Today we’re diving into the IBLP, Institute in Basic Life Principles, which you may be aware of thanks to the Amazon Prime documentary ‘Shiny Happy People’ or because the Duggars, of 18 Kids and Counting, were a part of this organisation. Today we’re looking at their “educational” home-schooling curriculums and other resources from the last 40 years.
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0:00:00 Intro
0:03:00 What Is The IBLP?
00:08:47 What Is The ATI?
00:19:10 Wisdom Books: An Overview
00:31:56 Biblical Character Curriculum
00:44:39 Education vs Indoctrination
01:02:04 Money, Money, Mooooooney
01:08:52 Medicine
01:40:59 Creation vs Evolution
01:57:20 Lust, Love and Marriage
02:40:13 Ab*se, SA & Everything Awful
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42 responses to “How The IBLP 'Cult' Indoctrinated The Duggars”
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The biology segment made me so nostalgic of when i first learned about theses topics in school! Biology is so fascinating and so complex, you explained it so well!
“OnE BiOlOgIcAl mAn aNd oNe bIoLgIcAl wOmAn”
Sooooo two trans people, one afab and one amab, can get married? Sweet!
tldr; my school taught us how to GET pregnant, not stay not pregnant
i went to an all girls catholic high school and thankfully had pretty supportive parents so i would fight with religion teachers saying outrageous shit and get called into the office a few times a year. instead of sex ed we has a woman come in to teach “natural family planning” in which she VERY misleadingly said that just tracking your period is 97% effective, i was sitting there thinking no it fucking isn’t and i realized she meant effective to GET pregnant. wow! that surely won’t lead to teen pregnancy
The mRNA section gives me flashbacks to trying to science-check antivaxxers during the pandemic. My friend who works in medical research explained to me how the mRNA worked in the vaccine I got and that education helped me a lot.
As a teacher, I'll say that depriving children of (at the very least access to) educational knowledge is a form of neglect. Parents aren't teachers. And this material doesn't come CLOSE to substituting any kind of actual education.
Also I find it borderline dodgy to present kids with knowledge that isn't even relevant for them yet, ONLY by pre-emptively telling them it's evil. Especially when these topics concern sex, because it takes away any sense of autonomy over their own body, while installing shame and fear to keep them from asking questions or disobey people with bad intentions. It's dangerous, unchecked control, presented as protection and wholesome naivity. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, because children like these are set up to unwittingly mark themselves as easy targets for use and abuse.
I‘m somewhere between a reactionary and committed fool lol
loved this so much rachel!!!! are you thinking of commenting on the colleen ballinger incident??
I was never in the IBLP and I heard that Kill was better translated not to murder
Feels like that lacked a fact check
I truly appreciate all you did to create this!
Gotta admire the work put into this. I wouldn't be able to read a single text of theirs without my eyes rolling so far back they end up locked inward, staring at the black void surrounding what is left of my brain after that.
Im sitting here watching this and my 5 month old son seems to be very taken with you 😂 he’s been laughing and smiling away for like an hour now. May have to have your videos on a loop from now on ❤
Rachel I love you!!!! I was bored needing something to watch and you PROVIDEEEE
28:59 "Divorce today requires civil action, and Scripture clearly condemns going to law before unvelievers."
Wait, so they're saying that it's perfectly okay to be married "before unbelievers" (civil marriage) but it suddenly becomes un-biblical to go through the law when it comes to civil divorce?? The hypocrisy! They need to pick a side and stick to it.
Remember Bill Gothard was never married, never had kids either. So he doesn’t know anything about raising kids, or having a family and someone else to care about. He’s a horrible little man
Months? How about Years?!!! Especially the work you have given to the fundamentalist world. The Pearls themselves were very big in the IBLP scene, let alone all of the other books that you have gone over. More power to you for doing something that many people simply don't have the skills to do.
Saw the title. Saw the length. Shuddered with excitement.
"all live couldn't have evolved from tiny cells" … don't we all grow from one big and one small cell…..
I'm on holiday so I can't watch the whole thing, but leaving a quick like and comment for the algorithm and your hard work! Love❤
Aside from the complete lack of any educational understanding being applied to the wisdom books, I suspect the lack of age leveling is so that the Michelle Duggars out there can "teach" 12 kids at once from the same material. No way for her to differentiate with that many kids. (The alternative being things like PACE or Abeka which were intended to require very little from the parent, so that they could homeschool ten kids with three babies and toddlers on their hands.)
I was adjacent to you this cult with my cult. My family used a lot of similar teachings as this one and much of my curriculum specifically science curriculum was nearly exactly the same. It really frustrates me because I love science and I am not really able to go into this fields now because I didn't have that basic fact knowledge that everyone got in school. So we are slowly learning and teaching ourself now
If a horse and donkey breed and make a mule.
If a lion and tiger breed you get a liger or tigon.
What about a rottweiler breeding with a poodle?
Are these examples of a one kind making another kind?
Totally fascinating and terribly sad how close but wrong they are in all those sections about chronic pain or illness. They blame it on guilt that proves that the individual is sinful and must have done something wrong, when yeah, chronic stress due to imposed shame and guilt, lack of boundaries, etc could totally contribute to a compromised immune system, chronic pain, or autoimmune disorers…
I absolutely love your background here!
Keep up the great work, I always look forward to your videos! <3
The lack of education these kids get is terrifying (especially the thought of these kids growing up on this to then teach their own kids) For most of my schooling primary to high school I had very fragile health because of a very weakened immune system I normally missed around a full terms worth of school each year, especially after getting whooping cough when I should have been starting intermediate (Middle school) I was unable to attend any of that first term. I was lucky however that my parents worked very hard to make sure I had tutors for the subjects I was missing out on and even managed to find a 'hospital school' for children with health issues. I asked my Mum once why they hadn't just home-schooled me? She said that she didn't feel she would have been able to give what I needed as a teacher so she went and found as much outside help from people who were more qualified to help.
Also as someone with autism who tends to take a lot of things at face value/seriously I feel like if id had to deal with "School books" like these I probably would have spent most of my time either terrified or confused.
You can just look at dog breeding to see how much species can change over time.
You’re covering this, too? Yay! I need lots of different perspectives!
If only the Duggars would read this chapter from the Bible:
“Do not desire a multitude of useless children, nor rejoice in ungodly sons. If they multiply, do not rejoice in them, unless the fear of the Lord is in them. Do not trust in their survival, and do not rely on their multitude; for one is better than a thousand, and to die childless is better than to have ungodly children. For through one man of understanding a city will be filled with people, but through a tribe of lawless men it will be made desolate. Many such things my eye has seen, and my ear has heard things more striking than these.”
Wisdom of Sirach 16:1-5
Sadly these worthless IBLP don’t read the entire Bible.
I did not know what this was, before this video, super wild that this exist 😅
1:17:04
Yeah,yeah,I’m sure my body trying to kill me during my periods is all due to my perfectionism.
The last 30 minutes of this video were beyond my worst imaginations
If the adults stop learning when they are ten why would the education system they created be aimed at anyone over ten?
I appreciate this discussion a lot. I have quite a bit religious & purity culture trauma I’m working through and hearing others discuss these organizations and people that affected my young life really help me. 22:55
Also, I really like this background 💜
20:29 I Think You Should Look Into Montessori Education! Despite Never Wanting Kids I Would Be Down To Be A Teacher In A Montessori School Bc I Feel Like I'd Be Doing A Service For The Next Generation. Especially Since I've Seen So Many Sad Stories About How Parents Will End Up "Expiring" At Home W/ Their Young Children & Since Their Kids Don't Know How To Care For Themselves At All & Everything Is Just Done For Them, Within A Week, The Child/Children End Up Perishing As Well😢 & Montessori Definitely Leaves No Room For That IMO & Really Equips Kids With Basic Life Skills & Confidence & A Love For Learning Etc. Etc. Tara Willoughby Made A Solid Breakdown Of The Curriculum & Their Five Areas Of Learning & I Think You Might Find It Super Interesting! I Think Gentle Parenting At Home & Montessori Both In Home & Early Education Would Make The Perfect Building Blocks For A Child That Feels Loved, Encouraged, Supported & Confident In Their Own Autonomy/Independence. Idk It's All Super Cool IMO.😂
Thank you for making such an informative video and actually going into this stuff that is contained in the books. I haven’t really seen anything covering that and while I realize it was probably frustrating I am grateful for you to take the time to do that and now I never have to even consider looking at it myself. 😅
Most of this is extremely fucked but I don’t necessarily disagree with healthily and respectfully engaging in people-watching with a kid as a way to teach social cues/norms that are difficult to teach in a family environment (ie how strangers interact, how people interact with service staff- good and bad examples, probably, people are Like That, how people interact when forced into proximity by something like public transport)… as someone to whom learning that stuff did Not come naturally, and whose family had a slightly weird set of norms about a lot of stuff I would’ve liked to have it laid out explicitly like that.
1:07:23 im crying in american
Transphobic queen xoxo
Ooo nice new background!
Why does it read like tabletop RPG directions
When I had an ectopic with tubal rupture for my 1st pregnancy, my doctor was yelling at me that I had to have had an abortion previously. She gave me a C-section sized scar across my abdomen, because she was sure she would find evidence. She didn't.