On Aug 4, 11:08*pm, "Steve W." wrote:
RicodJour wrote:
On Aug 4, 7:11 pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
It's not that rubber tires are "unholy"--their rule is no powered
vehicles that can be driven on the highway and no rubber tires is a way
to enforce it.
I'm not sure I follow - I've seen Amish wagons on the road, both with
rubber wheels and without. *What does that have to do with it being
powered? *None of the Amish wagons are powered.
If you saw a buggy with rubber wheels it was NOT Amish. More likely
Mennonite.
Basically there are different orders of plain folks.
Old order Amish - These are the ones who shun pretty much all modern
technology, no powered machinery on the farm and maybe a phone stuck on
a pole out in the middle of a field for all the "local" Amish to use.
New order Amish - These allow some modern technology like generators and
*solar power as well as some powered machinery on the farm with maybe a
steel wheeled tractor or crawler allowed. They allow a phone in the barn
or greenhouse and some even have a drivers license even though they are
not supposed to drive cars.
Mennonite - The closest to what we take for normal people. They allow
tractors and rubber tires on the buggies, some even have cars. They do
some stuff the old ways but also have cell phones and electricity in
some places.
I hang out on newsgroups - maybe too much - and I don't know if I know
what a 'normal' person is anymore!
Much of the Amish attitude toward technology is pragmatic--it's not that
it's "unholy", it's that they want to maintain a particular social
structure of their community and they're perfectly happy to go with
technologies that don't upset that social structure but they after due
consideration forbid those that do upset it.
Different sects of the Amish have different takes on the rubber. *Some
allow it, some don't. *Least that's what I've read. *And it's owning
things that creates the problem. *The Amish can take public
transportation and they'll hire buses when necessary.
Yep, and they also hire out locals to take good to market sales and
such. One of the locals has me drive him or his wife around quite a bit
to different farmers markets. VERY nice folks. The neighbors are
currently selling out their farm and I'm hoping that some friends of the
*Amish I know buy it.
I hope the Amish buy this place:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/08/02/...in-the-family/
I'd hate to be the one to make the decision to sell such a place.
R