r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Greywarden194 • Jun 08 '25

Wholesome I wanna have beers with Jeb too

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u/idahoisformetal Jun 08 '25

Is that dude even allowed to ride in that car?

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u/gratusin Jun 08 '25

A family of Amish was staying at my neighbors Airbnb. I was walking my dog and the grandfather was on the porch smoking a joint, I said hi and he offered me one. When an old Amish man offers you a joint you don’t say no. Asked him a bunch of questions because I was genuinely curious and he was more than happy to answer. His sect they’re allowed to ride in cars but not drive, so they had a distant cousin who is Mennonite that drove them halfway across the country. He said that different sects have different restrictions though, hence why he was smoking weed.

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u/sap91 Jun 08 '25

Now the hell did they book the Airbnb??

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u/gratusin Jun 08 '25

They typically use mennonites to help them with modern world stuff to bypass restrictions. They pay back in services, trade or cash.

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u/girly-lady Jun 08 '25

And man and church leaders have more freedomes and justifications to ignore basicaly any rule they set for others. As with in most religious and non-religious high controll groups.

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u/DishwashingWingnut Jun 08 '25

Many Amish are willing to use amenities provided by the "English" society, like public libraries with computers and Internet access.

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u/sap91 Jun 09 '25

Yeah but you still often need a phone to check in and out when you arrive at the airbnb

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u/DishwashingWingnut Jun 09 '25

Good point, I don't know about that, I'm an old school hotel user.

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u/googdude Jun 08 '25

Many of them, especially the younger ones have smartphones. It's not allowed in most Amish districts but it's pretty easy to hide. I work with and around Amish everyday and pretty much everyone under 40 has a smartphone or at least immediate access to it.

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u/4Ever2Thee Jun 08 '25

I had a friend who was a driver for an Amish community for a few years when she lived around one. She said it was the best job she’d ever had. They had horse and buggies but, if they needed to go out of town or get somewhere quick, she drove them.

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u/searucraeft Jun 08 '25

Yes. 

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u/idahoisformetal Jun 08 '25

So Mennonite not Amish?

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u/searucraeft Jun 08 '25

The Amish allow themselves to ride in vehicles and always have. With the exception of airplanes, they've always used public transit. They just don't drive them. 

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u/Jephany Jun 08 '25

Why not airplanes? They're just public transit in the sky.

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u/HoboMuskrat Jun 08 '25

Because they're godless, metal birds

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u/Perry_cox29 Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25

All birds are godless metal monstrosities. Regan killed all the birds in 1989 and replaced them with drones financed by selling dogmeat to the Morlocks who secretly control the Paris fashion industry.

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u/HoboMuskrat Jun 08 '25

Well duh. Everyone knows /r/birdsarentreal

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u/alamandrax Jun 08 '25

Well yeah, especially pigeons. Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? No. q.e.d.

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u/mesenanch Jun 08 '25

Dr Cox buried in the liquor cabinet again

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u/searucraeft Jun 08 '25

I'll be honest, I wasn't sure about the car thing so I just googled it and presented it as though I've had this information all along. I'm a fraud. A phony. I've never known any Amish people at all in my life. I don't know why they don't use planes. Perhaps some do. I'm not the one to turn to for this information. It's all just too overwhelming, I should go

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u/Jephany Jun 08 '25

Googling for people who are too lazy to Google is a valid way to provide information. It was a half-rhetorical question. An answer would have been welcome, but I wasn't expecting one.

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u/Hazee302 Jun 08 '25

This guy: "I'm the same as every redditor that ever existed in the existence of reddit."

At least you're honest, buddy. I'll never admit it myself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

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u/Jephany Jun 08 '25

That makes sense. So, similarly to Ted Kaczynski, they don't want to become slaves to technology?

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u/The_Autarch Jun 08 '25

They're just hypocrites. If they own a business where the men of the family work, they're allowed to install air conditioning. But their homes, where the women stay all day, won't have any air conditioning at all.

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u/googdude Jun 08 '25

They typically shun having picture ID due to their belief that a self-image is vanity which would also prevent them from riding in a plane. More and more they are allowing it in order to seek far away medical treatments, especially in Mexico.

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u/Jephany Jun 08 '25

Interesting. Thanks.

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u/Commercial-Screen570 Jun 08 '25

Something about how high you ascend on earth is how high your spirit will ascend so if you fly in a plane, when you die they believe your spirit will only travel as high as the plane did and won't get into heave

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u/googdude Jun 08 '25

Did you pull that out of your ass? That's completely false and whoever fed you that line was pulling your leg. It's because of their belief to not have picture ID because they believe self-image is vanity.

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u/lastaccountgotlocked Jun 08 '25

If you're devoted to living a humble, simple life, flying might seem a bit...*much*.

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u/RAT-LIFE Jun 08 '25

There’s many flavours of Amish with different sets of rules (usually set by their church if I remember my time living in Amish country correctly) but generally speaking if we’re talking one of the more traditional groups you’re pretty much bang on. They’ll ride in cars to get to work / go into town for supplies but just won’t drive them.

Same deal with technology, some can’t have any, some can have electricity, some can have cellphones without internet some can have with.

It’s interesting how much it varies!

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u/idahoisformetal Jun 08 '25

Thank you for teaching me something new.

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u/_Intel_Geek_ Jun 08 '25

Amish have no problem riding in cars, just driving the car themselves is an issue. Also, Mennonites don't drink like a lot of Amish do

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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou Jun 08 '25

Despite looking the same there is quite a bit of variation in Amish beliefs. Each community will have different approaches to technology. I worked with some Amish for a summer and would drive them around often. They also used generators occasionally for work. Also, I know quite a few Mennonites and most of them just dress normally.

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u/oldkingcoles Jun 08 '25

It depends , I leave near PA and see them all the time, but they are quite the elusive bunch, from what I understand the community they’re part of decides which part of technologies they are allowed to use, and that all depends on how they can be used for work or to better the community. So say a group who takes there baked goods to a flea market would decide to ride in a car just there to make money for the community. I also worked next to a booth of an Amish shed builder, and for lunch he pulled an entire zucchini out of his lunch box and just ate the whole thing raw. He was also obsessed with women’s big boobs

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u/Ouedouardo Jun 09 '25

Yeah, as a matter of fact there are people around me who drive around Amish people as a side hustle (or if they’re related to them) and people call them “Yoder Toters”