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by JoeAltmaier 3442 days ago
Hm I guess if they can repair the body. Which is pretty easy.

The other half of their philosophy is avoiding pride. So cool, you're self-sufficient. But not perfectly so, or that would be prideful.

There's an old Amish joke - father is driving the family home from Meeting in the buggy. He turns to Momma and says "I guess we were the plainest ones there!"

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Can you explain the joke? I'm not sure I understand the humour.
I am not the original poster but I understand it to be about bragging (and thus showing pride) about being plain (not showing pride). As in, "well, we sure did show them how much humbler we are than all of them".