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Permalink Reply by Kevin on December 9, 2012 at 5:20pm

I was raised in a beachy amish home. That is very similar to conservative mennonites. My faith has been dead for about 4 years now but i have yet make this public information. After leading a pretty wild lifestyle during my rumspringa years i had very very sincere conversion about 2001. For the next 8 years i was the model of an extremely devoted christian before having my faith complete demolished by higher criticism of the bible. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it is an microscopic analisis of the bible from a literary standpoint. Email me at beachykevin@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Jason on December 10, 2012 at 8:52am

Good Guy Amish

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on December 10, 2012 at 1:49pm

Jessica - I don't need to tell you that your text is black against a black background - that happens once in a while, and I don't know exactly why. Go back into your post and click on the "HTML" button on the top right of your toolbar. Your post will change to HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and just before your paragraph, you will see something that looks like this: <span style="color: #XXXXXX;"> - where I've typed X's, you should see two letters and a series of four numbers, highlight and delete everything between the first bracket < and the last > including the brackets, then hit, "Add Reply" or "Save" and your text should appear normal.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on December 10, 2012 at 1:56pm

I used to own a club and restaurant just eleven miles from an Amish community - we used to buy milk and eggs from them. From the outside, they appeared to be kind, caring people, but I'm hot at all sure I would have liked being raised in such a community.

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Permalink Reply by Melvinotis on December 10, 2012 at 7:34pm

Slightly off topic, but I live in an area where the Amish have cornered the market on house framing (I once met Noah, the "Amish Godfather"). There are some laws in place in Cleveland that require people from the local community to work on certain projects, so occasionally you will see inner city folks working side by side with Amish carpenters. 

The Amish have a dress code that more or less requires that the clothes they wear be made within their community, often by their mothers. But OSHA requires safety glasses, and Mom can't make those. So the workers wear the traditional garb, homemade jeans, cotton shirt, and a straw hat, but they love Oakley sunglasses that make them look like they are moving 150 miles an hour.

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Permalink Reply by Kelin420 on December 11, 2012 at 7:26am

Saw an add for an Amish Mafia TV show. Had to laugh thinking about the "high speed" chases

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on December 11, 2012 at 11:07am

If you think THAT sounds exciting, you ain't seen NUTHin' til you've flown Amish Airlines!

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