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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was It's almost over, now wending to Amish response to aggression
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:25:36 -0800 (PST)

Except for the hats and the all black suits, that picture could look like a
1960's Southern church 'Camp meeting" tent revival .........

Thanks for the answer

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net> wrote:

> From: sjc <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was It's almost over, now wending to Amish
> response to aggression
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:14 PM
> bob ford wrote:
> > That was all very interesting Susan. I didn't
> know nuch of what you wrote. 'just a curiosity about
> the obvious. The groups are not large. How do they keep
> new bloodlines?.
> Historically, rather poorly, but now that they are wiser,
> better. But
> for all the things they let themselves open to genetically,
> they win
> environmentally: things pretty common in the english are
> unknown to the
> Amish: "hyperactivity" (seen as: kid needs more
> work than average,
> usually works slick as a whistle), autism, and social
> pathologies are so
> rarely seen they are so far uncountable. I can credit them
> and their
> ideas (and patience) with the fact that I was able to rear
> an autistic
> kid through the seventies and into the Marine Corps, where
> his ASFABs
> stood at 98. He is now an air traffic controller in the VA
> Air National
> Guard. Wouldn't have been their goal, but every uncle,
> aunt, cousin,
> Dunkard or Amish, is proud of him. I don't think it
> would have happened
> that way in an english world. So what they've given up
> in one arena
> they've made up in another. David (my son) wins.
>
> > Do people come from state to state or whatever to
> date and marry?
> >
> Yes.
>
> The German Baptists do it better though: they have an
> annual meeting,
> all members attend. We used to snidely call it the
> "Bring-Your-Little-Dunkard-to-Meet-My-Little-Dunkard"
> meeting when we
> were kids. But that group has always been more open to
> interaction with
> the world and more apt to educate (note they have 6
> colleges, even), so
> they caught on a lot sooner.
>
> Annual meeting last year was held 2 farms away from the one
> where I grew
> up, and how I wished I could have gone to the
> Bring-Your-Little-Dunkard-to-Meet-My-Little-Dunkard
> meeting. How one's
> perspective changes over time!
>
> Just went looking for a pic of annual meeting, try:
> http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/Brethren.html
>
> The group discussed on that site is a notch 'up'
> from the group south of
> Dayton, VA, which is itself 2 notches 'up' from the
> group I grew up in,
> which was very conservative. Not worth it to the incomer
> to try and
> keep track of groups, too many.
>
> SJ
>
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