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Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:25 pm
by _Hades
This morning I got out my french press, dusted it off and made coffee. It had been a while since I used it and I had forgotten how good french press coffee is. A few days ago I read, yet another, article on the benefits of coffee. I thought of the people in the world who think that coffee is of the Devil. I was one of those people in a former life.
I then had a Wade Englundesque epiphany. It's just a sign of your indoctrination. If you believe that coffee is evil because God said so, you have been indoctrinated.
If you look in your underwear drawer and you find it full of weird stuff, (and it's not stuff for special naughty occasions) it's another good sign you have been indoctrinated.
This epiphany came with visions and special feelings. I'm not sure if they were visions or dreams or reality. I just know they came from God.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:31 pm
by _Simon Belmont
Hades wrote:This morning I got out my french press, dusted it off and made coffee. It had been a while since I used it and I had forgotten how good french press coffee is. A few days ago I read, yet another, article on the benefits of coffee. I thought of the people in the world who think that coffee is of the Devil. I was one of those people in a former life.
I then had a Wade Englundesque epiphany. It's just a sign of your indoctrination. If you believe that coffee is evil because God said so, you have been indoctrinated.
No one I know, have ever met, or am related to, including myself has ever thought that coffee was evil.
If you look in your underwear drawer and you find it full of weird stuff, (and it's not stuff for special naughty occasions) it's another good sign you have been indoctrinated.
This has happened to no one I know, have ever met, or am related to, including myself. Some people wear tighty whities, some wear boxers, and some wear boxes briefs.
This epiphany came with visions and special feelings. I'm not sure if they were visions or dreams or reality. I just know they came from God.
It came from your darkened soul.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:14 pm
by _msnobody
I looked on my desktop and found a short cut to Mormon Disscussions . com. I've been indoctrinated. In a minute, I'm gonna run outside and see if my house has wheels. :P
I do have subtle signs that someone has tried to indoctirnate me as evidenced by the Books of Mormon, Awake Magazines, and other publications given to me. I confess I do have some Gs in my desk drawer someone sent to me.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:16 pm
by _Tchild
Hades wrote:This morning I got out my french press, dusted it off and made coffee. It had been a while since I used it and I had forgotten how good french press coffee is. A few days ago I read, yet another, article on the benefits of coffee. I thought of the people in the world who think that coffee is of the Devil. I was one of those people in a former life.
I then had a Wade Englundesque epiphany. It's just a sign of your indoctrination. If you believe that coffee is evil because God said so, you have been indoctrinated.
If you look in your underwear drawer and you find it full of weird stuff, (and it's not stuff for special naughty occasions) it's another good sign you have been indoctrinated.
I knew girls (applicable to 95% of male students also) at BYU who would engage in "heavy petting" or sex outside of marriage, but that would not put coffee: the devil's brew, to their lips.
God I miss those girls.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:28 pm
by _zeezrom
To a Mormon, coffee is worse than lying. You can lie and still make it into the temple.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:49 pm
by _Darth J
J. Michael Hunter, "George Albert Smith—“I Won’t Drink Coffee!”", Friend, May 2002George Albert Smith was born in 1870, just twenty-three years after the pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. He became the eighth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1945, just before the end of Word War II, and served until his death in 1951. His childhood was much like that of other boys in the late 1800s. He played barefoot on the streets of Salt Lake City. He went swimming in the Jordan River. He coasted down steep, icy hills on his sled. He rode horseback, he herded cows, and, like most children, he was sometimes sick.
Normally his mother, Sarah, didn’t worry too much about his childhood sicknesses, which came and went. But once he became very sick, and she began to worry. It started with a fever that kept rising. Then he had a stomachache and headache. Finally rose-colored spots appeared on his body, so she called for the doctor.
The doctor came and examined George Albert. He told Sarah that her son had typhoid fever, a disease that sometimes killed people. He told her to keep her son in bed for three weeks and to have him drink coffee but not eat.
When the doctor left, George Albert told his mother that he didn’t want to drink coffee because it was against the Word of Wisdom. He knew that Heavenly Father had given Joseph Smith the Word of Wisdom, a revelation that teaches us to not drink coffee, tea, or alcohol. It also teaches us to eat and drink only things that are good for our bodies. He didn’t want to break the Word of Wisdom. His mother and father had taught him to always obey Heavenly Father.
Because his father, John Henry, was away serving a mission, George Albert asked his mother to send for Brother Hawks, a faithful and good member of their ward who held the priesthood. When Brother Hawks arrived, George Albert asked him for a priesthood blessing.
Brother Hawks placed his hands on the boy’s head and blessed him that he would get better. George Albert had faith that the blessing would help him recover from the typhoid fever.
When the doctor arrived the next day, he found the boy playing outside with other children. The doctor was surprised. He examined George Albert and found that he was all better. George Albert later said, “I am grateful to the Lord for my recovery. I was sure that He had healed me.”
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:54 pm
by _Simon Belmont
zeezrom wrote:To a Mormon, coffee is worse than lying. You can lie and still make it into the temple.
Apparently you've been away too long to remember the temple interview questions.
No one has ever asked me about coffee.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:19 pm
by _sock puppet
Simon Belmont wrote:zeezrom wrote:To a Mormon, coffee is worse than lying. You can lie and still make it into the temple.
Apparently you've been away too long to remember the temple interview questions.
No one has ever asked me about coffee.
They ask if you observe the WoW.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:22 pm
by _Simon Belmont
sock puppet wrote:They ask if you observe the WoW.
Which doesn't say anything about coffee.
Re: Signs of your indoctrination
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:25 pm
by _sock puppet
Simon Belmont wrote:sock puppet wrote:They ask if you observe the WoW.
Which doesn't say anything about coffee.
Hot drinks.
by the way, are you saying the COTPOTCOJCOLDS condones coffee drinking and does not consider it ver boten by the WoW?