Comment on Anon lives in the midwest

• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Everyone’s just making shit up based on their feelings anyway, let them do as they wilt will.

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  • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wollen

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• SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Amish around where I live (Midwest) run a bunch of great little stores (which is most of the contact I have with them personally, but my partners mom has friends in their community who come to visit now and then.) The stores all take credit cards and have refrigerators for the cheeses/dairy, and many of them do use machinery for farm work. Some even use cell phones.

  I haven’t noticed any jewelry (haven’t paid attention), but they really do seem to pick and choose which portions to adhere strongly to.

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My understanding is the faith has exclusions to the rules for when its necessary for work, so an Amish IT Administrator wouldn’t be impossible!

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It mainly depends on if it makes them money or not.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That does, honestly, seem to be the threshold for the communities around me.

      Can they use it in a way they can argue complied with their religion? If yes, and money, do thing. If yes, no money, do thing. If no, but money, try harder to argue, then do thing.

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah the more I’ve found out and paid attention to over the past few decades. I think the Amish how they were originally envisioned, died out many many years ago.

        The current ilk, use that perception to make money and at best give lip service to the original ideals.

        I figure in 50 years Amish will be indistinguishable from any other modern religion.

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