good afternoon friends Welcome to our
Homestead there is one thing that holds
a lot of people back and it also holds
some homesteaders back and we really
need to talk about that today let's go
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so I'm doing a lot of our bed prep here
in the greenhouse and I really should
have had it done already because
planting season is upon us here in Texas
but before I do that and continue to put
together our last raised bed here this
is the skinny one for the tomatoes in
the center I want to talk about fear so
of course there's a healthy fear and
that keeps people out of danger and
hurting themselves right I have a
healthy fear of electricity when I'm
working on the solar system and being
cautious of things is a good thing and
being critical of them some things is
also a good thing as an architect in
school we do what's called a critique
but when we are extremely fearful of
everything out there then that holds us
back from doing a lot of things
especially out here on our Homestead now
why did I want to talk about this
subject today well it has to do with the
video that I released a couple of weeks
ago about the chicken feed at Tractor
Supply now of course there's a lot of
different personalities out there and
some people are more fearful than others
so with regards to the other video there
was so much fear in the comments I
didn't hear a lot of solution or working
through things so I have a lot of
friends who are Marines and I always use
their same adage right their same saying
improvise adapt and overcome and I would
actually add one for me as observe
improvise adapt and overcome and that
will help you alleviate fear especially
when you're working on something out on
your homestead so when it comes to the
chickens or any livestock that you have
you want to observe is there something
wrong okay yes they're not laying eggs
that's wrong what is the cause of it
okay I'm feeding Tractor Supply feed to
them
changing instantly maybe it's the feed
could be I haven't had it proved to me
yet maybe it's not maybe it's something
else go through the 11 12 13 different
things that could stop a chicken from
laying first before you blame feed and
I'm not talking down to anybody I want
you to observe your space I want you to
observe the things that are going on
around you
improvise adapt to it and overcome it so
I'll tell you some statistics from the
comments on that video and this does
have to do with fear right so I had over
1500 comments on that video that is
unprecedented for me on my size of
channel in just a few short weeks the
majority of those comments mentioned
that they either did feed Tractor Supply
food to their chickens and it had no
effect they were still laying eggs
there was a minority of people who fed
Tractor Supply feed to their chickens
and they stopped laying eggs
so yes that raises the question let's
look at it analytically right some
people are having no eggs Tractor Supply
feed and the others are a majority could
there be something wrong with the feed
yes but
who's to blame who knows there's a lot
of different factors going into making
that feed I had a really great commenter
she said well potentially somebody had
some old food Purina laying around and
it got moldy and old and nasty and they
bagged it up anyway and sold it private
label producers prior to do more to
Tractor Supply wood Tractor Supply know
about that maybe maybe not now when I
talk about things like this I always use
words that are not definitive I use
words like maybe potentially probably or
probably not potentially not or maybe
not right because I don't have all the
information and neither do most people
out there I heard there's one gentleman
by the name of Mike Adams who's doing
testing on the feed what has he found so
far I haven't really seen much and
whenever I ask commenters who insisted
that there was a bad chemical in the
feed to produce the testing for it or
the news articles or whatever it was
they couldn't I I really feel sorry for
people who were so fearful that they had
been on my channel for five six years
who had commented about my cute kids out
here working in the garden and they
instantly disagreed with me unsubscribed
and called me names
that is the kind of mentality that will
get you in a world of hurt it won't move
you forward and that's what we're
talking about having a strong mind to be
able to move forward now are there
conspiracies out there in this world yes
people conspire together all the time I
absolutely believe that it is most often
people in power who conspire together to
hurt the little guy I said that in the
last video but people don't listen to
the entire video before they make
judgments out of fear in their own heart
they click onto one thing that I've said
and automatically form an opinion
without listening to the rest of the
video then form your opinion about
whether you think I'm a Nut or not and
for those very few people who
unsubscribe from the channel I wish you
the best I really do it was only 67 of
you and I appreciate a couple people
engaging me in the comments but
even in a written conversation
somebody will misconstrue every word
that comes out of your mouth and there
is nothing you can do about that there's
nothing you can do about talking with
that person you will just never meet eye
to eye and anything you say will be
completely flipped on its head when
that's not the intent of the words that
came out of my mouth in that video I was
trying to help people I want to help
people in every video that I make I want
to help you think through problems give
you Solutions and maybe something I'm
doing here will help you out and it
comes down to that personality thing if
someone wants to completely
misunderstand what I've said even though
I try to explain it to him
in replying to a comment maybe 15 times
that's how long some of the
conversations were there's really
nothing I can do we will never ever see
eye to eye and that's okay but that's
becoming more of a thing in our country
that's actually bringing us down all
right I've been called a liberal I've
been called a crazy conservative I am
neither nobody knows my political
leanings and you can rest assured that
I'm not a communist in any sense of the
term even though I've been accused of
that I've even had discussions with
Communists in the comment section who've
tried to cover themselves up and not let
it out that they are but they are nobody
believes in Freedom or Liberty anymore
in this country is a very small minority
and we were told by our Founders that if
we formed parties and started to be
partisan and we stopped believing in
freedom and liberty then we would lose
this country and in my opinion I think
we have but again I'm not fearful of
that why because I know what Bible
prophecy says
and that's what I want to bring it back
around to is
fear in the Bible is actually a sin
believe it or not
and we are to have a reverential fear of
God that is
looking at his awesomeness and
understanding how
big and gracious and loving he is
that is an amazing thing to look at and
it's fearful to look at something like
that but we are not to fear our fellow
man we can go to the story of Stephen
when he was stoned and we can look and
he was still he was begging the Lord to
not blame them for what they were doing
he was not fearful to go in to talk to
the Pharisees and the Sadducees and
preach Jesus and Jesus was not fearful
when the soldiers in Judas and the
Pharisees came to take him away he knew
where he was going
Peter was fearful he lashed out he
chopped off the Soldier's ear
Jesus told him to put the sword away and
quietly went with them he was not
fearful and I know from the Bible that
the United States is in Prophecy read
Revelation 13 11 but cross-reference
that with Daniel Daniel Revelation go
hand in hand with one another so friends
that's why I do not do many videos at
all if any on current events or current
things now I did on the Tractor Supply
thing because I don't shop there anymore
I was also accused of shopping there
still
or being a representative of the company
I don't shop there because of the
evidence that was presented to me very
well by Doug on Doug and Stacy's
Homestead there was actual evidence in
admission of fault and guilt in that
case so I have not shopped there at all
since that entire incident and here's my
final point I don't want you to get
distracted too many people are
distracted out of fear the government's
doing this the government's doing that
yes they will governments are inherently
evil and there are probably only like
two good guys in the United States
Congress right now that's it I don't
trust the rest of them as far as I can
throw them in Earthly governments will
never be the solution the Jews wanted a
king so God gave it to him and what
happened to the nation of Israel it
totally imploded instead of them
trusting God and letting him be their
King so I know this isn't you but if you
hear of somebody or you know of somebody
who is very fearful about the government
doing this the government doing that
they're probably doing it maybe maybe
not but you cannot dwell on that on that
fear so there are bad things happening
they will continue to get worse the
closer the time is to when Jesus comes
because the Bible tells us it'll be
worse than in the days of Noah when he
flooded the entire Earth and only eight
people were saved so keep that healthy
fear I talked about at the beginning but
not that very unhealthy fear that holds
so many back have a beautiful blessed
day I'm going to get back to my garden
beds and we will see you on the next
video bye
good morning