Amish.

Are they the country folk from the america?

Sky King wrote: »

Yes and they picked a seemingly arbitrary stage in technological development from the last 5000 years and decided it was the correct one.

Nothing wrong with simple living, they dont live in a 3 bed semi in negative equity.

pragmatic1 wrote: »

They're fcukin crazy.

Crazy rich... takes dosh to have 200 kids and a kitchen like the QE2. No cars? Yeah right -they hide them round the back.

Sky King wrote: »

There is when you get Tuberculosis

You dont have to be amish to contract tb you know.

Sure it's their choice really.

I Sham.

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

I Sham.

Is that an amish i phone?

Sky King wrote: »

How do they treat it?

Which amish people or the rest of the world people?

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Ah yes, Someone has chosen to live a lifestyle different from yours, therefore they must be nutters....

In fairness, their lifestyle is a bit mad. From what I understand, they don't educate their children past a certain age, which leaves a lot of them in a pretty precarious position if they decide to leave the community. The only skills they have are outdated and they barely have a second level education, never mind a third level one, and the education they do have tends to revolve around the bible. I know it's all part of the lifestyle, but I imagine life can be pretty difficult for those who are raised Amish and decide they don't want to be anymore. They're not really all that well equipped to adapt to the real world, from what I gather.

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

In fairness, their lifestyle is a bit mad. From what I understand, they don't educate their children past a certain age, which leaves a lot of them in a pretty precarious position if they decide to leave the community. The only skills they have are outdated and they barely have a second level education, never mind a third level one, and the education they do have tends to revolve around the bible. I know it's all part of the lifestyle, but I imagine life can be pretty difficult for those who are raised Amish and decide they don't want to be anymore. They're not really all that well equipped to adapt to the real world, from what I gather.

Sure that's the case with most cultures. They have a right to live their lives their way, and in fairness, you'd hate it someone told you how to live your life.

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

In fairness, their lifestyle is a bit mad. From what I understand, they don't educate their children past a certain age, which leaves a lot of them in a pretty precarious position if they decide to leave the community. The only skills they have are outdated and they barely have a second level education, never mind a third level one, and the education they do have tends to revolve around the bible. I know it's all part of the lifestyle, but I imagine life can be pretty difficult for those who are raised Amish and decide they don't want to be anymore. They're not really all that well equipped to adapt to the real world, from what I gather.

- Allowed leave education at 16 and many rarely enter third level education

- Outdated skills taught by an even more outdated curriculum

- Education tends to revolve around religion, culture tends to revolve around religion

- Ill equipped to adapt to the real world and modern society...


One could almost be forgiven for thinking you were talking about Ireland there!

Lapin wrote: »

Who's telling anyone how to live their lives here ?

The OP simply asked us what we thought of them.

I gave my reply, (which would also apply to most people whose lifestyle revolves around religous beliefs).

Fine; *you wouldn't like if someone said the way you choose to live your life was mad.