Without cars and mobile: how the thousands of Amish community live in the USA - ForumDaily
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Without cars and mobile: As in the US, thousands of Amish community live

Tens and even hundreds of thousands of people who did not vote for anyone in this election live in the United States. And not because they choose not from whom, but because they never voted. And their ancestors, too, and children with their grandchildren. Do not vote. Never.

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- We just pray. We pray for any US government. But we don’t choose, of course. We are far from politics. We do not influence it, and it does not influence us. That's what we agreed with her. For many decades now.
— Do you read world news? Do you follow international events?
- Yes, sure. We have weekly newspapers, everything is written there. We read about Putin. Pyutin or Putin - how to pronounce it correctly?
- Putin.
- Oh, okay, I'll remember. I'll tell my people. Putin... Poo! Poo! We must remember... We read, yes, we are aware, and we pray for everyone.

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And here they live in the very center of America in a civilization not touched by time. As they arrived three centuries ago from Germany, so they live. Electricity on the generator, there is no central heating and water supply, they also do not have cars, mobile phones, washing machines, televisions, computers, microwaves. Clothes without buttons, on pins, sew themselves, washed by hand, dried on a rope in the yard, they do not use ornaments.
- We are not poor or marginalized, we can afford everything, but we do not want to depend on the outside world. We have huge farms - farms, fields, houses, livestock, businesses. We are doing what our parents did and what our children will do. With what God gave - land, plants, livestock. We are a happy people. Perhaps the happiest on this sinful earth. Maybe…

This is Amish, with an emphasis on a. Once upon a time, as persecuted Protestants, they were invited to Pennsylvania to develop the lands by William Penn - in general, the founder of this state, its capital and the entire future American statehood at the same time. He invited all the persecuted. First the English Quakers arrived, and after them the peace-loving Amish. Then many more came, but only these Germans preserved themselves for centuries.

They live in an absolutely closed community, speaking to each other in “highland German”, although they speak English as their native language. Young people accept religion only after 18 years of age, consciously. Moreover, before this, many go out into the world and can live among ordinary Americans, but almost all return back without being imbued with the interests of the rest of society and civilization. And this is understandable - they spend their childhood and adolescence among their own people, and their values ​​have already been formed.

As soon as babies begin to walk, they help their parents - in the field, care for livestock, and clean the house. They study in their schools only until the eighth grade. They say that this knowledge is quite enough to continue the work of our ancestors.
- Excessive knowledge does not teach intelligence.

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Amishs marry once in a lifetime on their own. There are no divorces. No one is in a hurry to marry. Look closely, look closely. After a young man acquires a family, he releases his beard. By the length of the beard, you can understand how long the young man has been married. But the Amish mustache is shaved off. The whiskers remind them of Prussian soldiers, and the Amish are against the army, the wars, and any conflicts.

The wedding is organized by the whole community. The community builds a young house, provides furniture, dishes, everything necessary. And then, when a person becomes old and feeble, they are also taken care of by the whole community, they set up duties, caress and never leave him alone. There are no nursing homes.

The Amish have no health insurance. If someone gets sick, he goes to the doctor and pays cash. If the diagnosis is serious, then the entire community drops him for treatment, surgery, hospital. They are therefore exempt from taxes, that everything themselves.

“The misfortune of one is the misfortune of many, the joy of each is the joy of us all,” says my interlocutor, an elderly woman, a former school teacher.

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In the houses there are no pictures, photos, nothing superfluous.
“The main thing is not what’s on the wall or on the neck, but what’s on the heart, in the soul.” Why photographs? What a difference it makes what a person looked like a few years ago. The main thing is what he is like now, what he is. And pictures are not needed. Open the window, look outside - there is sunrise, sunset, rain, fields, rivers. Which picture is better?

The only thing that can hang on the walls is a calendar with the birthdays of loved ones and a couple of children's drawings.

- Listen, but I see that there are some very talented drawings. Surely, gifted musicians and writers live among you. Don’t they really want to develop their skills, go out into the world, gain appreciation and popularity?
- No, I don’t want to. It is enough for them that they can draw or play an instrument for pleasure. Understand that fame and popularity have nothing to do with the feeling of harmony within yourself. And then, to be honest, there’s not much time for these hobbies. Men are in the field from morning to night, or engaged in crafts, and women have children, washing, cleaning, cooking. This is more important. God does not need your secular merits, he is a different measure of a person and evaluates his life.

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The Amish have no churches. The church is a room in the house. Today with one neighbor, tomorrow with another. There is nothing in the Bible about churches, but the Amish strictly follow the Bible.

There are many children in families. Therefore, every year there are more and more Amish. They do not use chemicals when growing their crops and sell their products to ordinary Americans quite expensively. Products are organic. In general, their whole life is like this - organic. They do not smoke, do not use drugs, are treated mainly with herbs, wear self-sewn clothes made of cotton and linen, like to walk barefoot, do not wear high-heeled shoes, and do not use cosmetics.

The Amish themselves are very calm and get sick much less often than others. They are smiling, courteous, and polite with strangers, but they do not allow strangers into the yard or house. “Sorry, this is private territory.”

Amish move either on a kind of bike (a hybrid of a bicycle and a scooter), or in tents on horses. The tents are called buggy. Near all the stores there are parking places for buggies, and each house has a stable and garages where there are tents and horses.

Photo by Natalia Slavina

Amish homes are almost the same as ordinary farmers. Maybe a little neater, cleaner and more, with generators, a well for water and ropes with old-fashioned clothes.
— Why don’t your young people want to travel the world, meet new people, and acquire new knowledge?
- Will this make them happier? — my interlocutor smiles. — Will it bring you closer to God?
- I don't know. Maybe somehow happier, yes.
“We don’t need to look for happiness outside, we don’t need to be dependent on external circumstances, we look for it within ourselves, in loved ones, children, in a blade of grass and a ray of sunshine - what God gives. There are no unhappy people, no suicides, no divorces, no depression among us. We try to be honest - before ourselves and God, we chose the path along which our ancestors walked and were happy. We're so used to it. The rest is vanity of vanities.

Photo by Natalia Slavina

Straw hats, kibits, long dresses, caps and aprons, wooden home-made toys, patchwork quilts, silos. Perhaps they are behind the times. But sometimes it seems that, on the contrary, they are ahead, because they know something that we do not know.

Original published on Facebook page Natalia Slavina.

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