Except, Joseph didn't specifically mention smoking...
8 And again, tobacco is not for the body, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.
How effective is tobacco in dealing with bruises and sick cattle? What about the other things that can be smoked but which aren't mentioned?
The Word of Wisdom was effective in dealing with one thing - Emma's complaints!
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
KimberlyAnn wrote:I thought they were just trying to bore us to death.
KA
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Recent studies have shown that every GC takes about a month off your life. Second hand GC is even worse (and that doesn't even count the high probability of brain damage). You'd live longer by smoking. True story.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Kevin Graham's favorite terms, those being stupid, dumb, and idiot, are, without the slightest doubt, absolutely apropos in defining this OP. Buffalo has accredited himself here many times as a perverse intellectual curiosity, so grossly uneducated and intellectually simpleminded as to stun the mind into a near catatonic stupor upon fully grasping the content and implications of much of what he posts, but his cerebral cortex has clearly flatlined this time.
Buff has outdone himself in intellectual vacuity and educational retardation with this one. There is a great deal of good literature around about the pros and cons of drinking alcohol, coffee, and tea, and the potential risks associated with all of them, of which Buff is, as with most subjects, quite unaware. Its also equally clear that Buff has no idea whatsoever of the real meaning and purpose behind the WoW and its place within the whole gospel system.
Further, his statements about red meat being unhealthy is pure lifestyle Nazi twaddle straight from the fetid swamps of the likes of Morgan Spurlock and the vegen fascists.
Soda pop and "desserts" are "unhealthy?" but the imbibing of ethyl alcohol, a toxic, caustic, astringent chemical with powerful psychoactive qualities that is toxic to virtually every organ and organ system in the body, (including brain cells, which it kills), degrades and irritates internal mucous membranes (throughout the digestive system), and is a vitamin antagonist that takes nutritional resources from the body that would otherwise be used in building health for the purpose of detoxification, he treats as if it were a food.
Further, don't be fooled by the claim that moderate drinking prevents or reduces the risk of heart disease or increases longevity. While there has long been some evidence that this is true, this is not settled science, and is still being actively debated within the medical science community.
Buffalo must have something better to do than destroy other's faith in and testimony of the gospel and ruin their lives.
Or does he?
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Second hand GC is even worse (and that doesn't even count the high probability of brain damage).
Take the needle out of your arm and sober up. The second hand smoke claims have long been discredited as the politically motivated junk science that they are. Unless you are asthmatic or have some other acute toxic reaction to cigarette smoke, second hand smoke appears to be virtually harmless.
"Brain damage" from second hand smoke? To be taken at all seriously, you at least must make some attempt to connect yourself to the real world.
Nothing, not tobacco, alcohol, or heroin, is in any sense as debilitating as apostasy and anti-Mormonism, which is a kind of lycanthropy of the soul that turns otherwise normal, positive human beings and turns them into mad, Barking Moonbats.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Second hand GC is even worse (and that doesn't even count the high probability of brain damage).
Take the needle out of your arm and sober up. The second hand smoke claims have long been discredited as the politically motivated junk science that they are. Unless you are asthmatic or have some other acute toxic reaction to cigarette smoke, second hand smoke appears to be virtually harmless.
"Brain damage" from second hand smoke? To be taken at all seriously, you at least must make some attempt to connect yourself to the real world.
Nothing, not tobacco, alcohol, or heroin, is in any sense as debilitating as apostasy and anti-Mormonism, which is a kind of lycanthropy of the soul that turns otherwise normal, positive human beings and turns them into mad, Barking Moonbats.
*woof* *woof*
H.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Thanks for "coming out of the closet" here, Toronto.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
I think some alien creatures excrete this stuff in an effort to not be jettisoned into the vacuum of space. Or perhaps, it could be something else and tannic acid might actually be a naturally occuring substance found in trace amounts in many foods.