J. Clarke wrote:
:
: I was in an Amish home and it was explained that they won't use
: electricity from the power company but they had refrigerators and
: freezers supplied by gasoline generators.

If the point of avoiding grid electricity is to not share a system
used by English (outsiders), how do they justify making use of
a gas distribution system used by English? Or, for that matter, roads
made and used by them? is there any internal logic here?

: http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogel...pian/amish.htm has links
: near the top to some fascinating charts about Amish use of technology.



Fascinating, and hard to fathom.

-- Andy Barss