@literalbanana Some Puritans understand-at-some-level the issues and are Puritans out of fear; some just incredibly stupid in particular way
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@literalbanana Fantasizing about all the Puritans going off to a separatist Puritan utopia but recent reading on history of actual Calvinism1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@literalbanana > says that the society would immediately, then repeatedly, fission over some incomprehensible metaphysical distinction.2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes -
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@Meaningness oh I was just reading about the schisms among the Amish1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness based on trivial-seeming behaviors, schism in both right or left direction, clear right-left fertility gradient among sects1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@literalbanana Higher fertility on right? (guessing.) Do you have a story about why?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness yeah, more separation/insulation from status competition in the wider world2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness status competition is why education depressed fertility1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@literalbanana yeah. have you collected emic accounts of this? ie looking what what people *said* about why they were having fewer children?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@literalbanana (they might not know, or be wrong, or be incentivized to distort, but still worth looking at probably?)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@literalbanana (sorry if stupid question and you have already addressed this in stuff you’ve written that I’ve forgotten)
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@Meaningness Caldwell writes about this - people want fewer kids "to give them a better future" and the nature of relationship changes1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness no reason to have 6 if you get all your meaning from 1 or 2 Priceless Children1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes - 1 more reply
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