I also agree with your sentiments on the utopian agrarian community. It is man glorifying and not God glorifying. It kind of scares me to see the talk go on. This agrarian way won’t save the world. Christ will.

You’ll just have to get out here in the midwest when farmers are shooting the bull, believe me, we know alot about everyone! Sometimes it’s even more interesting when I can find out what I’m supposedly doing. I’ve supposedly been in jail, got in fights, killed someones dog, you name it. Glad I found out or else I’da never knew.

I’ve heard this sort of thing said many times and that in small towns everybody knows everything about everyone. I have lived virtually all of my life in very small downs (not found that to be true at all.

Of course, given that I have so little experience with city life (2 months) it could be that I just don’t know how little city folk know about each other.

I do agree with you on the topic of those strange folk who come out of the city, like the Nearings, and want to tell everyone how to do it right. They are amusing. Part of what is funny is when they preach tolerance yet are totally closed minded about anyone else doing anything differently than their way. Let’s call it the Tao of Hypocrisy.