Ended up mildly angering a Mormon missionary today

Usually they are super nice. But I googled ‘secret Mormon handshakes’ and then gave him the secret handshakes. You are only meant to be given the handshakes once you reach a certain level in Mormonism which you then show to an angel when you get to heaven to prove you were a good Mormon, which then gets you into the highest kingdom of heaven.

I thought the church might have caught onto the fact that this stuff was readily available from ex Mormons on google and would have gotten rid of the practice, but as I discovered, no. Nice guy but he mumbled something about how I better be careful who I give the handshake to in the church as it’s offensive. It was literally taking your index finger and putting it in the palm of, and your thumb and putting it in the same place outside of, the hand of the other person. Representing Jesus’ nail wounds. The sign of the nail. Then I did the sign of the Aaronic priest hood, which was WAY too offensive. But no they are nice though. Just seems quite comical

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SW-User

and next week you will dress up in war paint and dance around your local reservation while pointing at everyone. Follow that up by clipping on curly locks and head over to your local synagogue and see who else you can bully for their traditions.

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@SW-User why would I do that?

SW-User

@pianoplayingsteve idk why you would do what you do

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@SW-User I’ve been going to the church for years, close friends with all sorts of Mormons, we’ve joked about south parks depiction of Mormons, about my college course’s depiction of Mormons, to various stories in the bible and Book of Mormon. In general people know me as a very open minded and nice person and I also like to joke around either to break the ice a bit with people in a ‘you can joke about thugs I like and vice versa’ which usually makes people feel comfortable, it shows you can be vulnerable, that you are interested in them enough that you’ve learnt a bit about them, that you won’t take everything too seriously. Hence, I wanted to see if the handshake was serious to them. I don’t know why you took it the way you did.