I have been asked about what I think about the UPN television show..."Amish In The City."

What do I think???

Suppose someone took you out of your "natural" enviroment and placed you in a situation full of the "uneducated,..stupid, bigoted, and naturally doltish!!" Well,..that is what UPN did with the Amish kids from "Amish In The City"..when they put them in an appartment with a bunch of "California fluff heads!"

Can you imagine what it would be like to walk into a group of folks, who upon seeing you in your "native costume"...took one look at you and mocked it and asked you if your wearing of that costume was.."For real???"

Can you imagine being among these same "fluff heads" and watching them mock your clothes,..that you wear by way of your religious beliefs, when they are asked to wear those same clothes to an amusment park?

Can you imagine almost drowning in an ocean cross current and being afraid and then suddenly realizing that you could have REALLY died and becoming so overcome with emotion over that fact and being mocked and laughed at by the "city fluff heads"..for showing a deep emotion of the type that the "fluff heads" seem unable to feel or understand?

I don't even want to know what the "fluff heads" were saying when the young Amishman, Mose,..got down on his knees and prayed in German,..(dammit...I wish that I could have actually HEARD what he was saying!)...and then,..read his Bible OUT LOUD in German!! I have only seen the first episode of Amish in the city, but I have seen it twice and it has been well explained to me. I am now a definite "Mose" fan!!

Many of my own online experiences were reinforced by what I heard from watching that first show. Once,..I wrote a "fanfic" and included in it a very accurate description of what it was like to go to a church service in a barn...including the need to wear a broad brimmed hat during the service because of the sparrows and pigeons,..who live in that barn!! I do believe what I was trying to say..when I wrote that "story"..was lost because the folks, who were reading the story, had never experieced such a thing for themselves, and were too busy being told what to "think" by someone...to actually listen to what I was trying to say.