The gig is up! I was at work & didn't hear any radio all day, but husband did & the scandal of the moment around here was that those Amish on the show had already "left the faith" before the TV deal. Some kind of bruhaha all over today around here, in the stores, etc. & on the radio, apparently. I don't know what state these people on that show are from, but the Amish community is small & insular. It stands to reason if they don't really like their picture taken (but that has never stopped a tourist yet), that they would not be on a TV show, unless, possibly a documentary I wonder where to find this out
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Amish Reality Show...
by Country Girl infor those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.
i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!
'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .
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Michael Moore--Bill O'Reilly finally, on Foxnews tonight
by sf intonight 8 pm / 1 am et
challenge accepted michael moore finally enters the no spin zone!
tune in for the fireworks.. .
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gypsywildone
When I was 19, I had a child & graduated nursing school in the same year, with no parental help. When I was 21, I bought my first brand new house, once again, on my own. I was hardly a child. Did I have the best judgement? No. Hindsight is 20/20, & no 21 year old has the wisdom & experience that comes from living on this Earth for 40 years.
People that age are asked to choose a college, major in a subject that will lead to a career, make all kinds of life changing choices. Is it only the ones that choose the armed forces that are "children"?
I watch my 21 year old daughter ( who, by the way, has been quite competant since around the age of 18), in college, living her life, choosing her major, her job, her friends, etc. & to let her go to be an independant person thrills me! To cut the apron strings & allow her to be a free individual makes my heart sing. But there is nothing drastic riding on her college, with the possible exception of our pocketbook
There is everything drastic riding on the young people that join the armed forces! People's lives ride on their dong what needs to be done & doing it right. Not all the US armed forces are 18-21 years old, to be sure! But the ones that are seem to me to be some of the most together young people I have met so far. They are focused & dedicated, & to me it somehow diminishes them to refer to them as "children".
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Amish Reality Show...
by Country Girl infor those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.
i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!
'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .
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gypsywildone
I live right in the middle of them, Lancaster County, PA. They are known for not taking care of their animals well, their horses are skinny & they run them lathered & keep on going. Their animals are seen as money to them, nothing more. Their children are hurt or killed in farm accidents every year. I could go around here & take pictures of 6 year olds working in their fields in sweltering heat. They won't drive a car, but will bum rides from the "English", will certainly take money from the "English", no prob. They don't appear to use much in the way of soap or deoderant either. Last year, some Amish teenagers were convicted of being crank (meth) dealers. They might have been taken advantage of in that case, I have no idea how they got into that predicament. They don't seem to stay in school all that long, & appear to be a rather ignorant society.
Recently, a lady at a job was telling me of an incident where an Amish that found out a customer was a shunned Amish person, would not have any dealings with the shunned one & acted as if it was the devil itself appearing.
On the bright side, here they keep their farms neat & tidy & plant attractive flowers. My sister said in the state of Indiana where she has family, they do not, & are not liked at all there. They are felt to be dirty & greedy in Indiana. Pennsylvania seems to have an uneasy co-existance with them. They also regularly get killed on highways in buggys, they are a hazard on the road & resist being forced to put reflectors & any other devices & lights on their buggys, yet they persist in driving them on hazardous roads & at night.
Seems to me to exploit them by making a reality show is kinda creepy. Have we sunk so low in this country that making fun of them is entertaining? Is this entertainment?
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Anyone from near Jupiter, Florida?
by gypsywildone inis there such a place?
i have just been told by an old friend that it is where some jws we knew went.
apparantly, they are now shunning their 21 year old son
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gypsywildone
Is there such a place? I have just been told by an old friend that it is where some jws we knew went. Apparantly, they are now shunning their 21 year old son
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Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had The Power?
by minimus inas much as i believe that the witnesses are a "cult", i don't think i'd choose to legally ban them.
what about you?
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gypsywildone
Well, I would hardly call them hrmless. Not harmless to children's minds & bodies. Not harmless to people that die for lack of a blood transfusion, & the survivors they leave behind. No, not even harmless to the rest of the families they alienate.
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i want to go to a witness meeting in nottinghamshire
by rivers inhi, im new to this, and i would like to go to a witness meeting next week in the nottinghamshire area but dont know of anywhere, would someone please help me out?
email me at: [email protected].
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gypsywildone
Why Sam, the schedule is listed right here: www.freeminds.org
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Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had The Power?
by minimus inas much as i believe that the witnesses are a "cult", i don't think i'd choose to legally ban them.
what about you?
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gypsywildone
Education is the best way to kill tyranny.
How true elsewhere. Any resistance only feeds their persecution complex.
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Michael Moore--Bill O'Reilly finally, on Foxnews tonight
by sf intonight 8 pm / 1 am et
challenge accepted michael moore finally enters the no spin zone!
tune in for the fireworks.. .
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gypsywildone
I'm not quite understanding something here, maybe someone can enlighten me. Why are soldiers repeatedly being referred to as "children"? I was here with some friends one day worrying about the soldiers, saying they are barely out of their teens, & a former US Marine promptly corrected me. He reminded me the US Military are trained soldiers. They may be young, but no one drafted, forced, or co-erced them into joining. They are trained professionals & know the risks involved in joining the MILITARY!
They joined because they wanted to do the job, & they knew the risks going in. My daughter was the president of her high school senior class, & the vice president of that same class joined the US Marines of his own free will. He spent a year in Iraq in the initial action, & is currently in 29 Palms, Ca. At the end of August, he will be returning to Iraq. He is a skinny weed of a young man to me, but he calmly informed me he is a grown man & he has a job to do & he is doing it to the best of his ability.
Anybody want his address? PM me & you can help support the troops. We send him letters & unique foods from home. No trolls or lunatics please.
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Strange Exodus - Twelfth & Final Installment
by Frannie Banannie insummer, 2004. here i am.
it?s 14 years since those first two dream/visions that got the "ball rolling" in this adventure.
the end result?.
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gypsywildone
Well Frannie, I do remember your children saw some of this stuff, or the results of it. what do I mean the explainations are too simplistic? I mean putting things in an either or box is usually too simplistic. Do you have a conclusion, or is your personal opinion private?
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Strange Exodus - Twelfth & Final Installment
by Frannie Banannie insummer, 2004. here i am.
it?s 14 years since those first two dream/visions that got the "ball rolling" in this adventure.
the end result?.
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gypsywildone
I don't know, seems to me either explaination is too simplisitc. while these things were happening to you, did you realize on some level that they might not be real, or that other people might not be able to see them?