Abandoned load?

According to those that put AM together,; some Amish do drive and the old order didn't approve of the show on the few segments i saw, they were on.. What's the difference between Amish and Mennonites anyway?

 

Both are similar in belief that They baptize infants and especially into adult hood for following Christ in the Christian Tradition.

A swiss protestant Preacher in about 1690's decided that shunning is not being practiced as it should be against those who are not walking with the Lord within the body of the church. So he seperated from his fellow protestant and I think the name Amish is a corruption of his name I forget totally. He basically shunned his former church because they were not adhering to what he believed as a church leader to the word of god. He essentially founded the Amish Old Order which do not agree with the old Mennonites and one of the things Amish like to do is to live simply.

Theology makes me rage and rage and rage.

What I just wrote is literally what a Amish trucker told me a long time ago. And it's really outrageous because I still have questions. And Google aint it.

 

I had thought the Amish were fist then the Mennonite, after a fall out. They are close to religious beliefs, but do not usually allow worldly goods like the Mennonites do. Amish do though have cell phones in some cases, for business use only. Will give you a good subject to study up.

 

It is too hard for us to get used cars now also, no one here to work on them if they break down; husband on the road and son lives in TN. It would probably be better if you could find a local person who had an older car in half way decent shape.

 

Ive been around them part of my life as part of my day trips to Lancaster, Strasburg to be exact. There is a tourist steam railroad that has been involved in running freight to east lancaster where it's transfeered to trucking for the city downtown. And sometimes loaded from truck to rail car then set out at Paradise PA (Intercourse PA.. I kid you not. Look it up) for delivery anywhere in the world.

I also have part of family roots going to the Amish area in the PA Dutch Country, I have to do a little more reasearch. MY Grandfather had a Amish-German Name which during ww1 was extremely unpopular and he legally disposed of his given name and literally Americanized his new name and Im the third generation to carry that by legal name change decree from 1910. I have to do research according to blood name that was given to him when he was born in 1893. That is where his Family was in southern PA somewhere. I will find them sooner or later. When I do, I intend to pay a visit if there is any of that blood line still with us in this world.

To be short, The Germans out of Kurfust area of Hesse fought against Napoleon in the 1800's early as part of a coalition (Desert storm 1 type international coalition) which included Catherine the Great of Russia, Austria, Prussian and so on so forth etc. Against Napoleon at a place called Waterloo. After his defeat and his rule was broken, that part of the family discovered that the economic situation is impossible So Kurfurst and Hesse Authorites wrote and paid tickets to send 130,000 to America, Baltimore and NYC to be exact and they sent about 830,000 east to Ukraine. Many Jewish. I have no Jewish blood but it will be interesting to see about the Amish in the Dutch COuntry because the Danes or Hollanders were involved as well with our Line in genaology. Im basicailly a europen half breed if such a concept could be understood. It's something Im wrestling with and only now have the means to pursue a geneological answers to be questioning to break the 1820 barrier and get it back towards the mid 1550's which is just after the great black plaque that killed 3 of 4 persons all over europe. We had three major religions as well. Calvinism, Roman Catholic, Judasim and Protestant as Martin Luther put it. We are mainly Protestant with I bet quite a bit of Calvinsim thrown in. What a mess.

ANYWAY.. enough about family lines. It's all fascinating. But at the end of day it's a tragic story when after a major war won, go home find nothing that can make a living raising a family, pack it up and go to America to start over. That's ballsy to me. If I had to do that now to start over somewhere far away in a strange new world I don't think I can.

 

Quote: "There are two types of traditional Mennonites: those who use horse and buggy transportation and those who drive cars. The horse and buggy driving Mennonites, who also speak Pennsylvania German, are often confused with the Amish. Unlike the Amish, Mennonite men do not wear beards." PBS

 

so is the location on goole where this took place?