“He really said “magic water”? I suspect that someone has been pulling your leg.”
It was the hydoponics farm owner who used the magic water statement. It was his lawyer who told me I could become a God on a planet with multiple Celestial wives. The hydoponics farm was just a stones throw from the Chicken Brothel in Pahrump (or maybe it was the Cherry Patch, I forget).
Which is not to be out done by the business partner who told me he vacuumed the sheeps wool on the wall at the Vegas Temple and the roller marks “magically” disappeared. He lives across the street from the temple. He and his son threatened to beat me up one Christmas, mainly because they were trying to hide the business books. They also got mad at me for trying to kill the Mormon crickets that infested the control room, apparently the crickets were magical or sacred or something.
But what disturbed me the most was the gal I dated who gotten a divorce from a Mormon and had been driven out of the church. That was the first time I suspected how cloistered most Mormons are.
Well, I do not know what to say, except you seem to have encountered some strange characters. Whether they were strange because they were Mormons or in spite of it (or whether they were really Mormons at all), I am not prepared to say. However, I have never heard such things taught at church.
But what disturbed me the most was the gal I dated who gotten a divorce from a Mormon and had been driven out of the church. That was the first time I suspected how cloistered most Mormons are.
Once again, I have never heard of anyone being "driven out" of the Church because of a divorce. People can be excommunicated for serious offenses such as adultery or abuse; but divorce is not grounds for excommunication.
I suppose some Mormons may be considered "cloistered" in the sense that they avoid contact with the outside world, but most of us do not.