I'm saying you wrote a novel. If you try being more concise, I might read your comment.
I wrote a novel because the topic had a lot to cover. Condensing it would lose a lot of the examples I presented, and I actually didn't present enough to statements Anticlutch made.
I could have went into the different orders and how each has a different philosophy and thrown the Beachy in there as well, and talked about how there's a lot of genetic disorders in the Amish community because of insular inbreeding and how they treat their animals like shit and how they'll go in and destroy the land just to get a few saleable trees off it, etc, etc.
They really outjew the jews because they're happy merchants that don't pay any taxes.
For what it’s worth I enjoyed reading your novel lol. People tend to romanticize the Amish. I liked reading about their flaws for once.
I will say that if you're willing to deal with a middleman, you can get some high-quality stuff because the middleman takes care of making sure you get what you asked for. I don't dare deal with them directly.
People romanticize them because they just go to Amish Country on Saturday and visit the tourist shops. You really need to live around them to understand what they're like.
One last thing, in the town I worked in running deliveries, it wasn't uncommon to see an old goatroper coming out of the bank with a paper bag. Turns out that the bag is usually full of cash, as they don't use credit.
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