It is, of course, incorrect to say the Amish don't have electricity. What they do not have is an electricity distribution system, and they don't use electricity if something else (such as compressed air - a common power source) can do the job.
Some Amish do even have computers - often powered by car batteries On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:28:05PM -0400, Mishka wrote: > they have cell phones, so they, at least theoretically, can > get on the web with GPRS. > > mishka > > On 9/20/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/20/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > He makes the Amish look positively groovy.<snip> > > > > Is it okay to make fun of the Amish on the internet, because they > > don't have electricity, let alone computers? <g> > > > > -frank > > > > -- > > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > > >
