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Mormonism and Multilevel Marketing Companies

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139 points cdepman | 1 comments | 18 Jul 20 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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al2o3cr[dead post] ◴[18 Jul 20 16:12 UTC] No.23882363[source]▶
Turns out the people who'll believe a 19th-century conman's story about reading magic plates from a magic bag using a magic rock are likely to believe other pitches.
tzs ◴[18 Jul 20 16:18 UTC] No.23882412[source]▶
You should watch the South Park episode "All About Mormons". Be sure to watch all the way to the end.

(Hint: after thoroughly ripping on Mormons for almost the whole episode, almost as effectively as they ripped on Scientology and Tom Cruise in the earlier episode "Trapped in the Closet", the episode takes a 90 degree turn and ends up being essentially a rebuttal to your comment).

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jawns ◴[18 Jul 20 16:47 UTC] No.23882677[source]▶
Did you mean to say 180 degree turn?
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1. tzs ◴[18 Jul 20 17:08 UTC] No.23882861[source]▶
Nope. The end left all the ripping on Mormon origins and founding beliefs they had done throughout the episode intact. A 180 turn would be something that flipped that.

The turn at the end was saying that all that doesn’t matter. They went off perpendicular to where they had been going, not opposite of where they had been heading.