Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi...
by lutusp on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:27AM
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> I believe they fully except [sic] modern medicine for instance?
Wait a second. "Except" in this context means to refuse. The word you want, "Accept", means to give consent. Normally a malaprop like this is benign, but this one reverses the meaning of the sentence in which it appears.
Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi...
by jnbiche on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @05:17AM
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Yeah, I had already parsed the phrase 3 or 4 times by the time I finally understood what had happened.
Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi...
by derekp7 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @09:33PM
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The way I heard it explained -- they prefer to avoid any technology that leaves them too dependent on others outside of their community. Otherwise the outside can have some influence / control over them, instead of being self sufficient. These rules can be relaxed where safety is concerned (i.e., lights on their carriages, refrigeration for the milk), but the lights are powered by batteries that they charge on the farm (from the diesel generator that is used to power the milk refrigeration).
I though they believed many technologies disrupted happiness, because it took away from peoples interactions with each other. Or something like that. Which quite frankly is a totally plausible theory. Other than medicine/health technology I don't think there's a lot of proof other tech makes us happier directly. (Obviously someone needs to use a computer to make drugs, grow enough food, but it doesn't have to be them)