by ruari 72 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
YES things are much much worse than when I was growing up...It was paradise when I was growing up compared to today.
Do you know that when you were a child people were saying the same thing you are saying? I'll find the quotes if you like.
I suppose you believe the Society when they say it was so peacful prior to 1914 but then when WWI happened that all changed?
-ithinkisee
upside/down.....we even had a few Fig Trees in the backyard...My Mother made homemade Fig preserves and we opened up a jar or two in the winter and spread it on toast. How I miss those days.
I knew no fig trees was a sign of the last days!
Most of my family still makes jams, jellies, canned fruits from fresh fruit picked in their own back yards.
-ithinkisee
ithinkisee, well, let me make it clear....I am an exJW.....I am just saying that compared to when I was young and what I see today around me and even the town where I grew up in down south, it is worst today than yesterday. ....and yes I leave my keys in the car in my driveway and even when I go into the local gorcery store. BUT I live in a residental area (boondocks) and not a big town. The area I aluded to that is unsafe is closer to the Big Apple.
Perspective, folks. When the movies cost 25 cents a show, the average US monthly take-home salary was $249. The average is now $3,147. I can go to our local dollar theatre any night of the week for $3.50 a show.
Back then, cost for a movie was about 0.10% of the average monthly salary. Yes, it's gone up, to about 0.11%. But then again we expect a bit more from our movies these days.
AND, Golf, in my community, we know each other and help each other. I am also connected with my local church, another welcoming community. The helpfulness and neighbourliness was even more pronounced when I lived in small-town Alberta.
I am just saying that compared to when I was young and what I see today around me and even the town where I grew up in down south, it is worst today than yesterday
I would agree some areas are worse than 20-30 or more years ago. But does that mean the WHOLE WORLD is worse? I don't believe so.
All I am saying is that looking beyond your own small footprint of history. The facts are much different than your argument that things are worse based on your perception of your area where you grew up.
-ithinkisee
So go buy a fig tree
I would buy a Fig Tree if they would grow in NY
Location: Figs require full sun all day to ripen palatable fruits. Trees become enormous, and will shade out anything growing beneath. Repeated pruning to control size causes loss of crop. The succulent trunk and branches are unusually sensitive to heat and sun damage, and should be whitewashed if particularly exposed. Roots are greedy, traveling far beyond the tree canopy. Figs are not a fruit tree for small places. The fine roots that invade garden beds, however, may be cut without loss to the tree. In areas with short (less than 120 days between frosts), cool summers, espalier trees against a south-facing, light-colored wall to take advantage of the reflected heat. In coastal climates, grow in the warmest location, against a sunny wall or in a heat trap. For container grown plants, replace most of the soil in the tub every three years and keep the sides of the tub shaded to prevent overheating in sunlight.
well well well, looks like you can have one!
mrsjones, my problem is I don't have enough sun to grow a Fig tree and the deer would eat the figs anyway before I got to them.
