It’s communism I tell ya!! This is a free country, I should be allowed to use whatever sentence structure (or lack thereof) that I want!!
A Survey for @Michael_Mark! :-)
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Thats so annoying cause you can post just a few emojis but I couldn’t even go AMEN!!! Cuz the body of the sentence was unclear 
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Religious suppression!
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But Ben is a calvinist, so is it predestined persecution??
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I would like your post if I could, but I’m out of likes today.
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Again?!?!
Yeah, I went through the other thread and tried to catch up on likes, but obviously ran out way before the end
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Hey wait, I mentioned that… apparently these country folk can’t read y’all!
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I didn’t do that because I didn’t want to run out again😂
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I suspect Baalam’s donkey (the dumb …, actually brilliant!) in play there, if you know what I mean! But I don’t know. 
[New original: Balaam’s Donkey - Mandolin - Forum - Banjo Ben Clark]
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Totally country. I grew up in a fishing/logging village in Alaska, so my view of the big city has been tainted from the beginning. I live in a little town called Dallas, Georgia. Atlanta is a hop skip and a jump away from me, and I have gone into the city maybe twice in the last 20 years… I absolutely detest big city driving. Drove through New York City once on my way to grad school in Vermont. Colossal mistake.
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Smart man!
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Born in the city (Grand Rapids, MI) & lived through busing, school integration and then we left because of the rioting when I was 9 (1968).
Been in a country township (we have a restaurant, bar, store & post office ~1mile away, but no incorporated town/village) I’m still here in the old house I grew up in. I built a smaller place next door for the folks to retire in (sister lives there now) and I stayed here.
For work, I spent a couple years in Louiseville, KY: 13 speed bumps from road to our apartment where we could sit out & listen to police & ambulance sirens 24 hrs a day. wasn’t for me…
Didn’t much mind living in Vine Grove, KY. It was a fairly peaceful town. Loved sitting on my back porch & listening to the music from the open windows of the Baptist church who’s bandstand backed up to my little back yard.
Been quite a few other places over the years but I prefer it here to all I’ve seen…it’s home.
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That sounds super nice
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I just went back and read all of your replies and you never mentioned things like growing food and how there’s nothing a savvy country man can’t fix or make. Did I mention I’m also a butcher and a blacksmith and a brick maker? And I make goodly reading words!
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That’s because those are individual choices; there’s plenty of people who live in cities who take interest in those things and can do just that.
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Well to make a broad statement, most likely they didn’t love it enough, if they live in the city…
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So if a country boy takes interest in programming or neurology and goes to a city to learn it, is it because he doesn’t love the country enough?
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Hit the nail on the head!
First we don’t know what computers are,
Second, NO ONE wants to hear their neurosurgeon in a southern accent say “Now what we gonna do is, saw the top of your heaad off, root around there with a stick and see if we can’t find that dad bern clot!”
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