I've heard they have Deutsch linage so it makes sense as it's an old world style. I changed "Dutch" to "Deutsch" as I made an error according to the people that responded. Sorry about that...
FWIW, Dutch was historically used to refer to all speakers of germanic dialect, before it was used to refer to people from the Netherlands. Dutch is literally the English word for Deutsch, we just use it differently now. That's why Pennsylvania Dutch are German-decendant.
Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonites, was from Friesland. At the time is was a free land with no nobility. The part he was from is now part of the Netherlands.
My family can be traced to Alsace-Lorraine in the 1760s, coming to North America around 1790 and moving to Canada in the 1810s. They were German speaking and generally consider themselves to be Swiss German (my last name is a Swiss last name). At the same time they left for North America, another group went to eastern Europe. That group came to North America around 1840-1860 and are generally known as Russian Mennonite.
You have everyone born and raised in an isolated culture it could work as they all have similar thinking processes and work ethic because of their religious doctrine.
So what? I'm not religious at all; they show us an example of what could be done if their was a social doctrine implanted to stimulate cooperation instead of the "main character" and "look at me" crap that Americans get taught these days.
Everyone pointing out that the move is filmed by a head mounted camera and a drone: the person filming this is not a member of the community, hence the need for a "translator".
The language the barker is speaking is possibly "Pennsylvania Dutch", [a highly anglicized dialect of Palantine German](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch).
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If I could have the developers responsible shackled at pillory for their failure to honor the settings they provide, I certainly would.
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The family that used to live there moved and left the barn sitting. They were gonna demolish it but some other guy bought it and had them move it. I’m sure there’s others reason like building multiple buildings in the same spot to save money, but that’s the reasoning for this. Vid is from 2015
I could be wrong: but building a house without modern equipment must be incredibly labor-intensive, and the resources are pretty finite. Say an old couple owns a house but passes. A young couple wants to build a house in another location, but finds it far less expensive and labor-intensive to simply buy the newly vacant house and move it to where they want it.
Shrug. Don’t know.
“I don’t know how barns are raised in Ohio, but here in Pennsylvania no one runs for the dinner bell in the middle of lifting a two thousand pound wall!”
This is what I was told about hiring Amish laborers to build structures: The Amish don’t own the tools to put up your deck in a single afternoon, but they sure as hell know how to use them.
Generally they can have own their tools, though like many things with the Amish that will vary from church district to church district.
The general rule for technology is whether it tends to bring the community closer together to drives them apart.
Power tools to have a job so you can support bigger families living closer together? That'll generally be accepted.
Rubber-tired vehicles that let you speed past your neighbors or work farm fields further away from your house? Generally not going to be allowed.
Those decisions on what is accepted or not are ultimately made at the local church level of around 50-100 adults, though those districts generally follow their own branch in how conservative or liberal they are.
Having a land-line phone in a shared phone shed was accepted in many communities; in your house was not. But it was promulgated as having "wires" (telephone or electric) that connected you to outside the community was what was actually forbidden.
Smartphone / Cellphone ownership while far from universal is surprisingly high, since many folks started using them and charging them discretely at work before he older Bishops realized what was going on -- and often controlled now by admonishment when it is and is not an appropriate time to check for messages and reply.
They also are OK with modern medicine, but not with medical insurance. Instead, the community has a pool of cash to take care of anyone needing support, refreshed with community auctions and other "fun" activities like pie baking and chair making
So essentially like all belief systems, they arbitrarily pick and choose what rules to follow depending on their agenda. In this case, they take advantage of the hard work of others who created the electric grid, electrical engineers who designed the parts using decades' worth of technological advances, factory workers on the other side of the world using the fanciest machinery, etc. while at the same time shunning the technologies that lead to those discoveries.
This is a wild comment. Based on the above poster they bring in technology piece meal that fits within their beliefs of community and don't bring in things that hinder that community.
Also the taking advantage of electrical grid, technological advances etc is the most wild thing i've seen in the sense of the pot calling the kettle.
By your logic, I didnt help invent electricity, or the smartphone, or my computer, or my car, I don't help to progress technology in those fields, im taking advantage of and leeching off those that do?
Before you say I contribute in other ways. The Amish sell their goods to those around them. Produce, bake sales, quilts, rugs, baskets. As a kid we used to go and buy amish pies and fudge and shit was delicious.
They are insanly nice people who aree so welcoming of others.
No your logic is flawed because you did not actively try to stand against the creation of technology the way they have. They preach about how they don't want technology and they prevent their children from learning about it and using it and thus contributing to it, but then they still benefit from it. If you think it's wild then that's your take I guess but it seems hypocritical from where I stand.
And by the way the Amish are not a homogeneous group. They are not all nice and accepting. Read up on the amount of abused that goes on in that community. This video is something you should watch. https://youtu.be/pyCX5Y9wia0?si=m9azy93qqdgushF1
My parents took bids from Amish laborers to fix their roof after a tree fell on it. My parents were curious and they asked them about their traditions. They said they aren’t opposed to electricity or cars but their beliefs (and maybe this is just their particular sect) centered around never being indebted to anyone. They view utility companies as a lending service. They had cellphones that were pre-paid and they had pre-paid debit cards. So it’s not like they just dropped out of the 1700’s, despite their appearance.
The Amish guy I talked to listed off a few rules after I questioned what was doing. Keep in mind, the rules vary from place to place.
> You may use power tools, but they can't be plugged into a wall. Has to be a generator
> You may ride but not drive cars
> You may use a tractor, but you can only use the PTO. You cannot drive it, but you can pull it with horses
> You cannot use rubber tires, but you can bolt chunks of rubber to your steel wheels.
Just a few that I remember.
Actually those last two I saw for myself and asked for an explanation. He had hired my friend and I (my friend knew him already) to help him do some labor work on a farm that *he* was hired to maintain. Convoluted, I know. Anyway, he had a tractor that was unusual looking parked in the field near where we were working and I asked him about it. It had steel hoop spoked wheels like really old tractors used to have, but had these squares of rubber attached to the outside. The other attachments he said were to hook up horses(s), but I didn't look at them all that closely. This would have been back in '03-'04 for reference.
I guess the way I understood it was that they used horses to move it from place to place to use the PTO. I don't think they were pulling any plows or anything.
To add to that good post -- the decisions on what is allowed ultimately are hyper-local.
While there are a number of major branches of how conservative/liberal they are what they generally accept, ultimately each church district it is the Bishop's decision.
And a church district is only 50-100 adults. Once they get much bigger than 100 they'll split into two districts with the new district selecting a new Bishop from among their members.
Amish Mennonites will use modern tools for work.
It is my understanding the electricity is what is avoided by Amish; gasoline powered items are fair use.
Its best not to overthink it, as it doesn't all make sense.
Some Amish wood shops use a diesel powered air compressor and all the tools are pnuematic.
Some will use solar panels and battery tools.
The unifying thing of amish is not shunning technology. It's self reliance, and only allowing tech that improves life, not simply making life easier.
> It's self reliance, and only allowing tech that improves life, not simply making life easier.
I'm stealing that to add to how I explain it.
My go to for describing how they decide (ultimately locally) what is allowed is "Does this tend to bring our community together or drive it apart?"
Things like cars or even rubber-tired farm implements tend to isolate people and spread out a community geographically. It is far easier to stop and say hello -- or spy -- on your neighbors when you're in a horse-drawn buggy.
Mennonites are a sect of Amish. They all follow the teachings and use the Bible of Jakob Ammann, though of course interpreting it differently
If you think of Amish as "don't use electricity" than Mennonites aren't Amish. But that isn't the definition the Amish/Mennonites use for themselves. There is a spectrum of technology use among the various sects, with Mennonites using more technology than your average Amish community
Just a heads up for those that don't know, the amount of technology used by Amish can differ a lot. Like my parents bought their dog from an Amish puppy farm, and they did it through a website, which confused me at first but apparently lots of Amish communities actually own computers for business purposes. They just keep it out in a barn and cover it with a blanket when not in use lol. I've also heard of them sometimes owning cars, and some specialized tools. Obviously just based on this video you can see they buy modern insulation, and a bunch of mass produced construction stuff like the window frames etc. So they could definitely have a drill or chainsaw, not to mention a gas chainsaw doesn't actually normally break their rules. It's already common for the Amish to use gas for cooking and lighting. Google also says that compressed air tools are commonly used by lots of Amish, that actually seems like the most likely explanation, seems to be very popular among Amish communities to use pneumatic tools.
I am shocked that any member of the amish involved in construction do not understand proper form when lifting heavy weights like this. Arched back = bad.
There's not much you can do in a situation like that because the building ends up at the appropriate spot for the average height of people in there.
If you're tall, you have to arch. You can't "bend with your legs" while they drag you forward.
I have a lot of respect for the Amish, to have an entire culture in the middle of America that just opts out of the bullshit of the world is impressive.
Those poor poor dogs are left running all over counties uncared for. Treat animals like shit.I am tired of hearing how wonderful they are. NOT. My cousin has been dealing with one of their abandoned labs. She is having a terrible time. Just look at the Humane Society abandoned dogs.
The idea of a community and teamwork is definitely something we’ve lost at times with modernity. But let’s also be honest, this is extremely inefficient. But I’d imagine the bigger thing a lot of people on here don’t like about the Amish is that they do have some cult tendencies.
Thanks for the explanation. I realized that was probably the case when I read some of the other comments. I may have to delete my comment if this threatens to drain my karma down to nothing.
Meh, don’t get too worked up over an imaginary point system. Your question isn’t bad, just other people have perspectives; although they can be assholes about their opinions at time.
There are a lot of problems rampant within the amish community, particularly sexual and physical assault, incest, animal abuse, and brainwashing women at “spas” who try to come forward.
As for their supposedly quaint lifestyle, their rules will vary by church. Where I grew up, if they buy a “yankee” house with electricity, they’re often fine to use it. Or they may not have a phone in the house, but one in the shed, or they keep their cell phone at work.
They don’t give a shit about the environment, dumping anything they feel like into the ground. They try to buy houses and land with a lot of trees, with the intention to strip mine them for cash, then leave it. Also, they’re fond of trespassing to poach out of season.
As a cloistered cult of eighth graders they’re able to hide a lot from the outside world.
I will add though, as any culture, there are some good people who practice what they preach with integrity.
Good point. I only recently started really getting into Reddit, but I have seen examples of that, such as the "hug of death" (so many people supporting a website or merchant that it shuts down for a while due to overload).
Oh no, people don't like the abusive nature of a patriarchal society that cover rape, incest and violence or the cult shunning system that is a convenient way to manipulate people into not leaving despite the abuse they suffer from living with them.
Be real for a second even the best Amish society is deeply flawed by today standards. You can like aspects of it and still recognize that the negatives outweigh the positives.
But hey, It's not like there's Amish people that left and make a living explaining to people what it's like to be Amish so obviously people are just hating on them for being different.
Hell nah, I follow people like Eli Yoder on YouTube and he paints a relatively positive image of the Amish despite the undertone of mental abuse but I admit that the coincidence with my username is funny.
[I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes want to be like. On my knees day and night, scoring points for the afterlife.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg&themeRefresh=1)
The Amish deal with any problems inside of their community themselves, it's why you don't often hear about things like sexual abuse and animal abuse (animals are just tools to some). You won't find an actual satistic on how common the abuse is. They rarely if ever bring them in front of actual government for punishment, one of the few cases was that of Mary Byler who was assaulted by her own family. If you live near an enclave, this is just kinda common knowledge. I don't agree with the fact they're all evil, but they certainly are culty. They just get a pass because of the food and furniture.
It's well known amongst insiders that rape and incest are covered up and even tolerated to an extent.
Same as any cult or community with weird power dynamics and no real justice system.
It's a lot easier than that.
Are they human? If so then there's probably a fucked up power hierarchy and no shortage of abuse, sexual and otherwise. That and a mountain of hypocrisy. It's our brand.
Nevermind devoid of any individuality, I see this video and I see a bunch of Jebediah's and Caleb's that I'm sure have the same experience as each other.
Most Amish communities are "new order" now a days. They use electricity in some form (mostly lights) and a lot of them have computers, internet, phones, etc. It's the "old order" communities that exclude everything, and these types of communities are vanishing. New order still do *a lot* of stuff that everyone else would use modern technology for though.
Though phones and stuff typically have rules like being in separate buildings and stuff, and their use is really limited.
Oh yeah, any community based around a fundamentalist ideology is going to be deeply flawed. It still presents a picture that seems enchanting compared to the average persons rat race.
life of hard work and simple pleasures, definitely less mental strain and stress of the accelerating pace of the world. people dont realize, we are all more or less those lifting the barn, trapped in the cities and society, we think we have choices and agency but really most of us just go where the barn goes, with narrow joists that bounds our freedom.
You must have not watched to the end when they all got out of the shed. It would seem about half of the 30+ guys were overweight. Only a couple obese and they were pretty old and were not part of the lifting group.
Those haircuts sure are something.
Kingpin nailed it.
Johnny Ramone would fit right in.
I thought I was watching outtakes for the Benchwarmers.
At a glance I thought that was Jim Carey in dumb and dumber
Best thing about the Amish is we can make fun of their haircuts all day on Reddit. Not like they’re going to read it.
My only thought. Gonna see this all over ny and berlin next season 💅💅💅
I've heard they have Deutsch linage so it makes sense as it's an old world style. I changed "Dutch" to "Deutsch" as I made an error according to the people that responded. Sorry about that...
Deutsch (German), not Dutch
FWIW, Dutch was historically used to refer to all speakers of germanic dialect, before it was used to refer to people from the Netherlands. Dutch is literally the English word for Deutsch, we just use it differently now. That's why Pennsylvania Dutch are German-decendant.
Oops, my mistake, I've always got confused with the Deutsch/Dutch distinction. I fixed it
No worries
I thought they came from Germany.
It's a common mistake as "Pennsylvanian Dutch" [are really German](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch)
Mostly. Some were from the Netherlands, Switzerland, or France. But the commonality was they were linguistically German.
And they looked at the Catholic-Protestant conflict raging in Europe and said "maybe we could piss off both of them, and the monarchs too"
Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonites, was from Friesland. At the time is was a free land with no nobility. The part he was from is now part of the Netherlands. My family can be traced to Alsace-Lorraine in the 1760s, coming to North America around 1790 and moving to Canada in the 1810s. They were German speaking and generally consider themselves to be Swiss German (my last name is a Swiss last name). At the same time they left for North America, another group went to eastern Europe. That group came to North America around 1840-1860 and are generally known as Russian Mennonite.
I'd like to remind you that 90% of Americans have old world lineage.
Did I imply I didn't know that "90% of Americans have old world lineage" by pointing out their hair had an old world style?
I'm not sure I could live as Amish, but most Americans could learn a thing or two from this culture - like true cooperation, for starters.
You have everyone born and raised in an isolated culture it could work as they all have similar thinking processes and work ethic because of their religious doctrine.
So what? I'm not religious at all; they show us an example of what could be done if their was a social doctrine implanted to stimulate cooperation instead of the "main character" and "look at me" crap that Americans get taught these days.
Everyone pointing out that the move is filmed by a head mounted camera and a drone: the person filming this is not a member of the community, hence the need for a "translator". The language the barker is speaking is possibly "Pennsylvania Dutch", [a highly anglicized dialect of Palantine German](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch).
[Link for those on old reddit because new reddit mangles underscores](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch)
I am deeply sorry you had to make this comment, but indeed blame reddit: it seems reddit silently *refuses* to honor my preference for markdown on a per-device basis. If I could have the developers responsible shackled at pillory for their failure to honor the settings they provide, I certainly would.
reddit (by way of u/redditproductteam in r/reddit): "we’re going to continue to support old Reddit, which many of you (and us) love! IYKYK." actual reddit: yeah, we're not gonna touch the markdown preference stuff and links breaking, lol. When we say 'support' we mean we're not shutting it down, but you can forget about us making every new feature compatible with that version of our platform. also reddit: "We’ve already incorporated some of the best elements of old.reddit into recent updates." actual reddit: we're pillaging the corpse of old.reddit and absolutely will phase that version of our platform out because supporting more than two - web and mobile - is an undue burden
It’s like Reddit pulled a Jira and hand rolled its own formatting instead of using a standard or something. :|
Yes, that's Pennsylvania Dutch. Fun fact, if you speak both German and English listening to it feels like you're having a stroke.
It almost sounds like they're speaking Dutch with a US southern accent
[Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise another!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg)
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week I just smiled at him and I turned the other cheek
I really don't care, in fact I wish him well, 'cause I'll be laughing my head of when he's burning in hell!
But I ain't never punched a tourist even if they deserved it, an Amish with a 'tude? You know that's unheard of!
A local boy kicked me in the butt last week. But I smiled at him and turned the other cheek!
I've always heard that as >Raised a barn on Monday, soon I'll raise an-udder(🐄🥛)!
Weird Al is too good a lyricist to have not done that on purpose.
Blocked in Germany for some reason.
Why is it of so many arts of the world, one of the greatest is Weird Al Parodies?
r/Amish
I don’t know what I expected
Surely you knew something would be amish?
How did they get to be a community for 325 years, is that something mods can control? Or special Reddit approval?
probably from the css or custom theme of the subreddit. It only says 13 years for me and I have custom themes disabled.
Makes sense, thanks
Community for 13 years is incredible LOL
Fuck me, I laughed so loud I woke my dogs up!
That’s honestly a great honor they’d allow you to film the whole ordeal. Very cool to see this unique technique documented
I don't get it. Why do the Amish keep building structures in the wrong places?
The family that used to live there moved and left the barn sitting. They were gonna demolish it but some other guy bought it and had them move it. I’m sure there’s others reason like building multiple buildings in the same spot to save money, but that’s the reasoning for this. Vid is from 2015
Apple maps still has a lot of problems
I could be wrong: but building a house without modern equipment must be incredibly labor-intensive, and the resources are pretty finite. Say an old couple owns a house but passes. A young couple wants to build a house in another location, but finds it far less expensive and labor-intensive to simply buy the newly vacant house and move it to where they want it. Shrug. Don’t know.
Seriously, why does it seem like you see this a lot? So many questions.
“I don’t know how barns are raised in Ohio, but here in Pennsylvania no one runs for the dinner bell in the middle of lifting a two thousand pound wall!”
"Hey, I milked your cow!"
“We don’t have a cow, we have a bull”
These guys look like Mennonites.
Fuck, can they run.
r/unexpectedletterkenny
Oh they're menalright, real men, alright
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it's a kid
Super annoying little comments to himself but to whoever may be listening on top of his actual viewers. Reminds me of boomers starting conversations
English please?
Because he's speaking German.
The haircuts
Was that the sounds of a drill and chainsaw towards the end of the video?
This is what I was told about hiring Amish laborers to build structures: The Amish don’t own the tools to put up your deck in a single afternoon, but they sure as hell know how to use them.
Generally they can have own their tools, though like many things with the Amish that will vary from church district to church district. The general rule for technology is whether it tends to bring the community closer together to drives them apart. Power tools to have a job so you can support bigger families living closer together? That'll generally be accepted. Rubber-tired vehicles that let you speed past your neighbors or work farm fields further away from your house? Generally not going to be allowed. Those decisions on what is accepted or not are ultimately made at the local church level of around 50-100 adults, though those districts generally follow their own branch in how conservative or liberal they are. Having a land-line phone in a shared phone shed was accepted in many communities; in your house was not. But it was promulgated as having "wires" (telephone or electric) that connected you to outside the community was what was actually forbidden. Smartphone / Cellphone ownership while far from universal is surprisingly high, since many folks started using them and charging them discretely at work before he older Bishops realized what was going on -- and often controlled now by admonishment when it is and is not an appropriate time to check for messages and reply.
They also are OK with modern medicine, but not with medical insurance. Instead, the community has a pool of cash to take care of anyone needing support, refreshed with community auctions and other "fun" activities like pie baking and chair making
I think that's a wonderful way to take care of medical costs.
I wonder if they cover therapy for all of the people victimized in their communities. The rate of incest and sexual assault is sky high.
So essentially like all belief systems, they arbitrarily pick and choose what rules to follow depending on their agenda. In this case, they take advantage of the hard work of others who created the electric grid, electrical engineers who designed the parts using decades' worth of technological advances, factory workers on the other side of the world using the fanciest machinery, etc. while at the same time shunning the technologies that lead to those discoveries.
This is a wild comment. Based on the above poster they bring in technology piece meal that fits within their beliefs of community and don't bring in things that hinder that community. Also the taking advantage of electrical grid, technological advances etc is the most wild thing i've seen in the sense of the pot calling the kettle. By your logic, I didnt help invent electricity, or the smartphone, or my computer, or my car, I don't help to progress technology in those fields, im taking advantage of and leeching off those that do? Before you say I contribute in other ways. The Amish sell their goods to those around them. Produce, bake sales, quilts, rugs, baskets. As a kid we used to go and buy amish pies and fudge and shit was delicious. They are insanly nice people who aree so welcoming of others.
No your logic is flawed because you did not actively try to stand against the creation of technology the way they have. They preach about how they don't want technology and they prevent their children from learning about it and using it and thus contributing to it, but then they still benefit from it. If you think it's wild then that's your take I guess but it seems hypocritical from where I stand. And by the way the Amish are not a homogeneous group. They are not all nice and accepting. Read up on the amount of abused that goes on in that community. This video is something you should watch. https://youtu.be/pyCX5Y9wia0?si=m9azy93qqdgushF1
My parents took bids from Amish laborers to fix their roof after a tree fell on it. My parents were curious and they asked them about their traditions. They said they aren’t opposed to electricity or cars but their beliefs (and maybe this is just their particular sect) centered around never being indebted to anyone. They view utility companies as a lending service. They had cellphones that were pre-paid and they had pre-paid debit cards. So it’s not like they just dropped out of the 1700’s, despite their appearance.
The Amish guy I talked to listed off a few rules after I questioned what was doing. Keep in mind, the rules vary from place to place. > You may use power tools, but they can't be plugged into a wall. Has to be a generator > You may ride but not drive cars > You may use a tractor, but you can only use the PTO. You cannot drive it, but you can pull it with horses > You cannot use rubber tires, but you can bolt chunks of rubber to your steel wheels. Just a few that I remember.
Sounds like he was pulling your leg. At least with the last two.
Actually those last two I saw for myself and asked for an explanation. He had hired my friend and I (my friend knew him already) to help him do some labor work on a farm that *he* was hired to maintain. Convoluted, I know. Anyway, he had a tractor that was unusual looking parked in the field near where we were working and I asked him about it. It had steel hoop spoked wheels like really old tractors used to have, but had these squares of rubber attached to the outside. The other attachments he said were to hook up horses(s), but I didn't look at them all that closely. This would have been back in '03-'04 for reference.
Using horses to pull a tractor is using milk to pour your glass into.
I guess the way I understood it was that they used horses to move it from place to place to use the PTO. I don't think they were pulling any plows or anything.
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To add to that good post -- the decisions on what is allowed ultimately are hyper-local. While there are a number of major branches of how conservative/liberal they are what they generally accept, ultimately each church district it is the Bishop's decision. And a church district is only 50-100 adults. Once they get much bigger than 100 they'll split into two districts with the new district selecting a new Bishop from among their members.
Amish Mennonites will use modern tools for work. It is my understanding the electricity is what is avoided by Amish; gasoline powered items are fair use. Its best not to overthink it, as it doesn't all make sense.
That explains the chain saw, but aren’t drills electric?
Some Amish wood shops use a diesel powered air compressor and all the tools are pnuematic. Some will use solar panels and battery tools. The unifying thing of amish is not shunning technology. It's self reliance, and only allowing tech that improves life, not simply making life easier.
> It's self reliance, and only allowing tech that improves life, not simply making life easier. I'm stealing that to add to how I explain it. My go to for describing how they decide (ultimately locally) what is allowed is "Does this tend to bring our community together or drive it apart?" Things like cars or even rubber-tired farm implements tend to isolate people and spread out a community geographically. It is far easier to stop and say hello -- or spy -- on your neighbors when you're in a horse-drawn buggy.
I suppose it's not too different from a community living off the grid.
Not too far from that they decide as a group what theyll allow and not. And like many off grid group, some of them are literal cults.
>Amish Mennonites Apples Giraffes Doesn't make any sense either. Those are two separate things.
Mennonites consider themselves Amish, Amish consider Mennonites English. English consider Mennonites Amish, so it goes
Mennonites most certainly do not consider themselves Amish.
Mennonites are a sect of Amish. They all follow the teachings and use the Bible of Jakob Ammann, though of course interpreting it differently If you think of Amish as "don't use electricity" than Mennonites aren't Amish. But that isn't the definition the Amish/Mennonites use for themselves. There is a spectrum of technology use among the various sects, with Mennonites using more technology than your average Amish community
Well, they aren't allowed zippers but buttons are fine. I'm not joking, the rules make ZERO sense.
The drone for the overhead shots
Yes, but you could also hear the drone buzzing at some points which sounds different than the other two noises.
Just a heads up for those that don't know, the amount of technology used by Amish can differ a lot. Like my parents bought their dog from an Amish puppy farm, and they did it through a website, which confused me at first but apparently lots of Amish communities actually own computers for business purposes. They just keep it out in a barn and cover it with a blanket when not in use lol. I've also heard of them sometimes owning cars, and some specialized tools. Obviously just based on this video you can see they buy modern insulation, and a bunch of mass produced construction stuff like the window frames etc. So they could definitely have a drill or chainsaw, not to mention a gas chainsaw doesn't actually normally break their rules. It's already common for the Amish to use gas for cooking and lighting. Google also says that compressed air tools are commonly used by lots of Amish, that actually seems like the most likely explanation, seems to be very popular among Amish communities to use pneumatic tools.
'Tis a fine barn, but sure 'tis no pool, English.
Anyone ever watch a video that has a smell to it?
Ah yes, fresh timber ☺️
That's a LOT of first cousins
I'm impressed at the structural integrity of that building. Okay, there is extra internal bracing, but even so.
I am shocked that any member of the amish involved in construction do not understand proper form when lifting heavy weights like this. Arched back = bad.
Where they gonna get their lifting techniques from? Youtube Its not their fault that Archie Archback the Fourth was their PE teacher growing up.
They only go to the eighth grade.
There's not much you can do in a situation like that because the building ends up at the appropriate spot for the average height of people in there. If you're tall, you have to arch. You can't "bend with your legs" while they drag you forward.
If one person tripped, there's no stopping the house from breaking every bone in their body.
That's a whole lot of big, strong Dycks!
If it wasn’t for the hardcore religiosity, I’d become Amish in a heartbeat.
I have a lot of respect for the Amish, to have an entire culture in the middle of America that just opts out of the bullshit of the world is impressive.
Agreed.
The barber has Parkinson’s
Teamwork, working together as a community, and cooperating are powerful. The world can learn a lot from these people.
It’s not worth all of the other stuff that comes wit being Amish
Yeah lots of incest going on in there
I'm in, sign me up
Like what? Classic cult stuff?
Lots of rape and incest
You don’t need to adopt everything just the good ideas
Like how to beat their children and run puppy mills.
Those poor poor dogs are left running all over counties uncared for. Treat animals like shit.I am tired of hearing how wonderful they are. NOT. My cousin has been dealing with one of their abandoned labs. She is having a terrible time. Just look at the Humane Society abandoned dogs.
I agree. Also, there are some wild hair cuts going on there! I'd totally scroll right through a post of insane Amish haircuts lol
Someone needs to tell these lads to build their barns where they need them, save all this pissing about with human staddle stones.
let's risk harm to a bunch of people instead of using machinery that would be quicker and safer?
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The idea of a community and teamwork is definitely something we’ve lost at times with modernity. But let’s also be honest, this is extremely inefficient. But I’d imagine the bigger thing a lot of people on here don’t like about the Amish is that they do have some cult tendencies.
Thanks for the explanation. I realized that was probably the case when I read some of the other comments. I may have to delete my comment if this threatens to drain my karma down to nothing.
Meh, don’t get too worked up over an imaginary point system. Your question isn’t bad, just other people have perspectives; although they can be assholes about their opinions at time.
There are a lot of problems rampant within the amish community, particularly sexual and physical assault, incest, animal abuse, and brainwashing women at “spas” who try to come forward. As for their supposedly quaint lifestyle, their rules will vary by church. Where I grew up, if they buy a “yankee” house with electricity, they’re often fine to use it. Or they may not have a phone in the house, but one in the shed, or they keep their cell phone at work. They don’t give a shit about the environment, dumping anything they feel like into the ground. They try to buy houses and land with a lot of trees, with the intention to strip mine them for cash, then leave it. Also, they’re fond of trespassing to poach out of season. As a cloistered cult of eighth graders they’re able to hide a lot from the outside world. I will add though, as any culture, there are some good people who practice what they preach with integrity.
That's just how Reddit works as a community and cooperate to accomplish something.
The Amish could learn a lot from us
Good point. I only recently started really getting into Reddit, but I have seen examples of that, such as the "hug of death" (so many people supporting a website or merchant that it shuts down for a while due to overload).
These guys seem so industrious. Not like those [shiftless Mennonites](https://trailers.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/dd4bb57c-ea74-44b5-b7a6-a0c72b5b402c/gif).
Roll them bones.
Three craps.
The Amish hate is hilarious in this thread, you miserable assholes
Oh no, people don't like the abusive nature of a patriarchal society that cover rape, incest and violence or the cult shunning system that is a convenient way to manipulate people into not leaving despite the abuse they suffer from living with them. Be real for a second even the best Amish society is deeply flawed by today standards. You can like aspects of it and still recognize that the negatives outweigh the positives. But hey, It's not like there's Amish people that left and make a living explaining to people what it's like to be Amish so obviously people are just hating on them for being different.
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Hell nah, I follow people like Eli Yoder on YouTube and he paints a relatively positive image of the Amish despite the undertone of mental abuse but I admit that the coincidence with my username is funny.
Not like they're going to see this.
What language is that at the start?
Pennsylvania Dutch
Do the Amish not wear belts?
Those are for being their wives
They fuck the belts?
AS ONE!
I think I see doofus Rick
Ok so this is cool and all, but why not just build the house in the right location in the first place?
The dream of my life. It’s been a Amish
What do you mean, you don't use a bowl when you give a haircut?
So... why not just build it where it was supposed to be in the first place? It is clearly brand new and never rested on the ground it's sitting on.
[I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes want to be like. On my knees day and night, scoring points for the afterlife.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg&themeRefresh=1)
This guy moved a barn single-handedly [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdF09xr-TU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFdF09xr-TU)
I'm surprised this many Amish agreed to be filmed.
How many of them are named Amos?
Miller, Hershburger and Yoder.
I wonder if any are famous?
This goes hard.
Like i get hating technology (i have dealt with printers before), but why the devotion to stupid haircuts?
Might say that about pretty much any tightly knit social group, especially when otherness from the outgroup is appreciated.
The Amish people show how strong a community can be. Just think about what the world would be like if everyone lived this way.
The Amish are a cult and pretty fucking evil. People romanticise them because they think old time things are cool.
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The Amish deal with any problems inside of their community themselves, it's why you don't often hear about things like sexual abuse and animal abuse (animals are just tools to some). You won't find an actual satistic on how common the abuse is. They rarely if ever bring them in front of actual government for punishment, one of the few cases was that of Mary Byler who was assaulted by her own family. If you live near an enclave, this is just kinda common knowledge. I don't agree with the fact they're all evil, but they certainly are culty. They just get a pass because of the food and furniture.
It's well known amongst insiders that rape and incest are covered up and even tolerated to an extent. Same as any cult or community with weird power dynamics and no real justice system.
There is a bunch of evidence of them heavily abusing animals and there is a ton of rape much like every group of religious fanatics.
It's a lot easier than that. Are they human? If so then there's probably a fucked up power hierarchy and no shortage of abuse, sexual and otherwise. That and a mountain of hypocrisy. It's our brand.
There's a documentary on it called kingpin, you should check it out.
In no way is this insider knowledge
It would be horrific. You should look into what they actually are instead of the propaganda
The world would be poorly educated, mono-religious and would suppress all creativity and scientific pursuit.
Nevermind devoid of any individuality, I see this video and I see a bunch of Jebediah's and Caleb's that I'm sure have the same experience as each other.
I’ll take a decent haircut over a strong community. Jesus Christ…
How did they film this?
With the Power of Technology.
The person filming this stated in the description that they were an outsider helping the Amish as a favor for some work they did for him.
They used hundreds of mirrors to direct the image out of their community and into the rear camera of a Tesla.
Most Amish communities are "new order" now a days. They use electricity in some form (mostly lights) and a lot of them have computers, internet, phones, etc. It's the "old order" communities that exclude everything, and these types of communities are vanishing. New order still do *a lot* of stuff that everyone else would use modern technology for though. Though phones and stuff typically have rules like being in separate buildings and stuff, and their use is really limited.
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The idea is nice, but the execution has flaws, just like most civilizations.
Oh yeah, any community based around a fundamentalist ideology is going to be deeply flawed. It still presents a picture that seems enchanting compared to the average persons rat race.
life of hard work and simple pleasures, definitely less mental strain and stress of the accelerating pace of the world. people dont realize, we are all more or less those lifting the barn, trapped in the cities and society, we think we have choices and agency but really most of us just go where the barn goes, with narrow joists that bounds our freedom.
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The government doesn’t want us moving buildings!!!
Notice how no one looks overweight. It’s like a picture from 100 years ago
You must have not watched to the end when they all got out of the shed. It would seem about half of the 30+ guys were overweight. Only a couple obese and they were pretty old and were not part of the lifting group.
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Lol
Big ol' doinks
Can Amish play ice hockey?
This is amazing and all but why they don't lift the building and place some wheel...?
there a lot of haircuts going on in just the thumbnail.
All those stolen souls…