#puritanism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #puritanism, aggregated by home.social.
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Y’all know this is not #leftism but #puritanism, eh?
The chosen ones, the deservings vs the undeservings, the purity pledges, the morality police, the #witch hunts.
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Watson on the 6th Commandment: mercy works adorn the gospel as fruit adorns a tree (Matt. 5:16)—they credit religion and silence its critics. Westminster-level conviction.
Contrast today: God is fine with our bad PR, gainsayers deserve snark, a few meals last month covers it. Watson’s question lingers: how do you let your light shine?
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Puritanism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
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Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
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Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
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Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
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Credit card companies in Canada (and elsewhere) have been imposing draconian restrictions on the use of their payment networks for anything even slightly racy -- digital Puritanism, enforced by a handful of companies that have a combined monopoly stranglehold on payment systems.
Risque video content? Racy text? Erotic drawings? All forbidden to one degree or another, by un-elected moral crusaders that you simply can't choose to not use. If you're a content creator depending on payments / subscriptions, you can be demonitized instantly, with no explanation and no recourse, at any moment. Goodbye, income!
This petition isn't perfect - it's written solely from the point of view of someone concerned with the effects on the videogame market, not any other type of content creator - but it's a start. If you're in Canada and want payment processors to not engage in such discriminatory practices, take a look at this (brief) petition and consider signing it.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695
#PaymentProcessor #CreditCardCompanies #Puritanism #demonitized #opaque #stealth #Canada #censorship #content #ContentCreator #mature #adult
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📖 🎙️ **David D. Hall, "The Puritans: A Transatlantic History" (Princeton UP, 2019)**
"_A breathtaking work of scholarship by an eminent historian, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019) examines the tribulations and doctrinal dilemmas that led to the fragmentation and eventual decline of Puritanism._"
🔗 https://open.spotify.com/episode/65RzLYpTZwOcdJMvsorpEX
#History #Histodons #Puritanism #Christianity #Religion @histodons
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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io | Censorship | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb -
@tg9541 #Puritanism in the #UnitedStates ?
Have you heard about the #pedophile in the #WhiteHouse , and the majority of both the House and the Senate in #Congress who voted to #CoverUp his #pedophilia ?
In #USpol , #GOP now means Group Of #Pedophiles.
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Puritan terror is getting more and more Orwellian. Again, enough USA for today, in fact for the next week.
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Thomas Skinner, Reformed Dutch pastor, quotes a French agriculturalist, Adrien Étienne Pierre on slavery. Enslaved families are ripped apart at auction, the marriage vow disruped, adulterous unions forced, miles away. All among devout Christians with their their assent.
Slavery disrupted families. Today, are the ones talking most about families also most ready to rehabilitate the reputation of slavery?
How can you protect families?
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IN OTHER NEWS
you know what’s something so rare these days it’s quite shocking to see in these #preCode 1920s and 30s movies? older women ―and by old, i mean women who are seemingly in their 50s and older― having the times of their lives banging their way thru life… or Europe.
there was a time when fascist #puritanism wasn’t the rule in American culture. don’t let the fascists gaslight you.
puritans and fascists have always been the lying minority.
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire — such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other — as essentially unattainable. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself — no doubt justly — a miserable specimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/755…
#quote #quotes #quotation #BertrandRussell #puritanism #acquisitions #attention #desire #enjoyment #externalities #focus #happiness #life #living #selfabsorption #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfloathing
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Wow, the future is so convenient that you no longer have to send dick pics to other people, because #Google is already checking them out as soon as you snap them on your phone!
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The New England Primer also has *opinions* about butterflies--they're worse than crocodiles!
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Thinking about things to write for today's #wss366 prompt word (primer) got me looking at an Internet Archive copy of the New England Primer. Wild and Wonderful! Take this alphabet page for letters T–Z: Half of them deal with The Inevitability of Death! #UShistory #Puritanism #NewEnglandPrimer
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Yeah ok, just changed my profile despription to not hurt the feelings of one white lady.
I don't want to hurt any feelings, but it nonetheless is a pattern. And not a good one either.
Personally I'd rather live in a world where people are unpolite & do good things, than in a world where everyone is watching ones words in public while enjoying ones privileges in private.
We already have a name for that. Its called #Puritanism.
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Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken -
William Jay, English Congregationalist, on raising the widow’s son (2 Kings chapter 8). Her land was taken and the king restores it as well as the lost harvests. Nothing is beneath God’s notice. While no “miracle” here, the story shows God’s priorities.
Are we to care about insignificant people’s rights and property when there are great kingdoms with godly purposes to run?
How can you look after the rights of the poor?
#christian #sharingthelove #sermononthemount #puritanism #seekhimfirst
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made a meme thing about #topless #equality
just now that I would be honored if anyone felt like sharing to your own social media pages <3#feminism #intersectionalFeminism #gender #genderEquality #patriarchy #sexism #misogyny #malePrivilege #censorship #puritanism #doubleStandards
[Images censored for nonsexual female nipples, one version uncensored, one with the nipples hidden under a speech bubble]
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CW: USPol; Republicans laying the groundwork for banning birth control
Republicans are spreading pseudoscience to build support for banning birth control.
We *told* youse they were coming for #BirthControl next. (Partly because they themselves made it so clear.) Now will youse listen?
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/05/screws-up-female-brains-maga-leaders-are-conditioning-to-back-birth-control-bans/ #Republicans #pseudoscience #Puritanism #contraception #fascism
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US-American #puritanism & puritanist US AI is #censoring written human thoughts and destroying personal data:
"#Erotica writers! Some folks have reported having their Google accounts terminated and losing their Google Docs files because of “sexually explicit content.”"
[insert arse img] #censorship #google #USA
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Once again the forces of #Puritanism and #BodyShaming are combining to try to close the only official #nudist #beach in #ByronBay.
Please sign the petition if you’re #Australian or a visitor to #Australia and you want to visit our beautiful #FreeBeach!
https://www.change.org/p/save-tyagarah-beach-byron-bay-from-closure
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Those who are offended by non-sexual nudity (with tags but not sensitive content) and are reporting content, should move to Facebook and Instagram. You are on the wrong medium. #puritanism
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"The Honesty Of Pornography" [2022], Aeon (https://aeon.co/essays/what-andrea-dworkin-missed-about-pornography).
#Sex #Pornography #Porn #Smut #Erotica #Culture #Puritanism #Patriarchy #Women #VictorianEra