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GotSteel -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:25:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery So....the Amish don't use electricity...but they do use cell phones and Facebook. Just how does that work??? I was hiking with an Amish girl for a bit this summer, she had a cell phone and digital camera. Apparently not all Amish follow the same rules, according to her a lot of the Amish aren't as strict about things as they used to be. She was saying that it's not that uncommon to find Amish with power in their barns, they have the excuse that it's for work and then they can just put their computer in the barn.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:26:59 PM)
That's one of the amusing things about the Amish: they have a schism and a few new sects forming every time something that looks useful and/or fun is invented...

GotSteel -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:28:34 PM)
"Vim and Vigor is made in a small FDA approved Amish kitchen using modern quality control procedures. " The FDA approves Amish kitchens?

Musicmystery -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:28:52 PM)
To be fair, that's true of Christian congregations and just about any large group...their circle is always the one true way.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:30:32 PM)
Very true. Mind you, most other flavours of Christianity don't go around in a horse and buggy pretending it's still 1780, not even the ones who hold masses in Latin...

Musicmystery -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/15/2012 1:40:15 PM)
Granted, but I can understand the attraction of simplicity and self-reliance. Not like they're handling rattlesnakes, or wearing sacred temple undergarments, or attaching electrodes to measure for illness, or performing exorcisms, strangling chickens, or any of the other strange religious practices in the U.S. by supposedly mainstream religion. And they certainly aren't holding demonstrations outside soldiers' funerals claiming they died in retaliation for homosexuality. In short, I have respect for the Amish, and certainly for my Mennenite neighbors. I am glad the Mennenites use tractors...pulled my car out of the ditch one winter....

GotSteel -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 5:30:04 AM)
The most horrifying thing I heard from my Amish friend was "Science? What's that?".

Musicmystery -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 6:14:40 AM)
I hear that from college undergrads every day, along with what's math and what's a paragraph.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 6:21:48 AM)
Very true. The Amish at least have a better excuse for that one. (Mind you, simplicity and self reliance doesn't seem to get in the way of them getting their teeth fixed or innoculating their kids, which is something at least.)

Kaliko -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 7:39:51 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl Would not relying upon batteries also link them in closer to the public grid? Seems that would also require a bit of dependency. Perhaps I am looking at this wrong. They also seem to rely heavily on gas. Again, part of the grid? Unless they are producing their own gas ( and no, thats not a pun). I do like the use of solar though. The grid is the network that carries electricity from the power stations to homes. If one is getting power/energy from another source (batteries or gas), one is off-grid. I do see what you're getting at, though. To rely on batteries and gas does make one reliant on the market, and the market is reliant on the grid.

tazzygirl -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 9:53:21 AM)
I dont knock their way of life. They seem happy with it and it hurts no one else, well didnt until they started looking at the cow issue.

LaTigresse -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:16:34 AM)
One thing that bothers me about the Amish in my area is that they are big into puppy mills. I have big hate for puppy mills.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:16:57 AM)
And refusing to put warning signs on their buggies.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:18:19 AM)
Oh. Factory farming dogs? Ghastly way to raise the creatures. A lot of them don't last very long, either.

LaTigresse -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:19:42 AM)
I don't love the way many of them treat horses either. But that's just a battle that cannot be fought.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:23:53 AM)
Any idiot who's still using horses as beasts of burden in 2012 doesn't have their best interests at heart, sadly. Puppy milling, though, is just going to be another moneyspinner they don't want to advertise as it makes them look moneygrubbing rather than self reliant and detached from the modern world.

tazzygirl -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:31:10 AM)
How is it self reliant if you are relying on the money from other people to support your way of life?

LaTigresse -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:32:24 AM)
I love horses, have two of them. I have no problem with people utilizing them in a humane manner.When I ride my horses, they are being used as beasts of burden. Yet, at least one of them, enjoys it. He get's excited and starts calling to me when he sees signs something is going to happen. But he is well fed, healthy, and very well cared for. He isn't abused or over worked. I've been known to walk him for miles (as in me walking next to him rather than riding) when he became unexpectedly lame or sore on a long trail ride, just to avoid causing him pain or harm. As for self reliance. Go to any farmer's market around here. Craft show. Gift shop. Drive down the roads and see the signs. Amish made this, Amish made that. Hell, the hay auction I go to has them hauling in all sorts of things to sell. Goats, firewood (with chainsaw marks...) feed bins they've built, you name it. They are not just selling this stuff to one another.

Moonhead -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:38:50 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl How is it self reliant if you are relying on the money from other people to support your way of life? It isn't. They're unlikely to give up on that excuse now, though, however absurd it's becoming.

jlf1961 -> RE: Amish Sexting? (1/16/2012 11:40:51 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Any idiot who's still using horses as beasts of burden in 2012 doesn't have their best interests at heart, sadly. Puppy milling, though, is just going to be another moneyspinner they don't want to advertise as it makes them look moneygrubbing rather than self reliant and detached from the modern world. If a horse is bred for being a beast of burden, such as a draft horse, it is actually unhealthy for them to not do work. You cannot take an animal that is bred for certain types of work and just put em to pasture.

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