Conned By The Amish?

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9-08-2012 @ 9:47AM

gawaine said...

Many Amish businesses and farms do have phones, they just don't allow them in the house. Some families will even share a truck - one for a group of homes, not one per home. It's been a few years since I've lived in Amish country, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out if some of them had netbooks hidden away and used dial-up.

That's not counting businesses like the Dutch Farmer's Markets in Maryland or the Essenhaus or Amish Acres in Indiana, which have large numbers of Amish and Mennonite families working in them, but aren't, themselves, restricted the way an Amish household would be.

They don't think technology is always evil, they think it's not something that should be a priority.

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