Many outsiders mistakenly think that the Amish reject technology. It is more accurate to say that they use technology selectively. Televisions, radios, and personal computers are rejected outright, but other types of technology are used selectively or modified to fit Amish purposes. Amish mechanics also build new machines to accommodate their cultural guidelines. Moreover, the Amish readily buy much modern technology, such as gas grills, shop tools, camping equipment, and some farm equipment.
The Amish do not consider technology evil in itself but they believe that technology, if left untamed, will undermine worthy traditions and accelerate assimilation into the surrounding society. Mass media technology in particular, they fear, would introduce foreign values into their culture. By bringing greater mobility, cars would pull the community apart, eroding local ties. Horse-and-buggy transportation keeps the community anchored in its local geographical base.
Most Amish groups forbid using electricity from public utility lines. Electricity from batteries is more local, controllable, and independent from the outside world. In some settlements, for example, Amish use batteries to power lights on buggies, calculators, fans, flashlights, cash registers, copy machines, and typewriters. Solar energy is sometimes used to charge batteries, operate electric fences, and power household appliances.
Amish use of technology often perplexes outsiders. Why would God frown on a telephone? What sense does it make to keep a tractor at the barn but not take it to the field? Is it not inconsistent, if not outright hypocritical, to hire non-Amish drivers but refuse to own cars? And what could be the difference between 12-volt electricity from batteries and 110-volt current from public utility lines? These distinctions may look silly to an outsider, but within the context of Amish history they are important cultural adaptations that have helped to slow the pace of social change and keep worldliness at bay.
The Amish seek to master technology rather than become its slave. Like few other communities, they have shown the tenacity to tackle the powerful forces of technology in order to preserve their traditional way of life.
Zachary Clark
is having dumbass haircuts part of their beliefs?
Jace Sanchez
LOL they look inbred
Levi Morris
the bowl cut is the last implicit stand of whiteness
Brody Young
The amish beat their children and often rape their daughters. They're sub-human, stop romanticizing their bullshit.
Tyler Nguyen
Geeze even their women arn't that great. Are these the prettiest looking ones they could find?
And what's with their hair do the men have forehead fetishes?
Brayden Cruz
this
They smell of shit too.
Ryan Cox
They are - literally.
Aiden Gutierrez
>implying cletus here isnt the perfect european specimen showing off his uniquely European hair style Why do you kid yourself
Liam Thomas
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Josiah Ross
Tfw one of the only non kike controlled civilizations on the planet
Brayden Smith
Amish are pretty redpilled and have done a great job preserving their culture amongst the the most pozzed country of all time (USA). Although they still have a lot of problems.
Weird incest, child abuse, tons of anxiety and SSRI drugs on the women etc
I saw an 8/10 amish woman last year. Most are not attractive though.
Julian Gomez
By non thirsty faggot standards she was a 5/10 im sure
Xavier Bennett
"Guder daag Englishman, heard you had something to say about me."
Dominic Gomez
>those forearms
That guy would fucking destroy me in a fight. Daily reminders that farmers are strong as shit, especially old school ones
Jack Sanchez
Get off the computer, Yoder. God will smite thee.
Daniel Carter
>Amish are pretty redpilled and have done a great job preserving their culture amongst the the most pozzed country of all time (USA). I have a lot of respect for them and their "culture".
My wife used to "Write" for a newsletter of theirs. They would all send in letters, and she would type them out. Each area seemed to have its own woman who was the town recorder. They would submit things about the harvest, and the dances. They were very close. They mailed letters in from all over the country...Ohio, Pa etc. I never read them, but it sounds hilarious. Talk of weather changes etc. It was fairly impressive way to communicate...and they have been doing it this way for decades. We act like facebook is great.....I don't. Amish Sup Forums is real.
One example involved the woman bitching about 2 other women being less humble than her, and it had to do with a certain way their dress was hemmed.
I mean like holy fuck. It was entertaining and insightful.....It was their monthly shitpost forum.
Thomas Phillips
Their a circus act. Technology is synomious with civilization. So we essentially have a uncivilized freakazoids performing for us
Wyatt Diaz
I believe what you referring to is also called “old man strength”
Connor Foster
The Amish was never a big deal for me. Oddly enough, they do in fact you a small deal of tech. Mostly lower end though. An air powered sewing machine was interesting to say the least. Like it was said, calculators, registers, hell, the most advanced thing a group I used to deal with had was an old Dos box they used for spreadsheets for invoices, payouts, and so on with an old dot matrix printer to make copies. Made a bit cash doing some odd repairs and what not. Hell, I used to walk off the jobs with at least 3 baked goods a week. The pies were fucking awesome and one woman made this pudding that I couldn't get enough of. After about 2 years of doing work for them, I had to move. As a parting gift for all my help and, let's be real, kinda cheap asking price, they gave me a beautiful handmade wood wardrobe with almost perfectly identical streamer trunk-like chest.
I still have them at my place.
Dylan Thomas
i wish comfy bowl cuts like that were socially acceptable
John Gonzalez
So dylann roof was Amish...
Lincoln Flores
so do amish people support the use of automatic weapons?
Ayden Nelson
Goddamn you are one stupid motherfucker. Really, really fucking stupid. Just an absolute, total moron. Never breed.
Mason Cooper
Give it time! Everything comes round again!
Daniel Parker
That seems like an odd place to store a ballpoint pen
Matthew Barnes
He looks like a college Marxist, but he actually has a future and a brain.
Caleb King
these guys are the only white people in ontario with a positive birth rate they basically run everything west of north bay to wawa
Connor Torres
Do amish consider themselves american or apart from the nation as a whole?
Ayden Diaz
Get out and meet some amish you smelly keyboard stroking faggot
Gabriel Collins
bump even if its a leafpost
Levi Cooper
Hol' up. Dylan Roofe fanclub?
Colton Thompson
As with any religious cult, the cult comes first and country second. They aren't anti-american from what I've seen though, they have good interactions with the community. They just want to sell crops and chairs and shit.
Ryan Reyes
Manure, which is a beautiful smell.
Hunter Gray
Electric clippers are also forbidden to the Amish, so thats why everyone has a bowl cut.
Carson Myers
Did basic with a 50 year old farmer. Named Farmer ironically. He utterly wrecked us. The only advantage we had was healing. A mild injury at that age is a bitch, at 20 a rolled ankle is gone in a few days.
Cooper Thompson
Imagine the satisfaction. >sitting by the porch >mail truck rolls by >your shaking hands unravel the papers >an ad for dominos. disgusting >you say a prayer, there's the letter > you open it >opisafaggotisayeth
Christopher Morris
Word. They've even made a new settlement near Renfrew.
Aaron Baker
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Ian Williams
they live everywhere in the Americas from Canada to Argentina they can be patriotic as fuck they just shun technology . they are like the rest of us in every other way down to bitching about property taxes
Wyatt Evans
In the late 80's I was paid $150 to fuck a hutterite women through a hole in a blanket while her husband waited outside.
This was at the colony near Lethbridge that used to (probably still does) sell awesome moonshine.
I bet my kid cut through those nutty inbreds like a hot knife through butter. Probably runs the place now by virtue of being able to focus their eyes in one direction.
Jonathan Perez
>In the late 80's I was paid $150 to fuck a hutterite women through a hole in a blanket while her husband waited outside. This isn't a meme. I have an army buddy that thought HEY FREE SECKS. Turned out to be pretty awkward.
Nathan Long
>they use technology selectively fucking cucks
Kevin Morgan
Are you larping or do they really try to cut down on inbreeding like this?
Ryder Cruz
No it's real.
Sebastian Butler
>do they really try to cut down on inbreeding like this? Yep.
Benjamin Campbell
Yea, they legit pay people to breed with their wives and shit.
Logan Walker
Was she nasty af?
Samuel King
So are they, in a way, Christian rural quasi-Jews?
Aiden Russell
No
Lucas Gutierrez
For making jokes about the people that killed his son? ... and all of his son's friends? and then destroyed all their follower's banks for 2000 years? Sure. Ok. I'm guessing not everyone would have a sense of humor about that.
Jew.
Nolan Cruz
Yes, it is God awful
Isaac Allen
You mean their shitty way of life
Easton Turner
As long as they don't let Tyrone have a turn to fuck up their racial lines, all is good.
Ayden Gonzalez
Came here for this
Jace Perry
I'm Pennsylvanian and the Amish are literally /ourguy/s. The Pennsylvania Dutch used to beat the shit out of Gypsies and Niggers who tried the steal their crops.
t.race mixing genetic garbage
Go back to fucking filthy niggers and gooks you useless race traitors.
Jaxson Gray
2 of those girls would give you diamonds if they were using all the skin care and make up of the skank next door.
That's why girls wear makeup--- it ups their looks which improves the number of males that are attracted to them.
What you are looking at when you look at Amish women is what the women you see would look like if they didn't use so much products to look better. In other words--- a natural woman. Remember, in the natural world, most women are 4 to 6s, not 6s to 8s.
Joseph Wilson
Nice qts, and (((they))) said Amish were ugly and inbred...
Adam White
Awesome story bro.
Gabriel Clark
It's apart of their plan to make people accept race-mixing. The Amish are basically Sup Forums-tier and are still pretty much against nonwhites. Plus they have a higher birth rate then even most African countries.
Isaiah Evans
I would think it is more about vanity. Because you don't need electric clippers to have nicely cut hair.
William Scott
Dat 1415 chic
Luke Wood
>Amish Sup Forums I really wish this was a thing
Brody Williams
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Leo Cruz
oh you guys
Daniel Hughes
You retard.
Jesus calls non Jews dogs in the Bible.
Jaxon Carter
What are their names Sup Forums? Also check this 2
Jace Parker
forgot pic
Jacob Hughes
i just read abt them on wikipedia go peep it they may save white america, those birthrates are thicc, i bet they cucking shit only happens in canada no memes it just says there is only abt 1500 amish thats not alot they may be maximum inbred, in usa it says 100,000 to 200,000 over 100% percent growth shit they have been carrying us
Eli Hernandez
it says american amish families are having 7 to 9 kids each