Heavens Gate + the Amish (to everybody!)

Farrell Till (jftill@midwest.net)
Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:37:42 -0600 (CST)

CARR
BTW, has everybody seen the new Amish Web site (http://www.amish.com/)?
It has ShockWave, Java, ActiveX and Real Audio 3. A spokesperson for the
Amish said that it would enable the English to learn more about them and
show that they were not such stick-in-the-muds as the popular myth
depicts them.

There is even a WebCam video of a live building of a barn! just like in
the film 'Witness'.

TILL
You mean they have a web site but still ride in horse-drawn carriages? Go
figure. One of the largest Amish settlements in the country is in Arthur,
Illinois, and the last time I was there, the Amish didn't use electricity.
How do they operate computers then? I heard that some Amish have started
using telephones, but they install them on their front porches or somewhere
out of their houses, so maybe they put their computers on the front porch too.

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net