Coffee: Spiritual or Not?

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.

@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 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.

@mister-moggy said
@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.

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.

@caesar-salad said
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.

3 cat avatars in a row.

That's no coincidence.

All hail the miracles of coffee!!!

@ghost-of-a-duke said
3 cat avatars in a row.

That's no coincidence.

All hail the miracles of coffee!!!

And may Heaven help the people of Earth.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
3 cat avatars in a row.

That's no coincidence.

All hail the miracles of coffee!!!

4

@divegeester said
4

Spooky.

😲

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Spooky.

😲

¡Los Cuatro Gatos!

😲

@caesar-salad said
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 really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.

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 said
I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.

And yet your avatar is a pot of coffee.

No coincidences in this thread.

@mchill said
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.

Probably because of all the psychedelics they take.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
And yet your avatar is a pot of coffee.

Looks like a teapot to me. Or the home of a genie.

@caesar-salad said
Just me, but I really don't think of coffee as being spiritual.

i may live to regret this
i did not do this six years ago

YouTube

@rookie54 said
i may live to regret this
i did not do this six years ago

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I ... uh ... um ... er ... well, that's quite something, isn't it?

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 said
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.

Try getting up late on a weekend for a meeting, and you too will thank God for coffee.