like your family is prejudiced against it.

Lollybeth says:

Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss Rudenx,

The pictures by our in-house artist are sort of modern, since he was only born a few years ago. All of our artists improve day by day with practice, and I keep them on staff so that they can eat (you know about starving artists and all that). Perhaps someday we will have another Leighton, in a few years when they have really perfected their skills.

You might be looking at the pictures (particularly the early portrait of Miss Lillian) with an eye skilled in Modern Art. You might be thinking that it really portrays the frustration of the artist and the subject, the way the strokes vary with intensity and the arms are drawn in an aggressive stance. Or, you may be thinking that this portrait shows the feeling of freedom that the artist feels in the way he drew the feet flat and pointing to the left, or perhaps expressed the carefree way in which the subject wears hats.

Well, I don't' know about any of that, but I can tell you, he was very smart in observing and expressing that the baby was sort of fat, and wiggly. And he liked the idea that she would wear a purple dress and hat that he saw in a box of my baby things! And I am sure that he loves his sister and that was expressed in the drawing of her portrait.

Missing KOOPs article!

Unlike her mother, Lollybeth at The Unpleasant Times does not believe in deleting rude comments, she instead never approves any comment. Every once in a while, she selects the really nice comments and posts them as Letters to the Editor - whether they are all her own invention is hard to say.

I am sure by now all of you know that Lollybeth or Lady Lydia delete their posts, which are controversial. The minute they are cornered into admitting their snobbish, racist beliefs, they immediately delete the original posts, trackback the links and pretend as if the issue never existed.

Lollybeth, following her mother's footsteps, happily deleted a rude article on the manners of other people's children, the minute it elicited criticism.

However, when calls for explanation are persistent, she posts one rejoinder in her Letters to the Editor column:

Missing KOOPs Article

To The Editor:

I am having a hard time understanding your KOOPs article. Could you tell me if you are serious or just trying to be humorous?

A.J.

The Editor Replied:

I have taken the KOOPs article down, I just don't have time to reply to all the questions people have about it. It was not a dead-serious article, and perhaps some people found it humorous, but it seemed to confuse some of our readers. However it was taken, I am sure that the parent who wants to sleep in on Saturday morning, and has to answer the knock at the door from the neighbor kid at 6:30 a.m.("Hi Mr. Jones, can your kids come out to play?") would understand it perfectly.

If anyone is still needing the article, there is a similar one here: Experiences with Rude Kids of Other People at GroundtheHome.

Excerpts from the second KOOPs article:

Lady Lydia says:"My own children were not as content or happy at home when they met other children who came and went as they pleased. The other children did not respect authority, not even mine, in my house."

Talk about the corrupting influence of kids....The other iniquities of these kids were:

Lady Lydia says:"They dismantled the beds in my children's rooms by taking the mattresses off the beds. Then, instead of being delighted to play with the toys that were offered to them, they wanted to get into everything that had been put away and drag every thing out from closets and shelves. They undressed the dolls and left them in a pile, pulled out all the books in shelves, threw the tinker toys, leggo and building blocks around and mixed them all up with the small toys cars, as though they were making a salad."

"Another time I discovered that a KOOP had demolished my bathroom with their own filth. I did not want to be inhospitable, but having already had three children myself under my wing, I had plenty of those problems with them."

And then they spoilt a birthday party by declaring a movie boring...so no more kids at the kids' birthday parties, only well-mannered adults allowed......

Lady Lydia says:"I knew that I had to eliminate the rude KOOPs if I would keep my personality sweet and my thinking straight.

Over the years the rude KOOPs got even worse. The last rude KOOP we had in our home, would not stay and visit and enjoy the company of all of us. They wanted to get my daughter away from us (that is one clue to rebellion--they want to get your child off away from authority) and when they did manage to get her off alone, they spent a lot of time dropping hints that she was backwards."

Watch your kids like hawks, so they don't learn anything from others....leaving them totally unequipped and unprepared for life. 

The only difference is, with homeschooled boys, their first experience will be when they're teenagers, and away from supervision, unlike their peers who learned how to deal with peer pressure safely back in elementary school. 

Why only boys? Because girls don't go to college 

On her daughter's Missing KOOPs article:

Lady Lydia says: My daughter wrote a funny story about this on her Pleasant Times blog, and typical of the way people think today, was accused of everything from a to z, none of it complimentary. I would suggest that if you LIKE rude KOOPS you tolerate and entertain and teach them. Congratulations if you succeed. But not everyone has the stamina or the presence of mind to do it and if they don't like rude KOOPS they ought to have a choice. This is the era of choice, is it not? Remember the people who don't want kids at all claim they have a choice to abort them. If it is okay to choose to abort a child, why is it so terrible to abort the neighbor children's attempt to crowd your day, your life, and make havoc of your home? WHy do we allow abortion, which gets rid of KOOPS altogether before they even get started, but we cannot put a limit on the KOOPS that come to our door?

The treason of KOOPs:

Lady Lydia says: "Lest there be any misunderstanding, this is about uninvited kids of other people. It is about kids who impose, force and insist on their way in your home. It has nothing to do with being an actual guest in someone's home. It is about kids who think they will pal around with your kids and they don't like authority. I could tell a story at a later date about my attempt to get one out of our daily life, but it would take too much time. I was an inexperienced mother and didn't know what to do so I allowed this child in our lives every day and then when I discovered he was influencing my children wrongly, it was very difficult to get rid of him. He created a lot of fuss about it and so did his parents, as well as my own children. If you are a parent of young children or are homeschooling, all I can say is you do not have to wait and have your own experience in the matter. You can learn from the experiences of others. You don't have to let kids of other people interfere with your family life."

My God, she makes kids sound worse than Attila the Hun! Kids are the next plague in Lady Lydia's Candyland. And this is from the woman, who claims she loves kids, loves hospitality and wants to be nothing other than a homemaker. 

Exercise in Publicity - Part II

I loved featuring my daughter also in the Lady Lydia Speaks column and Lady Lydia's newsletter. I also encouraged my daughter to write articles and there was no question of rejected slips as I co-authored the site. Did I also tell you my daughter Lollybeth of The Unpleasant Times also wrote for a newspaper once? I use this as proof that women can stay at home and do whatever they can want - they can even be reporters. She wrote a column on etiquette. Since that column is no longer appearing, she re-hashes old articles for re-use on The Unpleasant Times.

Testimony for Fascinating Womanhood

In this article, Lady Lydia gives a nice testimony to efficacy of Fascinating Womanhood in getting husbands to toe the line (if ur less smart u gotta submit to him).

In her blog, if you will notice she keeps on talking about the Bible classes she holds. She always talks about ladies, conveniently failing to mention that there are only two of them attending. In other articles in her blog, she constantly complains about the non-attendance of women at her Bible classes (maybe they have a problem with the teacher). In this article, we get to know the true numbers - only two people to listen to her sermons. Sad!

In her blog posts, she has repeatedly complained about Ladies classes, how un-ladylike they were, why Christian women shouldn't play bunko, why they shouldn't make scrap books, why they should be more Titus 2 women and how they keep on coming up with excuses that they are divorced/widowed or single and hence can't be Titus 2 women.

And if a family joins their teensy-weensy church once in two years, it becomes a big post at Lollybeth's The Unpleasant Times newsletter.

Why to homeschool or why not to

Lady Lydia wrote an article for Fascinating Womanhood called Home School.

The article reads:

My concern about public school began when my first child entered the fourth grade. His change in personality was alarming. He was under pressure to complete assignments, often frustrated and angry, not interested in God as he once was. I used to ask him, "Have you learned about the composer Beethoven, or the poet Longfellow? Do you read Shakespeare and do you diagram sentences? What about character training?" I was disappointed that my brilliant son was uneducated.

Does this mean, if your kid has ADD, you can happily pretend that he doesn't? It's fun what you can do when there are none of those pesky "experts" around to tell you things you'd rather not hear! So we learn slow kids need to be protected from the knowledge that they are not up to school standards by keeping them at home.

My daughter Lillibeth was only six and protested each day of school, begging to be home schooled. "You could teach me, mother," she said. She complained that school was noisy, there were not doors on the lavatories, no toilet paper and the kids weren't allowed to socialize. She cried daily and told her teacher she missed her baby brother. My heart was particularly pricked when I drove both my son and daughter to school one day and their baby brother said, "Where are sissy and Billy going?" It suddenly seemed so alien to drop them off at an institution and raise their younger brother by himself, with no one to socialize with in the day.

So the poor kid missed out on education because of bad toilets. Wow! Do they mean if you don't homeschool, you can't be with your family?

The schools had an agenda for our children that was subtly being fulfilled: Alienate them from their families and eventually reject parental authority. According to Sam Blumenfeld, author of "Is Public Education Necessary?" at the turn of the century every American could read and write and Americans were the most literate people in the world. "All of this," he says, "was achieved without public education. Taught mostly at home, no huge institution was needed to educate the child. It doesn't take a brilliant scholar to teach 26 letters and 44 sounds, yet our educators claim our children must be taught by professionals." The author, Sam Blumenfeld, advocates abandoning public education, getting into home schools and letting corporations provide higher education.

The school has an agenda? Do schools, churches or parents teach the kid more about doctrine and less about science? Obviously parents and churches love indoctrinating kids. So who has the agenda? 

In schools, there are labs, gyms, football fields, etc. But at home? Obviously Lady Lydia's schooling was so bad, she's got the mistaken impression that she can out rival Havard and Eton at educating kids.

What parents don't know is that public education's goal is to "dumb down" the public and create a welfare society or a socialistic nation. They no longer teach our children about our great republic; they teach instead how "evil" George Washington and Christopher Columbus were.

So anyone who is teaching the kid, anything other than what the Bible says is "harming the kid," by false indoctrination?

Putting all the political things aside, one must see that this is not the "only" reason to home school. For, what if the schools became "good" again. Should we send our children? Certainly not. It is not normal for children to learn in "herds," eat in "herds" and play in "herds." The family is tailor-made for the child. It contains multi-age groups to communicate with. Once in school, a child identifies with his own age group, creating a special "culture" and even language. At home the child learns about "real life;" the real world - going with mom to the bank, the post office, grocery store, visiting friends, cleaning house, etc. He cannot relate to the "real world" locked up in a classroom all day. Girls and boys develop crushes on each other in schools, causing an upheaval in their emotions.

This is crazy. Kids being with kids of their own age (peers) is bad for them. But living with only their parents and siblings gives them a well-rounded perspective? And real-life is slaving away for your parents doing all the housework? I think schools are easier on kids! And no falling in love kids. Only courtships and parent-approved betrothals allowed. Lady Lydia's exemplary daughter Lollybeth herself refused to talk to her guy until her parents allowed it...of course getting married at 19 and having 4 kids before ur 24 is very healthy.

There was a family here that was having the usual trouble with their children - uncooperative, sullen, rebellious, haughty spirit, worldly (wanting to follow current trends in dress, music, activities and even blow-ups.) She, the mom, took them out of school and tried to home school them. Friends, neighbors and relatives tried to intimidate this methods by suggestions that schools provided better science and math courses. They always reported excitedly the latest school projects in these subjects.

Next, we have to show the world wide web why we are better than the Jones by gossiping about them.

The more people we hire to raise our kids, the less respect they will have for our authority. Think of it: Daily they have a bus driver, principle, teachers, coach and on and on. Do you remember how Ann Sullivan got Helen Keller's respect? She isolated her in a cabin so that she had to obey and learn or she could not eat or drink. That child ended up loving "Teacher" because "Teacher" disciplined her.

Ah! Now we know! Its about wanting total, complete authority without any intereference from those "secular authorities." Possibilities of child molestation, emotional incest, poor education, etc, can't happen when there is total control.

So, bring your kids home from school and get them away from influences outside the home. We become bonded to those we spend the most time with. If you love life, you won't be confined at home that much in home schooling. You'll be looking at the world, attending classical concerts, jazz festivals, art shows, music lessons, antiquing, decorating and gardening.

Shucks!

Be careful with curriculum. It is only a tool. Magazines and books advocate going to all sorts of trouble and expense. Keep it simple. Reading and writing and character training are important. "School" in Greek is "schule" meaning "spare time." Greeks would go to listen to philosophers and scientists and mathematicians in their spare time. So don't feel guilty if you don't do "school" all day - your kids are still learning. Just because kids sit in a class room all day doesn't mean their learning or remembering.

Ah! Don't waste all that time with book learin'! It will rot the eyes! Do housework and become nice little house slaves instead.

 One other thing you should know about public schools. The educators use a lot of experimental psychology on our children. They believe religious children are mentally "off" and try to re-program them in classes called "talented and gifted," "Quest" and other names. My son-in-law accidentally set a field on fire, in The Dalles, Oregon when he was young and they ask him lewd and embarrassing questions about him and his parents. About the same time in Texas my daughter burned the trash out on the ranch and a little piece of paper flew out and caught the field on fire. We managed to put it out but she was merely frightened. She was home schooled. That shows you the difference between two philosophies - public school and families.

Proof: Our daughter is better than our son-in-law. Which proves the case that homeschooling is better than public schooling.