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Witch head in a jar.
 

 
 

There are a great many things that this statement applies to.  I hope you are not saying this scripture was in reference to GMO's.

@zil Make sure you swing by my house and take a look in a few days.

Unfortunately the majority of our church has failed to gain a testimony of HT/VT and embrace it.  I love HT my families.

Unfortunately the majority of our church has failed to gain a testimony of HT/VT and embrace it.  I love HT my families.

Unfortunately the majority of our church has failed to gain a testimony of HT/VT and embrace it.  I love HT my families.

Every adult member has home teachers and visiting teachers (or should within a month or two of arriving).  It's just that sometimes we don't know who they are.  I have instructed my VT District Supervisors that if there is a sister in their district who has not been visited in recent history, they should contact her and tell her who her visiting teachers are and how to contact them.  IMO, any member who wants VTers / HTers and hasn't heard from them should go to the RS / EQ President (or HP group leader if single female) and ask who their VTers / HTers are and get contact info, then call and invite them over. 

I've had my talents ideas rejected more than once for ward talent night...

I just wanted you to have time to practice. I mean, your demonstration is going to have to be impressive if we're gonna convince the Stake Pres to let you do that for the Stake Christmas Social...

Do I hate on you for mentioning that holiday before Halloween or enjoy the guns?  Hard hard choice.

There are a great many things that this statement applies to.  I hope you are not saying this scripture was in reference to GMO's.

You should have said something eight years ago.  I would have paid for the one way plane tickets at my own expense. 

You should have said something eight years ago.  I would have paid for the one way plane tickets at my own expense. 

Market them as "allergen-free, diet peanuts"  Then just ship people packing peanuts.  It's foolproof!

I once saw an episode of Penn & Teller's B.S. (a show where they expose things like false information and corporate shenanigans like these) where they were talking to a supporter of Organic Food who said if he had his way, all food, everywhere, would be grown organically.
To which Penn Gilette responded with words to the effect:  Great idea, genius.  So no more pesticides means crops yield only a small fraction of their current output, which would condemn millions to starvation because organic farms just can't keep up with the output of modern farming.
I also read an article not long ago that showed how DDT was not the horror it was made out to be in the media, and the ban on its use was irrational. 
I suppose this sort of thing is to be expected from a culture that loves to outsource its thinking.

I'm amazed at the ability of marketing campaigns to implant notions in our heads.  Case in point: The billion-dollar mega-corporations in the organic food industry, implanting false notions that GMO food is "bad" and organic food is "better" (healthier, better for the environment, more sustainable, etc).  They're so good at it, organizations like Greenpeace have been assimilated into the collective. 
So, just as a friendly reminder from someone who doesn't really care what you eat, but does care about people not believing lies:  Foods that have been genetically modified in one or more of a wide range of ways, are not bad for you.  They do not destroy the environment.  They do not cause cancer.  They are a large part of the reason this planet can feed 7+ billion humans. 
Forbes Magazine: Nobel Laureate Sir Richard Roberts To Ask Religious And Government Leaders To Support GMOs
 

I had a bishop with a beard.  Post retirement I will wear a beard whenever I darn well feel like it...no matter what calling may be extended to me. @zil feel free to tattle on me to the stake president.

And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God;
(Doctrine and Covenants 49:18)

Nuf said.

I forget the details, but in one episode of The Joseph Smith Papers, they did talk about just how much meat folks at in Joseph's day, and it was a LOT.  I doubt even steak-lovers eat that much meat in a single day (or that was my thought when I heard it - I can't remember the amount now).

It's so easy to get thrown off here.  One comma moves, one comma is added.  English grammar nazis get it, the rest of us have to go slow and struggle. 
Current:  And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used[COMMA] only in times of winter[COMMA] or of cold[COMMA] or famine.
Rephrased: God likes it when we don't use meat, except for winter/cold/famine. 
Original:  And it is pleasing unto me[COMMA] that they should not be used only in times of winter or of cold[COMMA] or famine.
Rephrased: God likes it when people don't restrict use of meat to winter/cold/famine.
Church leaders, to the best of my knowledge, have never commented on why the commas and meaning shifted.  Church leaders have also been mixed in what they think about the use of meat, and how much they care.  Frontier America days saw them much more strongly opinionated than theese days, and the opinions seemed to favor abstenence.  I've only seen qualifiers like "I think" and "I am of the opinion that", I've never seen "The Lord said" or "The spirit witnesses". At the end of the day, D&C 49 settles things about vegetarianism for me.
 
God says beasts and fowl are for food.  More than that, beasts and fowls are ORDAINED for man's use as food.  It's in cannonized scripture, and trumps anyone's opinion, no matter what office they hold. 
We can seek to advance our various opinions about how much, how often, how rarely.  But we can't really say that D&C 49:19 doesn't say what it says.

I don't understand why, with all the rules we already have to observe, some people go looking for more.  If the intent was for us to not eat meat then the First Presidency would have made a clear statement to that effect.
As I recently reminded someone else on this forum, you don't get to make up your own sins.

I know you're cutting/pasting from our modern scriptures, but take a look at the original scripture.  Take a good, close look at where the commas used to be in the original.

Yep, it's pleasing to God that meat isn't used only in times of winter.  Sounds to me like a scriptural refutation of the notion that you should only use meat in times of winter.  
(That said, I'm totally fine with people eating or not eating whatever they want, whenever they want.  Go be a vegan if you want.  Or one of those deluded folks that think organic is healthier and GMO is full of poison.  I don't care.  Just don't tell me that I'm breaking the WoW when I enjoy my summer pizza.

You know I asked my daughter what she learned in primary a few weeks ago, this is something I typically do and she told me they learned about the WOW. I said great tell me about it.  She said that we shouldn't drink tea or coffee because they have caffeine and that is bad for you. Also that alcohol is bad so we shouldn't drink beer or wine. So I said well what about chocolate? She said that came up and the primary leader said that chocolate was ok because there was only a little bit of caffeine in it.  SMH!!!  
Needless to say we had a long conversation about what the WOW really says and how we observe it under the guidance of our modern prophets.

Caffeine: Actually there's noting in the Word of Wisdom about caffeine.
Herbal tea: use wisdom and consult with the Lord.
Supplements & Medication: again, use wisdom, consult the Lord and medical professionals.