Yes, we used to have a lovely city. Clothing stores with high quality goods, wonderful department stores where you could get just about anything, except furniture. Great furniture stores elsewhere. Numerous movie theaters, toy stores, restaurants, Woolworths, with a long lunch counter where we ate on our shopping trips. We, as children, would "dress up" to go "downtown". No one wore shorts or any kind of casual clothes. Well, there actually weren't the tee shirts and sweatpants at that time. Or maybe athletes wore them in the gym. We would get our Easter "outfits" every year: New spring coat, dress, hat, patent leather shoes. The hats were obligatory, and very nice. Maybe covered in roses or like that. Then, when I left for college, a trip to a nice store where I got a whole new wardrobe of several sets of skirts and sweaters and some dresses. It carried me through four years, pretty much. There were no grocery stores. They were in the suburbs. Liquor stores were there. Wonderful mens' shops. My father was a model for the best one, since he was lean and pretty tall. and handsome. What would it be like to have that all back? A dream. No more crappy stuff from Target or Walmart. Just nice things. I hope when I die, if I can get to heaven, there will be a way to go back in time and see our past lives and where we lived. It was a far better time, Far, far, better. Especially morally. There was proper behavior and improper behavior and everyone knew what it was. Now, people don't even know what a sin is. Truly. Can you imagine not having any sense of what is wrong????? I believe we are in the end times. It is obvious to me.
Anyone who wants to can have it back. You can shop from places that charge more money for better quality goods. It is also possible for anyone to dress up instead of looking like a slob. People don't do these things because they don't want to.
I find it hard to imagine that the fact that most people here wear casual clothing most of the time and that they shop at Walmart constitutes the "end times". A quick perusal of the Book of Revelation will remind you that the "end times" are going to look a lot more apocalyptic than people having bad manners these days.
I would also wonder why you have developed the theological concept of time-viewing as a part of your heavenly reward? You ought to read C.S. Lewis. He would suggest that you won't be looking back in time at the corrupted earth and your personal interests but will be far too interested in the presence of God to care at all about those things. Elevating your childhood past into your theological conception of Paradise is probably idolatry, at best, and sacrilege at worst.
Yes, we used to have a lovely city. Clothing stores with high quality goods, wonderful department stores where you could get just about anything, except furniture. Great furniture stores elsewhere. Numerous movie theaters, toy stores, restaurants, Woolworths, with a long lunch counter where we ate on our shopping trips. We, as children, would "dress up" to go "downtown". No one wore shorts or any kind of casual clothes. Well, there actually weren't the tee shirts and sweatpants at that time. Or maybe athletes wore them in the gym. We would get our Easter "outfits" every year: New spring coat, dress, hat, patent leather shoes. The hats were obligatory, and very nice. Maybe covered in roses or like that. Then, when I left for college, a trip to a nice store where I got a whole new wardrobe of several sets of skirts and sweaters and some dresses. It carried me through four years, pretty much. There were no grocery stores. They were in the suburbs. Liquor stores were there. Wonderful mens' shops. My father was a model for the best one, since he was lean and pretty tall. and handsome. What would it be like to have that all back? A dream. No more crappy stuff from Target or Walmart. Just nice things. I hope when I die, if I can get to heaven, there will be a way to go back in time and see our past lives and where we lived. It was a far better time, Far, far, better. Especially morally. There was proper behavior and improper behavior and everyone knew what it was. Now, people don't even know what a sin is. Truly. Can you imagine not having any sense of what is wrong????? I believe we are in the end times. It is obvious to me.
Anyone who wants to can have it back. You can shop from places that charge more money for better quality goods. It is also possible for anyone to dress up instead of looking like a slob. People don't do these things because they don't want to.
I find it hard to imagine that the fact that most people here wear casual clothing most of the time and that they shop at Walmart constitutes the "end times". A quick perusal of the Book of Revelation will remind you that the "end times" are going to look a lot more apocalyptic than people having bad manners these days.
I would also wonder why you have developed the theological concept of time-viewing as a part of your heavenly reward? You ought to read C.S. Lewis. He would suggest that you won't be looking back in time at the corrupted earth and your personal interests but will be far too interested in the presence of God to care at all about those things. Elevating your childhood past into your theological conception of Paradise is probably idolatry, at best, and sacrilege at worst.