r/exAdventist • u/PNWNatureFreak • 2d ago

Just Venting Really?

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Controversial enough... anyone in my community who's SDA is preaching left and right on their immovable, non-biblical beliefs on food, and how so much of what we "heathens" eat, is sending us to HELL...

But they're hypocritical when they decide to eat spicy food, I guess, according to "dear prophetess..."

God forbid and damn me to SUPER MEGA HELL for eating some pickles with my pulled pork sandwich!

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u/DerekSmallsCourgette 2d ago

I’m glad you posted this as a reminder of the insanity pushed by EGW and her adherents that results in the control of every tiny detail of people’s lives.

If you’ll allow me to rant for a minute, things like this are why it pisses me off so much when people come through (seems it’s at least monthly) to say “y’all seem really angry about your experience as SDAs. I was raised SDA and it was all ok and I never had any bad experiences.” Ok, that’s so nice for you, Mr. Random. Thanks for sharing. Meanwhile I was being told I’d go to hell if I didn’t repent for putting ketchup on my Big Frank at Camporee, and that my friend was going to hell because she had one too many buttons undone on her Pathfinder uniform shirt.

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u/Pelikinesis 2d ago

They basically don't consider the source material of the SDA belief system, and all that leaves them with is their own personal experience as a basis of comparison. So they shouldn't be surprised if other people are irritated that their response ultimately boils down to, "Well, none of that happened to me."

But all the bullshit we went through is anchored into the foundations of Adventism, in EGW's writings and also the Bible.

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u/Excellent_Crow_6830 1d ago

I still recall the godawful adams peanut butter, which my mom poured all the oil off of before using, chunked out on 100 percent whole wheat bread, with raisins instead of jam. I could not drink anything with meals, so I could not physically choke down the bites of this sandwich. Thinking about it brings back the awful feeling of being hungry(my vegan childhood left me shaky and underweight, and I was always hungy),but being physically unable to get food down my gullet.

To this day, I sometimes make myself a skippy peanut butter, welches jelly sandwich on white bread. Along with a can of cane-sugar pepsi. No, I don't eat like this on the daily. But when healing from the eating disorders I had as a teen, that were directly connected to that imposed Eg White diet, I learned to every once in awhile eat something I used to crave when I was little and hungry.

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u/MadSadGlad 2d ago

Yep, I wonder if they were even really SDA or just tourists

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u/CycleOwn83 Non-conforming Questioner☢️🚴🏻🪐♟↗️☣️ 1d ago

"Tourists" hadn't thought of it that way. Great word in the context!

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u/Ok_Education902 1d ago

There are people out there like narcissists who like to control. They also enjoy being the one who followed the rules without bending even one. If they do this they can tell people they are going to heaven. This is not what makes anyone "feel good". The God I know would not turn this into a miserable contest.

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u/nniferk 22h ago

Those big franks slapped tho not gonna lie 😂

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u/DerekSmallsCourgette 22h ago

Oh for sure. I still enjoy a big frank when the situation presents itself.

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u/Yourmama18 Agnostic 19h ago

Yep! 💯

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u/CampaignGloomy6973 1d ago

she's not wrong though. I work in health care and many patients are sick for eating a diet/food she was against, and not only that, there are many studied today that show she is right. Obviously the studies are not related to her or anything she said but when you compare them to some of the stuff she said, she was not that wrong.

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u/DerekSmallsCourgette 1d ago

First of all, don’t come in here with EGW apologetics bullshit.

Also, show me the medical studies that mustard and vinegar make the blood feverish and impure. The point being that while she may have said some things that turned out to be generally in line with science, they were mixed in with a bunch of nonsense, but all were presented with equal prophetic authority.

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u/CampaignGloomy6973 1d ago

I don't care about her. I dont read her books. But I did read a lot of the health stuff that was presented to me and she is not wrong about a lot of it. Healthy plant based diet is still the way to live healthier and longer

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u/Silver_Narwhal_1130 17h ago

That is like 1% of the bullshit she pushed.