So, let's say you meet an Amish kid on rumspringa, eager to learn about the ways of the world. What 10 films do you show him/her?
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Movies and television are the devil's playthings and no good will come of it. If you're going to show him the ways of the world, a play or book would be more in line with this, er, lifestyle. Don't they shun electricity?
We've done a good job of fucking up the planet, so what makes our ways worth knowing anyway?
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I always wonder how much they know and don't know about the English, because they are around us at farmer's markets.
There's a farmer's market on a street near my old apartment, held each Tuesday in summer and autumn. On September 11, 2001, I swung by there after work, looking for some cherry tomatoes, and the only one of the usual vendors who wasn't there was the Amish guy. How did he knew what had happened?
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IP, the rumspringa is a time in a Amish teenagers life when they are allowed to go crazy and test out the life of modern non-Amish Americans. The idea is that once they've seen what that's like, they'll decide to come back into the Amish community or will leave, but at least the one's that stay will really want to be there.
Different Amish and Mennonite communities keep different rules about modern conveniences. The idea is that those things interfere with the simple "plain" lifestyle that they value, not that any particular technology like cars or tvs are necessarily evil.
I recall that when the Eagles were in the Super Bowl, there were some interviews with Amish kids who all said they were big Eagles fans. They had an Eagles football and one or two of them had Eagles replica jerseys, but none of them had seen a game on TV. They followed them in the newspaper and one or two of them had heard their games on the radio.
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"So, let's say you meet an Amish kid on rumspringa, eager to learn about the ways of the world".
"IP, the rumspringa is a time in a Amish teenagers life when they are allowed to go crazy and test out the life of modern non-Amish Americans."
In which case, 'Swingers' and 'Wayne's World' are the films I'd like them to see.
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