Caffeinated soda

[MustardSeed]

54 minutes ago, JAHS said:

the effects of caffeinated drinks, especially energy drinks.

Thank you,  I might challenge this sentence though and replace it with “the effects of abusing caffeine” 

The woman in the article was drinking six cokes a day.  That’s like 12 cups of coffee. Plus all that liquid is probably inhibiting any additional water drinking I would assume. Really bad for the kidneys. 
 

Energy drinks are very well known to be a problem. Back in the day when cola drinking seemed to be the marker for who is faithful and who wasn’t, all it took was one can to bring out condemnation.

The lack of any good reason for such harsh and focused scrutiny has me really disappointed in myself for buying in. Sometimes rules are genuinely just cultural and ridiculous imo. Whoever made the decision to finally put cola at BYU, giving the masses “permission“ to order a Coke with their FAST FOOD should get a parade. An emperor’s parade.  IMO

Edited September 21, 2024 by MustardSeed

[california boy]

1 hour ago, bluebell said:

I think tea must be an acquired taste.  I didn't grow up in the church but we never drank any kind of tea at my house.  My best friend's house loved their tea though, especially sweet tea.  I tried to drink it a couple of times but couldn't get it down and couldn't figure out how they could.  

I agree with you.  It taste like hay water to me.  

[The Nehor]

3 hours ago, Peacefully said:

Agree, lol. We had a young woman (married, not a teenager) speak in sacrament and she mentioned how happy she was that the WOW didn’t prohibit energy drinks. 
 

Note: I think energy drinks have been strongly discouraged, but it is difficult to expand the WOW to cover other drinks because they were not revealed to Joseph as forbidden (even though they didn’t exist but that could open another can of worms of why didn’t God let Joseph know about what was coming down the pike or leave some leeway for such.)

2nd Note: I don’t know why coffee and tea were singled out and I don’t see any problem with drinking them except that it is an obedience issue. If the WOW were rescinded tomorrow I would be lined up at Starbucks for a pumpkin spiced latte, then I would make a batch of sweet tea. The alcohol I could take or leave. Also if I stepped away from the church and wasn’t under covenant to follow the WOW I would do the same but it would be because I was going back to my roots and also because I don’t believe there is anything inherently wrong in any of the “forbidden” drinks, not because I went to the dark side:) 

In early sermons the Word of Wisdom was sometimes thought to also include hot soup.

[The Nehor]

1 hour ago, california boy said:

I agree with you.  It taste like hay water to me.  

Yep, it is water with grass boiled in it. Who thought this was a good idea?

[The Nehor]

2 hours ago, Dario_M said:

I always find those messages a bit nonsens. I drink energy drinks all the time and i feel great after that. Drinking energy drink can not be more worse then drinking coffee i feel like.

If feeling great afterwards is an indication that something is healthy then the Word of Wisdom has even more errors in it.

[Dario_M]

13 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

If feeling great afterwards is an indication that something is healthy then the Word of Wisdom has even more errors in it.

That's not what i meant. But i don't believe that energy drink is more unhealty then coffee. Both energy drink as coffee contains caffeine. And caffeine is always not really healthy anyway. 

Edited September 21, 2024 by Dario_M

[The Nehor]

2 minutes ago, Dario_M said:

That's not what i meant. But i don't believe that energy drink is more unhealty then coffee. Both energy drink as coffee contains caffeine. And caffeine is always not really healthy anyway. 

You can take my Mountain Dew away when you pry it from my weak, shaking hands.

[Dario_M]

6 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

You can take my Mountain Dew away when you pry it from my weak, shaking hands.

Hmmmm? We don't have Mountain Dew here. But energy drink we do have. So when i'm tired on the day time i love to get myself some energy drink, to get some energy in me you know. You may keep your Mountain Dew The Nehor. 😉

[Calm]

21 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

You can take my Mountain Dew away when you pry it from my weak, shaking hands.

9 minutes ago, Dario_M said:

Hmmmm? We don't have Mountain Dew here. But energy drink we do have. So when i'm tired on the day time i love to get myself some energy drink, to get some energy in me you know. You may keep your Mountain Dew The Nehor. 😉

The top quote is a pop cultural remark first referring to gun control you probably have not heard of. 

The spoofs can be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands

 

Edited September 21, 2024 by Calm

[Dario_M]

29 minutes ago, Calm said:

The top quote is a pop cultural remark first referring to gun control you probably have not heard of. 

The spoofs can be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands

 

From my cold dead hands? Slogan?? What is this for creepyness??? 💀

[Calm]

13 minutes ago, Dario_M said:

What is this for creepyness??? 💀

Oh yeah…

Edited September 21, 2024 by Calm

[Dario_M]

3 minutes ago, Calm said:

Oh yeah…

🤣 i'm used to those sayings you know Calm. 🩵

[Peacefully]

19 hours ago, Calm said:

The top quote is a pop cultural remark first referring to gun control you probably have not heard of. 

The spoofs can be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands

 

lol, I actually said this once about guns and I didn’t even own a gun but I felt so strongly about second amendment rights and I bought into the notion that if we let the government have any control over guns they would take all guns away. Now I believe in some form of control for the greater good but I won’t get political. 

[JAHS]

46 minutes ago, Peacefully said:

21 hours ago, Calm said:

The top quote is a pop cultural remark first referring to gun control you probably have not heard of. 

The spoofs can be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands

 

lol, I actually said this once about guns and I didn’t even own a gun but I felt so strongly about second amendment rights and I bought into the notion that if we let the government have any control over guns they would take all guns away. Now I believe in some form of control for the greater good but I won’t get political. 

That's what Edgar says

BUG: "YOUR PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE."

 

[Tacenda]

On 9/21/2024 at 12:36 PM, The Nehor said:

In early sermons the Word of Wisdom was sometimes thought to also include hot soup.

I recently heard that tea was a huge help, listened to the story of the "tea party" in Boston this past week on a tour and it helping with killing the bacteria in it and saved lives, the boiling of the water was key.

[Malc]

5 hours ago, Tacenda said:

I recently heard that tea was a huge help, listened to the story of the "tea party" in Boston this past week on a tour and it helping with killing the bacteria in it and saved lives, the boiling of the water was key.

Some might say that a health code that included the advice to boil water would have been more helpful than one that excluded drinks made with very hot or boiling water.

[MustardSeed]

I found it- the decree I was looking for.  
 

 

[Peacefully]

8 minutes ago, MustardSeed said:

I found it- the decree I was looking for.  
 

 

The phosphoric acid in non-cola drinks could fit that category. 

[SeekingUnderstanding]

3 minutes ago, Peacefully said:

The phosphoric acid in non-cola drinks could fit that category. 

Yeah, I’m unaware of any substance that is not harmful to the human body depending on the circumstance of ingestion and amount. 

[Rain]

1 hour ago, SeekingUnderstanding said:

Yeah, I’m unaware of any substance that is not harmful to the human body depending on the circumstance of ingestion and amount. 

https://www.facebook.com/dhmoawareness/

[let’s roll]

2 hours ago, Malc said:

Some might say that a health code that included the advice to boil water would have been more helpful than one that excluded drinks made with very hot or boiling water.

True.  Some might say that.  Some also might say that a blind man rubbing mud in his eyes shouldn’t expect to be healed of his blindness.

[The Nehor]

10 hours ago, Tacenda said:

I recently heard that tea was a huge help, listened to the story of the "tea party" in Boston this past week on a tour and it helping with killing the bacteria in it and saved lives, the boiling of the water was key.

It could be but some overstate this. People did have a pretty good idea of what water was and was not safe to drink.

[Peacefully]

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." Paracelsus

[Malc]

10 hours ago, let’s roll said:

True.  Some might say that.  Some also might say that a blind man rubbing mud in his eyes shouldn’t expect to be healed of his blindness.

Yep!!! Very similar!

The first is an established scientific fact. I find it difficult to imagine anyone disagreeing.

The second is a story from 2000 years ago. There are many people who are not convinced that the person who made the mud existed.

[california boy]

14 hours ago, MustardSeed said:

I found it- the decree I was looking for.  
 

 

In other news, rumor has it that the Church leaders are considering banning grandma's apple pie because it has found to be habit forming.  Ice cream is also being considered.  The two together will be a sure sign of apostasy.