here's how my ride home conversation will go after he's binged on kisses & pepsi: "jay, dagnabit, i went off the deep-end, today. i gorged on chocolate & soda & now i feel sick. my neck is all tense & i'm hyper as all get out. next time i get the urge, will you please stop me?" i usually ask him how much he ate & this is what he usually tells me: "i ate 1 bag of regular kisses & another bag of almond kisses, along w/3 cans of pepsi". i say, "you mean you ate all of that, today?" he says, "yeah, i could have eaten more".
poor guy. he's a closet caffeine addict & is quite torn about it. i wonder what kind of trouble he'd get into if his ward president found out. this is kind of funny, because elder young just got back from teaching boy scouts about the sin of caffeine usage in their lifestyles. hmmmmmm.
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i don't know what to say, this is funny!! i do know what it is like to be a caffeine addict, but i was never that bad. i will be caffeine free two years in march
Is this guy morbidly obese yet?
"Religion is as religion does." - Elder Gump
what kind of backwards mormon zealots do they grow out in fernley? the caffeine = sin teaching is not official lds doctrine (and has never been as far as i can tell) though it is often a recommendation (like not watching R-rated movies, certain TV shows, etc.) apparently there is a rule against tea and coffee . . . hard to sort through. here's a mormon blog to help you out with all your wonderings:
http://www.ninemoons.typepad.com/home/2005/06/difficult_answe.html
So my morman boss once unwittingly drank a rum and vodka slurpee. At a managers' convention he went to, they had a slurpee machine set up for the managers to help themselves at the end of the night... However he had apparently not been there for the announcement explaining what the slurpee machines contained and the other managers let him get a little tipsy before they told him what was really in the slurpee machine... At least this is the story as it was told to me...
i guess they don't worry about stopping beer sales at halftime at byu . . .
yeah, me & my buddy know that caffeine isn't a "sin", but the current training & "strong suggestions", make it out to be. mormonism is as flavored as Christians are (charismatic, fundamental, conservative, etc...)whether it's lds doctrine or 4Square doctrine, many individuals put their own spints on it. for elder young, he likes to "strongly suggest" to his up & coming lds-ers that caffeine usage reflects so poorly on one's spiritual health- that it might as well be sin.
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