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This is a beautiful point of view…. Now I’d like to meet some Amish people.

• dbcurtis 5y ago
  Yes, well, when you live with them as next door neighbors you find that they have as many angels and scoundrels, as many wise and as many fools as any other group. The practicalities of their life are different, but they are people like you and me — different priorities.
• thatguy0900 5y ago
  Come to Ohio campgrounds in the summer weekends, always have a Amish family selling baked goods, they're usually pretty friendly and open to talking. And their baking tastes amazing.
  • cheese_van 5y ago
    Their baking does taste amazing. But Amish women are often employed at local farmers markets to add local color and entice tourists into buying non-Amish bakery goods. That the Amish, a fairly closed culture, are objects of tourism, has always struck me as pretty damn weird. While it may reflect a nostalgia or longing for a simpler life, I know I wouldn't last long keeping a working farm alive. Plain lives are hard work.
    • thatguy0900 5y ago
      I wouldnt call the Amish objects of tourism, they set up shop where people already are. And it's not them, just their cooking. I don't think anyone thinks about them at all, frankly, outside of that. I remember a while ago there was a fad for prominently Amish branded/built electric heaters, and I thought that was very strange.