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Documentary: Devils Playground

college_dropout

college_dropout

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Has anyone else seen it? I watched it last night and I loved it, it was surprisingly interesting.

It's about the Armish people in America and how when the kids turn 16 they get to embark on rumspringa. Rumspringa is where Armish teenagers venture out into the "English" world, that is, modern society outside of their primitive communities, to experience what life is like with technology, booze, sex and drugs.

They party every night and some party pretty fucking hard. As they're in rural areas of America it seems like a lot of them are smoking weed and crystal meth.

Once they've partied hard for a few months or years they must then decide whether to return to the Armish community and join their church for life, or start a life in the outside world. Some of those who choose life outside of the Armish community are shunned by their family and friends.

I had very little knowledge of the Armish's way of life so I found this pretty compelling, and even pretty sad.

These kids are sheltered most of their adolescent life and then they're turned loose when their 16 and it's almost as if they are expected to dive into drinking, drugs and sex just to get it out of their system before they join the church. They should be taught that there is more to life than that in the real world, but it's portrayed that all modern society contains are those temptations.

Anyways hats off to them, it'd be a fucking hard life to live but most seem strangely content with how they are.
 
i watched that in my sociology class, it was both entertaining and thought-provoking..


it's sad that the first drug a lot of them tried was meth..
imagine going from milking a cow and plowing to smoking and drinking in a nightclub in one day?

i think the Amish are a little odd for completely sheltering their kids and then abruptly throwing them into cold water so to speak...
i'm sure many of those kids are scared by the shock of the new, differnt world and go home out of fear rather than real desire to stay in the Amish Church/community, and at the same time i bet a lot of them stay in the 'modern' community just to get away from the traditional Amish ways.

anyway this is something i think everyone should see, at least americans..

it's a social experiment we could never see without the existence of the Amish, that's for sure...
 
Dont yall mean Omish.....the religious group who dont believe in electricity and shit like that?
 
Yeah my bad it is spelt Amish.

I live in Australia and I first heard of the Amish last year. I can't believe people like that still exist! Then again, Australia is so far behind all the rest of the Western countries that we're probably not as different as what I imagine.
 
^ NO no, the Amish are decidedly traditional.

there are different groups of Amish people with varying degrees of resistance to modern life, but in general I'll say they're against technology.. electricity, cars, phones..genereally are used to a minimum if at all.
their values are basically hard work, religious piety, and modest living.

it is estimated that there are just under 200 thousand old order amish in the US.
 
saturnine said:
^ NO no, the Amish are decidedly traditional.

there are different groups of Amish people with varying degrees of resistance to modern life, but in general I'll say they're against technology.. electricity, cars, phones..genereally are used to a minimum if at all.
their values are basically hard work, religious piety, and modest living.

it is estimated that there are just under 200 thousand old order amish in the US.
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Haha, yeah I know they are. No-one living in America could live like that without choosing to.
 
I live in PA, and there was a time ago when there was a heroin ring that was busted by the police being run by Amish gangs.
Probably pretty serious for them but funny for everyone else to read about it, they had gangs called the "horsebuggies" and "pitchforks" among others.
I have seen the movie though, and liked it alot.
 
^ im guessing you are in the greater Lancaster area then? I recall that event as well.

I ran into two Ahmish kids on ecstasy at a rave in Allentown a few years back. Had a pretty interesting conversation with them. They basically have two options at that age: live a free life and never see their families again, or live like ahmish people and be embraced by family and community. Pretty tough decision imo. I used to think ahmish were just retarded, but now i think theyre pretty punk rock.
 
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