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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  Dan-O

  Etna Green is about a 2 hour drive for me.

  Mac is right about the food at Amish Acres in Nappanee ... ditto for Das Dutchman Essenhaus in Middlebury and Amishville USA near Geneva.
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  Can we have a post party?

  by Stefanie in

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  i am bored!

  please?

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  Dan-O

  Frogs? How about frog legs, dipped in a beer batter & deep fried to golden brown perfection?

  Or how about Bullfrog brewery (http://www.bullfrogbrewery.com/), perhaps the only sane reason for going to Williamsport, Pennsylvania?
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  How Tall Are You?

  by Sunspot in

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  we've learned so much about each other and i thought i'd toss this out atcha.....

  i'm five feet tall (or short---however you see it :-) and wondering how tall you are!

  annie

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  Dan-O

  Me? I'm just a loveable little fuzzball at 5'10".
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  Congregation Picnics

  by Funchback in

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  my former congregation usually had a congregation picnic once a year.

  all of the brothers (a/k/a men) had to pay for all of the food.

  the sisters (a/k/a women) had the godly priviledge of serving the food.

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  They may still be having them at my old congregation, Funchback. I haven't been to meetings since the early 80s, so I have no idea what they do there anymore.
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  I could go around here & take pictures of 6 year olds working in their fields in sweltering heat.

  The Amish here do not allow themselves to be photographed. I wonder if that's different in PA?

  Besides ... A little hard work is good for kids. And it doesn't take place just on Amish farms. Heathen farmers work their kids hard, too.

  My sister said in the state of Indiana where she has family, they do not, & are not liked at all there. They are felt to be dirty & greedy in Indiana.

  I haven't heard anyone here say that the Amish are dirty or greedy. Some say they're hypocrits, sure ... especially when they're talking about some Amish guy with a big screen TV hidden in his basement. And others (especially farmers) grumble about the rate at which the Amish are buying up farmland.

  They also regularly get killed on highways in buggys, they are a hazard on the road & resist being forced to put reflectors & any other devices & lights on their buggys, yet they persist in driving them on hazardous roads & at night.

  Yeah, they occasionally get involved in collisions with cars here, too. The horse usually gets the worst of it. But they do put the orange triangles & blinking lights on the buggies here. They're not so bad to deal with, except on very narrow roads ... or in the parking lot at the shopping center, where piles of "road apples" are the norm. Yep: watch where ya step. North of me, in Nappanee and Shipshewana, the city crews have to regularly clear the streets & parking lots of manure.

  Seems to me to exploit them by making a reality show is kinda creepy. Have we sunk so low in this country that making fun of them is entertaining? Is this entertainment?

  The other big stink about "Amish entertainment" here is an Indiana band called The Electric Amish. You can hear these guys on the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom show sometimes. Anyway, there was an uproar a year or two ago when The Electric Amish were going to perform at the Three Rivers Festival in Ft. Wayne. Some folks thought is was ignorant & intolerant. I think they're pretty doggone funny, but maybe I'm ignorant & intolerant, too.
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  Congregation Picnics

  by Funchback in

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  my former congregation usually had a congregation picnic once a year.

  all of the brothers (a/k/a men) had to pay for all of the food.

  the sisters (a/k/a women) had the godly priviledge of serving the food.

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  Dan-O

  Our KH in Florida sure didn't have a swimming pool, Cheech. But we had the picnics in the 70s & early 80s. There was usually square dancing involved at some point. I had successfully blocked that memory until now.
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  CG, I won't speak on Sassy's behalf, but I do know this: The Amish distance themselves from the world and eschew modern conveniences (such as refrigerators, telephones, electricity, etc).

  But ... they will ask their 'heathen' neighbors to give them a ride in their car, or to store meat in their freezer. And around here, they will buy & use generators and cellular phones & power tools ... just as long as those phones & power tools aren't connected to some wire on the other side of the property line.

  And if you start digging into the scandals facing some Amish, you'll find some of the same cover-ups and sexual abuse that have generated bad press for the Catholic church and the WTS.
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  Dan-O

  The show has made headlines in the local papers here recently, and quite a few of the Amish in northeast Indiana seem upset about it.

  Too bad I don't have a UPN station to watch here. Of course, it's not like I have to go far to watch Amish in action; usually a trip to WalMart or the grocery store is sufficient.
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  Would You Buy A Lottery Ticket or Smoke In Front of a JW?

  by minimus in

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  if you knew a witness was in a convenience store, would you brazenly buy cigarettes or lottery tickets in front of them??

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  Dan-O

  I can count on one hand the number of lottery tickets I've purchased in the past several years. They just seem like such a waste on the whole. But I'd still buy one, no matter who was watching.

  And smoke in front of a JW? Sure. I do it every time I see my sister & her family, or my uncle.
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  Not a newbie anymore!

  by TrailBlazer04 in

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  ahhh...a special thread devoted to my 100th post.... .

  tb

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  Dan-O

  Cool! And you did it without resorting to tons of posts on the word game threads like I did!