r/interesting • u/No_Finger_218 • 4h ago
SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.
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u/Comrade-Conquistador 4h ago
Just because they don't use electricity doesn't mean they can't get lit.
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u/Then_Idea_9813 4h ago
Smoking fat doinks out in Amish
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u/Special-Cricket4882 4h ago
I love that I still see king Dave quotes in the wild. His personality left a legacy he never could have planned
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u/BroccoliS0cks 1h ago
Shout out my boy justforkicks96 for hooking me up with some jeeby weebies. I'm gonna be looking fresh as fuck smoking doinks all day, getting pot stoned off the stinky brinky skunk skunk. Fuck 12.
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 3h ago
There’s rumors circulating that you don’t need electricity for LED grow lights and hydroponic systems, some people have made baseless claims you can just put this shit in the ground and weed grows out. I’m gonna need to see some sources tho
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u/tumbleytumbleweed 1h ago
$20 says they buy it from somewhere and repackage it to sell. They do that with vegetables too.
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u/swiftekho 1h ago
You see this? I got this selling weed.
I grows out of the fucking ground!
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u/react-dnb 1h ago
lol. "See them? They're made out of chicken!"
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u/A_mad_goose 35m ago
Kill em get chicken or don’t kill em and eggs come out their arse. You can’t lose!
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u/bolanrox 1h ago
depending on the group - even the strictest ones use phones / power for business related things.
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u/Khelthuzaad 4h ago
Is hard work and sacrifice
Living in an Amish paradise
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u/No_cool_media 2h ago
We sell quilts at discount price
Livining in an Amish paradise
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u/OaktownEagle02 1h ago
No cops or traffic lights
Living in an Amish paradise
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u/GelatinousGreenSoul 1h ago
I churned butter once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
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u/Background_Handle_96 56m ago
Flour and the honey, honey and the flour.
Minute after minute, hour after hour.
Everybody's churnin, but half of them ain't pasteurizin'
It's going on the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin.
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u/CannonM91 2h ago
Actually they can't smoke weed, I used to hang out with an Amish guy named Dave in the midwest when I lived on a farm. Smoking weed was against his religion and he told me the one time he tried it he panicked and ended up praying for the rest of the night. Amish Dave could drink a LOT of fucking whiskey though, he was honestly a helluva guy.
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u/rdizzy1223 52m ago
Every single large group of amish has their own separate rules. There really is no singular group of "amish" people with the same set of rules. There are hundreds of groups, each with their own rules. I guarantee that some of them can smoke weed.
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u/ilmalocchio 24m ago
There's an exception to everything, but let's not let that impede understanding. On the whole, they don't smoke weed. The Amish folks in this photo likely don't smoke, and just justify selling it to other, less-godly people to raise money for their community.
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u/scricimm 4h ago
By god this comment is enlightening 🔥🔥🔥.... You have brighten my day! ☀️Thank you my good and luminous friend!🌝🌝
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u/Training_Window3687 4h ago
This is the same top comment everytime this picture gets posted
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u/ZonixWestfall 4h ago
The amount of light wordplay in this thread is honestly bright enough to power a whole barn raising without any electricity at all.
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u/Training_Window3687 4h ago
Its all recycled from the previous 500 times this image has been posted lol the top comment is literally copy pasted from the last one
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u/johnny_boy365 4h ago
Even then its not all Amish dont use electricity. Most just dont rely on it like us.
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u/_stack_underflow_ 1h ago
The Amish is 100% not producing Delta-8, it requires technology to be made. They're reselling.
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u/TheOneWes 4h ago
They do not shun electricity.
They do not participate in systems that require the breaking of the Sabbath so they use generators and buy fuel from a company that doesn't operate on a Sunday.
Go visit an Amish community, You will see power tools and the like
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u/HPHambino 4h ago
A lot of people also get Amish and Mennonite confused.
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u/Temporary_Event8451 2h ago
People also just assume shit. Like you mention Indian, Inuit, any group of people and they picture crap out of a text book.
General cutler or whatever his name was literally paid American tribes like a dollar to wear fancy ceremonial garb to take pictures that are still used in history texts.
They destroyed all evidence of American tribal infrastructure and made it seem like they were tent people.
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u/caserock 4h ago
That's just your local Amish community, there are many different types and several of them are zero-electricity
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u/AwesomeHorses 54m ago
Every Amish buggy I’ve seen has electric hazard lights on it, I don’t think zero electricity is very common. I know someone who has an Amish landlord who has a giant tractor.
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u/ratchman5000 3h ago
There are different types. Old order, New order, and Beachy Amish. The latter being the ones that drive cars, use electricity etc. New order will use battery powered tools, solar power, and farm equipment. There are also many sub groups. What ever happened to the Amish Mafia Don "Lebanon Levi?"
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u/ChemicalDull9012 2h ago
My understanding is different sects do different things it's not a everyone does this type of thing
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u/bolanrox 1h ago
they also seperate work from home. Like they drive cars for work but never at home.
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u/Financial-Solid-4775 4h ago
Genesis 1:29: "Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food'".
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u/Beachboy442 4h ago
Gods Gift to Mankind....his children. Marijuana provides food, clothes n pain relief....all gifted to us by God.
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u/Dred-I-Rastafari 4h ago
Yup, just like shrooms!
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u/momsauc_martini 1h ago
And God on the 8th day made cocaine. He was not stingy with it either.
“Go forth and pitch a stranger bad movie ideas in a nightclub”
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u/_you_need_jesus_ 1h ago
Then the devil laced the god intended pure Columbian cocaine with fent.
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u/peelen 3h ago edited 3h ago
I'm not a big fan of "weed merch" (even though I use MJ daily), but some day I saw a poster:
God created weed. Man created booze. Who do you trust more?
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u/katastrofe_- 3h ago
Alcohol is a natural byproduct of fermentation. Humans did not invent fermentation, that's been a thing for hundreds of millions of years before hominids ever existed
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u/Own_Director_4442 53m ago
And then that byproduct was capitalized on by man. We exonerate and push a product we know to be extremely harmful to our overall health and it's incredibly addictive. Those who become addicted are treated like trash rather than helped.
Alcohol is not the problem, man is.
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u/Prestigious-Shirt426 4h ago
What about poisonous water hemlock or the rosary pea? What was your god trying to accomplish with them?
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u/LOERMaster 4h ago
“Some of these seeds and plants will kill you. I leave that for you discover which”
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u/Siaten 4h ago
Deuteronomy 29:18 warns against a "root that produces such bitter poison".
I'm not Christian, I just think it's fun to see if I can find something in the bible that can support any supposition. While it is a metaphorical use, it at least proves the point that people shouldn't go around harvesting poisonous roots.
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u/Duchess1992 3h ago
Genesis 4:20-21 "²⁰And the Lord said unto thee Fuckin hit that shit yo! ²¹Fore I am your god, and we're about to get fuuuuucked uuuuuup!"
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u/Training-Republic301 4h ago
We've been spending most our lives, livin' in an Amish paradise 🎶
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u/rozkosz1942 4h ago
Thanks fer that Jebediah
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u/Real-Document-6577 4h ago
…churning lots of butta’…
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u/Raetheos1984 12m ago
I'm da pious guy da lil amlettes wanna be like on my knees day and night scorin' points for da aftalife!
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u/Background-Camp8408 1h ago
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
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u/Gem420 39m ago
Ezekiels Mind would be a good strain name.
Even better, but a different angle, Ezekiels Wheel.
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u/Cocky0 1h ago
🎶 I smoked chronic once or twice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
It's dank weed and sacrifice
Livin' in an Amish paradise
We sell spliffs at discount price
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u/Substantial_Age4723 1h ago
I wake up praisin, god every day! I wanna roll some weed and smoke me a j!! Thank ya Jesus
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u/Delicious-Pepper23 4h ago
Would the Amish have the ability to make delta 8 THC?
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u/No-Cover4993 4h ago
They have the ability to repackage products and wear costumes to make themselves look more legitimate.
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u/Acceptable-Case9562 4h ago
They even do it with vegetables and other foods.
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u/No-Cover4993 3h ago
They'll even do it with puppies and kittens. Mass produce them in horrible conditions in their private communities then bring them into town and act like it was just a family pet that had a litter.
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u/DebtPsychological461 1h ago
Yup, and the USDA told them to do it! The government promoted production dog breeding to farmers after WW2 as a “failure-proof” business after a number of disastrous crop failures in the midwestern US.
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u/Acceptable-Case9562 2h ago
I didn't know that. Damn.☹️
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u/wildcatwildcard 1h ago
You're just going to take a random reddit comment as the truth? maybe it is, but there is 0 proof or evidence provided here
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u/TriflingGnome 49m ago
lmao it just hit me that the Amish are kind of like the thing, Japan meme but in the US.
weed: 🥱
weed, Amish: 😍
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u/Due_Falcon6461 4h ago
Absolutely not.
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u/doctorlongghost 1h ago
As others have said, different types/sects of Amish and Mennonite have different rules regarding technology. I’ll also add that some of them make a distinction between technology used for work and that used for personal use — allowing their businesses to use refrigerators, for example, while prohibiting them at home.
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u/Henchforhire 1h ago
Seen one video a guy doing a tour of a Amish community and he seen a girl flying down a dirt road on an electric bike and asked the guy how that is possible with no electricity and he said as long as it is solar it is allowed in some Amish communities.
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u/thepenismytea 56m ago
The amount of equipment needed to either gather enough delta8 from an entire field of hemp plants, or convert CBD, is not some simple refrigeration hack or small time chemical reactions. Read up about how much Delta-8 is in a plant and what equipment is needed for either conversion or isolation.
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u/Reasonziz11 4h ago
That’s what I’m thinking, unless they buy delta 8 powdered already. But I feel like maybe they’re just sellers not growers?
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u/TheOneWes 4h ago
How much infrastructure does it take to make that? If all you need is electricity at a level that could be supplied with gasoline generators then yes they could make it.
There's a common misconception that the Amish shun electricity or this thing or that thing which is not true.
They won't participate in anything that breaks the Sabbath so they can buy and use any type of equipment as long as they can find a company that doesn't run on Sunday.
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u/BlackSwampMage 3h ago
A lot of people get mennonites and Amish confused as well. If this is in Michigan where weed is legal and there are many mennonites throughout the state. Particularly in the michiana region.
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u/cogman10 3h ago
Yup.
There are also a lot of groups within the Amish and Mennonites. It's not a uniform belief system.
But then there are also people who think it's funny to dress up like the Amish to sell weed.
There's also companies that'll happily use "Amish made" as branding for quality.
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u/NegligentNarwhal 2h ago
Delta 8 is made in a lab from CBD. It doesn't occur in high enough quantities to extract from straight cannabis plants. In a lab they extract CBD and then turn it into delta 8 THC through a series of chemical reactions.
Not a chance they made it unless there's a community of Amish people with chemistry degrees and a chemistry lab on their farm. They're reselling smoke shop garbage.
On a side note, this is also why delta 8 and other alt noid "extracts" tend to have unknown and nasty impurities. The conversion process is not completely clean nor are the labs regulated in any way.
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u/ash-and-apple 4h ago
It really depends on the bishop too. I know Amish who moved because they were allowed a skid steer when the old bishop wouldn't allow it
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u/enaK66 3h ago
I highly doubt they're really making delta 8 weed. Delta 8 weed which is quasi-legal through the Farm Bill (until this November when the BBB provisions kick in that close the loophole), is not grown directly, but artificially made. Marijuana plants don't produce much delta 8 THC. It has to be extracted from large quantities of flower and then added to regular hemp to sell as Delta 8 flower. Thats why you usually see delta 8 in vapes rather than flower. It starts life as a distillate.
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u/Competitive_Travel16 2h ago
An acid bath, heating, and rinse will convert most delta-9 to delta-8, but most of it in extracts and edibles is made from CBD, which is a more complicated but less potentially perilous process.
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 2h ago
It's much more complicated than that. As others have said, delta-8 is lab synthesized and then reapplied to plant matter.
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u/WiglyWorm 4h ago
Mennonite. They're wearing buttons.
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u/blakesoner 2h ago edited 2h ago
The Amish use buttons here where I live. It depends on whether or not their Bishop allows them to do so. There’s a huge split going on in their community rn where a lot of younger generations are leaving their churches for others that are more lenient towards certain technology/ farm equipment/ dress/ decor and that are overall less controlling over their personal lives.
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u/Small-Car-6194 1h ago
They where selling what at where?!?!?! Im so taking away their button privliges!
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u/oh_mos_defnitely 1h ago
Fuck can they run
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u/fallenouroboros 4h ago
Saw this pic around covid
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u/Ingenrollsroyce 4h ago
I was there, 3000 years ago
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u/Internet-Expert42069 22m ago
Wait that actually happened? Felt like that year just kinda got skipped and forgotten.
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u/PaleontologistOk6094 4h ago
It’s hemp / thca
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u/chiefrelichunter 4h ago
Technically, all weed is THC-A until you smoke it.
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u/pixelatedslinky 4h ago
And they do have a sign saying "prerolls" lol (so it's not just hemp)
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u/irenaroxana 3h ago
you don't know what hemp means
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u/ElefanteAmor 3h ago
Out here smoking a rope
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u/irenaroxana 3h ago
you don't know either apparently
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u/ElefanteAmor 2h ago
I live in a legal state. I don’t understand most of this mess of rules that goes on elsewhere
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u/Winter8Bones 47m ago
Yes just "hemp"...big buds of "hemp"... nothing more I'm sure haha.
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u/weirdgroovynerd 4h ago
Why, I believe this is the delectable Dyck-Weed.
You can buy it at the weekly Letterkenny farmer's market.
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u/Tony2Wheel 4h ago
I feel like the Amish can grow some fire 😄
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u/Knick_Noled 4h ago
Just thinking it’s either absolute fire or complete bush weed
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u/snizzrizz 4h ago
Or somewhere in the middle. Definitely one of those three options though
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u/It_broke_itself_ 1h ago
Well I can read the sign that says delta 8 and cbd so no this is garbage
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u/gatorsfan5192 1h ago
This is delta 8, so it's not weed. It's just some chemical sprayed on the hemp. I'll stick to the real stuff.
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u/paintedsaint 4h ago
Can we talk about how abusive the Amish are to women and animals and the fact that the girl in the right seems to have a black eye?
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u/okymoney 4h ago
No joke i would try it
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u/It_broke_itself_ 1h ago
You would be disappointed this is the same "legal" shit they sell at gas stations all over the country
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u/yournames 4h ago
CBD?
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u/bongsforhongkong 4h ago edited 4h ago
The medical part, THC gets you high, CBD is pain/anxiety/stress relief.
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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 4h ago
I see a desk calculator - Mennonite, maybe?
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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 4h ago
There are some Amish groups who apparently use electronics as long as the power doesn’t come from the grid
So some of them have solar setups and use smartphones, but they won’t have their house hooked up to the grid
And some of them will rent cars and construction equipment but won’t own them
But it is probably more likely they are Mennonites
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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 4h ago
Interesting, TIL. As a Jewish person, reminds me of an eruv line. Tacit admission that the rules are extremely inconvenient, with an officially sanctioned loophole.
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u/KaitieLoo 51m ago
Am not Jewish and was otherwise raised atheist/agnostic, so I only recently read about the concept of eruv lines and learned about the Manhattan Eruv. Certainly an interesting way to get around on a technicality.
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u/Monk_Lord_ 4h ago
I knew a Amish girl who Loved sharing Weed with me..
Sadly she passed away from a Heart attack tho.
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u/RedOfTheNeck 4h ago
"And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." — Genesis 1:12
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u/Impressive-Moose3353 4h ago
This pic has me on a quest to try Amish weed. Thank you for this.
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u/AdLatter3755 4h ago
It’s though living in an Amish Paradise.
We been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
I've churned butter once or twice
Living in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Living in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Living in an Amish paradise
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u/PhoenixDaBeast 4h ago
I just saw a YouTube video about a young guy telling a story about how he pretended to be a weed prophet and introduced it to an Amish family since he couldnt afford an apartment in the area, wonder if this is them lmfao
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u/unusualultimatum091 4h ago
Smart business move honestly, the Amish have been farming and preserving harvests longer than most of us have been alive so quality control is probably top tier
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u/HeadySquanch59 4h ago
I have never lived around Amish but I have heard frequently that they are very unethical when it comes to business and scamming people.
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u/Real-Document-6577 4h ago
“Pass it left hand side, English”
Spending most their lives living in an Amish paradise.
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