Random Thought on Traditions

[steve]

Right! with the rising cost of hay hopefully the animals can still eat it.

The percentage of the bale that is contaminated isn’t very large, and that is assuming that it was fodder in the first place.

 

[NBTX11]

Coming from a country plagued with poverty, I had difficulty wrapping my brain around why some people put food on their porches and stairs, to just sit there and rot. This Fall/Halloween tradition of purchasing pumpkins to place outside for "looks" was disturbing and still to this day wasteful. Last Fall, I asked a business if I could have the pumpkins in front of their store when they were ready to discard them? They said YES!
and my chickens had a blast thereafter.

We don't put out pumpkins. I just don't see the point in celebrating Halloween, even just for fun. Fall festival I might get, but we don't grow crops, so again, what's the point.

 

[FollowingHim]

Yesss. Also the hay bale decor..

People do that here with wrapped baleage. That doesn't spoil the feed. But not as an autumn celebration, we don't have that tradition, just sometimes you'll see a farmer has had a bit of fun. There are currently a lineup of Smurfs made out of bales with different coloured balewrap somewhere on the main highway here, they're very well done.

 

[Bina]

People do that here with wrapped baleage. That doesn't spoil the feed. But not as an autumn celebration, we don't have that tradition, just sometimes you'll see a farmer has had a bit of fun. There are currently a lineup of Smurfs made out of bales with different coloured balewrap somewhere on the main highway here, they're very well done.

that doesn't spoil the feed is awesome

 

[paterfamilias]

One of the arguments against Biblical Marriage I've heard is

"It goes against the traditions of the church!"

As if that was any kind of argument to make. *rolls eyes*

Claiming that viewpoint is:

• Holding a few hundred years of tradition higher than thousands of years of tradition in God instructing mankind.
• Usurping God's authority by holding man's traditions higher than His Word.

What are some other valid points to shut that argument down?

Older topic but I am a glutton for tradition.
My family arrived in 1630 having decided to forgo their status in the nobility...would have been here earlier but we like to sleep late and the pilgrims were apparently insufferable bores who would not have approved of our whimsical nature.
So, the point is that we have been here a while but I still burn a Guy every bonfire night even with such a disconnect in time.
Pretty fond of traditions basically.

The trouble I have with the argument being presented ie it has been the churches tradition for several hundred years to only allow monogamy so it should continue on forward forever in that vein, simply doesn't hold water.

The prescription against polygamy is artificial and not how Christianity started or how the jews before had also previously lived. Not to mention one of my own oft raised talking points that the genetic record simply tells us that polygamy has been the norm through human history.
Like it or not, the modern boo hoo teeth gnashing about incels and every man having the opportunity to marry and pass on his genes is simply a load of blather. Just more more modernist liberal nonsense and a control mechanism that I reject out of hand.

As a man who appreciates tradition, I see their idea as simply childish goalpost shifting.