Among puritan Christians in the 1840s, many believed that material disease was due to material sin. You do bad things and you get sick.
This eventually morphed into the idea that spiritual disease is therefore caused by spiritual sin. I.e. you think bad things, you go insane.
John Harvey Kellogg was an innovator. He sort of blended the two, popularizing a new category; the physiological sin. Eating unhealthy, disrupting the natural balance of the body, is a sin against the natural order of the body as God ordained it, and he punishes us with chronic illness.
His followers were banned from:
Sex, masturbation, all meat, salt, grease, fat, dance, gambling, coffee, tea, alcohol, or warm water of any kind.
why warm water????
Excites the body. JHK considered man’s natural state to be an unfeeling resting neutrality. All biological excitement was a sin.
Yes. The cereal guy. As in Kellogg’s Cereal. That guy.
…. That explains the whole “bland cereal means no sex” idea, to be fair.
Actually incorrect!!!!! His BROTHER was the Kellogg cereal guy - literally took the shitty bland-ass flakes he made with John before John started his own sanitarium (think of the old equivalent of a detox/cleanse luxury spa) and put sugar on them, and thus “Frosted Flakes” were born!!
That’s not correct. Both of them worked at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was established in 1866.
John Harvey Kellogg invented Corn Flakes, William Kieth Kellogg was a factory owner and designed the factory process to mass-produce them, and thus held the patent. In 1897 they started the Sanitary Food Corporation.
W.K. Kellogg knew the cereal would be more marketable if they put sugar in it. J.H. Kellogg thought that was a sin. The two had a falling out in 1906 over this, and W.K. split to form the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which later became the Kellogg Company.
Oh thank you for the corrected info!!!
I didn’t read two whole biographies on this enema obsessed weirdo for people to be Slightly Wrong On The Internet About Him.
please @normal-horoscopes expand on that enema thing. u can’t just mention that and not tell us.
John Harvey Kellogg was obsessed with enemas. He was an early proponent of studying gut bacteria. He even worked at the Pasteur Laboratory in Paris for a while.
In 1936, he filed a petition for his invention of improvements to an “irrigating apparatus particularly adaptable for colonic irrigating.”
Basically, he invented a chair that would pump water up your ass at over a gallon a minute, often followed by a half-pint of yogurt.
The irrigator was INCREDIBLY popular, notable people who used the irrigator were the likes of: Amelia Airhart, George Bernard Shaw, J.C. Penny, President William Howard Taft, Thomas Edison, and C.W. Post.
CT I know you didn’t just say that the guy who was afraid of masturbation and warm water made a chair that blasted yogurt up your ass please say sike
He also patented several designs for chastity cages.
If you’re puritanical enough you just loop back around to a freak.
Succulents that look like something out of this world
Clear Succulent Plant
Rose Succulents
Bunny Succulents
Some of the fantastically strange plants like the mermaid tail or the opal-like clear succulents look like they’re from another planet and something that aliens keep on their alien desks in their alien offices.
If you want to get one of these peculiar succulents for yourself or for your loved ones as a gift, the mermaid one is called a crested Senecio Vitalis while the clear one is the Haworthia Cooperi plant.
Haworthia succulents are popular because of their “leaf windows” which let in a lot of light for the plant. The “windows” also minimize water loss from evaporation because the rest of the plant is buried underground. Haworthia plants also have accordion-like roots that pull them deeper into the ground so that they can thrive.
Unusual Succulent
Trachyandra
Albuca
Haworthia plants are easy to take care of and are great succulents for beginners: just pop them on the windowsill and they’ll be happy. Especially if you plop it into some gritty soil.
In general, succulents need plenty of light and you need to rotate them occasionally so all parts of it can enjoy the sun and to help it grow straight.
Overwatering is a big no-no, so check the soil regularly: if it’s dry, get your watering can ready. Also, keep in mind that succulents need more water during Spring and Summer and barely need any in Fall and Winter when they’re ‘resting.’ Finally, wipe the dust off your succulents to help them grow and become your picture-perfect plant-pals.
okay obviously Ted Cruz going to Cancun or whatever right now is really bad optics but in a pragmatic sense, what could a US senator concretely do to help people in Texas right now?
He could be a leader. He’s in a position where he could coordinate relief efforts better than most people. It takes a lot of connections and a serious political network to be a senator.
Just to start - used his political clout to marshal volunteers to bring food, generators, water, to people - paid for some poor folks to stay in a hotel with his Cancun money - get on tv and organize blanket and water donations from other states - call on more facilities to open up as shelters - set up phone banks for wellness calls to seniors - advocate for Texas on the federal level to get resources from FEMA & others to where they’re needed - meet with ERCOT leaders and demand answers for people needing power - use his connections to coordinate regional support - work with federal and state leaders for an emergency interconnect to other power grids - fake it and maybe even pretend like he cares - do what Beto is doing - do what AOC is doing - reach out to donors to coordinate private and public services - I dunno he’s got a whole staff who could be working on a ton of ways to help. If he can’t think of anything to do, maybe he should find a different job.
^^This, so much this. Beto O’Rourke – not a Senator – organized 300,000+ volunteer phone calls to Texas senior citizens to check up on them, get them groceries, flag the ones who need help.
Imagine what a US Senator, with 8 years of connections & owed favors could accomplish.
Ted Cruz is worse than useless, he is an impediment.
