At 10:24 PM 10/22/01 -0500, Neil Johnson wrote:
My father in-law makes some extra dough by converting modern power tools (Delta table saws, belt sanders, and lathes) to run of a central drive shaft so the Amish in our area can build furniture. Evidently it's "kosher" to use a centrally located diesel engine (with a battery to start it even!)
He can get a side job pressing elevator buttons on Saturday, when its not kosher to do so. In tech kosher places (e.g., Cedar-Sinai MC) the elevators stop on every floor on Saturday. I don't make this stuff up.
Several Amish farms put telephones in their barns for emergency purposes (or drive to nearby store to use a phone booth to call relatives, etc.).
So much for being "independent".
Do they avail themselves of modern medicine when they exceed what they can do with 19th century methods? [serious question]