On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:02:04 -0500, "Myxylplyk"
wrote:

Unless this place was by a nicely moving creek and had either a waterwheel
or a pack of apprentices taking turns on the bicycle powering the
compressor, you wern't in an Amish shop.

They seem to have some sort of bizzarre philosphy that is made up on
the fly.

I was in one of those Amish towns a while ago, and was bemused to see
one of their horse-drawn buggies pull up at the gas station and fill
up several 2-3 gal gas cans. I asked a lady in the Amish shop why
that was, and the reply was that it's for generators, the use of
generators is permitted as the power is "under their control" ie it
does not come from the grid where some other (non believer?) contorls
it.

I pointed out that the generators were probably made in Japan or China
and presumably not under their control either and questioned how that
could fit. The reply was that Amish philosphy/law was arrived at by a
wise old council of men.

It's like most religions, there's nothing rational about it.