Insulting the Amish on the internet ?

[Ben Kenobi]

TLC:

Did you say something, English!

[aneeshm]

HEY ! Don't hijack my moral deabte !!!

Is it OK or isn't it ?

[Ben Kenobi]

Is it okay to harrass and insult me?

[Pyrodrew]

Is it okay to eat icecream that tastes really good even if it's bad for you?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Is it okay to harrass and insult me?

I'm game

[DeathByTheSword]

Actually the Amish, spend from ~18 to whenever they decide to be confirmed doing normal things (drinking, watching TV etc.) I think about 1/2 go get confirmed and stay Amish.

anyone know the word for that?...i heard about it but it has a name i cant remember

[DeathByTheSword]

and is it true that amish people can marry more than on person? if this is true and it is a legal marriage than the whole debate about gays not being able to marry because marriage is between a (read ONE) man and a (read ONE) woman is kinda stupid

[Alex]

why would you want to insult them? have they done something to you? or do you want to insult them just for the sake of it?

it's not a question of PC, it is more of an ethical question. why insult someone who never did anything to you?

(and yes, I'm being serious).

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword

Actually the Amish, spend from ~18 to whenever they decide to be confirmed doing normal things (drinking, watching TV etc.) I think about 1/2 go get confirmed and stay Amish.

anyone know the word for that?...i heard about it but it has a name i cant remember

rumspringa- it's Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch) .

[DeathByTheSword]

rumspringa kinda sounds like:" rond springen" in dutch...means jumping around

[Provost Harrison]

Perhaps homosexuality should be declared a religion and then you can marry to your heart's content

[DeathByTheSword]

why? people with out a belief still MARRY...i am an at atheist and will still marry...(maybe )

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
rumspringa kinda sounds like:" rond springen" in dutch...means jumping around

Lots of jumping around:

" This tumultuous period, which the Amish call rumspringa -- the Pennsylvania Dutch word for "running around" -- is the focus of Devil's Playground, a documentary by filmmaker Lucy Walker, which premiers Thursday night on Cinemax.

"They can go to the mall, they can stay out all weekend long. There's no curfew," Walker tells Morning Edition host Bob Edwards. "Their parents are going to turn a blind eye to all kinds of stuff."

In making her documentary, Walker says she was shocked to find hundreds of teens from Amish settlements in 10 states congregating in "barn hops" and "hoedowns". "They all come together and there will be three fields filled with cars and horse and buggies... and these barns crammed with very drunk teenagers."

One of the teens in Devil's Playground is 16-year-old Gerald of Indiana, who moves out of his parents' house to a trailer that Walker describes as "party headquarters."

"I didn't tell my parents for like a month," he says in the film. "They just kept wondering where I was off to and what I was doing... if I was living at home, I couldn't have 200 channels of DirecTV, a stereo and Nintendo and a fridge full of beer."

Velda, another subject of the film, suffered from depression as she went through rumspringa. Her parents convinced her to join the church but she changed her mind when she realized that "being Amish was actually her problem," Walker says.

"If you've joined church and then leave, they will shun you," Velda says. "The shunning for them is their last way of showing you that they love you. They think that you're breaking a promise that you made to the Amish church. They're afraid for your soul."

And then there's Faron, an 18-year-old with an escalating drug habit who idolizes the late rapper Tupac Shakur -- an unlikely hero for a boy who says he hopes to follow his father into the Amish ministry.

"Sometimes I kind of wish I would have gone Amish when I wanted to," Faron says. "I'd have it easy back there. I'd have a place to live, I'd have a nice job. That's what I was raised to be. I feel like nothing can change that because that's God's plan... "

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/amish

[Dis]

Originally posted by Thue


I would probably find that funny if it had not just read an article about an innocent amish girl who had to go through plastic surgery because somebody did exactly that.

No offence meant

plastic surgery?

funny, they reject our technology for everything else. Why not medical care? Did they even pay for. I bet the state paid for it.

This is a good thing to make fun of the Amish for.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Dissident


plastic surgery?

funny, they reject our technology for everything else. Why not medical care? Did they even pay for. I bet the state paid for it.

This is a good thing to make fun of the Amish for.

LOL...I can just about smell the bile oozing from your post. Isn't envy a wonderful thing ?

Asmodean