@Teapot
I take umbrage that you call one Mount A Bison. You hurt my feelings. What happened to Bison? Or even the less attractive but tolerable initialism of MAB? There is something altogether formal about the way you’ve addressed me there. You must not do that Teapot. You might give the wrong impression to readers that we’ve separated and no longer bound by the intimacy of holy matrimony. Disgusting.
Sorry Mr Well-Hung Bison, I just find it more tidy to write out people's full usernames. I'm weird like that.
It will be Bison from now on, my sugarplum.
Okay, it’s transparent by now that you are filled to the brim with odium for the Amish. I’ve tried to make your anger subsideth.
I have no hate inside me for any of Gods chillun, my sugarplum. I just think the Amish are a very closed cult-like group and one that I would describe as a victim of a mind virus (in the form of ideas), or memeplex, if you like.
Anyway, being the curious freak that I am, I find their way of life interesting in that they are more likely to survive hyperinflation than modern society. I remember watching an Amish documentary a few years ago and thinking that they have quite a sustainable lifestyle, albeit very backward one.
I’m not aware of what facet of the Amish life I’ve embellished or romanticised. I suppose that you are alluding to the claim, observable and documentable, that the resurrection-men need not run away because they are cut loose upon reaching their teen years by the parents to dance with the Devil till they drop whereas Allah’s gang face coercion till they are old enough to leave home. Well, I thought we had agreed that was so before. Have you had a change of heart? How can I make the beat of your heart sound to my name again?
I just got the feeling that you were trying to paint a very rosy picture that all Amish teens get lots and lots of freedom with no coercion, and I'm not sure I believe it fully. I can't be bothered to go and research this at the moment.
You speak of the techniques of control. Brainwashing. Indoctrination. And threats of cosmic damnation. If what you mean to say by that is the art of regimentation is multifactorial, that the Niqabi will defend her sartorial choice as piety freely chosen, we see eye to eye. But from this truism you will not I hope infer that a ninja who veils out of a misguided notion about modesty is just as worse off as a woman who veils involuntarily. The decisive factor here is duress.
I agree.
The one lassie is physically inhibited from casting off her veil and the other is not. Among the Amish young there is none of the coercion habitually visited upon Muslims. To cast them in the same camp as the towelheads is to veil yourself from the true nature of things. Let me rip that niqab from your lovely eyes my little hamster.
I'm not sure I believe this, my sugarplum.
Topic: Leaving Amish Paradise doc