@Atheistman -- I have grown the stuff you eat at Taco Bell, and I've slaughtered the beef. I have hunted for food in interior Alaska, and lived off the land with no electricity, or gas, or running water. I've served my country when crap was actually flying. I am also a person whose political notions lean to the left and a supporter of democratic socialism. I think you ought to be a bit more attentive and watch out for making push broom generalizations.

Zig Ziglar was a great motivational speaker. I used to follow his work, and it's sad that he died.

I'm not sure where you were going with the rest of your post, but it sounded like it was intended to be insulting, specifically calling out atheists on a site aimed mostly at agnostics and atheists, Atheistman. This led me to wonder if you were playing undercover Christian, and took a look at your profile to see if there was anything that would support my suspicion (which, of course, is unprovable at this point and possibly never provable - and there is a distinct possibility that my vague suspicion is unfounded).

Your position seems highly similar to the alt-right, despite the plethora of insulting-sounding statements about Christians.

You're almost as new as I am, and I just got here today. I kind of wonder why you came to a board with a lot of skeptics and logical thinkers, but I don't really have to know. Maybe I'll find out for sure eventually. Maybe not.

I understand your meaning on herd mentality. I've found that a lot of atheists are also liberal. I think it is a result of a lot of academics being both. They lead the liberal herd, so to speak, as many people become liberal in college. More people have gone to college in the last two generations, thus leading to an increase in both. Generationally, this may lead to a paradigm shift on multiple fronts. I hope it leans more toward atheism than liberalism. If I must choose, I prefer facts govern my life, not other peoples feelings.

First your post makes no sense. You start by teaching about learning from different perspectives, then you interrupt yourself to insult atheists and liberals, and lastly you finish on what I guess is extolling the necessity of agriculture. This schizophrenic rambling, if not schizophrenia itself is usually a good indicator of meth use, either situation is a good reason to completely ignore the rambling but I want to comment on the second topic (third?)

Considering the existence of the evangelical right, which calls itself a flock, adding what is called the alt-right in which doesn't accept dissent, continuing with the block voting of Republican congressmen, still more with the irrational unwavering support of Trump I consider any individual right wing person calling the left a herd is beyond stupid its just silly.

Good advice is still good advice.

Gross! Yeah, going green and switching to more sustainable food sources is a better idea, but I get it.

Someone has to maintain the infrastructure, pave the roads, wire the houses and install the plumbing, although using solar and recycling water seems wiser.

I dated a man for two years who could do it all, and I greatly admired him..he could build, remodel, or fix anything, and was a computer whiz as well.

Sadly, he was very chivalrous, doing everything for me, and taking over if I asked for advice, so when he left I felt great relief at buying my OWN tools and doing my own repairs, etc.

I felt totally helpless with technology for a few months until I learned how to program everything on my own again.

This is so non sequitur that I think 7 or 8 shell fish should do the trick.