Living with the Amish on C4

[Ariel Badger]

I know they have a reputation for making traditional furniture but am shocked by all the power tools! I thought the Amish steered clear of all technology after about 1820.
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[fatpies]

Romans 2:12 says they can use things linked to the world. Electricity and wires are linked to the ground and thus allowed.

TBH its like Islamic banking, whereby things are made up to circumvent the rules. Their rules allow certain things but disallow other things. Mains electricity is forbidden. But if you hook it up to a generator an inverter and not actually own the tools yourself then its A-OK.
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[truslack]

I only saw a few minutes of it, I didn't see any power tools but did see electric lights in the house which slightly confused me.
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[Jayy]

I watched the one last year where the Amish came to stay with UK familes... that was pretty interesting. I love culture shock documentaries like that.

[Frost]

They're actually pretty reasonable when it comes to technology. They have regular meetings where they decide what is and isn't allowed. essentially they only allow stuff that doesn't cause radical changes to their way of life or is potentially troublesome.
For instance they can travel cross country by train, but only by air in an emergency. When they move house they hire a van. They're not allowed a home phone or mobile unless they are running a business and truely need one etc.
Some of the farmers have started growing GM crops! They say it's just growing from seed same as they've always done, exactly how the seeds are made doesn't concern them and the improvements in GM crops help them stay profitable and retain their way of life.

[G]

In my experience pretty much all religious people will look to interpret their religion in way that benefits them.

[Ariel Badger]

They seemed happy and that can only be good
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[temeluchus]

[Ariel Badger]

If they shunned all technological advances ( what I believed up to the program) or embraced all that modern life offers I could at least understand where they are coming from but the partial adaptation of things makes no sense in a religious context. God did not give them that choice if you believe what they believe.
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[Rogerborg]

If they lived in the state in which god created us (6,000 years) ago, not only would they lack power tools, they'd also be butt nekkid. As soon as you've accepted that the beardy sky giant got some stuff wrong (nekkidness, marijuana, liberals) you have to start saying "I think what god wants us to do is..."

Fair play to the Amish though, as nutty brainwashing cults go, it's one of the least offensive.
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[Mondeo Man]

I thought the same re roller skates - just get a cycle!/car.

Also last week I saw on old style washing machine (load it from the top and it swirls round. Type your grandma had). I thought to myself, how is that any different to a zanussi, it's just older.

Tbh, the Amish are hypocrites, but we all are. They don't live as simply as they like to say they do, and they are influenced by us culture, even though they'd think otherwise.

Also, I doubt that once the cameras are off, it's as rosy as all that - I bet the community is riven with backstabbing, bitchiness, etc, just like any where else.

But, still, at least the try to obtain simple and pure lives "hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue" and all that.

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[fatpies]

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[fatpies]

[Bendy]

[temeluchus]

Pushing irrational spiritual beliefs on impressionable children is tantamount to child abuse.
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[supZ]

i saw about 10mins of this and it confused me too.

chainsaw, plastic baskets, kid drinking a can of coke.. didn't seem Amish to me
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