A former temple architect has said temple construction really hasn’t increased that much in reality but the announcements have. She said it will take decades to build the majority of what’s being announced.

It’s like Russ wants to hog all the temple announcing for himself and leave nothing for future prophets who will have fun dealing with all the legal and PR problems Russ is creating.

Russ must think that going with modular construction will help to speed things up. But you can't take a shortcut on the planning process and other processes.

Exactly.

Temples will eventually be built using an instruction booklet from IKEA.

The instructions will be written in either Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or Vietnamese, so that will further slow things down;

just sayin'

I have the answer.
Call all the contractors & construction workers in the church on a service mission and have them pay their own way for five years and also donate the materials they have .
There's always an answer to all problems.

The church will stop building temples but focus on building temple parking lots. Doesn't take long to construct pavement with light poles. The church will drive its super RV temple fleet to the holy parking lot.

They already have gone prefab. They are building temples like Legos.

There's still time to get in on the ground floor of lot paving & striping and light pole installation!

Article with photos of the Tallahassee temple:

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2024/10/28/tallahassee-temple-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-opens-thomasville-mormon/75893381007/


Excerpts:

“…a Temple is where the most important and sacred ceremonies of the church occur, and is open only to members of the Church.”


“The interior of an LDS Temple, however, looks nothing like a traditional Christian house of worship.


“Rather it is a series of rooms, in the case of the Tallahassee Temple — 20 of them, many of them sacred and serving a specific purpose. From the woodwork to the flooring, the furnishings, and the chandeliers, each of them is as grandly beautiful and of the finest quality so as to represent the eternal, and the sublime.”


“Baptisms (often of the Deceased)…”

(That phrase needs a bit more explanation, you’d think, because what on earth images does that too brief description conjure up?)


“Temples are also open widely to all members of the LDS faith as a place of serenity, reflection, and instruction.

They didn't mention that if you don't pay you don't play. It's open to all members **if you tithe until it hurts** and if you can withstand the unending utterly boring never-changing ceremonies.


“This Temple represents the way Heaven might look,” explains one elder. “And there, the rich man or the poor are all the same. To dress identically in white represents that.”

I hope not because to me it’s stuffy and colourless. Heaven should be like a giant outdoor park with fresh air and beautiful natural scenery, if anybody was asking my opinion.


Re the Celestial Room: “…glittering chandelier, posh golden velvet chairs, a deeply recessed dome overhead and Corinthian columns along the walls…” - … the elders suggest, a taste of “what Heaven might be like.”

Again with the unappealing (to me anyway) description of heaven – all white and glassy and you can’t use the chairs because you might mess them up.


“Nothing is secret. Everything is sacred, here,” explained one man.”

All righty then.



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It was really packed with people from my ward, friends, instructors, and my bishops from all three wards I was a part of. They wanted to celebrate the 'only' avenue to God, with me. My exwife was so happy! The veil thing was odd at first. But I'd get used to it.

As we went through the rooms, it seemed like things were stuffy. Very stuffy. Claustrophobia stuffy. Everyone went through, and everyone passed through the veil, and I had a hard time getting through, because it's the first time I heard the keywords and signs.

Anyway, I got through (finally). I felt like I felt I should not be there. Not in the glory of God, His presence. I had to get out of there. So I left... my wife took a ride home, and asked me what was wrong.

I told her. Too stuffy. I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. It grew into a monster that would eat me over and over again. Brainwashed, because all I knew, was that I was doing what I was supposed to, and it was not good enough.

Hence the calling to the baptistry, and then the veil. And I was a Scoutmaster. Even though I did not have the qualifications.

I bet if I were to read a manual, I'd be all set. It's crazy how much information (pointless information) that goes with the endowment. Now that it is 20 minutes shorter, I wonder what they lopped off.

Stuffy. Scary, but I felt that I was betraying my grandparents, and everyone in my family tree. So I returned... went through it again and again... 500 or so times. My ex and I were devoted. I was going to take on another calling, and that was name extraction.

I was mental. Guilt always.



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The house of white polyester.

Everything is polyester. The veil, the suits, the green apron ect. DuPont is proud to give you this religious experience.

“And there, the rich man or the poor are all the same. To dress identically [like the rich man] represents that.”

One problem with the temples is that when the church manages to anger an entire community by not conforming to local zoning laws, the community blames Mormons as a whole and not the leadership. Non-Mormons don't realize that LDS, Inc. is a top-down church where the membership has little to no say. The community will assign blame to the local membership.

And perhaps the local membership *should* take the blame. It might make them realize that they are a part of the problem.

Nightingale-

You forgot to mention the series of intrusive interviews which sometimes or often delve into your sexual preferences & history...