Why is coffee not calling my name?

[_Buffalo]

I'm a coffee drinker and I have yet to experience these ill effects. What I do know is it's a great way to start your day.

Go without and see what happens. There is a reason why decafe coffee became so popular in the USA years ago. The warnings were given and people responded by drinking Sanka, one of the first decafe coffees available.

Caffeine addiction is pretty mild. Yes, you'll get headaches if you go without, but you can get over that in a day. That seems to be the only potential negative of coffee drinking - and ironically the church doesn't forbid the use of caffeine outside of coffee. You can drink as much Coke as you like, and get addicted to caffeine just the same as a coffee drinker, only without the health benefits.

It's hard to imagine a worse health program than the modern interpretation of the WoW.

[_Buffalo]

Agreed. The Christian god is a much more powerful and compelling figure than the Mormon God, who seems petty. Not that the Christian god doesn't seem petty at times, but not to the same extent as the Mormon God.

The socalled 'Mormon' god is a very personable god. He is our heavenly father and one can speak to him as one would speak to one's own father. Being heavenly father one does not try to offend him as one tries not to offend one's earthly father.

And yet, just as an earthly father forgives the mishaps of his child and hopes that his child will change his or her wayward behavior our heavenly father does so to and both the earthly father and our heavenly faither forgives when forgiveness is asked for. At least that is the way it should be.

The 'Mormon' god is much more personable and up close.

His personality seems to coincidentally resemble the personality of various Utahan octogenarians.

[Guest]

I suggest you challenge him to a duel then and see how it works out for you.

I'll accept that recommendation!

I hereby challenge the HG to a duel by the end of this Sunday, at any time of his choosing.

I assume, if he isn't "a pansy," he'll manifest himself and teach me otherwise.

If I survive, I'll return and report on Monday.

Daniel2

Hey, Nehor,

As promised, I'm returning and reporting.

The Holy Ghost didn't show up in response to my challenge, depsite repeated attempts to encourage his presence (I even read both the Book of Mormon AND my Patriarchal Blessing trying go encourage him to manifest SOMEthing....)

It appears he's a pansy, after all.

Daniel2

[_thews]

I just ground some beans and made some evil brew. I put some cream in it and soon realized that was a mistake. I can't do cream.

Gotta go with cream. Once you use vanilla flavored cream it's all over cause it tastes too good, so stick with just milk. If you make coffee with sugar, then you'll like sugar. If you drink coffee every day and add up whatever sugar you put into it, it adds up over time. Sugar = bad, cream = good.

Regarding whyme's rant about something he knows nothing about, just ignore it like the rest of the double standards. (insert incredibly witty image here).

[_Quasimodo]

Gotta go with cream. Once you use vanilla flavored cream it's all over cause it tastes too good, so stick with just milk. If you make coffee with sugar, then you'll like sugar. If you drink coffee every day and add up whatever sugar you put into it, it adds up over time. Sugar = bad, cream = good.

Regarding whyme's rant about something he knows nothing about, just ignore it like the rest of the double standards. (insert incredibly witty image here).

Hi thews! I'm guessing you know that I am not religious, but if I were, no milk in coffee would be #1 on my ten commandments. Of course, vanilla cream would be an unpardonable sin (strait to hell). Only Satan, himself, would use sugar.

[_rich kelsey]

Thews,

This is funny. I love coffee but I believe I’m allergic to it to some degree. That may have been why I liked it so much? One thing that I was dealing with while drinking coffee was the fact that after having a strong cup it became a bit more difficult for me to think and thus hindered my ability to compose my thoughts.

Not wanting to lose out on health benefits I switched to tea about four months ago. I feel better because of it. Coffee to me was kind of like bug spray. Yet, it was not always that way.

A lot of things have changed in my life recently due to health issues. One friend told me, “Rich, you’re not use to getting old yet?”

I never thought I would give up coffee!

[_Hades]

Gotta go with cream. Once you use vanilla flavored cream it's all over cause it tastes too good, so stick with just milk. If you make coffee with sugar, then you'll like sugar. If you drink coffee every day and add up whatever sugar you put into it, it adds up over time. Sugar = bad, cream = good.

Regarding whyme's rant about something he knows nothing about, just ignore it like the rest of the double standards. (insert incredibly witty image here).

Hi thews! I'm guessing you know that I am not religious, but if I were, no milk in coffee would be #1 on my ten commandments. Of course, vanilla cream would be an unpardonable sin (strait to hell). Only Satan, himself, would use sugar.

I'm with you on this one. I drink coffee flavored coffee, no sugar, no fluff of any kind. It's an acquired taste, but well worth it. But, being from England, shouldn't you be drinking tea?

[_Quasimodo]

I'm with you on this one. I drink coffee flavored coffee, no sugar, no fluff of any kind. It's an acquired taste, but well worth it. But, being from England, shouldn't you be drinking tea?

Every weekend when visiting my mother! :) I quickly became Americanized when young and started drinking coffee. Every office I worked in had ample supplies of coffee... no tea (sorry, but Americans can't make proper tea, anyway).

Tea is a different story. I have milk in my tea (traditionally English) no sugar. Iced Tea never crosses my lips.

[_Morley]

Go without and see what happens. There is a reason why decafe coffee became so popular in the USA years ago. The warnings were given and people responded by drinking Sanka, one of the first decafe coffees available.

The words coffee and Sanka should not be mentioned in the same sentence. The only people who are able to successfully drink Sanka are those who don't especially like coffee. I think that God gave us coffee to show us how much he loves us.*



(*With apologies to Benjamin Franklin.)

[_thews]

Tea is a different story. I have milk in my tea (traditionally English) no sugar.

Ah ha! ... I mean HA! You are correct. Whatever you get used to, it sticks. Cream cuts the bite to me and I've always used it. If you put 3 grains of sugar in it, it tastes like ass, yet I really like vanilla flavored creamer, so my hypocrisy is transparent. My dad drank coffee all of his life, but being born in 1927 he was old school... cheap. He drank whatever was on sale at the local grocery store. Before he died I bought him 10 bags of Starbucks coffee (different flavors). A month later I spoke to him and he told me he could never go back to grocery (MJB, Folgers) coffee again. He died before the 10 bags ran out... I miss the old man. He always drank it black and could drink a cup before he went to sleep. I can too, but it gives me nightmares.

Regarding tea, it's got a bad bite and needs cream (no sugar, cause sugar is evil). Remember Zee, sugar is evil from the word go. I see people dump packets in theirs in the morning. I think to myself that over 10 years that's a lot of packets of sugar and the body doesn't need it. If you get used to it, you'll have to kick later. Kinda like a Fat Tire vs. a Coors light. Fat Tire tastes better, but once you're on the junk the extra calories aren't worth it... ignorance is bliss.