Could you survive in an Amish society for a year?

Question

I was busy admiring how Amish women seem to be able to do everything and anything, when this question popped into my head: if you were dropped into an Amish society, with your current skills, could you survive for one year? Anybody ever watch Pioneer House on PBS?...I'm thinking this would be similar. What current knowledge and/or skills would help you?

Answer 1

I think the Amish people would accept someone even if they didn't have a lot of skills. I believe that they are patient enough to teach someone the skills. But what the Amish life is truly about is not skills and living on farms as much as it is separation from worldly ways and of devoting their lives to God. One of the reasons that they live the simple lives they do, is so that the sin of pride is less of a temptation in their lives. I believe that the manner in which they responded to the family of the man who killed their children at that school is a testament that they do try to live the word of God. It would be hard for someone that is not a Christian to enter into this society because the very essence of who they are is demonstrated all around them. They are enveloped in it. The knowledge you need to survive joyfully in this culture for one year, is the knowledge of our Savior. I could easily survive with the Amish for a year. Do you know Him?

Answer 2

I couldn't! I'm too hyper, I have to be out socializing and working, and being really busy. BUT I do know how to fix things, so that might help me survive. I admire the Amish, they live wholesome lives and arent poisoned by a lot of the HATRED we see everywhere else.

Answer 3

Doesn't topic if we wish to or now not such as you stated, such a lot folks may not be in a position to manage to pay for petroleum merchandise for wasteful makes use of like pushing a 3 ton automobile round to deliver one man or woman. Solar power from troughs or warmness towers can retailer its power in molten salt for no less than 3 days, relying on how so much garage ability you wish to construct into the procedure. There is no use for among the vigor we use at night time. The prime upward push constructions in towns do not ought to have each gentle on in any respect hours of the day- they kill birds since the birds are to dull to depart the sunshine and pass on their approach within the darkness- they simply fly round till they run out of power and drop useless. Street lighting are wanted since men and women have such deficient night time imaginative and prescient (loss of nutrition A of their strategies) that they're wanted so men and women are not strolling into every different always since they are not able to see good sufficient. The best factor I found out in prime institution of any use used to be easy methods to form. If I'd found out a exchange there, I might had been so much larger off, and would have began lifestyles previous than having to visit a institution to get the schooling and losing cash. Plus, it is less complicated to be taught at more youthful a long time- every 12 months a man or woman will get older, it is more difficult to be taught.

Answer 4

I don't live in USA so don't have much experience with Amish, but I've thought about their lifestyle and if they wanted volunteers for a social experiment I would love it. Growing up in a rural environment and being self sufficient I think I would do O.K.
Cheers

Answer 5

I grew up on a Farm, and I'm not Amish.
My Mother had courage, and she was a
GREAT COOK.

The Amish people here won't talk to you.
We buy their goods, but
I guess our talking might corrupt them. :-(
Hmmm...

Answer 6

It would suck, but I could do anything for a period of time. I would not practice their faith, as I have my own. I know this wouldn't be 'historically accurate', but I have to draw the line.

Answer 7

No, I couldn't do it. I'm too used to the city and modernization. Losing my car alone would drive me nuts.

Answer 8

My desire to be in an all white community would be enough to make me self sufficient.