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Chad is one of the kindest souls I've ever met. Good luck off the grid! Also, how did he post this if he isn't using the Internet?
by __mharrison__ 4mo ago
Chad is one of the kindest souls I've ever met. Good luck off the grid!
Also, how did he post this if he isn't using the Internet?
- sciencejerk 4mo agoProbably had a friend do it for him
- yubblegum 4mo agoDo the Amish pay non-Amish to do forbidden things for them? Asking for a friend.
- nomadygnt 4mo agoI'm not sure about "forbidden" per se but they definitely make accommodations for various things, e.g. riding as passengers in cars for long trips.
- quietsegfault 4mo agoYes. They pay folks to drive them around.
- alchemism 4mo agoA friend of mine encountered a wrecked buggy on the road and drove the Amish family inside it to the hospital and saved lives. The entire local Amish community now comes and helps him tend his property, raised him a barn.
- quietsegfault 4mo agoIt’s like helping a crow by giving it some food, but way cooler.
- antonyt 4mo agoI'm not sure if payment is involved, but I've heard Orthodox Jews can and do seek non-Jewish help when they need e.g. light switches toggled on the Sabbath.
- kayo_20211030 4mo agoShabbos goy. Pete Hamill was one, and tells a good story. Snow in August, I believe, is based on his experiences.
- stanac 4mo agoI am not sure what is forbidden. There was a YT video about computer they were using for business. It was stripped down OS (windows xp?) that only had office apps, or something like that. I am unable to find the video, but here is an interesting story: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/25/172886170/a-computer-fit-for-the-amish https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/25/172886170/a-co...
- newt_slowly 4mo agoI manage the Google Maps listings for two local Amish businesses, as well as send the occasional e-mail for them when a supplier or other business reason requires they use e-mail. They offered to pay me for my time, but I refused as I'm happy to help my neighbors. They seemed pretty uncomfortable with me helping without anything in return, so they pay me back in discounted products or labor of their own.
- esafak 4mo agoSome Jews do! I've been asked to turn lights off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbos_goy
- generic92034 4mo agoIf you are that pedantic you could also ask if he is living without a mobile phone, without a car and without any modern electrical appliance phoning home. So, probably him being offline is not to be taken quite so seriously.
- __mharrison__ 4mo agoI'm pedantic because I'm on a website called hacker news...