r/interesting • u/No_Finger_218 • 4h ago

SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.

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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 1h 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/gastedisflabbered 2h ago

The Amish I know use battery operated items