S14 E12: Why I Don't Live Like the Sky is Falling
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2024
- There's a lot of fear floating around the homestead community lately.
In today's episode I'll share my history with paranoia, how it ultimately will hurt your homestead, and why I no longer subscribe to fear-based homesteading.
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The longer you live the more you'll notice just how cyclical everything is. (I'm 68). It's refreshing to see a younger person with a level head on her shoulders.Thank you for your content.
Im old and i have always farmed or homesteaded because we had to to survive. My journey is because of a prescripton i was given. After taking this prescription for a number of years they took me off and said it causes cancer put me on another one, same thing again causes cancer. Now tFDA had already approved these drugs. Dr. put me on another, . I had terrible side effects put me on 6 more, terrible side effects. So i quit told the doc i was done, obviously FDA not doing their job. Did my research and went in the opposite direction. Much better. Big pharma in business to make money not to heal us. I almost died because of prescription drugs. Sooo im still growing my own and canning there again my relatives over in Europe tell me alot of the foods we buy in the store are not allowed over there because of the ingredients they put the product here
Thank you for being brave enough to speak out about this! In the past 4 years, I’ve watched many of my favorite homesteading channels dive hard core into the incessant conspiracy banter. Sadly, I had to unsubscribe from most of them because I found myself in a state of constant fight-or-flight. It took the joy out of the lifestyle me and my husband were trying to build. I think about the verses in Matthew 6:26-34, knowing that our Creator does not want us to live in a state of constant worry about tomorrow. What use are we to the kingdom if we live in constant fear?
Sadly, I did too.
I was finding the same thing, and have been removing my subscription from several channels over the past few months, and I'm not done. It's exhausting to listen to all that stuff! I moved to the country to have a quieter, more relaxing life 😊. I can't control what craziness is going on in the world, but I can control what I allow myself to see and hear!
Bravo Jill!! I was raised much like you in the 1960s and early 70s. It’s very difficult to find a different path…to speak about recent events, I systematically went through my CZcams follower list and deleted everybody who had negative outlooks and rants. I am a stroke survivor and I need all the positivity I can find, no more doom and gloom ❤️ Keep up the good work, we need you!!!
Lots of good information and sound advice. None of us know what the future holds and living in a state of fear is not healthy for the mind or spirit. However, I'm finding so many people are quick to judge and label anyone who questions anything as a conspiracy theorist. That is just as unhealthy and can be just as dangerous and is used to suppress open thought and critical thinking.
Hi Jill, I was married in 1981. We couldn't afford to purchase a home. Mortgage rates then were 18%. I also worked in the banking industry. We lived in very much farm country, in a small community, in middle Tennessee. It was heartbreaking to see farmers losing everything due to not being able to pay when interest rates on these types of loans went to 21%...YES 21%! I see everyone freaking out over the rates these days, and I remember in the late 80's when we were so thrilled to see them go out of the double digits! I was a mortgage loan officer from 1998-2015. I saw rates when I first started in the 8's and 9's...praying they would go down, since I was commissioned based. They did. And you are exactly correct. Rates do fluctuate. After all, the most wise Solomon did say in Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Your same point exactly!
I remember those days.
There are a number of homesteader groups that I have left because, honestly, it's exhausting dealing with those that are constantly going on about this or that conspiracy. I wasn't raised as you were, but I've met a number of people as an adult that were and, wow...the extents to which they would go to prove that they were right even when proven wrong was mind boggling. They cyclical nature of illnesses in humans civilizations and the reactions to those illnesses is well documented. Reading about the Justinian Plague and what it caused was really surprising. We just had a couple of life times where there wasn't as much of it as before and didn't think it could happen to us. Hubris got us. Great video/podcast. Thank you for sharing it.
I would say most Conspiracy theories are real, BUT, God made us to be in the garden to grow our own food and tend to it. It’s not bad to believe the theories and to be prepared for the future, but if your whole reason to homestead is because of the theories, you will be in a state of flight or fight and you will be burnt out so fast. Homestead because that is how God made us originally, enjoy the slow life and appreciate all the highs and lows this life brings, and when these theories come to pass, we won’t have to be doing this out of survival, but that we are doing this to thrive.
I will add that biblically there are signs that are fast approaching, but again, we can’t live with our sympathetic nervous system in over drive.
Enjoy this life!
Love this perspective, thank you. If we are followers of Jesus, we know where we're going, nothing to fear. :)
Perfectly said ❤
Amen!
Actually conspiracy theories are nearly always wrong. Simply true.
Well said, The Lord bless you! And yes, Jesus said to pay attention, like the 5 virgins who had enough oil. Oil in the Bible is the Holy Spirit💜
I think anyone who listens to you regularly knows that one of your goals is to encourage us all to question. Questioning makes us better and the people around us better when it’s done with respect and a genuine desire to learn and improve.
I agree 100%. I've stopped watching most homestead channels because I don't want to fill my 24/7 waking hours with these thoughts, although I agree with most of the minsets. I think we need to keep our thoughts uplifted and focus on the good in life. I live in the city, but my backyard is a huge home garden, and I love gardening and preserving food. Thanks for speaking up. I think we CAN change the bad things many are afraid of by making positive changes in our own lives. It's amazing how our positive energy influences those around us. ❤
Thanks Jill. These are wonderful truths and I love the new definitions of how our crazy can get ahold of us if we're not careful to recognize what they are. You are so right about not looking up and waiting for it all to fall down. If anything, when we look up from homestead chores into the beautiful sky, we are looking for our day HE calls us home! Either way, we can choose how to view the gift of life and love right where we are and right now......Blessings to you and yours!
A blessing of chore time! So good. Thank you for sharing!
Somebody commented on our video this morning and said you just posted a video on the same topic.. Sure enough. Good stuff Jill! This is the message we homesteaders need to be spreading.
Yes watched yours this morning too! Loved it!
Thank you for this. I even had to leave social media last September. It was just too much anxiety. I’ve been homesteading for almost 8 years now. This lifestyle naturally gives you a cushion when life gets tough. I am so thankful we were already living this way when COVID hit. Even with homeschooling, I never had to worry about the children and all the stuff that went down in schools. I was born in Cuba and lived there the first half of my life. My family went through a lot there. We also went without a lot of basic things. It was very hard. Because of that experience I have a very high level of distrust of any government. Just don’t trust them and I know we are our first line of defense for everything. Having said that I refuse to live in fear. My focus is to learn these skills that makes us more self reliant in any emergency and have fun doing it as well as teaching my children. I love when they tell me they love to be farmers. Distrust for the government keeps me focused because I know exactly what they are capable of but homesteading keeps me happy 😂 But I refuse to listen to every single theory out there. That’s not way to live.
Jill, you are such a breath of fresh air!! I just recently started watching your videos and vlogs, and am really enjoying them. I moved to the country from the suburbs 6 years ago because it was something I had wanted to do for years. I had started watching homesteading/prepping/gardening videos to learn how to do things, but with covid, elections, and other stuff, I've stopped watching several channels. Many i used to watch have become too political, too forceful about religion, and downright ugly if you don't agree with what they say. I have found your channel right on time! Thank you for being a voice of reason and logic.
Thank you, thank you for speaking out on this. I stopped following a lot of homesteaders that I could have really enjoyed because they were making me so afraid. I have always kept a pantry and have lots of life skills. But I don’t want to live in constant fear.
I used to live in the fear. Then I realized that I was making very unwise decisions based on that fear. I realized that I was going to have to calm down and be a lot more rational if I was going to actually survive the stuff I was preparing for. And yes, my health broke. I had to do something about that.
You truely are an amazing communicator. Thank you for speaking out on this topic. I also like to commend you for remaining very level and open and still inviting people who are fairly "conspiracy theory" minded onto your podcast when they have good content to share in other areas. You don't just cancel someone based on parts of their belief, love your content Jill, keep ploughing the road for deep thinkers and real life lovers.
Y2K. lol. I was working in the Tech industry at the time. Yep, I was a geek even though I was home farming. There was way too much misinformation that was pushed out all to make a buck. We bought this homestead in the early 80s. Interest rates today are decent compared to back then. We got spoiled with really low rates prior to the latest rate hikes. They will go down. You are correct about our current problem with food prices being corporate greed. Corporations want to make more profits. Corporations don’t care about quality of what they are producing. My garden is ready to plant as soon as the weather allows. Even at my age, I want to expand my garden and orchard so I can produce nearly all of our produce.
Thank you so much for sharing. To be totally honest, I started to be more self sufficient well before 2020 but in seeing how crazy things got, I taught myself even more to sustain us moving forward. My husband always says I must have been a farmer in a previous life. Again, you are appreciated and I look forward to learning more from you. Be blessed.
Oh my goodness…good conversation. I so agree with the social media algorithm’s. All have a purpose to get more people to buy into more likes and shares. Thank you for the topic and thoughts to think on and open up to more reasons and ideas
Good podcast. I can definitely agree with some of your points. I have come to realize that so much of what a person worries about never comes to fruition - so why worry about it and make oneself sick, i figure. If you start with this thinking, it sets your brain in a different place and makes everything one does as a response to just being prepared rather than fear. So many are talking about the end of the world, wars and such and although it may happen, living this lifestyle and putting up for a "rainy day" (bad crop year, all your chickens get eaten by coyotes, beef cow dies, etc) is a more rational reason for doing what we do.
Wow, I needed to hear this so badly! I grew up in a Christain fundamentalist cult that was very conspiratorial and watched a lot of those horrifying end-times videos you were taking about. This primed me to feel fear over everything as an adult and have spent some really hard times being completely burned out but feeling like I had to keep pushing to keep packing away food and supplies. I put my physical and mental health at risk and honestly gave myself a lot of trauma. I started dreaded gardening season because I went back to the panic and pressure I felt to produce as much as possible which is the opposite of what gardening should be! It's so hard to break out of this fear based way of being though especially when it feels like no one around us has any positive outlooks on the world. So thank you for being that hard-to-find person!
I hope you don"t believe all Christian fundamentalist are cults. There are many of us who hold the Bible to be the authority - not our own understanding. Also I feel sorry you experienced whatever turned you aside from your beliefs because it is the best life trusting Jesus Christ - no matter what we face.
Thank you for your insight! Can I please request more videos like you used to do in your home cooking or preserving food? I really miss those videos. I’m not one to listen to someone else just talk (podcasts), but that’s just me. Again, just a suggestion for those of us that miss your older content. Thanks for listening 😊
Hey Jill!!
I am so grateful to you for this episode!!! It takes a lot of guts to do what you do in a world where misunderstanding will happen. I am SO encouraged and validated ( lol )😂😉. I have felt this contrast in motivation within the homestead movement, as well as in permaculture and foraging circles. I have also vacillated between feeling motivated by love, joy, and passion and the extreme forces of fear. This idea of recognition of uncertainty and cycles while living a life motivated by love, joy and passion leading to a more balanced and prepared situation as a result feels so much better to me. I too, lived through similar fearful times where the end of the world seemed imminent and terrifying only to realize how much time was wasted in fear when joy, love and passion could have been our reality. You said it so beautifully, and I am reading through your book now for the second time. It brings tears to my eyes in parts each time I read it because you put into words what I have felt and experienced, but struggled to express. Thank you so much!💕
thank you. I am also interesting in homesteading, but was sometimes getting scared about how many people who are driven to it present a conspiracy vein. I feared I wouldn't be able to find friends. I am a rational, science-oriented person and I often converge with you on many issues. I believe that to some extent, the tendency to believe in the theories in question correlates with a paranoid personality. but I love how you included everyone and spoke to everyone. I often lack patience to do that. it really is a great thing to do. this might be the unexpected 'gift' of being raised in an environment that was otherwise so challenging, and made you believe the sky was falling as a child. a testimony that our past doesn't always have to define who we will grow up to be.
Thank you so much for this! I've been getting the most negative video recommendations in my CZcams feed lately, and I think it's because I watched ONE video of a divorce lawyer talking about his profession (I have friends who divorced a year ago, and I wanted to try and make sense of it). Now all I see is "women who hit the wall" and "men are toxic" and "dating is ruined". It's super demoralizing, even though I'm in a happy marriage for 20 years. These algorithms are hell-bent on making us miserable.
Try watching a few videos over on No Carb Life...host talks to heaps of folks who have ditched the Industrial Medical Complex through diet alone and achieved astounding health. Homestead How is another great hoster. Also watch some videos by Dr Chaffee, Dr Baker, Dr Berry. Nothing beats watching people beaming with wonderment while recounting their self directed healing journeys. These videos are guaranteed to swing in a new set of algorithms away from that divorce lawyer (i saw that video too, watched a bit then clicked off).
Hi Jill. I want to share this with a lot of people who need to hear what you’re said. I’m trying to do a little “reset” myself, by not getting very involved in the news. I don’t watch television much, and choose to read about what’s happening in the world, and not even much of that. I’ve been called a prepper by my friends, but as you pointed out, having a full pantry and a love to learn new hands-on skills keeps me involved and interested in my world. If it turns out I’m more prepared than some when the power is out or that my food is more healthy than most, then I’m just happy about that and I will keep spreading the word. Many years ago you were my “sponsor” with DoTerra. And I lived in WY for many years. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Jill! This is probably the best video that I have seen you post. I remember the Y2k times and I have been involved with a religion that was always preparing for the end of the world. I learned so much from this video! I did not understand about confirmation bias and how all that affects the algorithms. And your reminder that governments and economies are cyclical when we look back at history. Thank you again!😊
Great video. I don't live like the sky is falling, but a few buckets of 'rice and beans' give me peace of mind to do so. My day to day is spent urban homesteading; growing, canning, pickling, fermenting, etc. and learning new skills. At 68, it's a very peaceful and satisfying life. I am also putting together a printed resource for my grandchildren because history tells us that they will likely live through some tougher times.
I’ve been following for several years for me this is the best episode on deeper thoughts I’ve ever heard. Great Job
You spoke truth so diplomatically and empathetically. Well put! And thank you
Beautifully said my dear!
I couldn’t agree more. I’m noticing people talking about the upcoming eclipse. I don’t understand it. That feels like the y2k that you were talking about. I remember the craziness. We were not buying it then. lol…thank you for your level headedness
Finally another channel that works on teaching by example & uses encouragement for others who want to grow a community, not based on fear. We're given directions on what is expected of us. We just have to follow the teachings & have trust in that guidance.😊
What a fresh and much needed perspective!
thx 4 sharing, just because we want to have reliable good food does not mean we are prepping for the end, it's a lifestyle not a 'game' of who can hoard the most. Just because I want to live free doesn't mean I want my neighbor to suffer, it's a community of where you live not a 'group' scattered far apart. After having my daughter back in the early 1990's, I decided to go organic, which was not a trendy term back then. My husband was a herdsman, so the dairy dept was our first goal along with our own veggies & beef. Thankful we can live this lifestyle and glad to see so many more joining the movement of going back to the old ways! blessings n wishing everyone a happy planting spring!
Love this so much. I went through a period of high anxiety around everything that is happening in our world. I purposely redirected that anxiety and fear into positive action to be more prepared for what might or might not come to be. My husband and I are in our 60s so some of the physical things younger people can do, we can't anymore. This has not stopped us from growing as many veggies as possible and this year bringing in some chickens to cut down on buying eggs from the store. I have chosen to look at the goings-on with a view that we are living in some pretty interesting times. Thanks for being you Jill. Love listening to your podcast while I'm driving to and from work.
I just ran across your videos for the first time this weekend and I have to say this video as well as the one where you talk about your religion are top-notch.
As somebody a bit older than you who was addicted to the conspiracy theories over the years and member of survivalist forums, gun forums, etc, I went through a lot of the same experiences as you .
I'm not religious and I had a hard time fitting in with groups who seem to be religious, but yet also couldn't seem to get the glee out of their conversations about shooting up the rest of the world when the time finally comes .
I ended up moving away from those kinds of forums and groups and I'm happy to have ran across your videos.
We are hoping to get a couple of acres just to kind of putter around with and maybe do some providing for ourselves here in the near future but it's not necessarily going to be a homestead or a survivalist type situation. It's just going to be something that we want to do for ourselves so that we can do it.
Anyway, I'm glad to have run across your videos because I'm going to be hopefully using them here in the near future.
Chicken plant burns down due to "fowl" play. Good one😊
Thank you for voicing nearly the same, identical thoughts I've been having as of late👍especially how short our existence is in the grand scheme of things.
Thank you so much for balance. I come from a similar background and ultimately the end may be near and it may be not. Ultimately, who cares? Let’s learn to love the life we lead while we are in it.
Found your book in my library. It is so excellent. Highly recommended to all!!!
Thank you for the positive and sensible outlook.
Yes yes yes!!! Have ceased listening to some because the discouraging daily dump of fear! Being prepared has been my families life from childhood!
thank you Jill. I've been having this conversation, making the same points as you, for the past four years with someone who at that time was a rather 'new' friend. It's been THE MOST challenging friendship I've ever experienced and I learned a lot about myself. For that, I'm grateful. To keep the peace, we simply agree to disagree and established boundaries on topics of conversation. Thank you for all your generous teachings.
I would like to agree with you with a lot of what you said , But the one thing that stops me is the level of corruption that's being exposed seems mountainous compared to Y2K.And the other cyclical events from the past. We are on the precipice of something big, no one can deny that. What you and your family are doing is a wonderful thing and God loves you. Even through your hurt and pain from your past, he loves you. I would like to think your faith in him has gotten you to where you are and it seems like your struggling with something. I pray that God directs your paths and blessed your family! ❤
Appreciate this. Like a breath of fresh air.
I feel like it is a general trend to create within this genre just like in designer goods, clothing fashion etc, it's a way to create the scarcity mindset so we all BUY MORE MORE MORE and the rich get richer off it - this is something I have come to see now that I am middle aged and have SEEN more like you say, over the decades how it is a cycle over and over again only the details of the narrative change to create the fear to create the consumerism
Newish subscriber and all I want to say is thank you.
I am so glad we had taken steps toward homesteading before the prepping movement started. I’m not disparaging those channels, but having watched many of them it’s a bit like having the news on24/7-not healthy. I homestead for the love of it. Within this life I believe I’m also prepped. I couldn’t enjoy it or succeed at it if I felt forced into it out of fear. Having said this, Bill Gates and his idealism does scare me.
Like minded here. For all the reasons you mentioned, including being raised in a fear-based evangelical Christian home and hearing all the things you mentioned. Christian talk radio was to blame for a lot of what my parents listened to that led to fearfulness. I will not live in that terror again. Whatever will be will be, but I find it wisdom to have my food store perpetually full and filling as God provides, as in “keeping my lamp full”.
Such an important topic, and so well presented. Thank you!
Thanks for once again being the voice of reason. As King Solomon wrote, “There is nothing new under the sun”
Another great point about being prepared and this lifestyle creating that cushion against the ebb and flows of every day life, that we all deal with!
2009 example, I just bought my house. I was a single mom and the crash came and I was laid off from my job. The job I was doing was apparently something I no longer qualified for because there were so many people needing jobs that the job I was doing required a bachelors degree and I am a high school dropout.
However, my upbringing allowed me and my children as a single parent, with no help, ride out a few months with enough food and money to pay the bills… no way was it easy nor was it anything equivalent to our life while I was working it was still comforting to know that the basics of life were going to be taken care of until I could figure out another way to survive.
In addition, continuing my upbringing practices of gardening, and putting up food and living a simple life; when Covid hit, and our local tiny little grocery store was being “raided’ by surrounding larger towns and the shelves were empty, we were able to ride that out… we have to get creative sometimes, yes!
I am so grateful for this being the way I was raised!!
finding joy with seed saving and gardening and preserving food and hunting and foraging
This episode is why I look forward to your podcasts each week! Very well said Jill!
Jill, you are my heart. ❤
Yes! Thank you so much! ❤
Thank you for this common sense, so many people need to hear this. I nearly choked on my coffee when you mentioned the chicken factory burning was 'fowl' play!🤣🤣
Jill thank you so much for your video. I have experienced alot of you tubers who speak doom and gloom and I do think it can consume people. It was refreshing to have someone speak more positively about all we have to be thankful for. Faith will get us through no matter what happens. Thanks again
Totally agree- There is nothing to be gained perpetuating fear and responding in fear for sure…
But there is a place for it… and finding the balance
And making the constant choice to live in faith no matter what!
Your comment about government reminded me of this quote:
Abraham Lincoln:
'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.'
Seems some government entities could use some schooling around their character ❤
Social moral desensitizing adds to the growing concern of my well being and the wellbeing of my family and other loved ones…
As much as I feel government has over extended powers, sure would be nice to have the older ‘old-fashioned’ guidelines for media produced and allowed in place 🙏
Live your content and greatly appreciate the opportunity to hear opposing views that are tactful and neutral… not adding to inflammatory rhetoric
Thank you 😊
I subscribed because of this episode. Spot on and refreshing. ❤
I’ve just recently found your channel. Thank you for your message. I wish we could’ve started sooner in life living a healthier lifestyle. We were caught up in the “rat race”. Slowing down to see all that is good in what God has already provided for use has been good for us. We’ve always gardened. It gives me such a peace being able to feed my family healthy foods. Yes, what has happened will happen again. Nothing new under the sun.
Well said Jill! I am so thankful for you and for this video! We always have to be prepared but calm down in one’s thoughts! This video was the best and said from the HEART! This was encouraging a lot!☘️☘️☘️❤️
FYI, Oregon is banning small market farms/homesteads. Not a conspiracy. I have no interest in welcoming the 80% of the mindless public Only you choose who you associate with.
Because of water rights and the overuse of water for irrigation.
@@cedarcottagefarm2885 Can you dig a Well for irrigation?
Because they are not cooperating with the inspection process. Meat must be inspected to be sold.
@@amyk6028 The government is actually placing meters on private homeowners wells monitoring to insure they don't use the water amount needed to a market garden.
@@halfassacres8812 I do not want my meat to be inspected. Those doing the inspecting are responsible for all the tainted food that gets recalled every year. Never once has any meat that came from the Amish caused illness when consumed.
Amen common sense! THANK YOU JILL
Refreshing commentary 😊
I'm still in and have learned a lot from you videos and newsletter. Thank you for taking the time and putting forth the effort to put homesteading information out.
I loved this episode. Thank you for talking about this!
Thank you! This was a refreshing podcast. Critical thinking is a lost art.
Keep preaching it!!! I love your channel and all you do. Thank you!!
Just came across your channel. Glad I watched. I agree with you. Fear sells. I unsubscribed from channels and pages that use clickbait fear to get people to watch their channels. They make a lot of money from the views they get.
I’m where you are at. I had gone down that path because of religion and the end of the world trope. I now still homestead but I do it because I enjoy it. And the food tastes better. But we are now not afraid to take international trips and not be in fear all the time.
What a beautiful chat!
Thanks in advance for all you do for us.
Wow your story sounds a little similar to mine. I was born into Jehovah’s Witness family and was exposed to violent images as a young child. The end of the world was always happening. Concentration camps were to be expected for my future. I remember this as far back as age 3-4. So that made me ber fearful and never felt safe. My dad was disfellowshipped and as a teen I was so happy about that. But when January 2020 came around I had those old fears pop in my head and many things I was taught as a kid started flooding my brain. Lately I’ve been trying to not live in fear and get caught up in theories. It’s a lot of work to not get sucked in. I feel like it’s a distraction from our real purpose and that’s to worship God. ❤
I'm a new subscriber! I absolutely love your channel, tyfs GOD BLESS YOU AND FAMILY.
I think we could be good friends. Thanks for your work
Thank you for being refreshing!! Everything is cynical!!
I’m hooked on the independence I've created with my homestead. I can do it, grow it, and make it myself way better than I can source. Why work a job to pay someone else to do the most enjoyable and rewarding purpose-driven work at home? I'm so glad we see it this way. Much love ❤️
That's the right reason to homestead!! Because we love it and draw such joy from it. I'm concerned about the many folks who are running in fear to homestead who have no interest or satisfaction in it and will soon bail out and head back to town and the easier life. We have to love this life and work and not be doing it out of fear.
Well said, all things in moderation, oh and don’t forget to turn off the “news” and TV
When fear and hatred is the only thing being shoved in your face 90% of the time, how in the world do you turn off that constant fight or flight response???
Stop looking at the crazy people, and turn your gaze toward the majority of sane people.
Faith
Do not listen to the news ! Most of us are just ordinary people going about our lives feeding us and our families, paying our taxes waving to the neighbors.
This couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Great episode.
So many great points in this episode. I really needed to hear this today!
Great episode, especially the talk at the end. ❤
Hi Jill, what a great video, I couldn't agree with you more and it's a sad situation, but it appears to be rooted in your history. Coming from across the Pond that mindset had been a fringe until Cov where everything anti-establishment now has a back-to-the-land theme (UK: smallholding) that has become a thing, mostly thanks to repeating US channel content. We even have British channels talk about the Great Depression like it actually affected the UK as much as it did the US, it didn't as we were already broke due to WWI. If you just look at history, nothing happening is new and I've seen so much rubbish in 53 years that I unsubbed all those sorts of channels as it's just a constant stream of negative energy...no wonder mental health problems are increasing and I'm having to watch that happen in realtime. At least we don't have a 2A! Yes, one thing that is worrying is the flawed logic that when one or more things are proven not to be a conspiracy that it then it validates all the other conspiracies to sooner or later be true. One thing I do, is if anything is outside my circle of influence, I don't worry about it. Thanks again for the levelheaded, rational post.
Oh my gosh! I have never watched your channel before, however, I am an instant fan!!❤️❤️❤️
I grew up in North Central Idaho and totally agree with your charictaration of that area in the 90's. I often challenge the beliefs and statements of my relatives with limited success. I disagree with them, but still like them!
This was SOOO refreshing 🙌🏽
Thank you for this video. I have been living every part of what you said about the end of the world fears, the algorithms leading you to living in worry, and having to realize that even though there's truth in conspiracy theories, we have to use the discernment God gives us when we trust in Him and recognize when the news, media, and internet are playing on our emotions for their gain.
I love watching Hollar Homestead and Roots and Refuge. They are focused on gardening and husbandry. Also the Hollars have cooking they share as well.
It’s like watching homesteading joy instead of homesteading fear.
Good one Jill! Thanks dear.
Thank you, Jill!
Thank you 🙏🏼
Opened my eyes.
Very well said!! I think there is a chance a real conspiracy theorist will pause and think about this from the way u speak about this. I know even though I don't buy into the gloom and doom theories there r time that I think, am I wrong? Do I need to b more open minded to that?? But something inside of me just knows better to focus on the good. Good job on this!!
Thank you Jill!
Thank you for your podcast. There are a lot of truths in it. Made me consider some things differently. I really enjoy listening to you and have learned a lot of things. I enjoy living the old way. I grew up on homemade food and gardening.
I do think the world is kind of falling apart. However, I find this homesteading type lifestyle just a generally good idea regardless of what stage society is in.
Thank you Jill!!
lols the "left behind" movies. i totally watches those as a child in the 90s.
Great subject matter (as usual). I agree with your take on this. Thanks for saying it. Can’t wait to see you in NY in April.
Great episode!
Good luck talking to all negative people out there. Just keep your focus on where you're at in life now and where you want to be in 30 or so years.
Thank you Jill! So true!
Excellent talk!
I have alway wanted to when I was a child. Then when I was an adult did. Raise meat , eggs and had a garden and milk cow. This was my lifestyle long before any of this stuff . Survival is in my soul .