What would you do if you were sent to a Amish life?

Meaning

- No PC'S
- No Phone's
- No Car's
- No Machine's


I Would kill myself

I think it would be a nice peaceful life...for a while, then I'd be dying to get back to the amenities that I am sadly used to.

First day i would get there i'd get a beard WOOOOOOT

I wouldn't mind it........less stress.

Less? Mate you have to work so hard

But, your mind would be occupied with making sure dinner would be on teh table, not soccer practice for the kids, paying the bills, how much gas is in the car, did I make enough this week?, where is the morgage payment coming from........I could use a holiday-that didn't cost money-to escape reality for a while.

Rofl Good Point

I really admire the Amish. I can't live without air conditioners lol. I'm whiney in the heat . Everything else I can live without.

You cant live with out a pc
You cant ever go out

Yes I can . The computer is the devil incarnate

The whole idea of having of the beard but no one expects you to have a mustache part is pretty cool, and a neat hat to wear is always a good time, but I have a few CD's that I really like listening to and my DVD box of Futurama would be hard to part with.

So, I wouldn't kill myself but I'd probably escape really quick.

The amish are great people, a bit odd and all. Ive been around alot of em all at once. Its pretty cool to be in "their" world for awhile, you learn to respect their ways , It moves something in your spirit to be around ppl that are actually happy to do without things that you or I like to have use or need...well we dont need all that we have but ya know what I mean..These people can survive...Could You or I if need be? probably not. the amish boys and girls have a really cool life and great responsiblities. The only go to school until their like 16 or as we call the 8th grade.They get to Drive their Horse and buggy to school, on paved roads, and they have the right away not the "outsiders" (cars) . as adults they dont have to pay all these taxs we do, they dont have the worries we do.

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This area is asome, great get away place....they gots the best cheeeeeeeeeze around.

but then if you were Amish you'd have to wake up in about 3 hours

Amish stay awake like 6:00 to 7:00

I would kinda lose it. Beacuse I'm so used to tech. But I use it everyday. It's netural for me.

It would be a nice change. But not very long.

I dont even walk a block down How am i suppose drive a donkey cart rest my life ? :s

I live around them, they seem rather happy.

I too would have random fits over not having a/c but I could probably live the life.

Thing's About Me

- Car's
- Computer


Im fine with anything els

P.S if i bring a car what will happen ?

I could do it, no problem.

I'm already a Quaker we simplify our lives as part of our faith as well... sure I love my computer and my car and my conveniences, however, I've also learned that I don't actually need these things. The Amish get by on their faith, everything they do and the way they live is in honor of their faith.

About the only thing I'd really miss would be my huge cache of books and the time to read them. There isn't much time in the Amish persons life except for good honest hard work, prayer, and reading the Bible. I fully understand why they're happy with their lifestyle, but it's not an easy one.

Not a easy one indeed

I would probly be pissed off for a day but the rest years okay :}

P.S If you finish the bible you can read your books /^^

They sure eat good. I live in Iowa so we go to the Amish communities sometimes to buy food. I have some Amish cook books to. I love them.
I think it would be fun for a couple weeks, but I couldnt live long without my video games.

Me too

It was a hundred degrees here today! I need my a/c. I have heard that some of them now are allowed to drive cars as long as they are black because they aren't flashy. And that they can shop at wal-mart, just not buy things like light bulbs. Anyone know about this?

Amish at wal-mart???

That's like Big Ben in USA

Well, I would literally DIE.

Goes like this.

No Machines = No Insulin Pumps = No Insulin = No Queenie

So I would be, pretty much, screwed.

(Well, through a combination of that, and no ipod)

There's actually nothing that says an Amish person can't drive a car or shop at WalMart or have a lightbulb (although with little electricity lightbulbs are pretty pointless)

The Amish don't think cars, stores, electricity or modern conveniences are evil, or taboo... they really don't. What they believe in is simplicity. It's more a community and lifestyle thing. The less you have the more you can be focused on God and your religious devotions. Keeping their lifestyle uniform in their communities is a way of eliminating or reducing bad things like jealousy, covetness, and inequality. It's actually quite effective. It's not that they "can't" do some things, it's more like they "won't"

Most Amish communities have a community phone... it's generally saved for emergencies and business dealings. Obviously the Amish have a lot of quality crafted products they sell to the outside world. They have to be able to set up those transactions. Some even have a community car. Mostly they rely on the nearest town's taxi services.

Everyone in an Amish community does their part and job for the community. Say for instance a farmer in the community becomes physically unable to plow his fields becase of arthritis... in a case like this, the community meets, they address the situation and they may choose to purchase that farmer a tractor so he can continue to do his part for the community.

The Amish are simple, but they are also biblical literalists in many ways, and they are insular. if you are born Amish and leave the community, you can pretty much kiss your family good bye. the Old Order Amish communities do practice shunning against people who leave.

Their religious beliefs are pretty fundemental, but people are so attracted to their outward appearance of peace and love that they never actually see the fervor of their beliefs which can actually be a litle fire and brimstone.

We don't have any Amish communities where I live, but we do have Mennonites. Mennonites and Amish were at one time the same faith. I actually atten Mennonite churchs a lot even though Im a Quaker. That's fairly rare i think. Most Quakers tend to opt for Unitarian services in the event they can't get to a Friends meeting house.

Naw, you might die from iPod withdrawl, but the Amish don't shun Western medicine usually. If you needed insulin to stay alive, you'd be able to have that. You'd even be able to keep it the right temperature in their fascinating iceboxes

Ah yes, but my insulin is via a little machine. So, I'd either have to a) Go without it (which would inconvience me too muc, so I'd die) or....I'd die
Or c) not go.

But I think that having ipod is far more serious an issue.

i've try that once. i woke up, cold shower, go to rice field, and spend all day there, watching farmers, harvesting watermelon.. its really hot but still fun
its so peacefull when no one call you

''I would like wearing black growing beard ''

Actually, haha, they'd probably have no problem with your pump, if it keeps you moving and working better than injections, then so be it.

OT, I have a girlfriend who has a pump. Cool little device, for her it's a lifesaver because she's paralysed on her left side and it's a lot easier than carrying around all that crap for injections (not too mention preparing a one handed injection is tough). I think the only "incident" she had with her pump was that she was clipping it to her jeans like a pager, and it accidentally fell off and into the toilet. Now we have to keep an eye on her because she clips it to her shirt and half the time it pulls her shirt down and she's walkin' around flashing people.

This remind's me of a song

I would lose my flippin marbles.

It be cool for while

- Beard
- Black Hat
- Geting To Ride Horse's

Actually alot of sect. have elec. its all in the own little sec rather or not to have elec, flowing water and ComPuters! yes, some sec allow computers and elec. for business purposes. and cars. cars are still limited, in many sect. each sect has their own rules to go by.and they go from house to house to have "church".

Also at the age of 16 your allowed to go out in the "world" and if you dont wanna come back. your not forced to but you are "outcasted" and if you decide you want to return they greet you back in with great love, but by no means are you allowed to bring in "outside" way into their sect.


it funny, they dont do much if any horse riding...the horse is either used to work, pulling farm equipment. or used for a buggy or cart, not many amish ever ride.

I'm fairly confident I could do it. I've always kind of longed for a more primitive existence, where one has insure their own survival. I tend do think life would have been a little more interesting back then. Sure these days we have all of our needs looked after, but I think that's kind of boring.

Although I'm probably too much of a night owl to be Amish...oh and I'd be a Heathen to them

I'm too panicky and anxious all the time. I go bezonkers without my PS2 and Forums. And General Hospital!!!!

What song? It's not by Weird Al is it? (My Psychosis asks suspiciously)

OMG, haha, I forgot about that song until now. Ugh, now I can't get weird Al out of my head ... great... I'm sending you my therapy bills My_Psychosis! hahaha.

I could totally do it. I'm all in favor of it. I've even jokingly plotted schemes with my best friend to get one of them to adopt us. Like just showing up on their doorstep and saying our parents abandoned us and would they take us in? But we're in our thirties so it wouldn't be that believable. I often think of it actually, it's my escapist fantasy. I also fantasize about shunning society and living in a log cabin on a mountain somewhere by myself and living off the earth. I don't need conveniences, they make us lazy. If I could drop this hectic lifestyle and be one of them, I'd be all over it. I believe their lives are meaningful and natural, and that they are well-developed people for dropping the stuff that just makes the rest of us lazy, spoiled, greedy, and ungrateful. The stuff they dropped is the stuff that caused division and spite and greed and lust for power in the rest of us. I don't care about wearing the same ugly dress every day. Stuff like that really doesn't matter at all. I think the world is corrupt and I could easily leave it for a purposeful lifestyle like that one. The simplicity of it is beautiful.

One of my best friends went to a Quakers run boarding school , always felt envious of her school time stories, they seemed really in touch with the times and cool compared to what my school ever did...

We don't have the equivalent of the or an Amish community in the UK, so....

Making people insane is my specialty.

The song is weird al i download'd the video clip

Ya, Friends (quakers) are very big on education. Arguably two of the best universities in the USA are Friends originated schools. Johns Hopkins University and Cornell among others. (Bryn Mawr, Barclay, Earlham, William Penn etc..)

The Amish however aren't big on education... most Amish don't have much beyond a 7th or 8th grade education.