Answer me please:eek:
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
come on every body
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
how about quantifying your statement a bit more. What effects in particular are you interested in- from Cromwellian times to the present? their migration to New England? Their lifestyle, politics, religion .....
Come on, feed us a bit more information.
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
in term of personality
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
dont know if we have any historians on healthy pages
tigress
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
ORIGINAL: syrian
in term of personality
Well...I do seem to enjoyfeeling guilty about stuff these days..., I play less music maybe?
In fact now thatyou mention it - I've certainly been a lot less 'cavalier' altogetherlately and I know Ihaven't hadsex for pleasure since ..err... 1628! [:-]
Damn those Puritans![:@]
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
Ihaven't hadsex for pleasure since ..err... 1628! [:-]
I say, steady on there ol' chap - it's only 1642 now:)
Puritans bring to mind one of the most famous, people of the time, Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General elected by thePuritan Council for East Anglia in 1648 (I think).
I think all the catching and torturuing of witches was just a smokescreen, I think he secretly enjoyed it. As I think mostPuritans did. After all, it was such a severe form of religion, they just had to rebel (rather like the Victorians).
Can't profess to knowing too much about them as it's not reallymy period of history. I strictly mediaeval.
Love
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
Just about to go [sm=offtopic.gif](shame he hasn't a smiley face) but it is really funny to hear you mention Matthew Hopkins lotusflower, as there was a question about him last night at the pub quiz I was doing. Sadly we got the question wrong as I had never heard about him before - wish this thread was started yesterday now 😀
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
I got the date wrong. He died in 1647 and interestingly he died being accused of witchcraft. The people who caught him employed his methods of "swimming" saying that if he sunk he was innocent of witchcraft and if he floated he was guilty. He floated, therefore he was guilty and was subsequently hanged. Here is an ode to him:
Has not this present Parliament
A Lieger to the Devil sent,
Fully impowr'd to treat about
Finding revolted witches out
And has not he, within a year,
Hang'd threescore of 'em in one shire?
Some only for not being drown'd,
And some for sitting above ground,
Whole days and nights, upon their breeches,
And feeling pain, were hang'd for witches.
And some for putting knavish tricks
Upon green geese and turky-chicks,
And pigs, that suddenly deceast
Of griefs unnat'ral, as he guest;
Who after prov'd himself a witch
And made a rod for his own breech.
Love
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
Well I think the Puritans gave us stress.
Solas posted this a couple of days ago.
1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than
us.
2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.
3. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks
than us.
4. Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart
attacks than us.
5. Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer
fewer
heart attacks than us.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
I think the conclusion is wrong. The Puritans gave us the work ethic, and we either work hard because we believe it's the right thing to do, and the stresskills usorwe don't work hard and feel guilty because we don't work hard and everyone else is andthe stress kills us. The French, however, don't give a flying **** and they live to eat well. Stress is what kills you.
RE: What is the Puritans Effect on the Brititsh?
Didn't the Puritans leave us with a sense of guilt if we enjoy ourselves? Hence our term 'guilty pleasures' to cover just about anything fun. (And the other side of the coin being the over the top hedonism of those who consciously defy English mores.)
Love
Sunanda xxx