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Thread #113688 Message #2419545
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
21-Aug-08 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Amish Wallowing in Wild Sex Orgies
Subject: RE: BS: Amish Wallowing in Wild Sex Orgies
The Hutterites, another anabaptist group, are good husbandmen as well, having increased from 400 (when they came to North America in 1874) to about 60000. They live in small communal groups, organized as corporations, in western Canada and northwestern U. S. Each corporation has the best mechanical equipment that the group can afford, and their agricultural operations are computerized. The colony I am most familiar with has air-conditioned plows and combines for their grain acerage, and a large commercial egg operation. Theu sell produce at the local farmers markets, but the real money comes from their large egg and grain operations. From profits, each family receives an allowance for personal needs and wants. They have fitted Suburban vans to carry women and children to town for doctor visits and personal shopping.
They have modern living quarters for the families with the latest in subfloor heating from a central plant. Cooking is done centrally and meals are taken in the eating facilities, but in their dwellings they have coffee makers, toasters, their own china for snacks and some welcome for gossip. They frown on radios, TV, singing (except their unison in religious services), etc., but they often visit non-Hutterite friends and watch movies, etc., and there are hidden radios or TVs in their basements. On the plus side, NO discussion of politics, they do not vote in elections. The colony pays corporate taxes. They are excused from military service.
Women do not operate farm equipment or drive, and men make the decisions. Women operate the kitchen, tend vegetable gardens, make clothes, care for the family, tend the communal goose flock, etc.
A teacher is brought into the colony to teach to grade six level, a rare few go to grade nine level. Language in the family and in most operations is their German-Moravian dialect, but most can converse reasonably well in English.
Some of the young leave the colonies, but most seem to prefer the communal life style, where each has his job or specialties that contribute to the whole. Colony members, including parents, are forbidden to contact those who leave. Of course secret visits do take place in some cases.