@lnorthstar
There's actually no rule about caffeine, unless individuals make those rules for themselves or their homes.
We have a health code we follow with a few specific policies (no tobacco or alcohol, coffee or tea, illegal drugs—current policy still prohibits recreational marijuana use, not when prescribed by a doctor).
The rest of the health code is guidelines to living healthy and taking good care of your body.
A lot of people think the Church banned coffee because it has caffeine, and then they think caffeine is wicked or sinful.
I choose to believe that coffee could be good or bad for you, but I made a commitment with God not to drink it, and He made the universe and stuff, so I'll just not drink coffee.

@parisqeen
I'll look into it and see if I can find a detailed plot summary, then I could let you know if it's accurate or not

I don't have any questions
But I'd like to point out that it's quite refreshing to see an open, honest discussion about metaphysical topics on the internet without censoring or otherwise being shut down

Thanks @unklethan, while I am not very religious I do find the subject fascinating and enjoy learning about it. It can be difficult to do without someone getting upset. Kudos to you for fielding these questions and kudos to everyone else for keeping it civil. :)

@unklethan what would you say are the 5 most misinterpreted things about mormons?

@parisqeen As another active Mormon I can definitely give you my top five common misconceptions
1. We worship Joseph Smith
2. We're polygamists
3. We don't use technology
4. We think everyone is going to hell
5. We hate anyone that's LGBT
Bonus round:
Magic underwear, don't believe in the Bible, don't acknowledge the Trinity, and we have horns (like what even??)

@parisqeen
1. People think we're not Christians, even though the church is called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"
2. That said, we have some significant doctrinal differences from Evangelicals, Catholics, other Christian denominations. So, if you do know we are Christians, we're not exactly the same as other Christians.
3. Joseph Smith worship
4. Still polygamists (one point on that: polygamy wasn't like a hippy free love kind of thing. In most cases, a church leader would reach out to you and say something like, "God has called you to take another wife. Go pray about it and see if that's something you and your first wife can handle".)
5. That members and/or leaders hate LGBT people.
My bonus round is common misconceptions within the Church that aren't supported by scripture or statements from leadership. These misconceptions spread from church members to the general public
1. Caffeine is prohibited
2. Polygamy was okay because ____ and isn't now because ___...

3. Black people were punished for bad choices they made before they were born
4. The Jews are being mistreated today because they killed Jesus (This was actually really common during WWII and led to some Mormons, along with many other Christians, turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. "Who am I to stop the hand of God?")
5. Sex is bad, and you should be scared of it.

As a Jew, can confirm the majority of the US turned a blind eye to the holocaust until Pearl Harbor.

Cool stuff. Off topic sort of but I was watching a doco on Holocaust Survivors and it shocked me how many of them said they had met people who didn't believe it actually happened. Like I know we have people who don't believe in the moon landing or that the earth is flat but the Holocaust was documented, experienced by billions of people and down right traumatising. How does someone believe an event like that didn't happen?

Yep, my family tree was cut in half. Not a fun time.

I'm sorry you lost that part of your family, do you still keep your jewish traditions?

Very much so, it's an important part of my life. That being stated this is a mormon AMA not a Jewish one, dont want to steal the spotlight.

True I was just curious, nevertheless I'm glad you're still holding those traditions. Back to Mormons!

For those who may be interested in learning more for what we believe, you can tune in to our world wide General Conference broadcast via YouTube tomorrow! It airs 5 sessions. Saturday 10-12, 2-4, and 6-8 (Women's session), Mountain Time, and Sunday 10-12 and 2-4.
Various church authorities will give talks on what they've been prompted to speak on by the Lord. Often speakers talk about forgiveness, healing, service, and compassion, and how each can make us a more Christlike person.

When you say "prompted to speak on by the Lord", do you mean these church authorities speak to God?

Yes and no. To my knowledge, none of the Church's current leadership claims to have spoken with God face to face (a la Moses).
I do believe that they get clear impressions from God, sometimes crazy metaphysical kind of clear. On a personal level, it can be something like "You need to ask your friend if they're thinking about suicide".
In a position of leadership of a worldwide church, and having stewardship of the whole world, God might give them the clear understanding that Church membership needs to hear a message about forgiveness or serving in the community, etc.
As a massive organization, there's the need to know what kind of policy changes/updates need to happen and when. So leadership will often come up with an idea for a policy change, then they'll pray about it until they all feel like God agrees with the change or not.

I don't want to bring down the mood but are you ever worried about corruption? I know it's probably multiple people deciding on a change or choice but anyone with power could claim their way is what God said.

That's a totally fair question!
In an ironic twist, I'm far more worried about local corruption than from top-level leadership.
No church-wide changes happen until a group of 15 can agree unanimously on them. So if one of them were to claim that God said such and such, they'd have to get 14 other competent and spiritual people to agree that God told them the same thing.

I like that system, sounds a lot fairer and more reasonable than one dude making all the decisions (although technically it is, cause God is the one dude but you know what I mean)