Dispassionateness Puns

I found this wonderful post that explains why the Church of England/Episcopal Church collapsed and became the dominant religion of wealthier and well-connected WASP establishments in the USA. But is there a similar explanation for why the Baptist denomination became the largest protestant denomination? There were several other denominations to pick from at the time (Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Reformed, etc...) so I'd like to know what made Baptist gain an edge.

EDIT: There seems to be a common theme - Lower bar to entry for founding a church compared to the other denominations.

>The argument was that much less was required of a person to become a Baptist preacher than many other denominations, allowing quicker growth.
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>Baptists also don't require a degree from a seminary (often 2 to 3 years) to lead a church, so it's much easier to become a pastor. With a larger pool of potential pastors, you can start a lot more churches more quickly.
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>Baptists also don't require a degree from a seminary (often 2 to 3 years) to lead a church, so it's much easier to become a pastor. With a larger pool of potential pastors, you can start a lot more churches more quickly.
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>The barrier to entry is VERY low.
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>The Catholics require training and education to be a priest.
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>With Baptists (just people who in general follow the beliefs,) anyone can be a preacher.
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>Anyone.
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>Baptist churches are pretty uniquely fitted to America. Americans tend to prefer a high level of independence, grassroots democratic organization, and a lot of mobility. Baptist churches are congregational--individual churches vote in their elders and pastors, and even their doctrinal statements. They are also easy to found. You pretty much just have to rent out a building and tell people you're starting a church and voila! new Baptist church in town. Plus, their strong emphasis on evangelization and relatively simple message are easy to spread and adopt.

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Currently in the process of helping my little brother, who isn’t passionate about anything rn and doesn’t really have any favourite subjects, choose his A-Levels.

We’ve discussed the subjects he’s either good at or finds easy/tolerable: Compsci, Maths, Business, Geography & Biology — with the last three being the ones we settled for, as both Biology and Business pair well with Physical/Human Geography, respectively.

I decided to ask my friends for advice (we’re freshers at uni) and they keep mentioning that Maths is a valuable A-Level and he should think about replacing Business with it. However, Business is the one subject my brother definitely wanted to take (he said he finds it easiest) and I don’t want him to take three difficult A-Levels — considering the fact that he’s not passionate about any of them I don’t want the additional stress to potentially make him depressed or something. Just want whatever makes him happiest yk?

Is Maths really that valuable of an A-Level? Is the number of opportunities it provides worth replacing one of his current options? Or is Biology, Business & Geography a satisfactory A-Level combination?

Thanks in advance!

I have deep interest in learning about obscure or useless topics such as the Ice Age, or historical tidbits, but not like a truly deep and driven hobby like most people, and I'm worried that's making me a more uninteresting person, and its scaring me.

I am starting this by asking you to take off your ship hats, your book vs. show hats and try to look at the situation objectively from a business (Netflix) point of view. I also know some of you will disagree with everything I am saying.

1. The press junket for Bridgerton took place in November/December prior to the release date. From the earliest interviews, reporters were fawning of RJP, his connection with PD and the romance of Simon and Daphne. There were interviewers unabashedly flirting with him. It was over the top. - THIS should have given CVD et al a big clue that they had a breakout star on their hands.

2, During these interviews both RJP and SD were pitching storylines for S&D for season 2, as were other actors. It seemed the actors could feel the interest building and wanted to lock down some work. If you look at RJP's IMDB, he didn't have anything lined up post Bridgerton until after it aired. It wasn't like he was in high demand at the time which is why the story that he always just wanted one season made no sense. He was on a canceled Shonda show and wasn't even one of the main stars of it. And this story I have seen repeated multiple times that Shonda had RJP in mind for it all along is not true. She admits she didn't even know he was British and JB and others auditioned for it.

3. Though unforeseen by Shondaland. other people did see RJP's start power, and he started booking down jobs almost immediately. It didn't seem to occur to them to reach out to him until February. around when he booked SNL (which is a big deal as far as exposure and name recognition). According to one account (which makes a lot of sense), that was when Netflix stepped in and demanded his inclusion in season 2. Netflix (a company) is not married to the books, isn't shipping one couple or the next, they simply want people to stay on the hook, so they will pay their subscription. With no Simon, some people will view that as one less reason to keep Netflix. And don't forget many, many more people watched the show than read the books.

4. Specifically about the loss of RJP, they are losing a Black male romantic lead. I don't think that is being discussed enough. I also helps explains the Lady Danbury, Violet and Queen spinoff. Bridgerton would go from multiple NAACP award nominations to almost nothing. The diversity was heralded, people that never felt a connection to Regency dramas connected to this one. It is a bad choice to just let that go. It mad

I’m not even sure where to begin. Sure, I have gained weight, and I have taken out what doesn’t fit and put it in a box to re-evaluate at a later date. What’s left are clothes that I was wearing and still feeling good in pre-weight loss (I only went down a size or two last summer/fall and then back up again in the new year, and a lot of things still work at the different weights). I currently don’t have a job right now, and the one I had before the apocalypse was part-time anyway. I burnt out of school this past year without getting my degree, and I’ve made peace with it. In my opinion, though, I have been doing pretty well mentally. I was in a pretty bad place starting 2.5 years ago, and actually the pandemic shutdowns last spring are what absolutely saved my ass and gave me the break I needed to recover from a massive depression. I have been doing much better on average since this pandemic started, ironically.

At most, the most specific problem that I have been able to identify in terms of how I currently feel, is that I truly have nothing to dress for. I can’t picture what my future looks like, whether it’s next month or next year, and I don’t know what I even want.

However I’ve really tried to lean into this problem more, and it really feels like there is something more that I’m just not grasping in terms of what’s changed within me.

I’ve tried dressing in things that aren’t sweats/loungewear. I don’t like my sweats or loungewear anyway, however I just don’t seem to like anything that is left still. They are objectively cute clothes. I usually have a pretty good intuition with my emotions, and I am certain it’s not really about the weight gain. I’ve spent the last decade at this weight, I can survive a few more months.

And at the very least, normally, when I’m ready for a change, I would have an idea of where I want my style to go/evolve, but I don’t! I have no idea how I want to dress anymore! My least stressful/annoying “clothing” days are where I spend the day in nothing but underwear and my favourite kimono.

I wish I could illustrate more of my feeling beyond that, but I truly don’t have the words.

I guess I don’t even know what the hell I like anymore, and maybe to a larger degree, who I am.

I’m wondering if anyone else is at the same, I don’t know, fashion-dysphoric place? It’s not depression, I’m really sure of that. It’s…something else?

Even if no one knows what the hell I’m talking about, please feel free to discuss/vent how your relat

to give context: hi i'm an recent recent grad, who just resigned from working in an awful architect practice where we work 12 hours everyday, for about a year. I resigned due to the fact after discussing about WFH due to my developing countries being hit hard with the delta varient of Covid, our goverment is currently on full wfh mode for all non essentials, but my boss still thinks we should work from the office due him micromanaging our work. after the resignation, i got back to my hometown to live with my family (which feels awful). i plan to take online classes and work freelance drafting to keep myself busy but after about 3 weeks i don't felt compelled to do anything related with architecture.

I'm curious to ask as a beginner:

1. is working this hard really a normal thing in the industry? ( i know architecture is a bumpy career path but i didn't really felt this burnt-out about working hard until now)
2. how has recent covid affect the industry in your country?
3. currently i felt i've hit the ceiling with architecture, and grew dispassionate with it because how pretentious the nature of the work is. is a career change in order? or maybe i'm just burnt-out and need to try again after covid is done?
4. do other fresh grad starting starting the work force feels the same way or do you have any other experience?

I'm taking a couple technical courses this semester and I dont feel like I'll do well in them. Ochem and calc are kicking my ass and I don't feel like I'm truly understanding anything I'm learning. At this point, I just want to survive. Is it normal to feel like this? How can I keep myself on track. I do want to pursue a career in the medical field but as I go on, it seems less likely that I possess the mental capability to do so.

What I have seen has resulted in me forming a deeply negative opinion but I’m conscious that I didn’t know anything about the so-called “Timepiece Gentleman” until the flurry of angry posts. My questions:

1. Who are they?
2. What was on offer? What was the business supposed to do?
3. What was seemed to be or was actually going on?
4. What did they do?
5. Where are things now?

I suspect I will still have a deeply negative opinion about the whole thing but at least it’ll be better informed and possibly even based on something closer to facts (I hope).

Thank you for your time.

I plan to attend a local public meeting on a contentious issue. Last time I attended I didn’t trust myself to speak calmly, so I just observed. Also, several others made the points I had wanted to make much more eloquently.

I guess I’m just looking for insight and shared experiences from people who have been in similar situations. Thanks!

I live in fear most days I’m at home. I’m a 20-something year old person living with my parents, no stable job, in debt, and with no other family support. The only family I have in my life is my mother and father- who has been physically and verbally abusive all my life. I fully believe that he sees no value in my life and regards me as a nuisance.

Even before I was born, he had already cheated on my mom while she was pregnant. Fuck, he’s cheated on her continually, dozen of times. Maybe more, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was in high school I found a bunch of affectionate texts to his coworker. It made me sick to my stomach. But I was scared of him, terrified. I couldn’t tell anyone about what was happening. I knew he would lie his way out of it, and I just felt powerless against him. Honestly I wish that was it. If he was just a cheater but a good person, I wouldn’t be ranting here.

On top of cheating, my dad has always been extremely aggressive. At any minor inconvenience he will become unusually upset. He will scream and argue, throw objects around and even hit my cat. If you get in the way, or god forbid- be the person responsible for it, he will act against you for it like some scum.

Growing up, one of his regular nicknames for me was “piece of shit.” He would always degrade my looks or intelligence. And he never EVER had the interest in saying that he “loved me.” Even paying lip service was too much for him. I will never forget the time he saw me wear shorts at home (fucking blasphemy) and decided to say I was a “disgusting pig.” Whenever he had to drive me anywhere, he would complain the whole way and make vague threats about how he would never do anything for me ever again. It didn’t matter if I was alone with him, or had my friends in the car. They’re all terrified of him, and for the right reason. For a few years, I’ve eaten only in my room because he will loudly comment about anything and everything I’ve eaten.

He’s also hit me more times than I can count, even as an adult he continues to hit me. Whether it’s a slap or a grab, it feels like he doesn’t care at all what happens to me. He hit me two weeks ago and it bruised my arm. That’s what I “deserved” after talking back to him. He hits my mom too, ripped off her necklace and bruised her. As a kid I would try to stand in between him and my mother. If they argued, I would have to drop whatever I was doing and intervene before they seriously hurt each other.

The thing that makes me th

In your opinion, what news source do you think manages to convey current events in a way that is not written to rile up either side of an argument?

Where the verb 'slam' is never uttered.

Where there are no puns.

Where there are no ambiguous headlines.

Where the writing is dispassionate and free of adjectives.

Example: I have often heard men say that in order to make decisions, they cut out feeling and strip the issue to rationality and logic. This doesn’t always mean that their conclusions are devoid of or uninformed by emotion.

Have we merely been taught that men’s feelings are rational, in the same way we’ve been taught that women’s feelings are irrational?

General disclaimer for generalizing here. I’m referring mostly to white men in North America, as that’s where most of my own experience lies.

I found this wonderful post that explains why the Church of England/Episcopal Church collapsed and became the dominant religion of wealthier and well-connected WASP establishments in the USA. But is there a similar explanation for why the Baptist denomination became the largest protestant denomination? There were several other denominations to pick from at the time (Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Reformed, etc...) so I'd like to know what made Baptist gain an edge.