Amish

Around here with our many lakes, I have seen them towing a boat down the road to go fishing behind their buggy. Thats some serious backing skills.
 
Howboutthemdawgs said:
As I sat behind several big 100 plus hp tractors pulling enclosed work trailers down the highway at 30 mph, I have wondered about their convictions many times. So they can’t drive a truck to work but they can drive a cabbed a/c heat radio tractor with essentially truck tires, pulling a $15000 8x12 covered trailer full of modern tools. I’m totally supportive of them embracing their convictions but this one annoys me. Don’t hold up traffic pretending to stand for something. They will drive that tractor 30 miles or more from what I’ve seen. Get a truck and do the speed limit!
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They're hilarious on a job site. They show up in their straw hats in a pickup truck with a driver but as soon as the straw hats come off and the hard hats go on, out comes the chew, cigarettes, and cell phones. Then they run equipment all day, yapping away on their cell phones. Then at quitting time they put all that away, put the straw hats back on, climb in the truck and get driven home. LOL
 
356 said:
I'm putting my academic hat on for this thread: To lump "Amish" into one group is not much different than saying "All Baptists are alike" or "All Kansas Citian's believe...." There are two major groups of Amish in America--Old Order and New Order. Amish do not consider "technology or advancement evil" but rather, technology and advancement, if left untamed, will undermine worthy traditions and accurate assimilation into the surrounding society. Mass Media is especially concerning as it introduces foreign values into their culture.

Horse-and-buggy transport helps keep the community anchored to its geographical base.

That said, many of their practices perplex outsiders, since they are cultural adaptions determined by the individual "rule of law" (the Ordnung). These can--and do--change over time, and differ from community to community. Often times, leadership (the bishop) may give temporary approval to allow a new technology or practice before codifying it in the Ordnung.

Some Amish fit the classical definition of a cult, whereas others are aligned with Christian fundamentalism. As with every fabric of society, there are good apples and bad apples in each community.
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I get it. I’m just thinking the distinction between a truck and a tractor is laughable. But if that helps that sleep at night fine, but the area they inhabit by me is getting more and more heavily traveled and the 2 lane highway is a super speedway. Someone is gonna get killed passing them one day.
 
jsasker007 said:
I don't think I've had any kind of food from the Amish that wasn't delicious. Amish raised chickens were fantastic and the Amish peanut brittle was soooo damn good. Now I'm getting hungry.
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I can't hate on the Amish. Two points. They helped get Trump elected. And 15 years ago I got down on bended knee at Amish Acres in Nappanee, IN. We tried wearing shirts to help fit in with the locals, but they didn't seem to wear much flannel. You ain't kidding there's good food. We gained a few pounds that weekend. Way too much shoofly pie.

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Bill said:
You guys eat their food??

I refuse to eat food cooked by someone without electric for running water. I'm a germaphob from way back.
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The best peanut and cashew brittle I've ever eaten was from the Amish. Same with cinnamon rolls, incredible. They cook/bake like our "English" relatives did.

Running water in the house was a luxury when my folks grew up. The food my grandmothers made was far superior to most anything coming out of a 3 star Michelin restaurant today IMO
 
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I'm not going to lump them all together, but my multiple experiences with them are very similar. They have no problem trespassing on me to hunt, even after begging them to stop. They have no problem killing deer in February or March if they are hungry. They are also very hard on bodies of water, they don't throw anything back, in my experience.
 
Good and bad in everyone. Religion doesn't matter . We all be better off live and let live . Or just mind your own business .
 
All of my close relatives are new order Amish or Mennonite. I do have some old order Amish relatives that do not even have land line phones in their homes or cell phones. My grandfather on my mothers side still drove a horse and buggy up until he was no longer able to manage physically. They did have electricity to for lights in the barn after my grandfather almost burnt it down when he dropped a kerosene lantern, but the house was 100% propane or kerosene. They had two freezers and a refrigerator that ran on propane, no AC, heat was two cast iron stoves.

As others have said, there are many different variations of old order and/or new order Amish as to what is OK and what is not. Heck, my grandmother thought she was going to go to hell because she had a rotary landline phone in her house.
 
Had them put a metal roof on our old barn. They came out and rolled all the panels onsite and installed everything. They had kids running around up on the roof doing that work. Kids were probably 14-16 year olds. At 30' up they showed no fear. Their bakery near our place has amazing baked goods. All that said, would not want them as deer hunting neighbors ... if it's brown it is down.
 
Are amish not allowed to eat beef? Just wondering cause they will shoot 10 deer for their family and decimate a deer herd but have cattle in the pasture.
 
My farmer has an Amish kid he picks up to come help him. I don't know the rules, and he seems really nice, but here he is on a zero turn at my gate. Looks to have earbuds in too.

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I have noticed this to be true in the last few years, although I have never mentioned it to the Amish people I know. It seems the Amish men use technology daily more and more to make their life easier and better but the women maintain a pretty traditional Amish life. Maybe I am wrong but hard not to notice Amish man loading thousands of modern tools as his wife hangs cloths on the line with three kids hanging on her apron.
 
It all depends on what sect they belong to.It's this way with several of the other groups.Some have the internet some don't even have TV
 
Electrodigical said:
Missed a great photo opportunity a couple years ago, saw a traditional black Amish buggy going down the road with a bright green rotomolded kayak on the roof. The contrasts of color and culture were striking.

My other related chuckle was years ago my friends and I were in Cabela's in PA and there was a stunningly beautiful Amish (or Mennonite?) women in the store. My friend leaned over and said to me... "There's a good women for you... she's used to living without electricity." 😄
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I always get a chuckel when I see their buggys parked in the parking lot at Menards in Rice lake, WI. Just a weird sight. My friends dad bought a mini van and was a Amish taxi cab service for them . He took them all over the place. We always gave him sh!$ about why all the Amish kids looked just like him. Lol
 
There don't seem to be many old order Amish in SE Pa. anymore. A few buggies around - but not like in years past. Lots of Mennonites though. We hit their roadside farm stands every week for every kind of fresh produce you can name. All very nice folks. They'll drive cars / vans with black bumpers (no shiny chrome!) and they're known here as "black-bumper Mennonites." They have electricity for any & all coolers & lights. Don't know about TV.
 
Bowsnbucks said:
There don't seem to be many old order Amish in SE Pa. anymore. A few buggies around - but not like in years past. Lots of Mennonites though. We hit their roadside farm stands every week for every kind of fresh produce you can name. All very nice folks. They'll drive cars / vans with black bumpers (no shiny chrome!) and they're known here as "black-bumper Mennonites." They have electricity for any & all coolers & lights. Don't know about TV.
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I'm about an hour from the Lancaster area. There are some Amish closer, but I don't see many buggies around. The "PA Dutch" still make great baked goods. Amos Miller and his raw milk seem to be giving the PA dept of AG a hard time and vice versa. They do a fair amount of construction work out my way.
 
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