(From a 4chan thread)
Well, if you can't describe it, I can. I will reveal some things that they don't like us talking about in public but I will even though it makes me sound crazy. There are three branches of Mormonism that largely go unstated, but they're very real:
* Normie Mormons. These are the vast majority. They're turbonormies by USA standards. They go out of their way to be normies. They have fully drank the kool-aid and are terrestrial hylics in a Gnostic sense of the term. These are likely the ones you met in your country, if it isn't America. They are under the control of CIA Mormons, hence your negative reaction.
* CIA Mormons. These are the alphabet soup Mormons you hear stereotypes about, usually working for intelligence agencies. These people are agents of Lucifer in spite of being in LDS. I'm using Lucifer in a Mormon sense, so to elaborate on that, Lucifer is the Devil, and is hellbent on depriving people of free will. Mormonism prescribes a very strict lifestyle, but you're supposed to actually choose it. CIA Mormons undermine this. They threaten you with revoking your temple recommend and threaten you with hell over every little picayune misstep. A sip of whiskey to these people makes you an alcoholic. Meanwhile, they commit actual atrocities behind closed doors. Torture of the innocent in interrogation. Gaslighting of the young. Elaborate mind games. Debts and obligations. The sword of Damocles made flesh.
* Schizo Mormons. Schizo Mormons have a distinctive neo-Gnostic bent. They value free will and in spite of being completely teetotal oppose drug laws. We push against taxes because it is theft and gun control because Christ commands us to take up a sword. We live in the Nevada desert and prepare for the end of the world. We believe the Devil controls the world, and put on a turbonormie front, because we believe that while you can't trick God, you can, and you must, trick the Devil. You likely have not dealt with schizo Mormons.
They don't like sending us (Schizo Mormons) on missions because people tend to find us off-putting and we have a habit of breaking laws and social norms, whereas normie Mormons/CIA Mormons tend not to. If you recall the green pill meme from way back when (pic related), this is what most of us endeavor to be. We regard life on this planet as a jailbreak in a very literal sense. We want to rescue you (random citizen from a far-away world), but we skip the normie facade and the goodie-two-shoes act and instead prefer to teach you how to manufacture illegal firearms, how to do a J-Turn, how to arrange a marriage against the wishes of your genocidal government. We think that 99% of the things you see on TV or online, like those shows glamorizing permanent singlehood or encouraging people to fork over their weapons and acquiesce to forever debts, are actually malignant ploys by Lucifer and we think that transmissions about getting married and having kids are countervailing public service announcements from God. We think that the fight for souls is real and the only way to keep your soul is to stick to your guns and be extremely ascetic. Canned rations in the desert. To put it into perspective, when I was endowed in the Manti temple, at the end of it, my bishop told me, "Welcome to the War."
But like I said. They don't like to send us. Wherever you are, you're unlikely to meet us in an official capacity.
Hopefully this long-form post elucidates a little more about us.