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1 | farmer's almanac? | Bible general Archive 3 | justolneetor | 171809 | ||
what do you think about the farmer's almanac? | ||||||
2 | farmer's almanac? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171810 | ||
Dear Just: The Farmer's Almanac has been publishing useful information for folks since 1792, and I personally have nothing against it. However, not meaning to be curt or to jest, Just, I'm nevertheless having a bushel of trouble trying to figure out what your question about the Farmer's Almanac has to do with this Study Bible Forum. Perhaps you see a linkage between the two, but frankly I don't. ..... Here are a couple of interesting verses of Scripture about farmers: 2 Timothy 2:6 and James 5:7 --Hank | ||||||
3 | farmer's almanac? | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 171826 | ||
Dear Hank, In the deeper parts of the South -- Not Arkansas -- I mean the really deep parts of the South! :-) -- they follow something called the "Signs." These Signs are chronological in nature, dictating the specific times when certain activities are best to be performed or avoided. Pick up a free calendar at every Feed and Seed store, and you'll see what I mean. The Farmer's Almanac writes, "It's widely believed by many long-time Almanac followers that when the Moon occupies a particular place in the Zodiac each day at 7:00 a.m. EST, it can play an important role in achieving the best possible results for certain activities." Although until I had found this particular quote, I had not known that these "best days," as they are called, had Astrological origins. In the mountains of North Carolina I have known many people will not do so much as go to a doctor unless the Signs were "favorable." Perhaps this is what was in the mind of Justoleeter whey they asked their question. In Him, Doc |
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4 | farmer's almanac? | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 171844 | ||
Doc, your post about "the signs being right" (or wrong) brings back memories that have lain dormant in my little gray cells for decades. Yes, now I remember hearing the grown-ups talking about "the signs" when I was a kid growing up in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee. I recall hearing an old truck farmer -- he seemed old to me then: nearly everybody seems hold when you are 8 or 9 years old -- I recall hearing an old truck farmer talking to my dad about planting peas or corn or whatever and saying, "I can't plant until next week. The signs ain't right this week." I didn't know what the old farmer was talking about, and as soon as he got out of ear-shot, I asked my dad what the signs were. But even after my dad tried to explain the signs to me, I still wasn't sure I understood the idea very much. These simple old farmers of yesteryear who looked to the signs for help in planting their fieldswere, nearly all of them, professing Christians, some very strict and devout ones. I suspect that scarcely a one of them was even vaguely aware of the origin of the signs. I doubt that it ever occurred to any of these old planters of days gone by, them whom we now incline to think of as simple folk, that trusting in the signs for guidance, agricultural or otherwise, was in any manner in conflict with the faith they confessed so fervently in congregation every Lord's Day morning. --Hank | ||||||
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