Explaining the Amish Way of Life - VOA Story
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Not far from the hustle and bustle of city life live the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. These deeply religious people shun the conveniences of modern society to live a simpler life where transportation is a horse and buggy and horsepower really means horsepower.
The Amish are very devout and take seriously the biblical commands to separate themselves from the things of the world including electricity. Power comes from propane, kerosene, wood, coal, or natural gas.
As the world around the peaceful farmland changes, so have some of the traditions of the Amish. Transportation is no longer limited to horse-drawn buggies. "There is a division among the Amish over the automobile. One group got automobiles, another group kept the horse and buggy. we just simply name them old order -- drive the horse and buggy, and the new order -- drive the automobiles. They have electric, they have meeting houses and they don't have green shades."
But many traditions remain. Amish children attend one-room schoolhouses through grade eight and farming is the mainstay of Amish life. There are normally two horses on a farm for buggies. Several mules are kept for farming. Milking is one of the most important sources of income on the farm.
Many Amish leaders believe their separation from the outside world strengthens their community. And that community is thriving. Despite what many on the outside would describe as a backwards lifestyle, the Amish population in Lancaster County has almost tripled over the past half century.
I have a great respect for the Amish for their commitment to their values, hard work and peaceful ways. We "mainstreamers" have a lot to learn!
Who here for a class?
*reaches up right hand*
No one
@@dailysandwich4838 yes
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I see amish everyday! They're the nicest people you'll ever meet. They are so peacefull and very hardworking.
Part 1
I am amish and when I was a boy I didn't know this modern way of life existed until one day a stranger walked into our village asking for directions and I noticed his vehicle he drove and his clothes he wore were different to ours so I asked him about it he explained. As I grew up I asked my parents about the modern life they said to me it’s an evil way to live, those thoughts were evil and I should never think them but I was still curious.
It's so wonderful & so refreshing, to watch such an upload & to learn more about the Amish people & their way of life. Please always keep your traditions & beliefs alive. Such a way of life, should never be lost. Your sense of family & community is so strong. It makes me realise, how detached & isolated, for a large part, most of us non-Amish people are. We non-Amish, can really get caught up in all things material, yet for the Amish it's all about real human ties, family ties, the family unit, the community spirit & connection, that you all care about & are focused on. I have an immense respect & appreciation for the Amish people & their way of life. I can only aspire to be as good as they are. I want so much, the strong marital & family values that they possess, when i get married & have my own family. I think it's very unique, special & beautiful. Although i consider myself a strong, modern & independent woman, i'm not too pig headed or proud to admit, that there is something very simple, organic, amazing, pure & wonderful, regarding the Amish way of life. :-) God bless you all & thank you for sharing your way of life with us.
So well said 🖤 I have great respect for their morals, beliefs and hard work. People these days have gotten so lost in materialistic ways… I hope one day, we all can be reunited family, as we are all children of God💛God Bless everyone 🤍 Everyone who reads this, know it does not matter your color, religion, gender, race; you are beautiful & you are worth it. Be the change you want to see in the world, we can make it a better place. Everyone has a purpose in life 💕💕💕
Thursday night while setteling down in an Amish barn for the night the man who owned the property brought us (7 of us) a gallon of FRESH MILK and a loaf of fresh bread........then my silly friend accepted an offer for some yogurt.......to much for the 7 of us to all consume, especially since some of us did not like yogurt. A great experience. Kind of magical. Then Friday morning we visited the father-in-law and his family 4 miles away.......about a 3 hour chat on their back porch.
very inspiring community,leading a simple life.i like their life style.
They do provide something useful. When the world runs out of oil, we all may have to revert back to a much simpler lifestyle. They could be a big help in that regard.
I mean what im about to say.If i had a wish i would love to spend time with them.To learn as i feel there is always room for inprovement in my life.
Despite what you might think of the Amish, if the economy ever collapsed or if society breaks down for whatever reason, they will be the only ones left. All I know is that last night we lost power for about 2 hours and I went nuts! Suddenly it dawned on me, my life, my friends and family's lives are so intertwined and so dependent with the modern world that it really has us at its mercy now. I don't even own a fishing pole to catch my own fish if I had too. Pretty scary when you think about it.
hope you've invested in a fishing pole since 2010
If we all lived liked the Amish there would be no war, no greed, no murder, no adultry, no jealousy and so on and so forth. The world would be a safe place and everyone would live in peace. We can shun Amish but he who is without sin shall cast the first stone.
I admire these people alot. I probably couldn't live like them, but I do admire them for their traditional Christian values and morals
Using the internet doesn't have to be a secret. As long as you're not hurting anyone, live like you want to live
I'm from Ohio, Pennsy Dutch, and had the joy of having "plain" relatives. I live in France now to be back closer to my roots in Alsace, Switzerland & Germany. The Baumgardner family farm museum was open until recently in Ohio and had not changed in so long, it was educational. Much of our land was seized from us by the govt 100 years ago, we had to go to cities & were modernized & impoverished. I guess I gave the land back to the First People. Uprated and shared.
cool im doing a project for the amish
que linda vida ,sin cable tv ,sin radio,sin pc,sin electricidad,que buena vida sin contaminacion ,una belleza!!!!its beatiful.!!!!
Driving a horse drawn buggy tempts me to become Amish. I have not driven a four wheel buggy since 1968.
I met about a dozen of them last Thursday. I slept in an Amish barn Thursday night with my wife and her parents, sister and husband of her sister and an australian friend of mine. They're reserved, not so much up-tight. But the father in-law to the man who owned the barn was really cool, not up tight at all. Friday from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM we talked on the back porch of the father-in-law with his whole family. It was grand-dads 85th birthday. The kids speak their german dialect.
When things go bad in the U.S., and we lose power and money and the ways of how we live. The Amish are the ones we will look up to help us get back on are feet.
I like the Amish. Occasionally they come into the city and set up booths to sell an assortment of homemade goods of quality that's hard to come by.
Oh man. I'm Muslim and I can only imagine what a wonderful world this would be had all the religious fundamentalists been as cool as these guys.
they may be allowed to choose whether they want to join church or not but make no mistake there is incredible pressure from all sides to join.
I got to Lancaster county PA (Amish country) almost every year. I love it there. So peaceful and relaxing. The people are all so nice and friendly. The amish are also very nice people.If that is the life style they want to live and they are not bothering me than so be it. I have met & ate at numerous amish family homes & they are nicest people & boy can they cook!! Best meal i have ever had. Going again this year in july can not wait!!!
have just finished a book about the amish, i find them facinating. we could all learn a thing or two from them. was sorry to hear tho' that some farms are introducing electricity and automobiles.
What I find interesting in Religion is in the past how they were treated by people that didn't take the time to know them. You have the Amish, LDS, Jews, Catholics and Jesus himself. So many people have been hurt or even killed for their believes. I was able to spend a day with the Amish and it was a great experience for me.
Part 2
I planned to leave this way of life and enter the modern world which I am enjoying so much now. All my amish friends and family tried to prevent me from leaving by locking me in a barn but I escaped and they were chasing me with pitch forks and they shouted at me saying I was a dirty evil human being and you can join you evil human being friends and rot in hell because we disown you.
Simply put, the Amish simplicity reflects their devout devotion to God, putting on humility, and putting off pride. This I learned from reading, from visiting Lancaster, and from talking with a few Amish.
I LOOOOOVE that colorful quilt that the hats are laid upon.
I wood love to live like the amish.
Me too. :-) To have a fully committed spouse, a respectful, happy marriage, a family & a simple, yet great community base around me, well............Who wouldn't want that?!
@angelmom3950 they have stuff in the basement where it is always colder, because the basement is under the earth / under the house and therefore well isolated. If you collect enough ice during the winter and keep that in a hidden, very dark corner, you can keep stuff pretty cold for a long time even in summer.
I'm agnostic, and have a deep respect for the Amish. Not only cause they keep European heritage alive but cause they can group together and survive.
These are great people with a strong belief in their way of life, pity most of the rest of US were not as materialistic, Long may they remain as they are.
these guys are great, i love the idea of a close nit community doing what needs to be done to get by, not just doing office work each day for no real reason :P
I was Amish. And there is a reason some people use names with Amish in them, it just makes people stop and look for a minute.
Obviously, these people know the difference between need and want.
Being raised in an Amish community has taught me valuable life lessons. There is nothing wrong with incest. The scientific proof concerning genetic mutations is only a government scare tactic. I am a perfectly sound individual. God Bless the Amish!!!
wtf
i like this way of life and its not freaky.. i think its special...
It's good for the environment too.
My people camr here from Swiss/Germany in the early 1700's. I believe they were Amish or Mennonite (not sure). We from Erie County and Lancaster County. I wish I knew more about my family. I think it's a wonderful way to live being self sufficient. They are better off detaching themselves from the outside world.
My great grandpa's family was amish/mennonite. They lived in Lancaster/Annville PA. Their side of the family was German and Swiss. I could have been amish.
The Amish did not come to America in a Steam Boat, they came over in a sailboat. The Steam Boat was an invention of the early nineteenth century, the ancestors of the Amish came to the United States in the 18th century, over 100 years before the steam boat.
I've been too susceptible to corny puns and jokes lately... I thought yours was funny. I actually laughed. That's how bad I am.
Although I'm pagan Slav, the simply way of life of these people really impresses me. It's their vote, so let's live them how they want...
I have more respect for the Amish then most religious groups because they let their children choose if they want to be Amish or not.
I didn't know you could choose to be Amish or not. That's something new to me.
I respect these people and I'm happy that they like the way they live. ^_^
Finally something that makes sense...
Lancaster County has one of the highest millionaire concentrations.
Their profit to overhead ratio is very big.
i wish i was amish.. i bet their happiness is bigger then ours
@7x57mmMauser And don't forget the possibility that we have a populace that's apparently better connected, yet feeling more isolated and alone than ever before.
I wish my family and friends were as nice as the Amish!
Sweet video
I live near Amish people and meet them when I go to farm auctions. I respect them for their beliefs and lifestyles. However, if we were all Amish, there would be no military defense of the country. I believe they are an important part of our society by reminding the rest of us the importance of taking the Christian faith seriously, as they understand it. I see they are establishing colonies farther west and to the north now and engaging more in small industry and less farming.
@7x57mmMauser the exponential growth of technology, expanding life-spans, safer transportation, better medical care - I could go on for years really
How true. The world would be much better.
such inspiration in simplicity!!!
It is hard to know. They accept changes in a very slow way. Besides, they are open to accept things that are useful for them and that not represent a cultural risk.
very good video
I admire the amish people, in fact i would love to go to lancaster and actually try to live like that for a period of time i mean that is just incredible :)
Amish are a part of American culture, it's a uniquely american phenomena dating back hundreds of years. There have been amish in america as long as the US has existed.
the only way they did this is because they felt that modern technologies will "distort" the real way of life. however, the use of simple technology is still there.. i feel that there is nothing wrong with the way that the Amish people live. There are many others who live life this way.
They do not reject modern medicine !
I think the Amish sound like the smartest and most decent people in America. We would all do well to learn from their example. The simple life is the best life, just my opinion though. There are a lot of Meninites around where I live. I don't know much really about either the Meninites or the Amish but I respect them for staying in their own ways and not allowing the outside world to corrupt them. They are a hell of a lot better off than the rest of us thats for sure.
yea i agree that bugs me too, and i've gotten on to people who i know who do it. and explain why they shouldn't etc.
Why do you care? If they do not want to have or use "modern technology" then that is their problem not yours. You live your life the way you want & they will live their lives the way they want to.
Well done video clip! I just embedded it on my scilog "Biology of Religion". Thanks & keep up the informative work!
@BiracialGirl1977 They are great friendly and polite people in Southern Michigan. They sell the BEST strawberry ruebarb pie too!
if Karzai can set up a thing like this in Afghanistan for Talib Pashto communities, it could end the war!! Amish leaders must contact Afghan government and initiate this sensible proposal that may save thousands of lives in Afghanistan!
as an atheist, i wish that more religions could be like the amish seem to be.the do not oppress others, seek to change them, they dont go around telling people in the city"youre going to hell for wearing that" like they do in some places, commit violence..blow up clinics, crash planes in to buildings..if religion was peaceful, less people would be against it.
@sophValentina however, they get excluded from their families and the community if they don't choose to be amish. so the volontarity in it can be discussed...
Very interesting
I was watching a film about the Amish I could not believe that there are people who live this way in the 21st century And also in America / But I think that every person has the freedom to choose his own life/ This world is full of wonders ^_^
No pollution good for the environment
If people didn't farm you would starve to death. You should respect people who choose to that life. If higher education makes you haughty, proud or makes you hate God then it doesn't benefit you. The Amish are good, kind people and there is much about them to be admired and respected.
I saw an old Amish woman driving a big truck once
I saw an Amish guy once, he was in an Escalade...
though it is rare, but it does happen, you can join an amish church, and become amish yourself.
Interesing way to live. Amazing they come originaly from Switzerland :)
very interesting
The amish are educated, hard working people that have a strong faith in god and I live in an amish area with plenty of interaction with them so for the hateful types you sound like your own house needs put in order before throwing stones at these great people. No crime, no drugs, no teens getting knocked up with a 2% divorce rate and no welfare mamas they all pull their own weight and pay taxes for our schools and their own on top of property taxes but there will always be haters.
I was looking for Smosh until my auto-Correcter on my phone Made me one to this. :/
That needs to be clarified.....that the amish only let their kids go to school up to the eighth grade. In the USA up till about 1910 most schools only went to the eighth grade and that was as high as you could go. Even though they only had 8 grades the work was very accelerated. They fit 12 years information into 8 years of schooling. As proof, if you can ever find antique text books from 1900 you would see that 8th grade work was very advanced
the simple life it is so complicated to me
My respect to the a imish community
the Amish will never purposely pose for a picture but will not stop someone from taking pictures. (notice how they are often turned away?) Ive spent lots of time in Shipshewana Indiana and have learned there are many differences in the culture, there are different "sects" per se, that's why you will see some with modern things and others still living like the Ingalls. There is also a difference between Amish and Mennonites, although not everyone can spot them right away!
Amish life is something I would like to try for like a weekend or something. :)
I wish I could live a simple life like an Amish, but I am too weak. Though I envy them very much.
i always worried about the amish becoming instinct if more and more rumspringa teens leave the amish for good. But lucky they have so many children, so i can learn about this amazing society. Love their lifestyle so much i just wish i could try out amish for a week.
My great grandpa and his family were amish/mennonites. My side of the family is German and Swiss. i could have been amish.
Thanks for the clerification.
@gatheringleaves often under those groups there are a lot of shit happening. there are a few examples you probably can remember.
great way to live
If they're against modern technology, if an amish person gets very sick, do they take her to the hospital (to be treated with modern technology and have more chances of survival) or do they treat her themselves?
I think I know who might have a rather high chance of not only surviving but possibly thriving should the technological world and life as most of us know it come to an end.
@itskayleighbaby farming, making furniture. etc. and yes they do pay taxes.
I mean no offense to the Amish. but I have a few jokes:
What goes, "clop clop clop BANG BANG clop clop clop"?: An Amish drive-by shooting.
How many Amish does it take to screw in a lightbulb?: What's a lightbulb?
Why don't Amish waterski?: The horses would drown.
@Headswithsacks Live a good life. If there are gods & they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.-MARCUS AURELIUS
@Safarigod lmao yes i did not make amish steak. I said they were on the electric train as in inside it.
i wish that i live like them.
What happened to the wonderful Ephraim and his family? I found him deeply inspiring. Is his daughter making good progress? I long to hear.
Benefits to being amish:
- Never get a cable bill
- Never have to buy bleach
- Never hear that awful "click" sound when your car won't start
- homemade pies and quilts!
- you can honestly say "I have nothing to wear"!
ha ha ha
but, sorry, I need electricity and color in my life!