Nope - that's just stereotyping.  The Amish aren't anti-technology;
they just evaluate any new technology before possibly using it.
Cell phones can be found in (some) Amish communities.


On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:23:12AM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote:
> The Amish, have Cell Phones?  I think that's literally against their 
> religion.
> 
> 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:
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> >
> >>On 9/20/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >><snip>
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> >>>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
> >>
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> >>   
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