That’s also true of traditional searches because the resulting webpages can just be whatever bullshit someone wrote. It will only be true that they said it. You still have to use your brain to assess the trustworthiness of the info.

Explains the birthrates.

I recently took in one of these that was found on commercial produce, and turns out they will starve themselves to death if they’ve learned about the most premium crucifers and are denied them.

No, the joke is that people would potentially believe anything about brassicas at this point because everything else is a brassica.

In the leaves, yes. The white part is flowers.

You are what you eat, so dinosaurs are a type of broccoli too.

I don’t know about her genes, but I once had a coworker who you could tell didn’t use deodorant, but in a clean, freshly-showered way. I absolutely adored her smell when we got into a situation where she was reaching up very near me. It wasn’t like the nothing or soap smell you get after a shower, but a human smell. It made me feel very content.

If your hair needs to be treated with a straightener or something, the humidity will mess it up. This is exactly why I cut off all my hair even though I love long hair, so I understand the complaint completely.

Whether or not you need to shower daily comes down to personal body chemistry and activity though. I have to shower one or twice a day since going on testosterone, but I could get away with every third day prior to that. The difference in smell is so staggering. I have to wash my face multiple times throughout the day now as well, but I’ve got fully make-up’d coworkers who are fine all day. It’s just that our bodies are different.

I don’t mean to complain about the sign’s wording though; I think it’s meant to give hygienic advice rather than actually police what products everyone is using and how often.

They believe that when a Mormon man dies, he gets his own planet to be the god of with his potentially many wives.

So? Heaven being a location in physical space is compliant with Biblical texts. “In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” Might this not refer to countless planets in infinite space?

And that God is one of many in a long line of gods, and there was a beginning to this chain of gods. But also they still claim to be monotheistic.

I believe people have written entire books on the polytheistic nature of early Judaism, and there remain a few Bible passages as evidence of prior henotheism. (“God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods”, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”, etc.) But for me what really matters is whether Christ is at the center. Sure Paul might have said that there are no other gods, but why does Paul have more legitimacy than Joseph Smith? There are Christians who question the divine nature of individual texts because they were written by humans, and because it contradicts itself on more than one occasion. To be a Christian is not necessarily to accept the entire Bible as literal truth.

mainstream Christianity.

Why make this distinction? Is western Sunday school Protestant the only real way to be Christian? I’ve pointed out in another post that Catholicism has tons of extra-Biblical beliefs, but they’re still Christians. They’re more polytheistic in practice than Mormons.

You reference details like Kolob and handshakes, and to them I have to ask, so what? Can you quote Jesus saying these things are untrue? There are so many types of Christians doing wildly different things. Some believe that witchcraft and demons are real, and some believe they’re fake. Some are acting out seizures and speaking in tongues. Some think God is found in church and others think he’s in every aspect of nature. Whole wars have been fought over whose version of Christianity is real and correct because no one agrees on any of this stuff, and they all keep making up their own beliefs on top of interpreting texts in different ways.

I think it is safe to classify it as its own separate religion.

Christianity isn’t a singular religion.

I just realized that telling people who identify as Christian that they can’t be real Christians because of XYZ is a really silly thing to be saying on this forum.

In order to become Jewish, a Gentile must follow Jewish law. Christians distinguished themselves as a group from Jews when they rejected Jewish law. Some Jews actually are Christians in addition to being Jewish. Both religions (and Mormonism) are Abrahamic and worship the same God Abraham originally made a covenant with.

Christianity and Islam differ in whether they believe Jesus is the son of God, and whether he died for our sins and was resurrected. Mormons do believe this. Mormons read the Bible as holy scripture while Muslims reject it as a corruption of true teachings.

Some of what you’re saying can just as easily be applied to Catholicism. They can’t be Christian because they also worship Mary and think she’s just as much a path to salvation as Jesus. They have special rules about who can get into heaven and how, and they’ve got limbo, etc.

What you’re saying about Mormonism being a cult is true, but being a cult doesn’t exclude them from being Christian.

No, Muslims believe that Jesus was a human prophet who was deified by people who strayed from his true teachings. Jesus was not the son of God, and there is no holy trinity. He didn’t die on the cross for our sins because God took him up into heaven. Mormons, however, do believe in these key aspects relating to the divine nature of Jesus and his role as savior in their religion.

I think its origins probably matter less than it being the La Casa de Papel song. Like how Guy Fawkes is a really cool anti-establishment hero.

Mormons are Christians though. Just because some other Christians don’t want them in their club doesn’t make their flavor of Jesus worship less valid.

being constantly told I have no future by just about everyone.

How is that not abusive?

I disagree so strongly that I actually won’t say the word despite digital people not even existing to be hurt by it. Not slurs against orcs or elves either. Gives me the same feeling as IRL slurs.

Many people go out of their way to transform their bodies, from diet and exercise to drugs and surgery. My question is why not? It’s your flesh puppet; decorate it how you like.

I don’t know how anyone could read Moby Dick and not come away convinced of their obvious fishness. Surely one’s nature and behavior are more important than one’s reproductive organs.