Lifestyles

[spiral]

What do you guys think of communities like the Amish,and Havasu?


Living in a simple world, having a simple life.

People in these communities, have longer life-spans, LESS stress, and are overall happier, and Safe.

Would you choose to live in that type of a world?

[xBaron Dants]

Best thing about the Amish is that you can insult them all you want over the internet, and they'll never find out.

I'm personally against the seclusion of one group towards all others. I'm also against the fact that all members of the community must, in a way, lead exactly the same lifestyle.

Also, I happen to like a little bit of stress.

[spiral]

oooh, it's with an A

haha, I remember Weird Al singing amish paradise.

[Arvestaked]

What ever makes you happy. But such communities cannot express art the way I want it to be expressed and will not afford me the opportunity to express art the way I want to. It is not for me. Not with the brain I have now. But I would be a Buddhist monk before an Amish man. And I would tell all of the Buddists that they are not really Buddists and that I will be...and then I will kill myself and then they will think about it and I will go down in history as prophet.

[Anonymouse]

I think the Amish are a very interesting people and I would greatly enjoy learning more about them. They have a certain disturst of technologies. People think of them as "backward" for not using them. Actually, the Amish do employ tools, but if someone wants to consider bringing a new technology into the community, the Amish study it with this thought in mind: will acceptance of this technology make us dependent upon the external world, such that we will be tempted to change our ways? I think this is an important question that we overlook, those of us living in the world of technology. As Einstein said, "Our technology has surpassed our humanity".

[Arvestaked]

But I think a pale-skinned, hairless boy will show up and give us faith that one day our humanity will surpass our technology.

[xBaron Dants]

Originally posted by Arvestaked What ever makes you happy. But such communities cannot express art the way I want it to be expressed and will not afford me the opportunity to express art the way I want to. It is not for me. Not with the brain I have now. But I would be a Buddhist monk before an Amish man. And I would tell all of the Buddists that they are not really Buddists and that I will be...and then I will kill myself and then they will think about it and I will go down in history as prophet.

Not if I do it first, HA! *puts a knife in pocket and runs away, giggling hysterically*

[spiral]

I admire their lifestyles.

Technology will ulitmately lead to corruption.

some people argue that they are living in a narrow world, where they see 'nothing', and that their lives have no purpose, since their opportunities and the range in which they can strive for their goals are limitied.

when you think about it...

for us, there is an endless road of opportunities, you set your mind to something, you can achieve it. You can have mostly everything, and anything you want if you strive for it.

but going back to the meaning of life- Is this really what counts?

a successful career/materialistic goods?
we are constantly spoiled by more and more of everything.

We are reaching a stage in technology now where, scientist are coming up with more and more ways of mimicing or altering human life. cloning, bioengineering, etc..

I was reading about how in a couple of years, they will have made artificial organs, to replace with real one's if necessary.

so eventually, man, will be able to create man from head to toe,
-not the natural way.

[PASAMONSTER]

Man already recreates man by clonning. and they have Gene whatchamacallit too, switching your code around before you're born so you will be a certaiin way.

Ahhhhh the amish and their poor women.
It would be great living without technology, real man's world(by man i mean human, don't get offended girls) Ohhhh mann i hope i see the day!!!

[loseyourname]

Originally posted by spiral We are reaching a stage in technology now where, scientist are coming up with more and more ways of mimicing or altering human life. cloning, bioengineering, etc..

I was reading about how in a couple of years, they will have made artificial organs, to replace with real one's if necessary.

so eventually, man, will be able to create man from head to toe,
-not the natural way.

What's so unnatural about this? Is man and his scientific knowledge somehow not a part of nature?

In answering your question, I would love to live a simple life, but it's too late for that. As you said, we've been spoiled, and I don't think there's much hope for a return, at least not in this generation. So I will my life the way that I have already been living, in accordance with whatever standards I have may have recognized. I'm not too concerned with identifying them, nor I am concerned that they are controlling me or taking anything away from me. I make my decision now, with full awareness of the consequences. This is the world I am a part of and I happen to kinda like it.

I continue to read Into the Wild and fantasize, but who am I kidding? I'm not Chris McCandless, and I have many dreams that involve others. I will never be that free, and I'm just going to have to learn how to deal with that fact.