Use of technology by different Amish affiliations

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Whenever I have to do something to a close deadline I develop an unstoppable fascination with something completely random and unrelated to what I have to do or any of my existing interests. And I become so much into that stuff that I cannot do anything else until the deadline is so close that to meet the deadline I have to work non-stop up to the very last minute to the deadline. And while I am working I suffer so much because I want to do that other thing so badly. As soon as the deadline passes and I am free to do whatever I want I never come back to that other thing I was so much into. I don't even get then why I was so interested in that thing before.

So I am on the below now and it is the most interesting and important thing in the world to me at the moment. I have no idea how I lived up to this day without digging into this:

Use of technology by different Amish affiliations

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[aliki.livejournal.com]

This is so fascinating!!!!

[topum.livejournal.com]

It is, right? I want to read everything about Amish vs technology.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

The laundry thing is fascinating to me.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Avoidance is a helluva drug.

Now you can go read up on what tech Hutterites and Mennonites reject, as well!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes. You seem know how this vicious spiral works. In the end I will find myself watching videos of some cat dressed in Amish garb singing Sintatra's songs on Youtube thinking how the hell did I get there and why or why have I lost all that time.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Totally know this situation. It's not the worst to be in: that's not having enough time to even do the thing you have to, much less the thing you're actually doing in place of the thing you are supposed to be doing. But it's still a bit overwhelming.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh I do it even when I do not have enough time to do the thing I need to do and especially then. And then I would just cut corners (and get incredibly creative at it) and not sleep and do what I had to do way worse than I could have done and feel awful about it, etc. I would not be able to hold any job except the one I had (on a trading floor). I must be one of very few people who are thankful for the existence of investment banks these days. I think I would definitely be homeless and living in the streets otherwise.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I do a similar thing when it comes time to do house work like mopping floors or washing dishes. 

Amish are interesting.  Much more interesting then my mop. 

Athena

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They are. Actually I find them interesting in general not just for the work avoidance purposes. I really want to visit a couple of their communities. Semi-isolated fringe groups fascinate me. The last ones I visited were the Samaritans in Israel.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I bet they are a healthier people.  All these tech gadgets we have can't be healthy to be on them as much as some are. 

I admire their resolve to live the same way they have for hundreds of years.  In some respects it's a better life religion aside.

Samaritans live in isolation too?  All I really know about them is from ancient bible stories. You know like the good Samaritan parable.  Group of us in a drama class I took in university did a modern skit based on that parable for class one day.  That was fun.  I played one of the robbers who beat up and robbed the guy who the Samaritan helps. 

Athena

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Yes, they live in self-imposed semi-isolation mostly around Mount Gerizim, They consider Mount Gerizim not Jerusalem Temple Mount to be Mount Moriah. Samaritans do not intermarry and one cannot become a Samaritan like one can become a Jew for example (btw Samaritans consider themselves the the real Israelites and keepers of the Torah). It is a big problem because there are only four extended families of them left and them marrying each other further and having kids carries an enormous risk of genetic disorders. Therefore, they are required to undergo extensive testing before marriage and having kids. Israel established a dedicated team in one of their hospitals to help them with this. They had to relax the rules on intermarriage a bit recently, it became clear that they would become history very soon otherwise.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Interesting and a bit disturbing.  Brings a whole knew dynamic to love your brothers and sisters. 

No wonder the apostles thought the Samaritans were odd. 

Someone should have informed Jesus of this really. 

Athena

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My understanding was that he knew they were odd. He just did not think it was such a big deal.

[yvonnewalker.livejournal.com]

hahah I also do that when I have important things to do. This seems kind of interesting though. I developed a strange fascination to youtubers. I watch random ones and try work out what attracts people to them. A lot of them are quite different but they all have some things in common. Its a crazy way to waste when my time when i should be studying and things