weird stuff you’ve heard that is in no way true

Everyone can contribute to this thread (please do), but, as I tend to do, I know we have at least one thread in our archives about this same topic, so I will try to find it and bump it up so you can read it, as well.

My favorites are the insistence that certain celebrities are Mormon when they really aren’t. The comedian, Steve Martin, is one who was mentioned off and on years ago, but the funniest one was Lionel Richie. I heard that rumor for a few years, until his wife filed for divorce because of his affairs. For some reason, the rumors stopped after that. 😆

Wine and tea don’t have health benefits.

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rebeccad wrote:

My Dad was the king of weird beliefs.

I like the theory that the dinosaur bones exist because the earth was made from pieces of previous planets.

I believed this for quite a while… shame on me

I used the dinosaur bone theory myself—and no one even told me that one!!! I figured when God brought matter together………This goes on my list of questions to ask God.

The pioneer women most likely didn’t break all their good china to make the temple sparkle—it would have been of more value to sell it. They did use china and pottery—but it was most likely pieces that were already broken. I found that one on Mormon urban legends.

When I was a teenager they always told us that the holy ghost leaves after midnight. (probably a local thing)

David B Haite (SP?) told a woman to take her child out during a sacrament meeting while he was speaking

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This one is REALLY true, because it happened in my ward and I was there. I really didn’t think much of it at the time, because this lady never took her kids out when they were noisy. However, I remember that the bishop’s wife thought it was horrible. I have heard the story from other people over the years and it has been interesting to hear what people have heard that were not in attendance. a friend told me that she was told about it by someone who felt negatively about it—and he wasn’t even there. After reading about a person who left the church for many years because he was publicly humiliated in sacrament meeting—I thought back to when this woman had been told to take her child out—-and it dawned on me that the church doesn’t work that way—we don’t embarrass people in a public meeting—or at least we shouldn’t. I will say, however, that he said it very nicely, He said,”it looks like that little one needs to be taken out.” She was the wife of one of the bishop’s counselors. Also, I think he was getting pretty old—-probably just didn’t use the best judgement, they are human, afterall.

My daughter tells me that the church recently made an official statement saying that caffeine sodas were ok to drink

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not that we didn’t drink them anyway, but I guess there has been so much misconception about them they finally made an official statement—-anyone else hear about this?

I recently read that de-caf coffee was ok and that the church has no official stand on using cooking wine in cooking—-I had never heard either of these things before.

I’m not going to drink coffee or tea, and I don’t cook with wine, but if I did, I’d use the non-alcoholic kind

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I have no problem with avoiding them all to keep the word of wisdom—but I am curious as to why we are told not to drink coffee if the tanic acid thing is not true (I’d always heard that one, too) and if caffeine is ok

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not looking to take up coffee drinking–just curious. What is it about non-herbal teas that make them bad–I think I had heard they had tanic acid, too.

what is the difference between green and black tea and herbal tea—I’m not very tea literate.

Once again, just to be clear, I’m not asking because I want to consume

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I just asking because I’m curious.

I’m not even much of a hot chocolate drinker.

I dated a girl back in the 60s that told me her father said that garments were to be worn during sex and that’s what he and her mother had done through their married life. About 8 years later I had an elderly patient tell me that when he remarried he was advised by the workers at the Idaho Falls Temple to wear the old tie front garments so that he and his wife could have sex and not remove their garments.

Another is that you can’t be a temple or a veil worker if you have a beard or a mustache. Oh, wait…

momto11 wrote:

what is the difference between green and black tea and herbal tea—I’m not very tea literate.

Tea goes thru various stages of processing. When tea is oxidized, or “cured” it becomes black tea. When it is dried without oxidizing, it is green tea. There is a half oxidized Chinese tea, delightful, called “Oolong”.

I simply love tea. It is healthy, and properly prepared, absolutely delightful. The only reason it is on the restricted list is because it was an import into Utah when BY wanted to maintain control over hard currency (see Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom).

If you ever get a chance to have Darjeeling tea, second flush, you will be treated to an amazing delight. As well, genuine lapsach suochong or fujian oolong are delightful.