I’ve been thinking about this situation a lot and it’s slowly dawning on me how ridiculously silly it is.

So, I drink a lot of green tea. I usually have a cup at work during my break. I work with someone in my ward, plus some higher ups in my stake. The staff is 90% Mormon and they let everyone know on a daily basis. They talk crap about “anti-Mormons” and people who leave the church.

As a result, I’m always paranoid. I hurry and throw the packaging away and brew it when no one is around. And yesterday, I spilled a bunch of it all over the counter because I was in a hurry to get my iced tea made before my fellow ward member walked by.

There’s a very real possibility that these busybodies could tell my family if they ever saw me drinking it in front of them.

And after some reflection, I’m just like...WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS CULTURE? Only in Mormonism is tea drinking enough to cause relationship problems.

Its NOT the tea. Its control 101. You cannot
act upon your own self determination. You are
not allowed to disect your own paths of freedom

You are in a World that is set and you cannot
question the authority of Mormonism. Period.

A little humor to give you a laugh. I talked to a non member
lady and at one time she worked as a waitress in an area that was
Very heavily populated with Mormons. She said she always knew when a Mormon came in to eat as they would always order their coffee in a soup bowl.

The church makes moral issues out of the word of wisdom and
acts like someone has committed a crime if caught
Breaking the word of wisdom.

Could you possibly report that constant mormon talk to HR or higher-ups?

Seems to me it's rather inappropriate to talk about religion at work and constantly complain about those who don't practice it.

If anyone says anything, can you tell them you are following medical advice?

Because the truth is: You are!

EVERYONE (except for Mormons) agrees that green tea is an enormously helpful part of a good diet!

Can't you just tell them it's herbal tea? Buy a box of herbal teas which might match the colour of your tea bags and put your tea bags into that box and bring it to work.

You're absolutely right that you shouldn't have to do that, but at least it would avoid you being made to feel that way.



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This is a really great idea if you need to keep flying under the radar.

Drink your tea openly and without shame.
If some holier-than-thou mormon makes a stink about it, point them at this:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-green-tea

And tell them to mind their own damn business.

I've never liked tea myself but years ago when I was a mishie I was in charge of brewing it up by the barrel full in a soup kitchen and dishing it out to hundreds of people. My comps would always tell me "you don't have to do that! refuse to make that crap! Your the devils little helper today!

But I always gladly made it in spite of their mormonosity. But what I didn't like is the mountains of sugar that go into it. That stuff can't be healthy. No wonder there is an obesity problem in the South.

They are all messed up and that is coming from me.

and she spends most of the year working in Alaska for Princess Cruises. She hates coming home to the mormon culture, though it isn't like she doesn't act that way herself many times! She actually gets a lot of mileage out of her apostate family around here since we've lived here for 32 years.

I grew up with a dad who drank coffee and I worried as a child that we wouldn't be a forever family. I was 5 at the time. As I got older, I realized that my dad was a better person than most, if not all mormons I knew. My grandparents also drank coffee. I love the smell of coffee, and yet I don't like it.

It sounds like if it got back to family about your tea drinking, you could have a problem. That's too bad. Otherwise, you could just drink it out in the open at work.

I'd assume many of your coworkers drink a lot of soda and that isn't a problem to them.

Actually, I've been drinking diet coke since I had twins 32 years ago. My ex used to give me a difficult time about it because he said I was lowering his ability to resist temptation (cheating with other men--I knew he was gay when I married him). Go figure.

That would be awful to be made to feel so uncomfortable just for drinking a cup of green tea.

I fell in love with it during a trip to Japan. Now I drink Matcha green tea regularly (mixed in with my fruit smoothies - it's a fine green powder made from tea leaves.) It's ten times more potent than a cup of green tea for its health benefits.

If you must, why not consider taking a green tea supplement instead, when you're at work? They won't know, and you don't need to tell anyone.

It does sound like a hostile work environment for non-Mormons.

LOL! Your beverage of choice lowered his ability to control himself. That would be absolutely laughable if it weren't so maddening. That doesn't even jibe with the Mormon idea the all men will be punished for their own sins.

Thanks to the beloved Correlation program I am inclined to have great pity for those green tea drinking exmormons who have to spend their Sundays so restfully at some beach worrying about what to do with all that extra disposable income they are burdened with instead of getting the blessings of tithing where we don't have to bear that burden of extra money. As we consume our economy priced potato chips and soda pop while I look upon my ultra-blessed huge girth I'm so grateful for the Word of Wisdom that keeps us away from such evils like green tea and I just naturally have a superiority complex over those non-TBM's thanks to the wondrous bubble of thinking I've been so blessed to been given. As long as we work super hard on building up the Kingdom by doing missionary work and having super size families then the world can be more filled with people like us.

There is no ure in TBM culture.

Verb
ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

That is unless you are talking about bowing your head and saying, "Yes." That is the ure of the cult.

Of course the answer is to drink your tea out in the open like a normal person and stop blaming others for making you feel bad about having to lie.

There are always consequences for telling the truth, especially speaking truth to power. That's what principles and having the courage of one's convictions are all about. And here, the "power" you're talking about is your own family. Seriously, what are they going to do to you? You're being bullied, and the only way to stop a bully is to stand up to the bully or get someone else to stand up for you--like, HR. But honestly, what are you going to tell HR? "My co-workers will tell my family I drink tea. Tell them to stop!" Obviously, you're not going to do that. The only solution is to drink your tea, refuse to be intimidated, and proudly take the consequences.

Take a tip from the Beatles: "You say that it's the institution. Well, you know, you'd better free your mind instead." Or Tom Petty: "Everybody's got to fight to be free. You don't have to live like a refugee."

Lying is the Mormony-ist thing in the world. If it benefits oneself, the Mormon solution is always: lie. If you've got qualms about the concept of lying or thinking of yourself as a liar, simply hold the other person in contempt. Not only will any troublesome scruples melt away, you'll feel inward glee that you're taking advantage of someone and they're too stupid to realize it. If they're Mormon, lie to them happy in the knowledge that they deserve it for everything Mormonism put you through. After all, if they're Mormon, they'll lie to you secure in the belief that it's for your own good. All's fair in love and war, as they say.

If it benefits you--even trivially, no one--not your family, not your co-workers--deserve the truth. No wonder Mormonism's so alienating.

MCR Wrote:
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> Lying is the Mormony-ist thing in the world. If it
> benefits oneself, the Mormon solution is always:
> lie. If you've got qualms about the concept of
> lying or thinking of yourself as a liar, simply
> hold the other person in contempt. Not only will
> any troublesome scruples melt away, you'll feel
> inward glee that you're taking advantage of
> someone and they're too stupid to realize it. If
> they're Mormon, lie to them happy in the knowledge
> that they deserve it for everything Mormonism put
> you through. After all, if they're Mormon, they'll
> lie to you secure in the belief that it's for your
> own good. All's fair in love and war, as they

Only a "religion" which regularly asks you if you are honest would be such a breeding ground for dishonesty.