“Did I mention that I am liberal agnostic/buddhist living in a conservative area (Murrieta) so that makes finding local friends even more of a challenge.”
I am quite conservative. As long as you treat others as human beings and respect differences in world view I don’t see why a conservative and a liberal can not enjoy each others company, friendship, and enrichening conversation. As long as you seek to find others to agree with you before you are willing to socialize with them, you put up a wall that prevents a bond from forming. Respect for other people’s opinions goes a long way–you can’t be as picky with people as you can with say, toilet paper made of recycleables or organic canned tomatoes. Sometimes when you finally respect a person from the inside out and you actually listen to their views, 180 apart from yours, your eyes open a bit more about the world around you.
