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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:34:39 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote:   
      
   > Jörg Lorenz, 2025-10-09 20:56:   
   >   
   >> On 09.10.25 07:43, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> Those who want a horse and buggy won't want a cellphone at all, and   
   >>> probably not a landline phone either.   
   >>   
   >> Wrong. You have no clue what the Amish and the Mennonites really want   
   >> and have: Cellphones.   
   >   
   > And this is allowed? I though even a landline phone is not allowed for   
   > Amish, at least not for everyone.   
      
   Different communities, different rules. Can you have rubber tires on a   
   buggy? Can you use a windmill to pump water?   
      
   Many of the RV factories in northern Indiana are staffed by Amish workers.   
   They come to work in buggies and use modern tools to build stuff they   
   would use. Sometimes the anachronisms are jarring. I remember one young   
   Amish guy smoking a cigarette with a can of Coke in his hand. Many of the   
   Calvinist mainstream religions forbid smoking, and the LDS is ambivalent   
   about the range of the 'hot beverages' proscription.   
      
   I sometimes shop at a store run by Hutterites, another Anabaptist branch.   
   I had another strange moment when the girl at the cash register pulled her   
   cellphone out of her traditional floral print dress.   
      
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