That's the headline at Intelligencer.
[T]here’s no such thing as a single Amish approach to technology.... Daniel is a minister in his church and has played a role in the congregation’s collective decisions to interdict smartphones and social media but to allow e-bikes, flip phones, solar-generated electricity, and religiously curated internet access. “I don’t want to paint a picture that we’re pushing for new technology and we don’t have respect for our traditions and our values,” he tells me....
As far as I can tell, they see generative AI as just another thing computers do. “A computer’s a machine that you tell to do the right thing,” Daniel tells me. “We just have a better way to tell it to do the right thing than in the past.”...
John Wengerd, the chicken-selling property manager, doesn’t see much risk in falling down rabbit holes texting with his chatbot. Like everyone else I spoke with, John has no smartphone and his internet access is both filtered and mostly available at work. “I can’t lay in bed for half an hour asking Chat stuff. So the times when I’m vulnerable it’s not at my fingertips,” he says. “When I go home, I’m riding a horse or feeding chickens.”
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A minister in the church? Elder perhaps. Amish don't have an organized clergy. I've never heard one refer to a "minister".
"chicken-selling property manager"
What an awesome title. Look ye mortals upon your humdrum status and despair.
Nobody believes thing these people say I wanna know what the Amish you’re thinking. I’ll go ask the Amish.
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Chicken Selling Property Managers would be a great name for a band. Especially if their debut album and hit single had the same name. CC, JSM
Mr. Wengerd, as your unofficial career sherpa whom you don't know I'd advise you to reach out to Hooters as soon as possible. They're trying to become more "family-friendly", and if an Amish chicken-selling property manager can't make CEO within a year I'm the biggest boob in sherpaing.
I want to see the elders in a barn with an IBM XT 286 with an orange triangle on it.
i hate headlines like that.
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Some technology is ok but other technology is not? A phone and a computer (at work) are ok, but a smart phone is not? How does the bible help navigate that morass?
There's a movie scene where an Amish guy discusses the internet with some normies. The punchline is "I get pictures of your mom in the mail."
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This is an article to get us to like AI more - "If thy Amish are all in, why aren'teth youse?!"
As Gospace said they have no ministers or pastors. Teaching on Sunday rotates among the elders. They do have bishops who establishes the rules. Even the bishop position is not permanent. The bishops cover a small geographic area. They have term limits.
Want to buy a chainsaw? Ask the bishop. Put a windshield on your buggy? Ask the bishop. (Our Amish have no windshields)
There was some movie or TV show where an Amish man tells and outsider that they don't have cars. "Not in the Bible." They don't have TV. "Not in the Bible." The outside gestures towards the Amish man's very large family and he responds, "That's in the Bible."
Something new has appeared among the local Amish. Scooters. As in the 2 wheels with a platform that you stand on and put one foot out to propel yourself along. Kids scooters. Saw an adult male going like mad on one the other day. But why not? They use wheels already. Doesn't use anything but your own muscle power to move along. And yes, I have previously seen Amish on roller blades. For the adults, though, I would suggest they move towards "kickbikes", with larger wheels. At my age I've tried some of the small wheel scooters, and they are remarkably unstable for taller people then children. https://www.amazon.com/Schwinn-Adult-Shuffle-Scooter-Wheels/dp/B0183T0IRE/ I found a website for kickbikes with prices in Euros- starting in the €500 range.
That's right, there are no Amish ministers. Only Bishops which run the show. When we lived in Amish country some of our best friends were Amish, and a friend once told my husband that the only difference between him and my husband is their hats.
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