Are you Amish or do you know any Amish people?

[Louie Detroit]

Any Buggy Drivers here?

[04 commemorative]

No and no

[Vandelay Industries]

Amish or amish?

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Any Buggy Drivers here?

Not Amish but have ridden in a buggy.

Plus I live in a one-horse town.

[IB4TL]

Turbo

I bought my dog from Amish people in Indiana.
I consider them to be Famish (fake Amish)....They have cars, computers and zippers, they're fake Amish in my book.

Good people.
Great dog.

I'm not complaining

[StudleyJames]

Originally Posted by IB4TL

Turbo

I bought my dog from Amish people in Indiana.
I consider them to be Famish (fake Amish)....They have cars, computers and zippers, they're fake Amish in my book.

Good people.
Great dog.

I'm not complaining

We bought our puppies from an Mennonite family up in northern WI, really nice people and the dogs are great too


Unlike the Amish, Mennonites are not prohibited from using motorized vehicles. In addition, Mennonites are also allowed to use electricity and telephones in their homes. When it comes to their beliefs, the Amish and Mennonite faiths are very similar. The differences lie mainly in the outward practice of those beliefs.

[Torqaholic]

Nope. They leave me alone and I leave them alone excepting that one time I went into their furniture store and bought a wooden 30 gallon bag sized trash basket for the kitchen. The thing is oak, 20 years old, and still working as intended. Pass them on the roads quite a bit in the Summer when I travel outside town. Always very cautious when passing and usually give them a wave.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by StudleyJames

We bought our puppies from an Mennonite family up in northern WI, really nice people and the dogs are great too


Unlike the Amish, Mennonites are not prohibited from using motorized vehicles. In addition, Mennonites are also allowed to use electricity and telephones in their homes. When it comes to their beliefs, the Amish and Mennonite faiths are very similar. The differences lie mainly in the outward practice of those beliefs.

We have a bunch of them (Amish) in this area. A lot of what they can do is controlled by the local bishop. If he is hard-lined, lot of restrictions, if he is for want of better words reformed certain rules can be bent or not followed.

I see them often at the local shopping center, at least one in the group has a cell phone and they drive around in work trucks or cargo vans.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by StudleyJames

We bought our puppies from an Mennonite family up in northern WI, really nice people and the dogs are great too


Unlike the Amish, Mennonites are not prohibited from using motorized vehicles. In addition, Mennonites are also allowed to use electricity and telephones in their homes. When it comes to their beliefs, the Amish and Mennonite faiths are very similar. The differences lie mainly in the outward practice of those beliefs.

And what any Amish group uses in one location can vary in a different region.

[Mick]

Don't know any. Where I grew up, it was a short drive to a little amusement park called "Dutch Wonderland", which is still operating today. When we got there, the whole place was lousy with those buggies.

I haven't been there in around 50 years, but back then, if you got off the highway and drove around a little, you couldn't help but trip over a farm stand or two. I remember the tomatos we used to get there!

[SteveOceanside]

None over this way...

[StudleyJames]

When we went to pick up our puppies, it was derr hunting season and we saw a couple of mennonites using bicycles

[04 commemorative]

They build good sheds

https://www.amishmike.com/sheds-nj/

[Bruze]

Around here, peepers with ritzy homes may hire the Amish to remove trees, cuz their horses won't destroy their woodlot like a skidder will.

They use chainsaws too.

[04 commemorative]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Around here, peepers with ritzy homes may hire the Amish to remove trees, cuz their horses won't destroy their woodlot like a skidder will.

They use chainsaws too.

This kind

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Chains...zcF9tdGY&psc=1

[Yadkin]

Not any Amish, but I did a small project with a Mennonite farmer in Upstate NY one time. His wife was a midwife and had an old Ford wagon with a zillion miles on it. In their kitchen they had pictures of all their grown children, all fine looking men and women. Very admirable folk.

[SurfnSun]

Do Amish people use the internet?

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

Not any Amish, but I did a small project with a Mennonite farmer in Upstate NY one time. His wife was a midwife and had an old Ford wagon with a zillion miles on it. In their kitchen they had pictures of all their grown children, all fine looking men and women. Very admirable folk.

Yes, I couldn't live like they do, but that's good if that's what they believe. Quite a stark contrast, in a good way, to today's popular (anti-Christian) culture which seeks to destroy everything and encourages people to hate their neighbor.

Too bad the anti-Christian media/culture has trashed them, causing many people to believe that they are bad and/or evil.

[jh225]

After living around and having dealings with both Amish and Mennonite in the past…..

Amish = Good, hard working, honest people.

Mennonite = Amish “light” people who have no issue taking advantage of anyone they can.

I actually had a barn build quote from a Mennonite team that was 3x anyone’s else. Well, “it’s Amish built, so it’s higher quality” was the reply when questioned.

[KenHorse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg