Tuesday, August 27, 2013

A Few Other Puzzlements

There are a few other puzzling topics of conversation currently circulating that seem to us entirely irrelevant and do not seem to apply to us.

Amish: We are not Amish, neither are there any Amish people on our family tree that I am aware of. If they were Amish they would be living in some little shack with no electricity, no running water, no computer access, no car with which to get themselves to a store, etc. etc. No, they are obviously not Amish and neither are we. The Amish are very far removed from us in terms of religious beliefs and lifestyle. There is really no real comparison and we really have nothing to say about the Amish one way or another. Their lifestyle is good in some ways but anyway I doubt that we would want to give up our computers to live like that.