...are closed on Sundays?

You forgot that they are closed on Mondays and Saturday afternoons(after 11am) as well!!!

Nope. The Mormons are supposed to be in church.

What I find funny is how badly attended the are. If you really believed and knew there existed a place you could go to "commune with Jehovah" why don't more do it? A couple of hours for a dead person for 5 minutes with God seems a fair trade?

The endowment is so physical, so controlled, with so much preening by the older people, that it crowds out any listening, learning, or introspection.

I think a lot of temple "patrons," in fact most of them, can sense that atmosphere. It forces them to forget about the temple in order to stay reasonable and functional. It causes them to postpone visits to the temple whenever they can.

I agree. The experience sucks but the hype is huge. People says the craziest things but their actions show the temple is not what they say it is....or their God is not worth it to go and commune with regularly.

I wonder how many people like the idea of God more than the reality. Mormonism is offering them the chance to get 5 minutes of "His" time...

I find that bizarre....not trust the other brethren who qualified as worthy to go to the IHOH?

What I found funny the very first time I heard about it, was that the holiest ritual in Mormonism (the "sacred endowment"), performed in the holiest buildings in Mormonism, requires watching reruns of a *movie*!

I went through a live session at Salt Lake. Trust me, the movie is better.

Yeah seeing Adam and Eve portrayed by 90 year olds is a mind blower. Hard to picture that shit naked walking around a garden.

No thanks. What's Satan's plan again?

The CULT IS Satan's plan!

I think it's funnier that they have locks on the lockers in the changing rooms. Where is the power of discernment that Bishops claim to have? How could God's Anointed let common thieves into their holiest shrine?

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> I think it's funnier that they have locks on the
> lockers in the changing rooms. Where is the power
> of discernment that Bishops claim to have? How
> could God's Anointed let common thieves into their
> holiest shrine?


And cash registers to make change. Didn't Jesus himself have something to say about that?

I also think the cash register thing is funny, and I wonder if my ex-husband had a Jesus like fit if he ever went to the temple. I'm saying that because once when we were camping along the Rose Parade route, New Year's Eve was on a Sunday, and he had a fit about the city college's Institute selling tickets for a Disney movie marathon in order to use their parking lot. This building was across Colorado Blvd from the college, so it was along the route. His roommate bought a ticket, as they only required one to be purchased at least, and my ex spent the rest of the evening pouting.

I've heard they rudely rush everyone out of the celestial room. You get five minutes to meditate? "Move along, Jesus hates slackers!" (This from a religion where you practically live at church on Sundays...) ???

Yes, they did rush me every time! One time, the people (my HT and his wife) I went with wanted to leave immediately after the veil thingy - I didn't even get to sit down!

I love to meditate and get into that lovely peaceful zone . . . maybe the temple ladies knew I should NOT be meditating there?

I would be tickled pink to be rushed through the Hotel California (I mean CULT temple!). I don't want to spend time in the house of EVIL HORRORS, thanks anyway.

"I loved how everyone would walk around the urine soaked bathroom floor and then walk around the Temple in the same little shoes. Gross. I always thought that was so rude and unholy. Also I felt the people were jerks inside, not necessarily the workers, but all the members were just rude jerks."

I have not ever heard about this URINE SOAKING OF THE FLOORS!... enough to GAG a maggot. Why was the floor urine soaked? People pissed their pants when they realized they were in the presence of PURE EVIL?



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Mormon temples can't be holy.

Holy places are attractive to everyone and open to everyone, all the time.

The fact that they have to beg you every Sunday to come to the temple makes it the equivalent of a rusted playground where no one wants to go.

Jeebus stops by every temple on Sundays to cast out the money changers and look at the books.

He just loves doing that knowing he doesn't have render a red cent unto Caesar.

Good one Shummy. Got me laughing. ;)

It's funny, the LDS need a gazillion temples and prior to Jesus the Jews only needed one. I seem to remember being told that the temple rites are the same today as they were of old. If that's the case then where are the blood sacrifices and burnt offerings made today. Oh, that's right, the ritual has been changed. It's the same old ever changing and evolving church messing with the temple ceremonies. I find it amazing that the church taught, do they still, that our present rituals are just as they were and yet we change them up periodically. I have an Jewish cousin who looked at me as if I was crazy when I mentioned that we did in the temples the same rites as back in the day in Jerusalem.



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Presumably, the movie has been updated a bit since the long ago days in Jerusalem.

I know a man who went to the tabernacle or conference center and thought he was in the temple. He heard a wonderful patriotic concert and thought this is what Mormons do in their temples regularly.

Strange that I tell him he wasn't in the temple but he still thinks it although he's a nevermo who knows about Mormons what he learned in four days as some kind of consultant.

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> I know a man who went to the tabernacle or
> conference center and thought he was in the
> temple. He heard a wonderful patriotic concert and
> thought this is what Mormons do in their temples
> regularly.

I heard that many times during my mission in Texas. We, of course, never corrected anyone, but rather asked the so-called golden question: "What do you know about the Mormons?"

They also have a fictitious angel Moroni on top of the temples. You'd think it would at least be Jesus, right? Just another obvious reason why folks outside TSCC believe Mormons aren't Christians.

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> They also have a fictitious angel Moroni on top of
> the temples. You'd think it would at least be
> Jesus, right? Just another obvious reason why
> folks outside TSCC believe Mormons aren't
> Christians.

And, of course, the fact that wardhouses do not have crosses like all other Christian churches.

Seems kind of like a golden calf now in my mind. Got to have an idol on the top of every temple.

The House of the Lord

A place where you must show a card that verifies that you are honest, worthy and current in your support of the Corporation of the President.

A place where no homeless man or woman has ever eaten, rested or helped along the difficult road of life.

Jesus would be proud...if He were Mormon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPe80Jdd2U

Most of the current temples are essentially three-dimensional billboards for the church. And the intended viewers are mostly the members themselves.

However, some of Hinckley's shoddily built McTemples don't even work as advertising. That man was just going for numbers.

was to benefit the Levites. An observant Jew could only worship Jaweh at one place--the temple. And that worship consisted in one thing--animal sacrifice. And when the sacrifice was made, Jaweh got the guts and the Levites got the meat--plus a fee for performing the slaughter. They could also provide the animal for sacrifice--again for a nominal consideration. It was at bottom a revenue generating enterprise. And the temple must have stunk to high heaven like the slaughter house it was.

The-mo-temples-are-the-same-minus-the-slaughter-and-the-stink-ly yrs,

S

I loved how everyone would walk around the urine soaked bathroom floor and then walk around the Temple in the same little shoes. Gross. I always thought that was so rude and unholy. Also I felt the people were jerks inside, not necessarily the workers, but all the members were just rude jerks.