Cherry Pickers Anonymous

[Lanolin]

Ok For any non botanical people out there

a cultivar of cherry, will just be a cherry to anyone not famaliar with different varieties. whether queeen anne or bing, Its still a cherry

But cherries belong to a wider family species PRUNUS which inclueds plums, apricots, nectarines and almonds

And that is under the wider umbrella of Rosacae family, which also includes roses. You can tell the different families by their flowers, rather than their fruits. Cherry trees can also be ornamental, and culitvated for their flowers and weeping form rather than their fruit.

 

[Lanolin]

apparently prunus x yedoensis

is the cherry tree cultivated in Washinton DC gifted to the US by the Japanese as a gesture of friendship.

 

[Edify]

But Pickers Anonymous.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

 

[GaryA]

Ok, if that's the official definition of cherry picking, then it can be reconciled with lanolin's definition as picking out the best cherries from those available (that support one's view, or are 'ripe') and leaving out all the others on the tree and declaring there aren't any more cherries on it (because they contradict one's view, or are not 'ripe') which would be a lie...

I still think it would be a much simpler by saying that it is claiming a bing cherry is a queen anne. Any way you put it, it is still trying to get by claiming that when it's really this. If this is that then they'd have the exact same characteristics, but if it only looks similar to that but it's really this, well then...

Nothing "official" about it - just an alternate viewpoint that illustrates the idea of relevant verses of scripture being ignored or overlooked as if they did not exist.

However - please see post #165 - the most "official" thing I could suggest.

 

[GaryA]

Both viewpoints are valid illustrations of the misuse of scripture to arrive at an erroneous conclusion - one by ignoring existing verses and the other by changing the meaning of existing verses.

 

[GaryA]

You either pick the ripe cherries to eat and then wait for those unripe to ripen

If anyones picking unriped cherries they probably just thinning the fruit, which is what some orchardists acrually do to get a bigger crop. By thinning, the tree will produce less fruit but it will. be bigger and juicier.

Look please dont malign the cherry pickers here. They are just doing their job of picking. They are not saying that any fruit left on the tree is not fruit ...you got to leave some for the birds.

With regard to the intent of the thread title --- you are off in left field somewhere playing basketball with a football...

 

[GaryA]