Amish

I see two advantages. You have your life style spelled out for you. No stress about what is right and wrong or what is proper or improper. Second advantage is the close community and family support.

Disadvantage, it's a hard way of life and difficult for anyone who is not born into it.

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The sacred text that the Amish use is the Bible. Those of the Amish faith are Christian. The Amish also have a set of rules governing how they should live their lives, this set of rules is called the Ordnung.

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One can buy handmade Amish quilts at the following web store: amishloft dot com. Alternatively, one can try eBay or Amazon as such stores often provide cheaper products.

Same kind as you and I do, most are middle class large farm stick built houses, but some young married couples will live in trailers to Begin with.

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Some these farm homes, can have many additional section to increase size of house, to accommodated larger number of children and extended elderly parents.

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Most of the homes are preexisting dwellings built by English outsiders, purchased with the property, and modifications like ripping out carpets, and getting ride most electrical outlets and appliances are as much change that may happen on occupying by Amish.

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Amish use near same building materials, and near same equipment, in building a home from scratch.

The truth is, the houses may be plainer, using less color and fancy details, but they are very nice houses any one would love to live in.

cultural relativism

It means marrying someone outside your own kind.

Pennsylvania Dutch refers to the Amish, Mennonite, and those who also have a Pennsylvania dutch heritage, but may not be a part of the Amish or Mennonite community.

No, there is only a TV commerical trying to sell electric heaters inside of wooden frames that look like a fireplace. They did not invent any of the components. Actually, if you check into the fireplaces, they are actually not very good at heating a small room.

It is a parody of Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'.

Try these sites : http://find-contractor.com or http://www.1800contractor.com

as little as they can! they preferr to keep their money in their family and the older bosses will get all they can from you!

Bush passed a law that let child workers work in the woodshops so long as they did not operate dangerous machinery and adults were supervising.

Yes. A 1972 Supreme Court ruling exempted the Old Order sects from compulsory attendance laws beyond the eighth grade.

They feel that the simpler their lives are and the more in touch they are with God and nature, the better. Modern, materialistic, and prideful activities and possessions do not appeal to their way of life so they don't use anything gaudy in their attire. In fact, they stay clear of using buttons and zippers and usually use pins or hidden clasps on their clothing. The simple, solid colors also reflect their desire to keep the focus on what truly matters in life, which to them is definitely not how fashion-forward their clothing is.

they have labor jobs

They disapprove of killing. "Vengeance is mine, saith the lord."

Incidentally, the Methodists disapprove of the death penalty as well - but they fought to make elective abortion legal. Why other churches think a human life is precious before birth, but undeserving of life once it is born, is probably a better question.

The people called "Pennsylvania Dutch" were settlers from Germany that set up homesteads in eastern and central Pennsylvania. The word for German is Deutsch, so when people asked them were they were from, the English heard 'Dutch' and assumed they were from Holland, e.g. English speaking folks thought they said "Dutch".

The uniform is one of the methods of Scouting, but it is not mandatory. This should be discussed with the unit leadership.