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As of 2024 the Amish population just surpassed 400K, 400,910 to be precise.

The Amish are our best hope

"Amish paradise" by weird al will be the national anthem

Aging like wine

The Amish will never be a significant part of the US population. more than 2.5 million illegals enter America EVERY YEAR from Latin America and Asian that’s 5 times the current Amish population. I get it many white Americans don’t like this whole idea of the US being a nation of color. Whites will be less than 50 percent of the future. The US will have a Brazilian demography. The era of a Christian White America is done. Whites die more than they are being born. And on top of that, interracial dating is becoming more and more popular.

Amish really coming in clutch

Americans should have more kids to increase the Fertility Rates.

It would definitely be interesting to see a majority Amish America

The most conservative Amish group (Swartzentruber Amish) are even around 9-10 kids per women and their retention rate is higher than the average amish

The worst part of this is that Bishop Strickland was terribly damaged by this. A very good man took a tremendous hit on his reputation for her scandal. And he's not suing her for her indiscretion.

This didn't age well. Following Kari's fall from grace and her "significant mental health and spiritual issues resulting from a personal lapse in judgment" in which she "engaged in an inappropriate relationship" ultimately resulting in her "mental health continu(ing) to deteriorate" and her "suicidal state of mind" and subsequent treatment "at the University of Texas hospital behavioral health emergency center" (her words), the Beckmans are now suing Fr. Tran, the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and RCA under the apparent theory that they should have done more to prevent her from creating a scandal, and for their (in my eyes, reasonable) efforts to distance themselves from her following the scandal. There's more, you can look it up, the 2nd Amended Complaint is on line.

No money? Barter?

What’s also interesting is that the Amish are growing in rust belt states. These places are already depopulated (ing?). Accentuating even more their population growth

yah it’s scandalous how other catholics don’t support your cult, almost as scandalous as you having an affair with a politician 😳

I grew up in the Bruderhof, but a generation before Chuck, sort of. So he experienced it somewhat differently than I. It's changed a lot in the 40 years (this year) since I left it. Some things are good changes. Some, I'm not so sure about.

Agreed, I improved the quality of my life 2 months ago by switching back to a flip phone without a browser. With a smartphone you do a lot less actual thinking and planning. Yes, you can distracted on your desktop, etc.. but a smartphone just takes it a step beyond. You literally can spend all the day distracted and not thinking. I also feel more tuned into my immediate surroundings and much calmer

AWESOME !!!

I just wait for better dumb phone. It is nice that will be like smartpohne screen, but there is no smart features. no gps, wiifi, internet and games. Much more easier to write text message.

I would play chess with you

I'm sitting here at my laptop and saying to myself... "I can do all of that on my laptop." BTW, I don't have ANY phone of ANY kind. I don't need one. And I'm a physician. I tossed my cell phone 14 years ago and haven't missed it at all. People have become addicted and no longer have the ability to think, to comtemplate, to calm the mind. It's really a psychological problem and the addiction is like that of drug addiction.

A GPS is also a tracking devide.

Everything is getting too damn expensive either drop the prices on everything or go back to the drawing board where it was the 80s and survive off of home phones and phone booths. If anything flip phones were a thing when I was in School I didn't see Smartphone's until the last minute. Now I am 29 stuck with my parents because of how expensive everything is I can't even buy a house because realestate wants to jack up house prices even though it's renewable resources we're using. Hopefully there is a bright side some where because I am getting frustrated with all these prices.

Question. When one arrives at a Bruderhof community to live and please excuse the analogy but is it like a prison orientation where one hands over all their clothes and possessions then is issued a set of clothes? Can one arrive with books and personal possessions but with the understanding that they are to be given to the community? Can one bring their iPad if they have all their books on storage or the cloud or owning a personal iPad is not accepted? What about if one receives government pensions? Are they redirected to the community? How is that accomplished? What about immigration? If I was accepted for community living would Bruderhof arrange my immigration visa? These are a few of the questions I could not seem to find throughout the various you tube vlogs although very informative.

Only those who truly love God and are pursuing Christlike holiness will find a home at Bruderhof. It is not a sanctuary for the selfish, egotistical, material person. Once one becomes possessed by the Holy Spirit, one neither wants or needs much because joy is found in continuous conscious communion with the indwelling Christ. The genuine God-devotee finds the barest necessities (food, clothing, shelter---and even these quite simple please) sufficient. The materialistic life of the God-unconscious majority in secular society is insanely competitive, stressful, polarized, and actually quite ABNORMAL AND NOT CONDUCIVE TO A CHRIST-CENTERED SPIRITUAL LIFE. Bruderhof, I feel, is the answer for the true devotees of our Lord God.

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my solution for the portable audio entertainment issue is to buy a cheap ipod touch. no internet, anything I need will be downloaded, and I can have my music when I want it, without the rest of the distractions of my phone

Great video man 👍 I'm 38 going on 39 and I've had many phones from different carriers Nextel, sprint and Verizon prepaid candy bar phones, flip phones and smartphone from android and apple. I've always went back to a flip phone because I'm alot less distracted and I can stay alot more productive and focused in my life but not starring at my screen like a zombie. I'm currently using a TCL Flip Pro flip phone with Verizon prepaid and it does everything I need it to do for me calls, texts and receive photographs. I can look stuff up on the internet when I get home from work or when I'm not busy doing different projects around the house on the computer . Some of my coworkers are proud showing off there new phones because they have an iPhone or galaxy that cost them well over 1,300 dollars and I just smh. It's not worth spending all the money on a phone of any kind when in less then 6 months the tech is already getting old. If I get another flip phone I might go with the Kyocera dura xv extreme for Verizon prepaid. I don't like how when I use a smartphones how I'm so addicted and always starring at the screen and that is very bothersome and distracting to me because it prevents me from getting alot done while I'm at home. I like having a flip phone because it reminds me of how it was before smartphones existed plain and simple without all that extra stuff.

Others-america will be minority white Amish- YES?

Remember emails are not emergencies. Thank you for sharing your experience.

you are an abusive mother and i hope your kids learn how to be in the real world and not your cult 😃😃

you are a cheating disgrace

I have Never had a Smartphone . Ever . only a 2007 Tracfone , no text camera or apps , just a phone that pings a Tower ! :) QC

ur a cult and should be taken down

BTW Polish commies tried to mock a Pole who put big cross in his yard: 'how do you know which religion is real, there are so many'. 'It's simple' - he said: 'the one you are fighting most':) USSR was first satanic country.

In every community similar factors may cause problems: money, pride, etc. I wonder if you know anything about Narcissistic Personality Disorder? They tend to take over any groups where they could control people, get attention: positive or negative. I wonder if people who accused your organization could be Narcissists? On the other hand lay people should not put hands on somebody's head. Only priests can do it. Speaking in tongues can be also from 'Toronto'. Hurt doesn't have to be intentional, visible to happen. In 80s I was in Polish 'Catholic' youth organization called 'Oasis', created like protestant 'Crusade for Christ' by Fr. Blachnicki which protestanized us. We were taught to rely on feelings. There was no solid formation. In a small groups, without adult supervision we 'studied' the Bible. Rather we were encouraged just to talk on paragraphs we read. This gave us a false impression, and pride that we 'know the Bible'. I had good time, went for retreats but still something was missing. This experience 'helped' me to wander away, be a Buddhist for many years. If I knew then what I know now about the the Church, Magisterium, Church Doctors, the Bible I would never walk away. I'm not the only one to bring up such complains, some are theological. A friend of mine thought, from different town praises this movement. Well, she is a protestant now. I returned thanks to Latin Mass (helps me immensely to focus on prayer, get some peace), and surely prayers of my friends, God's grace. I'm lucky to attend one with live Gregorian Chants. From stories I hear I don't have good opinion about charismatic movement. Recently I heard about neocatechumen movement that seems it leads to 'priesthood' of lay people, lack of respect for Body of Christ in Eucharist. Bp Athanasius Schneider researched this movement and is against. How much prayer, discerning may help if the plans for these organizations aren't really Catholic and lead to deception?... Thank you for sharing your story. First time I hear about this organization. God bless you.

A virtual Mass is only a performance, a substitute. Thank you for explaining and discussing metaverse. God bless you

One more reason to get rid even of 'stupid' mobile phone is to avoid brain tumors, health issues. Several years ago, without any new significant research they were recognized as 'possibly carcinogen'. Seems because there was a lot of evidence, especially from Scandinavian countries which were first to produce and use them. They're worst for children. I'm sorry for these Z generation children who will learn it the hard way.

I enjoyed your explanation. We do need some silence and to hear our own thoughts:) When TV was invented some people expected it will end all other arts. Luckily, not yet:) Hopefully this phase for smartphones will fade away as well.

I love the Amish I pray to God that they take over

Wow why is this hypocritical lady still here on your sad channel? Is good moral behavior not part of catholics world view.

Kari Beckman has admitted to adultery recently. This project is probably going down in flames.

Whenever elections come around, my conservative friends freak out about liberals taking over America, I point to the Amish, my conservative friends shut up after that.

Hi David, I really enjoyed your video! I think digital Minimalism is a very important subject, I like to see more and more people (myselfe included) switch to a "dumb phone" and find themselfes much more present in their life. Greetings from Switzerland, Fynn

Excellent article in Crisis today about Gavin Newsome. Excellent and scary that people still vote for him.

Nice to get know more about Bruderhof community.

Good interview. When Arnold was researching the basis of a Church he learnt of the Anabaptists (Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite) and the Hutterites were the group he most wanted his Church to be like - in 1930 he traveled to the States and Canada, visited all 33 colonies, and was ordained a Hutterite pastor. In his diary Arnold wrote of the Hutterites: 'Community is so totally supreme that the salvation of the individual member ... is seen solely in terms of obedient yielding and surrender to the community, of joyfully and unconditionally placing the community above the individual.' Arnold felt he had much to learn from the Hutterites, and he incorporated much that he saw in North America into his own community in Germany. He cherished the Hutterite _Lehren_ , for example, and copied dozens of sermons for his own library. Twice the Bruderhof entered fellowship with the Hutterites and twice it failed. (This is a painful chapter for both the Bruderhof and the Hutterites.) If you know Hutterite surnames you'll find several in the Bruderhof; about 20% of Bruderhof members have a Hutterite background, whether they themselves or one's forebears. Additional growth came from other communal groups, religious-based or not, that had failed, were failing, or were convulsed with internal dissent. For example, the majority of the members of the Macedonia Cooperative Community in Georgia, numerous Quakers, and a significant number of members from Midwestern congregations of the Church of the Brethren joined the Bruderhof in the late '50s and '60s. Members also came from Celo, Kingwood, Koinonia, and several other small communes. The Bruderhof picked up their wooden toy making expertise and contracts with FAO Schwarz from Macedonia members who joined them after their commune collapsed due to the conflict between those who advocated more internal cohesion versus proponents of individualism. I think it's easier for people who have experienced communal life to adjust to the Bruderhof than for those who have lived a typical nuclear-family life in a modern, capitalist country. People have invested a lot of time and effort to attain their material prosperity and security. Giving up those worldly attachments has to be daunting. 'What if I make the wrong choice?' You'll be left without the security of Bruderhof life as well as the home and other possessions you relinquished before joining. Then there is the vow of obedience - though they try to reach consensus, the Bruderhof is not a democracy and you don't get a veto. It's also not a tyranny led by a charismatic and paranoid leader preaching about imminent apocalypse. The demands of the community are far more than what a non-member experiences in regular life. Those who join and find it works for them say: 'I gave up everything, only to find that I lack nothing.' Of the Anabaptists, the Bruderhof, the Beachy Amish (Mennonites), and several more liberal Mennonite groups do mission work; they are open to all - of this group only the Bruderhof are communal. The Beachy Amish still use a German dialect in both worship and daily life, so this may make it difficult to attract new members. The Bruderhof use an English language bible (in Anglophone countries) and speak the language of the nation where a Bruderhof community exists - Spanish, English, German, and Korean. Members are asked to relocate both domestically and overseas to help grow new communities. Will the Bruderhof continue to grow? Likely so, but they have their constraints. They have a lower birth rate than the Amish and the Hutterites, who double in size every 20 years, and this growth is from within. The Bruderhof number about 3000 after 100 years, and a very large number of members came from outside the Church - there are not as many communes today as there once was, so growth in recent years has been from birth. They're not as financially secure as the Hutterites, and they create new communes with fewer members than do the Hutterites, so making a go of it is tricky, but they readily engage with the outside world, even having urban missions, and have been able to resist temptation's forceful allure. Further, many members pursue advanced education, often in subjects needed by the community, such as healthcare. Perhaps the biggest challenge for Anabaptists in the US is the high cost of healthcare - a community can bear $1 million-plus medical expenses for a member only so many times. If Bruderhof (and Hutterites, 75% of whom live in Canada) are able to identify a US-based member with a medical condition early enough, they may be able to send the member overseas to live in a community that has access to the national health system.

Other notable groups: Hutterites, Russian Mennonites, Old Order Mennonites, FLDS, Lastedians, Quiverfull Movement, Old Believers

Just when agricultural productivity was allowing farmland to return to nature. Now the Amish can move into the rainforests. The cities will be empty but the rest of the world will be farmed. Great. I did see an article claiming that their fertility rates were slowly starting to drop but without urbanization that is not going to be a fast process.

Amish families frequently have as many as 10-12 children. That sure effects demographics.

So, all that explanation to basically say that if you have more kids than other groups you will have a larger population over time.