The Amish - BBC2

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Really, really interesting about how old amish they are but very happy to welcome excommunicated even if they get excommunicated themselves.

It's fascinating. She strikes me as very intelligent.

On a shallow note, I love the horse and cart transport!

the children appear to be so happy although I wonder what happens when they hit their teens?

They seem like very loving parents, and it seems like a very child-centred lifestyle but it's not clear to me whether that's an Amish thing or this family's thing.

I think that it is an Amish thing. I am wondering though, if they had to think hard about filming, how C4 managed to do a whole series, equally fascinating. If I remember rightly they get a year in the 'real' world when they have finished school.

They were pretty rebellious weren't they? Allowing themselves to be filmed, fraternising with the excommunicated ones.... I liked them! Could do with less of the singing though.

There are Amish near where I live and they often come into town to sell their produce. As far as I can tell they are generally pretty family/community oriented.

It was utterly fascinating - when it all came out about the rebaptism then I was able to put my finger on what was different about them - they are obviously part of a movement that is very strongly influenced by mainstream evangelism in the US. I had no idea that this was an issue among the Amish. It went some way towards explaining why so many of the songs were in English rather than Pennsylvania Dutch.

I really liked them too, and I agree that Miriam seemed very intelligent. In any other church I think she would be seen to have gifts for leadership. I hope they will be OK now the film has come out.

Really fascinating. I also loved their family centred approach to life and much of what they believed about family values wouldn't go amiss in our society! It was great to see the kids so involved in the family work too, even the youngest.

I could see some of the feminists getting a bit up tight about how her role was solely in the home/children but it seemed to work so well for them. That's his job, that's my job.

I hope they will be ok now the programme as aired.

really interesting programme wasn't it, was it a one off?

They seemed really happy as a family. I didn't like the way the camera lingered so long on her when she was upset about the effect it would have on her wider family of they were excommunicated though.

I really enjoyed it. I hope they are ok now the programme has aired but they strike me as a lovely family

I was so annoyed i forgot this was on and cuaght the last 20 minutes of it, I will try to catch it on iplayer they seemed lovely and open to their friends even if they would be ex communicated themselves for it ,

and thought their phone box at the end of the garden was cool

I'm pretty sure these guys were in one of the C4 programmes.

V. Interesting though, can't help thinking that it looks like a totally idyllic lifestyle.

It does look a lovely lifestyle doesnt it but think what you would miss,

i just really, really wanted to pluck the middle of her monobrow

It was fascinating, wasn't it? And they all seemed like such genuinely nice people.
Wiki tells me they speak a form of old Dutch socially, English for education and business and High German in church.

Wiki tells me they speak a form of old Dutch socially, English for education and business and High German in church.

yep that is what wiki just told me too

fascinating, agree.
also their prayer seemed so natural, like conversations, not staged like in a clerical church.

I thought the husband and wife came over really well, both romantic and loyal, godly but ambitious and pretty clued up. I was thinking today i would love that life but after a week would probably become really bored. It was very romantic. I wish the christian evengelical church had bigger communities and more respect here in the u.k. But alot of it comes across very middle class in the u.k.