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Old 09-15-2007, 07:40 PM   #4
Frank Ryan
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ View Post
One of the interesting aspects of studying the WoW is how it has been given different emphases at different times in history. There's section 89, Hyrum Smith's declaration that the WoW would help people overcome their "murderous dispositions" and "beastly appetites," and that it was good to spare the life of animals, Brigham Young's 1851 statement, Lorenzo Snow's emphasis on not eating too much meat, John Widtsoe's scientific approach, Ezra Taft Benson's advoction of eating natural food and warning against food additives, and so on.
sleeping, nice tidbit. wasn't john taylor a vegetarian?
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Interesting. That reminds me of what my mother would explain to me as a kid when she argued against fluoridation of drinking water. "If we let them do this, pretty soon the communists will be putting mind-control poison in our water supply."
i have never ever understood the anti-fluoride community. what a waster of zeal and energy
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