…your local bookstore has a ‘Literature’ section.
…when the people who will be changing your diapers and spoon feeding you have fewer friends than two decades ago, with a dash of depression and obesity. sucks for you. thanks for raising us the right way, society. thanks for the internet, al gore.
livescience.com/humanbiology … iends.html
looks as if the initial purpose of the disambiguated philosophical “state” is acheiving its full purpose… that being the separation and solitude of all human beings
slap me if i’m wrong (99% chance)
-OKComp
I don’t get it 
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yea i remember many years ago when my local library was always packed with kids waiting in line. Back then computers were pretty expensive though. 
When there’s a line of women in the tattoo parlour waiting to get a tat and a row of men in the hairdressers waiting for a wax.
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It means only one section is considered literature; the rest is considered what, lecture? Only one section is art; the rest is entertainment…
… You can get 16 different flavours of pancakes but your town doesn’t even HAVE a bookstore.
…when the Amish have a website:
Digital photographs and everything…
Amish! That made me laugh out loud!
more headlines from OK comp’s link:
* Get a Buddy: Closeness May Breed Wellness
* Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives
* Risk of Death Can Soar When Spouse is Sick
* Kids are Depressing, Study of Parents Finds
* Teens Using Internet In Record Numbers
As for my 2 cents about it:divide and conquer.
…Kevin Costner continues to be in movies.
Funny for sure but on a serious note, I think that speaks more of our ignorance than the falling standards of the Amish.
Amish aren’t Luddites. They’re simply against being enslaved by technology. One phone in a community is often the norm so a few communities with computers doesn’t surprise me.
They key difference is that they ask: Do we really need this? and not Would I like this? or Could I use this? I remember seeing that they also rarely use the little bit of technology they do have for fear of becoming addicted to convenience. As Ghandi said: “There’s more to life than increasing it’s speed”.
I think the Amish are closer to the embodiment of Christ than almost every other Christian group. Respect.
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So they looked at the Internet, asked “Do we really need this?” and the answer was “Yes”?
Totally still makes the list. 
And yeah, I got nothing but respect for them too, sooner or later we’ll all have to make the decision they have if we want the world to stay together.
Apparently
I saw a documentary on them a while back and they actually mentioned having a connected computer (though they didn’t show it). He said there were strict rules on who and when it can be used. I got the impression that it had to with weather or farming but it didn’t go into details.
Anyway, check this out. It’s about the Amish computer virus that’s going around. geocities.com/ResearchTriang … virus.html
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You know society is falling apart when Europe used to have the best of everything – the chefs were French, the police were British, the engineers were German, the lovers were Italian and it was all organised by the Swiss – but today the E.U. has managed to create a union where the British are chefs, the German are police, the French are the engineers, the Swiss are the lovers and it’s all organised by the Italians.
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You know society is falling apart when one of the most widely popular languages in the world makes the least grammatical sense by its own rules. (hint hint: English.)
Ah, an old Yes, Minister joke…
That is hilarious.