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Just me, but I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
It seems more yang to tea's yin.
Maybe it's strange that an Amerikaner from the Midwest should be more of a tea-drinker, but that's how I am.
I do sometimes drink coffee, though, for social reasons, and sometimes for carnal reasons (e.g., delicious young flower of manhood at the coffee-sampling table), but can't think of any spiritual associations.
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coffee was suggested as being incorrect by the prophet joseph smith. one might drink it but it was advised to be unhealthful as the "taking of a hot drink". in about 1920's or so the then prophet
of the mormon church, president woodruff, if i recall correctly, made the omission of coffee a fully proscribed drink. this is found in what is known as the "word of wisdom" ( doctrine and covenants scripture ). it was thought that it was the caffeine that
was the harmful incident but latter-day saints drink many drinks that contain caffeine so the church has opined that it is the tannin in the coffee that is the poor element in the drink.
some say, and i state only "some" believe that the 1920's era
full banning of coffee had more to do with the church view that
mormon people needed to segregated further from the gentile population and the forbiddance of coffee was a cultural icon
to seperate the mormon from the gentile.
in older times the "coffee table" in the lds home was sometimes
known as the "postum table" as postum was a popular substitute
for coffee. you can still find postum for sale in almost every grocery store in america in the coffee aisle.
never had any postum.
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@mister-moggy saidThank you! I did not know that.
@caesar-salad
coffee was suggested as being incorrect by the prophet joseph smith. one might drink it but it was advised to be unhealthful as the "taking of a hot drink". in about 1920's or so the then prophet
of the mormon church, president woodruff, if i recall correctly, made the omission of coffee a fully proscribed drink. this is found in what is known as ...[text shortened]... stum for sale in almost every grocery store in america in the coffee aisle.
never had any postum.
In my younger days (1970s) I did have Postum (and liked it!) as a non-caffeinated coffee substitute), but not for LDS reasons.
@caesar-salad said3 cat avatars in a row.
Thank you! I did not know that.
In my younger days (1970s) I did have Postum (and liked it!) as a non-caffeinated coffee substitute), but not for LDS reasons.
That's no coincidence.
All hail the miracles of coffee!!!
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidAnd may Heaven help the people of Earth.
3 cat avatars in a row.
That's no coincidence.
All hail the miracles of coffee!!!
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@ghost-of-a-duke said4
3 cat avatars in a row.
That's no coincidence.
All hail the miracles of coffee!!!
@caesar-salad saidI really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
Just me, but I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
It seems more yang to tea's yin.
Maybe it's strange that an Amerikaner from the Midwest should be more of a tea-drinker, but that's how I am.
I do sometimes drink coffee, though, for social reasons, and sometimes for carnal reasons (e.g., delicious young flower of manhood at the coffee-sampling table), but can't think of any spiritual associations.
I agree 100%. Though most in my area, The Pacific Northwest (Home of Microsoft and Starbucks) where tech nerds and bookworms reign supreme, see coffee a divine thing.
P.S. Sorry, but I don't see Joseph Smith as a prophet
@mchill saidAnd yet your avatar is a pot of coffee.
I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
No coincidences in this thread.
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidLooks like a teapot to me. Or the home of a genie.
And yet your avatar is a pot of coffee.
@caesar-salad saidi may live to regret this
Just me, but I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
i did not do this six years ago
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@rookie54 saidI ... uh ... um ... er ... well, that's quite something, isn't it?
i may live to regret this
i did not do this six years ago
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Thank goodness you had the foresight to wear a mask! 😉
This summer I have been grinding up some Premium (and locally roasted) beans, heating up 500 ml of water in the microwave in a Pyrex measuring cup, putting the ground beans into the hot water, letting it sit for a few minutes, then pouring it through a fine-meshed strainer into a tall plastic tumbler that has seven or eight ice cubes in it, then adding sugar and half-and-half. So much for purism!
@caesar-salad saidTry getting up late on a weekend for a meeting, and you too will thank God for coffee.
Just me, but I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.
It seems more yang to tea's yin.
Maybe it's strange that an Amerikaner from the Midwest should be more of a tea-drinker, but that's how I am.
I do sometimes drink coffee, though, for social reasons, and sometimes for carnal reasons (e.g., delicious young flower of manhood at the coffee-sampling table), but can't think of any spiritual associations.