What are Amish people like?
leaders in science innovation
Hand craft furniture that they sell to outsiders for expensive prices
Churn butter
They ride their horse and buggy on the road and are hazards for drivers
They run delicious restaurants
They sell furniture
this is the only experiences outsiders will have with them
Croatian scientist
>>52485591
Techpriests
Future of the white race
Unlike most Americans who have had a birthrate too low to maintain the population since the early 1970s, most of the Amish continue to have 6–7 children while benefiting from the major decrease in infant and maternal mortality in the 20th century. Between 1992 and 2013, the Amish population increased by 120%,[8] while the US population increased by only 23%.
>>52489010
they also have 12 fingers
Inbred jews
Can an outsider become one?
Religious fundamentalists who keep to themselves and work hard and provide for their families. They make quality furniture and sell puppies.
>>52489106
They have a extremely tight knit community, i do not know if it can be done, but anythings possible
how old does an amish boy have to be before he is allowed to wear shoes?
Like Orthodox Jews, but polite, without technology, and even more insular.
Rate my fit /int/
are they allowed to use medicine for treatable but permanent illnesses or is it just god's will shit and they let them die?
do the females use tampons or rags or anything during their period?
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316371&page=1
"I would read books and I'd imagine. I had a great imagination that would take me to faraway places, you know, places where I was afraid I would never be, but wanted to be," she told "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas.
Mary says she'd use those fantasies as an emotional escape from what she says was her horrible reality -- a childhood and adolescence of sexual assault and rape.
"If somebody was raping me, I'd look up to the ceiling, count the blocks or count the cracks in the wall, or just I was completely not there emotionally. I would have committed suicide many times over if I wouldn't be strong," she said.
Through the years, by Mary's account, she was raped by several different attackers. But one abused her more often than the others -- her brother Johnny. Johnny, one of Mary's eight brothers, began assaulting her when he was 12 and she was 6. The assaults continued into her teen years, she said.
"I couldn't go to the outhouse because there was always somebody waiting there. I couldn't go anywhere alone. There was just no place I could be alone," she said.
As time passed, another brother, Eli, followed suit.
"He'd rape me down in the milk house when I was cleaning up the milk house. He'd rape me down in the barn," she said.
The violence in Mary's family began with the head of it -- a stepfather who, she says, continually beat both Mary and her brothers.
"He hit them with shovels and hacksaws, fists, halters, anything and everything he could get his hands on," she said.
>>52489263
ary recalled, "She said to me, 'You know, Mary, David is bad to me.'" Mary said her sister told her their mom, Sally Kempf, said she shouldn't talk about it and that she should forgive her brother.
So, Mary did something that drew more shock from her community than the sins of her brothers. She called authorities outside the Amish community, and she let them use her to gather evidence against her own brothers. She visited her brother Johnny wearing a wire and he admitted freely that he had sexually abused her.
Don Henry from the Vernon County, Wis., Sheriff's Department said he had enough evidence to make an arrest in the case. When he spoke with Johnny, he freely admitted to raping her. The only question was how many times, according to Henry.
Henry said, "He wanted to know how many times she had said, and with him alone she said it happened between 100 and 150 times. He thought it was too many and that he thought it was between 50 and 75 times."
Greg Lunde, Eli's lawyer, said Eli admitted to more assaults than Mary had alleged. " I think Mary's allegations against Eli were 12 or 13 times. By Eli's own admission, it was 15 or 16." David also confessed to authorities.
All three brothers pleaded guilty.
David, charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child, was sentenced to four years in prison. Eli, charged with second-degree sexual assault of a child, and with a prior misdemeanor conviction on his record, was given eight years in prison. Johnny Byler's sentencing brought out the largest crowd -- and the most tears -- not in support of Mary, but in support of the confessed rapist.
The community's reaction did not go unnoticed by the judge in the case, Michael Rosbrough. "The thought occurred to me," he said, "How many of you have ever cried for Mary Byler? … You may have prayed for her, I don't doubt you have, but how many of you cried for her? For the loss of her childhood."
>>52485591
Inbred and isolationist.
To be honnest Amish people represent the best values of the American people. I wish there were more of them.
>>52489287
The community viewed Mary, not Johnny, as the villain, because they had already punished Johnny within the church, according to Garrett. "He went through that process. He was sorry for what he had done, so to the Amish he was forgiven and it should be forgotten," she said.
Ironically, Johnny, who raped Mary first and most often, got the lightest sentence. Now married and with children of his own, he was given 10 years' probation. For the first year he can work in the Amish community during the day but must spend every night in the county jail.
The Vernon County court also sentenced Mary's mother to two years probation for failure to protect her daughter. Her stepfather was sentenced to 18 months probation for battery and disorderly conduct.
Garrett says Mary's case may strike people as particularly startling because the public has an idealized perception of Amish life. "It's like any other society. You have great families, very well-balanced, but you also have dysfunctional ones. Take the Amish off the pedestal. They're just like everybody else," she said.
Mary has not lived in the Amish community for nine months. Her life's now got some distinctly not-Amish trappings -- a driver's license, a smoking habit, a GED and a job at Wal-Mart.
She says her life now has not only new pleasures but new responsibilities.
And she's on a mission to help other abuse victims, in and out of the Amish community.
"If somebody, some girl or some boy or some child who's being hurt by somebody, would get some good out of this story. That would make me feel really good," Mary said.
Also, for Mary, there's an ironic carryover from her former life an abiding faith. She said, "I feel like God helps those who help themselves. You know, there's a verse in the Bible to that effect, and I really believe it's true, because, you know what, if you don't have the strength to stand up for yourself, there's really not much he can do for you."
>>52489106
They're hesitant about accepting converts, but if you show that you're dedicated they would probably accept you.
>>52489046
My ex was formerly Amish and she only had 11 fingers (10 by the time I started dating her, the 11th was removed before we met)
>>52489046
So? When did you ever say "gee I wish I had less fingers right now?"
>>52489046
and 13 toes
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2008/07/15/escaping-the-amish-part-1/
What are the most common misconceptions or myths about the Amish?
>The Amish speak English (Fact: They speak Amish, which some people claim is its own language, while others say it is a dialect of German. Most people don’t know that Amish was only a spoken language until the Bible got translated and printed into the vernacular about 12 years ago.)
>Amish teens have a choice whether they want to remain practicing the religion. (False)
>Amish is only a religion (Fact: It’s a religion, culture, and language, etc.)
>Amish kids go to public school, or are taught similar courses (e.g., science) as public school kids
>The Amish are Mormons (False)
>The Amish have arranged marriages (False)
>Amish men have more than one wife (False)
>The Amish put all their income in the same pot, like a communist or socialist banking system (False)
>Cameras and music/musical instruments are allowed (False)
>The Amish are “peaceful gentle folk” (False)
What were the positives of growing up Amish?
>Growing up bilingual (Though I didn’t become fluent in English until after I escaped and I was always very self-conscious about my command of the English language)
>The emphasis on the solidarity of the extended family unit
>The emphasis on being hospitable to strangers, helping those in need, whether Amish or “English” (anyone who’s not Amish is “English,” no matter what language or culture he/she represents)
>Building your own houses, growing your own food, sewing your own clothes
The biggest negatives?
>The rape, incest and other sexual abuse that run rampant in the community
>Rudimentary education
>Physical and verbal abuse in the name of discipline
>Women (and children) have no rights
>Religion–and all its associated fear and brainwashing–as a means of control (and an extremely effective means at that)
>Animal abuse
>>52489460
What had you want to escape?
>For as long as I can remember, I had always envisioned a life such that wouldn’t be compatible with the Amish religion and lifestyle.
>I loved learning, and cried when I couldn’t go back to school the fall after graduating from Amish 8th grade. The Amish do not send their children to formal schooling past 8th grade. A Supreme Court case prevented forcing Amish children into high school on grounds of religious freedom. I knew that, by US law, I wasn’t considered an adult until eighteen. I didn’t want to wait until then to go to high school.
>For four years, I tried to come up with a way that I could leave before turning eighteen without my parents being able to take me back, so I could go to school.
>Supreme Court Case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_v._Yoder
I went out with a stripper that was a former Rodeo Queen that grew up Amish, no fuggin' joking
>>52489539
People generally have a peaceful image of the Amish. Can you explain the physical abuse?
>The Amish take the Bible verse “spare the rod and spoil the child” in a literal sense. Parents routinely beat their children with anything from fly swatters, to leather straps (the most typical weapon), to whips (those are the most excruciating of), to pieces of wood.
>When I was a little girl, my mom used to make me run down to the cellar to retrieve a piece of wood to get beaten with. I’d choose the thinner ones because I thought they’d hurt less.
>One day I couldn’t find a thin piece and I had to get a thicker one. Luckily, I discovered that the thick ones hurt less. So every time after that, I’d get a thick one. It made her feel like she was hurting me more, and I’d scream harder just to make sure she didn’t catch on that it actually hurt less.
>One of my acquaintances stuttered when he was little and his dad would make him put his toe under the rocking chair, and then his dad would sit in the chair and rock over the toe and tell him that’s what he gets for stuttering.
>Even little babies get abused for crying too much during church or otherwise “misbehaving.” I’ve heard women beat their babies — under a year old — so much that I cringed in pain.
Why do you want people to know your story?
>Because the general public is not properly educated about what goes on inside the Amish, which it makes it a million times harder for individuals (especially women and children) to receive the assistance they need, whether that’s before or after they leave.
>What continues to make it even worse are people like me — someone who is Amish and has the resources and know-how available — who does nothing about it.
>It’s bothered me ever since, so I’ve decided to speak up now and spread awareness about this issue.
>>52489598
These are interesting
>>52485591
Even Amish people have a loo in which to poo.
