smoke weed, we can't smoke cigarettes.

Shelley: Since when?!

Kwaku: Because always, that's how it is

don't do it, got it?

Shelley: Okay, but for real, Mormons don't drink

alcohol because it says no in the Word

of Wisdom. Ian, where did we get the Word

of Wisdom from? Ian: the word of wisdom came

from singing words and wisdom-- came Paul

McCartney sing the song Let it Be.

Ian: Um, actually no, the Word of Wisdom

Heber J Grant, Ezra Taft Benson and

Paul McCartney. Ian: The Beatles. So the Word

of Wisdom came by the Prophet Joseph

Smith in the year 1831. What happened?

Joseph Smith is with the high priests

and there's just smoke everywhere and

it's really hard to communicate and just--

Shelley: Emma Smith was cleaning up tobacco off

of the ground. Men didn't clean

in the eighteen hundreds and

Ian: Emma was a little upset.

Emma Smith, Joseph Smith's

wife was like, "Honey, this sucks

fix it." So Joseph Smith did.

Ian: And Joseph's like yeah I don't feel very spiritual

with all these you know splashes of

tobacco and alcohol and whiskey in my

dining hall so he asked the Lord and the

Lord actually gave him the health code

called the Word of Wisdom. And originally, it was

for the high priest of the church which

is really interesting because lots of

members of the church things they didn't

they think the Word of Wisdom has been

around since 1830 but actually for a

long period of time it was more of a

guideline for people like, "Look if you

want to be spiritual you should probably

follow this health code.

Shelley: And it works!

If you don't drink alcohol you can

feel the spirit better. That's

scientifically proven.

Also you don't get drunk. You don't make

bad decisions.

Ian: You don't drive around and

crash into things like deer.

Kwaku: You don't wreck a Maserati

next to a Kids are Kids.

Actually, deer run into cars all the time.

Shelley: It's cheaper if you

don't drink alcohol or coffee or tea

because then you're not buying it.

Ian: I mean, I buy Postum.

Kwaku: But like, Jesus drank wine,

so like why can't you all guys

drink alcohol if like he drink wine?

my training like seriously like Beth

like what

yeah so that's the funny thing about it

is that the word of wisdom isn't

actually something we're like well we're

not following Jesus Christ because we

don't drink wine so we're not technical

note the word of wisdom is actually just

new revelation provided to us it really

has nothing to do with Jesus turning the

water into wine

nothing to do with whether it was ok

back then or not it's just modern

revelation he opened the book of

leviticus it says not to mix fabrics and

you can't eat shellfish

now let me tell you something i enjoy

shrimp like everyone in this room

okay you know what once again the laws

back then were for that specific time

period much like how the word of wisdom

is only for our time period

ok it's a supposed to transcend forever

it's just supposed to be for us for our

safety in our benefit

yeah helps us a state helps us stay

healthy helps us not die helps us save a

lot of money well does not die right now

not die you can't get alcohol poisoning

if you're not drinking alcohol and you

can't get black lungs if you're not

smoking cigarette can't get hit by a bus

no matter what your help so don't walk

in the street

Ian: Some fun facts the word of wisdom

became a policy of the church in the

early nineteen hundreds with Heber J

Gant. Before then, you know, actual

priesthood holders were smoking

and they were drinking and actually

something interesting back then is it

wasn't like oh man you're drinking you

can't give that person a blessing was

actually you're drinking a this woman

needs a blessing can you still help me

out? It wasn't a commandment for the

whole church to follow. So people freaked

out about that like what members of the

church were drinking? It was not a

worldwide commandment. Now it is, it's

something that we have to follow. Do

things in moderation do not drink

alcohol don't drink coffee

you know those types of things.

Kwaku: That also applies with 7up mainly cause it's

awful.

Shelley: I like seven up but also have been

drinking green tea.

You've been drinking green tea?

Green tea?

Shelley: It's not that I've been

actively drinking green tea they ask you

how you are using

that you're fine we're not really

finally you just can't get into it

because they would never understand

it's that on accident it's in this like

juice drink that I -- it's not Snapple.

It's like in one of those like smoothie

drinks and there's a bunch of green

tea in it, apparently, I don't know how much.

I don't know what it is.

Lots of people think that Mormons can't

drink any caffeine because we choose not

to drink coffee and like most teas but

that's not actually true just because

what we're choosing to do is not get

addicted to things. We don't want to be

reliant upon anything, just so that

we can be only reliant upon God and the

gospel.

So if you want to drink the Coke

drinking Coke, but if you're drinking

like 12 Monsters to get you through

the day every single day

probs want to reevaluate your decisions

and decide if you're addicted to that.

Ian: Yeah, so the Word of Wisdom is not just a

physical law, it's a spiritual law as well so

the reason we don't want to get addicted

to those things is so that our spirit

can actually function because if we're

relying upon something that's temporal

are we really going to be able to be

connected to Heavenly Father? Is that even

possible?

Every law that God gives us has a

spiritual blessing and also has a

physical blessing. Sure we'll be healthy

because we're not drinking, sure we'll be

healthy because we're not eating loads

of things but also we're going to be a

little bit clearer in the mind we're

going to have knowledge that maybe we

didn't have before because the Lord is

going to be open to giving us that

information because we're open to him.

Kwaku: The Word of Wisdom keeps us healthy

keeps us happy and it's a great thing

I'm very very thankful for it.

Shelley: Comment below if you're thankful for the

word of wisdom if you're not thankful

for the word of wisdom and if you think

I'm breaking the word of wisdom by

drinking that thing

that has green tea in it. Ready, set... thanks for watching.

Ian: Make the word of wisdom great again.

Kwaku: No, we will not say that.

Ian: Subscribe below and there's also these

videos over here that you can check out

Shelley: If you have any of those juice drink

to drink that doesn't have green tea in them...

Ian: Yeah so like if you feel like a playlist of

drinks that's not good that aren't

greens and a refrigerator

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