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Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by msla on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:21AM (#35337046)
> That is 5 years more than some ultraorthodox jews get, check out link [1] here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35336142

Proof that happy religious communities are all different, but ugly, controlling, abusive groups share many of the same characteristics.

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Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by WeylandYutani on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:18AM (#35338365)
I recently learned that the Bible wasn't translated into Russian until the 19th century.

The Church/elders always go for information control.

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Re:After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on by watwut on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:36AM (#35340824)
Russians peasants could not read and write at that time. Educated minority could read and write ... and those actually learned foreign languages too. Even by the start of WWI, the illiteracy in Russia was super high.
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