When my phone rings outside of my normal business hours, 10 PM to 6 AM, it usually means either a baby is on the way or something bad happened. At 5 AM today it was the latter. One of our closest Amish friends was calling because the barns at her parent’s place were burning so I ran her and her husband down, setting off a chain reaction of driving around and around all day.
They lost two barns but saved their “company shed” which is good because they use those sheds for weddings and their youngest girl is getting married in a few months, and a bunch of her wedding stuff was in the shed.
It could have been worse, the cattle in the barn were able to get out and their horses weren’t in the barn either. A mom cat lost a litter of kittens and this poor guy got the pads of his feet badly burned and his whiskers melted.
By this afternoon it was pretty much all cleaned up, dozens of Amish showed up all day to clean, take down the concrete walls that were damaged by fire, provide food and drinks for the Amish workers and the English firefighters. When I left an hour ago they were already halfway done replacing the siding on the shed and the forms were up for concrete, the first truck was already pouring. If you had paid people to do that work it would have been tens of thousands of dollars, they did it all for free (except for materials of course) and it would have taken weeks.
By this weekend the barns will be rebuilt completely.
They have their flaws, as do all people, but when it comes to helping out in a crisis the Amish are tough to beat.
Remarkable!
This is a sad day for this Family. May God be kind to them. The Amish will band together to help. They will successfully in turning Defeat into Victory.
They are rebuilding quickly, once the initial shock is over they focus on fixing it
I have a lot of admiration for those folks. I believe you’re fortunate to have them as neighbors!
It has worked out well, we do work for them that they appreciate and they in turn are very helpful to us
Can you explain how the Amish use phones( technology in general)? I’m thinking of them being limited to carrier pigeons or maybe olde timey crank phone.
Virtually all of our Amish have cell phones, flip phones for the most part although a lot of younger Amish have smart phones. The rules vary by community.
It’s admirable that they stay together but what is their stance on defending themselves once the balloon goes up? Are they really the ‘turn-the-other-cheek and let jeezus save us’ pacifist types or will they shoot back?
not in my area.
central PA. each ordnung (local chapter) operates differently.
and they talk among themselves about the coming unpleasantness.
The official stance is non-resistance, but in practice most Amish have guns and lots would use force to defend their families and repent for it later
How do the Amish reconcile not using automobiles and using cell phones? Seems like a strange dichotomy to me.
The rules are very weird and most of them can’t really explain them to me, I stopped asking
It depends on the group. Rules are not set for all the Amish across the board. Some are very very strict others not so much
Amazing white people that actually stick together. What a concept. I tried that in my neck of the woods after a tornado I had pro saws, friends ahow up, a tractor, etc..to help my neighbors, which are all white, former-military neighbors, yet they are the worst neighbors i ever had next to black Panamanians. Such is life, fuck most white people too.
LMAO!
@Bob…
I concur – especially with your last sentence.
After three years of living in a predominantly White state/area, I’m convinced that there’s none that I would want watching my back. Pretty sorry lot, from Boomers to Zoomers!
Was it hay ignition?
Pretty sure not, that was my first thought but there wasn’t any new hay in the barn.
I’m sorry for the family’s loss, but I’m thankful and encouraged by how their community supported them. As you pointed out, they sure do take care of their own.
I feel for their loss. Good people.
Were this event to happen in a non-Amish community, your “it would have taken weeks” would have been many MONTHS.
Remember all those permits, inspections, perhaps some environmental impact assessments, permits to “properly dispose of hazardous waste” and whatever else modern American over-regulated society could dream up to ruin the natural order of things.
Remember the “Building the Barn” segment in “Witness”? Priceless!
Witness is a terrific movie….and it paints the Amish in a very favorable light…
The barn buildings around here mostly use cranes and nail guns rather than pushing them up with boards.
Lightning Strike?
Keep morale up by any means necessary.
People living with God in their life are strong and not at all like the soft weenie queefy Karens and Soyjaks of AINO/FUSA.
Watching Hitler reacts to Brandon vs PT Trump (H/T-BP) and earlier played Bin Laden Shooter flash window shooting gallery game circa 2001!
It is Bin Laden Liquors with him behind the counter and a hostage that looks like a sunburned Tucker Carlson, OBL hurls insults, eye keel you, piss on you, get out of my store, you are supposed to miss the hostage or you lose points at the end, if you miss OBL, points are also docked, it gets faster and faster as you go on.
You get a Glock 19 and Black Talons! You’ll never see that on Harpo the Whale Winfrey Show.
Those folks don’t appear to be too sentimental. When disaster occurs – clean / haul it off and repair / build a new to replace. Amazing.
It is almost too fast, like within a couple of hours they had to decide how to build it back
Genuine example of White people ‘tribing up’ and helping one another. I’m not fully onboard with many of their practices and doctrines, but there’s no denying the positive results. Sorry for their losses and thank you for an encouraging story to begin the day.
“I’m not fully onboard with many of their practices and doctrines, but there’s no denying the positive results. ”
If I had to choose the sense of community the Amish have versus high speed internet, I would give up the internet in a heartbeat. I’d be willing to bet that if I did study the particular doctrines they practice, I would agree with them more than I disagree. My understanding is that Amish youth get a year to go crazy and do what they want. That most of them return to the fold is a testament to the success of their culture. Even the women return. So Amish culture can’t be all that bad even from a female point of view.
Troy Messer: My concerns and disagreements have nothing to do with male/female roles – I was a happy stay-at-home mom. I have some issues with their religious doctrines and the degree of authority they give individual pastors, and I’m not fully on-board with their eschewal of a lot of electric uses. I like having a washing machine. Like you, I would happily give up the internet – although I obviously use it daily – in exchange for a more rooted, communal life. The sort heritage Americans used to have.
They return to the fold mostly because failing to do so means being largely cut off from your friends and family, still lots of Amish do leave for various reasons even after “running around” or “rumspringa”
They do have some goofy doctrines and lots of issues in the community, not least a significant sex abuse problem, but when it comes to stuff like this they pull together.
“It’s admirable that they stay together but what is their stance on defending themselves once the balloon goes up? Are they really the ‘turn-the-other-cheek and let jeezus save us’ pacifist types or will they shoot back?”
I have thought of this question too. It kind of reminds me of libertarians. You can only be a libertarian in a functional freedom based society that has the rule of law. There are no libertarians in North Korea or Afghanistan. When the SHTF, they will have to decide to what extent they are pacifist.
“How do the Amish reconcile not using automobiles and using cell phones? Seems like a strange dichotomy to me.”
This a question I have had too. I admire the Amish premise of being skeptical of technology. Because I think it serves them well. But, IMHO, hiring outsiders to drive them around is just outsourcing that decision. Does that make them hypocrites? I want to say yes, but I think the answer is no. The goal is to try to keep as much distance between their culture and pejorative influences from technology. So outsourcing transportation provides a barrier that manages to insulate them from said pejorative influences. It is probably impossible to keep technology completely away. One has to do what they can.
I would tell the Amish Church elders that the worst thing they could allow is smart phones. Before the smart phone, the Amish had a defense mechanism of physical space, geography, and lack of technology to insulate themselves from the satanic would. The smart phone completely obviates that and is a vector of infection from literally any where around the globe.
“Remember all those permits, inspections, perhaps some environmental impact assessments, permits to “properly dispose of hazardous waste” and whatever else modern American over-regulated society could dream up to ruin the natural order of things.”
This what I was thinking when I was reading this story. But when your culture is more in tune with nature, you don’t have to worry about environmental impact statements. It just goes to show how corrupt AINO and made the concept of the “land of the free” and complete and utter fucking joke.
Amish are unapologetically tribal. I doubt the magical “racist” spell would work on them the way it does with Whites. Which leads me to believe that the culture in segregating your culture from the satanic world provides real world, tangible benefits.
“Such is life, fuck most white people too.”
I had family that survived the F5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri in 2011. The sense of community shortly thereafter was inspiring. But it then when away. The community went back to only culture the majority of modern Whites know: rampant consumerism. And Joplin in deep in the Bible Belt. I love my race. I really do. But we are deeply flawed. the world war II post war period created the best of times in the whole of human history. Good times create weak men. The best times ever creates the weakest men ever. I was watching some of the videos of the pride parade in San Fransico. In one video, the pigs arrested some dude who was eating a sandwhich on a public transportation platform:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/us/bart-san-francisco-man-detained-sandwich/index.html
At the same time, faggot sodomist (but I repeat myself) were literally urinating in each other’s mouths and walking around naked. All in front of the pigs. If the sandwich was literally shitting in another man’s mouth, he probably would have been given a pass. My point of this public deviance is that if Whites are this fallen, then these species of Whites deserve to go extinct. As Saorise keeps saying, only complete collapse can solve this problem. If you think hopping around in a Bugs Bunny Halloween mask completely naked is acceptable behavior, you are probably too fucked up to be redeemed. You should get perforated and let Jesus decide.
So, despite their faults, the Amish show a much better example of what a successful culture should be as opposed the to satanic, atomized, consumer-uber-alles culture it keep away.
The lines are getting very blurry, most younger Amish have smart phones and I know for a fact that quite a few are using snapchat and sending naughty pics to each other, a large percentage of young Amish girls that are dating are on birth control, etc. It has strong points but plenty of faults as well .
This is what communities look like, for most people it is difficult to recognize.
It’s not hard to make the argument that modern technology enables the modern debt plantation with all of its attendant cultural ills. They may come to regret the smart phones.
The overall success of Amish adherents provides a stark contrast to the rest of White society, so I am hesitant to criticize. However, there is no arguing that a pacifist ideology is only possible in a highly orderly society. I will be curious to see how they adapt as our society becomes more disorderly.
These people know who they are.
A lesson for us all.
It is an important one but it rarely translates to action outside of the Amish community, but we better figure it out.
It’s honestly not hard. It just takes work. Be the neighbor you want to have, and amazing things happen.
I know, there are cat ladies and blue hairs and niggers and fags and it’s not a 100% solution, but it’s better than nothing.
And that is the power of actual community – and agency. They take care of their own, and no government required.