bolido_sentimental
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bolido_sentimental
14d ago
I think a lot about how much agency it requires to go hunting for the denomination you find the soundest or best, as opposed to just going to the church nearest your house, or that your family goes to. Because as you note, one really has to go out of their way to understand this stuff. Not that it's difficult - just that it's very opaque unless you happen to be a real nerd about the subject.
Missouri Synod Lutheran here. I do think I'm the only one on here, and I never post so it barely counts. Still, there's at least one.
Awareness of the confessional/mainline distinction is basically zero among non-churchgoing people that I've met in real life. Unfortunately, laypeople I meet sometimes hear "Lutheran" and think "ELCA."
I will say LCMS Twitter is surprisingly lively.
bolido_sentimental
18d ago
Reading The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
As in his other works, his genius often radiates from the page. Some of the passages he comes up with (for example, the dialogue between BEAUTY and THE VOICE) astonish me that anyone could ever be so confident that they could put something like that in their work.
As you can tell I'm a big fan.
bolido_sentimental
28d ago
I've done all of these and it really depends. If you get to a high enough skill level with AWS or Azure or something, you can kind of write your own ticket. However, until you reach that skill level, it's just you vs. every mid-level cloud engineer in the world. You have no geo-moat at all.
Network + cloud is a strong combination, as integrating cloud resources with on-prem networks is very valuable and also kind of arcane unless you have experience in both. AWS offers a cert that's just for this. (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-advanced-networking-specialty/) It's a hard test, I had to take it twice to pass, but it's worth a lot when it's needed. However, like anything else, the material will barely even make sense until you have a couple of years working with the stuff.
How fascinating that you've even heard of WELS over there! I respect WELS. If it had more presence in my area, I might have ended up going there.
It is crazy how every flavor of Protestantism now has a mainline vs. confessional or evangelical division here. PCA/PCUSA, ELCA/LCMS (and WELS), UMC/GMC (which goes far beyond America); hours of Wikipedia article reading are available to the interested.
Lutherans talk casually about how in America, the big split was ultimately between "German Lutherans" who went to the LCMS, and "Scandi Lutherans" who eventually formed the ELCA; and about how each group's cultural personality informed the direction of their theology. Of course it's much more complicated than that, but there's an element of truth in it.
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