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To "THICK BLOOD"; I can't see any reason why you sholud suffer any guilt over drinking the green tea that is treating multiple serious medical conditions, and I certainly don't see any reason why you sholud intentionally avoid the temple over that specific issue. The Coumadin (most likely) that was administered to you as a blood thinner before your surgery was savagely bad for your body, while there is certainly no evidence that green tea is unhealthy or addictive. Coumadin is a brand name for warfarin. Warfarin is rat poison. It fundamentally changes your body chemistry for a long time after administration and can easily kill you. On the other hand, from all professional/medical accounts, green tea is actually good for your body, and I've never seen any evidence that it is an addictive substance. I know people who have been in cancer remission for many years and they and their (LDS) doctors are convinced that green tea is a vital component of them staying cancer-free. There is plenty of (mounting) evidence that green tea is a cancer preventative. I'm not sure I've seen any actual doctrinal prohibition specifically against green tea. But there are plenty of people who would rail against it who happily take varying combinations of blood pressure medications, cholesterol medications, blood thinner medications and all manner of other medications which have heinous interactions and side effects and no doubt consider themselves totally "pure" and "worthy" because they won't touch green tea.Like other posts here, I am certainly aware of plenty of people who are frankly flat-out fat who would consider themselves worthy Word of Wisdom followers when clearly they aren't.If it's a straight matter of faithfully following a commandment, the commandment itself was pretty vague. The one clarification back in the good 'ol days that hot drinks meant "tea and coffee" no doubt was a reference to black tea, as green tea was probably completely unheard of in early America and the wild west.We all know that tea is a specific plant, right? Herbal "teas" are not tea. At all.Tea itself, in the good 'ol days, was grown in far-flung places like China and India. It was processed and shipped by a handful of companies like the Dutch East India Company that had the market completely locked up and would shoot you to prove it to you. They didn't ship green tea. They fermented the tea leaves, which was virtually the only way they knew to keep them leaves from rotting. So they shipped black tea.Consequently, in the 1830's and 1840's, "tea" meant black tea.I'm not at all sure I'm convinced, personally, that green tea falls in the same category as black tea with respect to the Word of Wisdom, and superstition is pretty uninteresting to me. Green tea and black tea simply are not the same stuff.What I do know is that there is a surplus of people who have a strong tendency to completely ignore their own deep faults while tromping around telling other people what to do, and using all the power of shame that they can bring to bear on people to try to compel them, threatening hellfire and eternal damnation if they don't conform to that individual's view of righteousness. That, as far as I am concerned, is actually evil.Frankly, I think your son-in-law sounds more than a little bit like a self-righteous prick who may well have his head buried so far up his own backside that he can't recognize himself. He would probably be better served spending a little more of his anxiety on his own faults, like that secret porn habit, or watching R movies when he's alone, or staring at women's bodies when he thinks he isn't being observed, or that affair he didn't confess to, or whatever it is. If he claims there isn't anything amiss in his own life, he's either a liar, or the most boring person every born (and consequently one of the most boring people every born).
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Vasudevan
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