How are Mormons so nice?

[Anonymous]

Anyone who thinks Mormons are more attractive than the general population probably hasn't spent very much time in Mormon country. A lifetime of "funeral potatoes" (Google this), "salad" that consists of various stuff mixed into Jello--including shrimp, broccoli, cottage cheese, and pretty much any canned food you can think of, and inordinate amounts of soda and hot cocoa consumption does not do a body good over the long haul. By about age 45, it starts catching up with almost everyone unless you're really careful. As someone else noted, plastic surgery is very popular with young Mormon women and a lot of them undergo procedures VERY early on, before college age.

[Anonymous]

Lol to this thread

[Anonymous]

I live in California and do not think Mormons are nice, at all. They are a huge reason (millions in paid advertisements) why gay marriage wasn't legal, prop 8 BS, and was dragged out in the courts for so long. These Mormons paying for all these awful ads weren't even from California, they were from Utah. So, no. I don't think Mormons are nice at all.

- Californis resident, who is not gay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in California and do not think Mormons are nice, at all. They are a huge reason (millions in paid advertisements) why gay marriage wasn't legal, prop 8 BS, and was dragged out in the courts for so long. These Mormons paying for all these awful ads weren't even from California, they were from Utah. So, no. I don't think Mormons are nice at all.

- Californis resident, who is not gay

As noted earlier, they tanked the ERA. Also not a fan on that level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are also good looking. It's like ugly people can't hack it, lol.

In all seriousness they brought in some Scandinavians in the late 19th century. The no alcohol/tobacco thing probably helps, too.

[Anonymous]

Also -- there is probably a difference between "Utah/Idaho Mormons" and "rest of the country Mormons."

Some of the folks in my ward are nicer than others. No one is flat-out rude.

Many on the other hand don't regard this area as their "real" home but instead have some amount of their souls back in Utah/Idaho, so there's varying degrees of engagement with the non-Mormon community.

[Anonymous]

Mormons were really nice when they campaigned to deny equal rights to gays. Shucks, what swell folks!

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Anonymous wrote:I have known a group of Mormon lawyers for almost a decade and not one has ever gossiped, shirked work, boasted, been caught in a lie, or lost their temper to my knowledge. I have been to their houses, met their wives, worked closely with them on miserable cases with long days, late nights, and awful colleagues. I have seen them each under extreme pressure and in unfair situations. Yet, they have been unfailingly kind, patient, calm, and good.

How is this possible?

There is literally no one else I have ever known who has kept up such exemplary behavior for even a week. Not even other religious people I know (who profess to have the "joy of the Lord" and other such nonsense, but are worse than most athiests and agnostics who profess no such moral standards).

I don't have a religious bone in my body, but I would love to learn how to maintain such exemplary behavior. I would also love to teach it to my kids.

Hmm. Your standards seem low, depending on what kind of pressure you're talking about. Most of my attorney colleagues, myself included, fit the bill you
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My experience has been like OP's but only to a certain degree. Superficially very nice, but I've noticed that a lot of Mormon lawyers seem to carry the "Rules don't apply to me" attitude because, after all, they are going to be a God one day with many wives and have their own planet. So while they are very nice up front, it is only later that I find out that they lied on their bar application or that they have been disbarred from three states. I see them cut rules right and left. On the Mormon side of my family I see the same attitude ("I hold the priesthood") when it comes to paying taxes (default), driving (recklessly), paying speeding tickets, gambling, and paying alimony and child support (not) to non-Mormon ex-wife. They definitely protect their own.

Disbarment is very rare, as is public disclosure of a bar application lie. Hard to believe you know multiple people, specifically Mormons, who are guilty of those things.

No it isn't - read your VA, MD or DC bar magazine. In most of them, all the suspended, investigated and disbarred attorneys are listed. Do you want me to cite their names andd bar numbers? One was disbarred in Arizona but didn't inform the other states in which he was barred in (Ca and Hawaii). He lost his license in all three states. The other was suspended for two years for ambulance chasing. The third was a trust fund issue. The fourth was lying on his bar application to a state and he failed to list moving violation she had - state wrote back and said this cuts against your honesty and credibility; do you have an excuse for not mentioning it? He didn't so went to another state to get barred.

[Anonymous]

I would like to meet some of the Mormons people on this thread know! My experience as a professional women in North Arlington is that the clique of Mormon women here are outright mean-spirited unhappy women. I found myself on the receiving end of their spite after playing a rec basketball game against them. (They are definitely allowed to show emotion when playing sports- adult and children's sports). Their husbands are mostly DC lobbyists so this just might be a bad sample group.

[Anonymous]

I think Mormon women are hot. I don't care about the gay marriage nonsense, so that's fine with me. I love the Georgia Mormon mom who got in trouble.

That said, LDS is a complete cult and Joe Smith is a fraud.

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[Anonymous]

I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

This sums up pretty much every Mormon I've ever met. Racist with a huge smile!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

This sums up pretty much every Mormon I've ever met. Racist with a huge smile!

PP here - I'm glad it wasn't just me (actually us, the entire DC office of our firm). Ugh he was creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

This sums up pretty much every Mormon I've ever met. Racist with a huge smile!

PP here - I'm glad it wasn't just me (actually us, the entire DC office of our firm). Ugh he was creepy.