Mormon Preparedness Manual

[grenfell]

Viagra and ice cold red bull Ok then?

no not really. I didn't mention the stimulant thing as I was just concentrating on the whole boiling water thing.
Mind , the one Mormon I knew "failed" when he discovered beer, fags and girls.

[Plymtom]

Like the Bacon test for veggies eh ? I just couldn't eat the poor little piggies aren't they cute... but they smell so good well done just a little crispy, we used to have a pub in Plymouth called The Old Chapel perfect for keeping one foot in both environments, I'm having a laugh but on the preparedness side the Mormons remain pioneers, in the context mentioned, taking in the widowed wife looks charitable though continued into more stable times is undoubted Patriarchal BS

[ForgeCorvus]

I'll admit I'm the kind of guy who does pointless research.
The Word of Wisdom is the Mormon's book of rules
It says that they should avoid:

Wine or strong drink (although as recently as 1901 beer was OK)
Tobacco (except for medicinal purposes )
'Hot drinks' (which most Mormons believe to be just tea and coffee and the stricter ones think is any drink with caffeine)

And eat meat sparingly

There is something known as "Mormon Tea" which is a herbal infusion with no caffeine in it (but a decent dose of Ephedrine )
ETA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra


And the multiple wives thing, thats only practiced in a couple of the smaller colonies (and those are reguarded as being a bit radical and 'out of touch')

[cpslashm]

I think the thing the Mormons fail on is telling everyone who they are and that they all have a year's supply of food.

Steel shutters won't keep out a JCB when the driver has starving kids.

[grenfell]

I'll admit I'm the kind of guy who does pointless research.

And I guess I'm the kind of guy who reads through the links
Seems scriptures the world over are open to interpretation . Still I suppose "hot drinks" is a bit vague . They may seem to some to be killjoys but the cancer and mortality rates at the end of the article do seem to back up their policies.

[ForgeCorvus]

I'm waiting for a study on non-smoking, tea-total, caffeine-free, vegan atheists


Problem is you'll die of something as Life is 100% fatal

[FEISTY]

I think the thing the Mormons fail on is telling everyone who they are and that they all have a year's supply of food.

Steel shutters won't keep out a JCB when the driver has starving kids.

The girl I knew was living with her husband in a house riddled with dry rot, which they couldn't afford to put right, so they couldn't sell either. Don't know how they got on as we both moved jobs and lost touch, as you do, but I think they'd have fixed their house before they stored a year's worth of food. She also volunteered doing family history research - way before "Who Do You Think You Are?" for the Mormon faith. Not sure what you mean by "who they are" - sounds sinister .

[cpslashm]

Not sure what you mean by "who they are" - sounds sinister .

As I understand it, they go around knocking on doors and telling people they are Mormons. They also publish that Mormons have preps.

So anyone who's starving and recognises them from a doorstep call will be following them home....

[ForgeCorvus]

Not sure what you mean by "who they are" - sounds sinister .

As I understand it, they go around knocking on doors and telling people they are Mormons. They also publish that Mormons have preps.

So anyone who's starving and recognises them from a doorstep call will be following them home....

It doesn't work that way.
The ones who come knocking on doors are those 'On Mission'
Young, unmarried and from elsewhere, kids never go On Mission in their home parish (or whatever they call it)...... I'm sure part of it is so the only thing they have to rely on is the church

[grenfell]

That's right. One of the Mormons I worked with didn't even spend his "Mormon time" ( not sure if this is a correct term but it's one he used) in the same country. He went to Canada to spend his time knocking doors.