Except that cults usually do so to benefit (usually finacially and usually to an extreme) the leader/founder. The Amish are a multitude of independent communities spread around the world whose leaders are selected by virtue of age.
The Amish as a source
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Except that cults usually do so to benefit (usually finacially and usually to an extreme) the leader/founder. The Amish are a multitude of independent communities spread around the world whose leaders are selected by virtue of age.
I'd also bet that most cults don't make apple pie and ice cream as well as the Amish.
Rather like you are saying that other ways of living are "awful" and people are better off living differently I assume?
For me, people are better off learning about as many ways of life as possible and selecting ones that best suit their own choices. I have certainly encouraged my daughter to experience as many cultures, beliefs and lifestyles as she can - and learn from them if not adopt them. Even if thats just the recipe for great apple pie.
I don't find that demonising (or worshiping) and one lifestyle is a sensible approach to life.
Red
Ahhh, but would you let her wear a baseball cap Red
Especially if it read "Jack Daniels Field Tester?"
Mate she's just completed here first degree and is moving on to her masters. She grew out of thinking American sports unifroms were cool after spending a few weeks there on an exchange at 12. A little late in life I agree, but there you have it 
If it made her happy though - why not? Its everyones right to dress like a numpty if they choose
If it made her happy though - why not? Its everyones right to dress like a numpty if they choose
Mate she's just completed here first degree and is moving on to her masters. She grew out of thinking American sports unifroms were cool after spending a few weeks there on an exchange at 12. A little late in life I agree, but there you have it
If it made her happy though - why not? Its everyones right to dress like a numpty if they choose
Indeed, look at some of the hats and clothes bushcrafters wear
Mate she's just completed here first degree and is moving on to her masters. She grew out of thinking American sports unifroms were cool after spending a few weeks there on an exchange at 12. A little late in life I agree, but there you have it
If it made her happy though - why not? Its everyones right to dress like a numpty if they choose
Ahem, Point made I believe!
Ahem, Point made I believe!
Where I come from the picture with the NRA hat would be considered formal wear. Perhaps you are going to a wedding? I suggest wearing a nice 1911 commander in stainless as an accoutrement. It would be gauche to carry a Glock to a formal event, or avante gaurde in the least.
What really annoys me is the ban on buttons notwithstanding that Amish men wear trousers and not breeches, the vanity of it, I wonder what Calvin and Luther would have to say about that
Could be an alternative to a 3 piece suit for a Florida wedding: Shorts, tank top, and flip flops.
I'm thinking of getting a tattoo of a revolver on my stomache so that it looks like I've got a 38 tucked into my bathing suit.
Make sure it is not a 44magnum or people might think you are compensating. One must keep up appearances deary.
Like that Red,
I use an analogy that may be controversial; The supermarket and the hard to steer trolley,
as you struggle around your local Frescomart you put into your trolley those items you need, those you enjoy, those that work for you and occassionally those new things you would like to try. If those new things meet with one or more of the other requirements they may become a constant in your trolley otherwise you leave them on the shelf for someone else to find and to consider adding to their equally obstinate trolley. They are as welcome to them as I am glad to leave them on the shelf.
However, I got here while looking into barn building! I have been asked to re-build one, HillBill post #74 popped up on google and the part at 2.05 is what I hope to avoid:yelrotflm
interesting thread also as I have long admired the work ethic of the Amish and their hand tool skills. I got interested after going to a Shaker exhibition in London in the early 1990's and admiring some of the furniture they produced, they did use some powered tools but kept to very simple decoration, if any.
Hand tool skills are sadly lacking in the newer generations of carpenters and joiners in the UK, due to lack of training and the reliance on power tools to earn the money faster.
In bushcraft we will often employ four main tools, none have a power cord attached, a knife, an axe, a saw (buck or folder) and possibly a spoon knife. In doing so we re-connect to the material in a very personal way and re-kindle a part of the vanishing skillsets of today.
Should we not look at the "pre-modern" lifestyles as we do the Hasda tribes people or the aboriginals who try to keep their culture alive and borrow from them the skillsets we are losing?
I am sure I could learn a lot from them that could improve my skillset and be put to use, as many other things are, when I am out and about.
Right back to work for me!
Rob.
Increasingly in my life, I find lifestyles of older times and simpler ways more relevant to me. I'm fascinated by Bushcraft - but its really not that relevant to my daily life. The agricultural engineer who taught me to make ammunition, the hedge layer, the district nurse who taught me to make soap, the farmers wife that taught me vinegar making. These skills are still relevant to my life - but also dying out.
Funnily enough I was discussing home made fungicide with a member last night.
Years ago "Bordeaux mix" was what any gardener could make. Nowadays - not so much!
Its all fun though!
