Hilarious!
2 Mennonite - every Amish girls’ dream
Knowing some Amish lots of them have phones to conduct business.
Nothing new or secret about it.
Ah technology. Neither of our smartphones showed the "nationwide" alert, suggesting the test was a laugh-er. And yet we get some severe weather warnings. Proving the Feds are....
I thought this was from the Babylon Bee at first.
I didn’t get any alert.
FBI plants to discredit their faith. lol
“Amish men shunned following emergency alert test that outed them for having cell phones”
Shouldn’t surprise anyone - how do you think they organize their mass looting/shoplifting attacks without cell phones?
We have 3 Amish communities in our county comprising of 4,000. They all have phones. I saw a young man driving a buggy and texting once.
There are some things about the Amish and their simple life I understand and can respect, others not so much.
Their general shunning of “the English” - our modern world, is to keep their younger generations from being entrapped in and by it, to the abandonment of their fundamentalist faith. They also do not believe in the forced conversion of their own, intentionally letting their youth go out into the modern world to test their faith themselves and return only if they chose and are committed to their faith.
The problem is their minimalist life and minimal numbers and isolation has produced allot of inbreeding in their population.
When we’d ask my dad “what are we” - meaning where our family ancestors were from, he’d answer “your a mutt”, “like a ‘Heinz 57 variety”. (It was really just his way of putting off a question he had no answer for.)
This entire “story” seems like a “journalist’s” daydream. It never happened, but in his mind it did. Which is good enough for today’s media.
So what this tells me is that, not matter what my settings are, silence, mute, or otherwise, uncle joe pedo will override my quiet mode and SHOVE AN AUDIBLE ALERT IN MY FACE.
Only way to block it would be to power off. But I’ve read somewhere that if you can’t remove the battery, your phone is not really off. Power off is not dead and inactive — systems are still running even if screen is blank.
This of course is humorous, but you can bet that more than a few women got the crap beat out of them when their phones were exposed. The deep state’s communications edicts take precedence over their safety.
BTW, a lot of Amish women ARE babes. All that modest clothing creates a certain mystique.
I remember seeing an Amish house and business in Oklahoma that had a pay phone installed in the front yard. I noticed the pay phone was gone on my last trip.
I must have one of the few cellphones that didn’t get this message. Weird.
I didn’t grow up Amish, but they and Mennonites were commonly seen in the part of Northern Indiana where I grew up. I have difficult time believing that having a phone go off over the emergency alert test would result in their immediate shunning/expulsion from the community. If they had phones before, they probably have gone off before—or they took measures to leave them off or at home long before Wednesday.
A sit-down with community leaders I can understand. Immediate expulsion? Shennanigans, IMHO.
From a USA Today article on the net:
“...According to the Young Center, the Amish do not consider technology evil in itself, but believe that it has the potential to bring about assimilation into the surrounding society. “Mass media technology in particular, they fear, would introduce foreign values into their culture,” says an article on the Young Center’s website. “By bringing greater mobility, cars would pull the community apart, eroding local ties. Horse-and-buggy transportation keeps the community anchored in its local geographical base.” Some of the rules are seemingly contradictory — for instance, 12-volt car batteries are permitted by many communities while 120-volt electricity is not. In addition, most Amish are not permitted to drive motor vehicles but are allowed to hire outsiders — known as “English” — to drive them...”