Observations: 1. Very high standards for treatment of a spouse 2. Enforced by neighbors whom I imagine would come off as unbearable busybodies today 3. Courts intervene . . . wisely? Judiciously? Too much? Unsure but hard to imagine today
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Anyway the next section describes how they execute a guy with one eye out of nowhere because a sow gave birth to a piglet with one eye and they assumed he fucked the sow so it's not all sunshine in New England
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"A classic example [of Puritan onomastics] was an unfortunate young woman named Fly-fornication Bull . . . who was made pregnant in the shop of a yeoman improbably named Goodman Woodman."
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"[The idea of] the depravity of infants . . . led Puritans to conclude that the first and most urgent purpose of child rearing was what they called 'breaking of the will.'" nevermind i now hate the puritans
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"The New England Way was distinguished by its exceptional austerity . . . It claimed to be a religion without ritual, but in fact it replaced one set of rituals with another." Puritanism, the first Brutalist religion and I mean that to denigrate both
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"From the outside, [Puritan churches] made a grim appearance. The walls were rough, unpainted clapboards . . . The interiors were very plain . . . the congregation sat before the pulpit on backless benches." OG Brutalism
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Replying to @petergodofsky @eigenrobot
2 standard deviations is >95% of people so I'd say that's pretty good
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Here note there wasn't much selection after the first wave of settlers I bet
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