Celestial room

[_Paul Osborne]

Holy cow Mercury. There is something wrong with you because normal people don't see things the way you do. Counteless nonmembers who tour the temples before they are dedicated attest of the inner peace and beauty found therein. You are outnumbered Mercury. Something is terribly wrong with you. Perhaps you're just being nasty about things and trying to shake testimonies of those who enjoy the temple - but you must know that your position is not healthy, at least not compared to the general public. I doubt anyone would put much stock into your sick position.

Think about that.

Paul O

[_Paul Osborne]

The flowers are fake and look it, and the furniture is overstuffed and uncomfortable to sit on. However, I love the wallpaper in the Manti temple.

The grounds are always beautiful, until you get around to the backside of the building, and then it's like they forgot to even mow the lawn. No flowers or expensive landscaping back there.

What blows me away is the locks. Why would anyone need locks in the temple?

Oh for crying out loud, Harmony. The flowers and seats are just fine. They are made to last, built of high quality material that withstands the test of time. The flowers are beautiful and represent the real thing. Putting real flowers in the celestial room would bother allergies of many people. Have you no consideration? Don't you think about these things at all? You're so negetive.

Now, the reason there are locks in the temple is to help keep things private so that people don't accidently get into the wrong locker and disturb property that belongs to someone else. It's not a question of temple goers stealing. It's a matter of privacy, kind of like having a lock on the bathroom door while your taking a . . . .

Really, Harmony, you need to smell the roses and get a little cheer in your life. That is what doctor Paul orders.

Paul O

[_Paul Osborne]

I can name seven or eight hotels that do not compare to the Mormon temples.

Well then, show me a picture that looks like the one I posted. After all, that's what I was driving at.

Paul O

[_harmony]

Oh for crying out loud, Harmony. The flowers and seats are just fine. They are made to last, built of high quality material that withstands the test of time. The flowers are beautiful and represent the real thing. Putting real flowers in the celestial room would bother allergies of many people. Have you no consideration? Don't you think about these things at all? You're so negetive.

The flowers are fake, Paul. And they look it. Watered-down washed-out fakes. The church has billions of dollars. They can afford to buy fresh flowers every danged day for all the temples, if they wanted to spend the money.

And the seats are hard, not comfortable at all. No wonder no one wants to sit there. If that's supposed to be what the CK is like, I'm not going. Hard seats, fake flowers, and no laughter. Not my kinda place at all.

Now, the reason there are locks in the temple is to help keep things private so that people don't accidently get into the wrong locker and disturb property that belongs to someone else. It's not a question of temple goers stealing.

Oh brother. There's a big difference between opening someone's locker by mistake and seeing their shoes (since they don't leave their underwear in the locker!) than there is in opening a stall in the bathroom. Try again, Paul.

Really, Harmony, you need to smell the roses and get a little cheer in your life. That is what doctor Paul orders.

Paul O

Actually, I just weeded the flower beds, pulled out the stickery weeds, and my roses smell just fine. Very pretty pink, with blooms covering the bushes. As for the cheer, I had a funeral to attend today, for a young man who died in a tragic accident. If I'm not exactly cheerful, it's because I feel so badly for his momma. No momma should have to bury her son.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Actually, I just weeded the flower beds, pulled out the stickery weeds, and my roses smell just fine. Very pretty pink, with blooms covering the bushes. As for the cheer, I had a funeral to attend today, for a young man who died in a tragic accident. If I'm not exactly cheerful, it's because I feel so badly for his momma. No momma should have to bury her son.

Harmony, I'm sorry.

Paul, I think they are pretty rooms. I found this link and thought the Salt Lake City room looked like a palace.

http://www.lightplanet.com/Mormons/temp ... _room.html

[_Polygamy Porter]

At least they washed the walls after the 1990 changes.

[_barrelomonkeys]

I just looked at a few again. It seems to me that they are beautiful. I can't imagine entering any one of those rooms and not being astounded at the beauty. Of course I'm a freak and go to those home and garden shows all the time. :)

The Church I married in is a very small country church. There are wooden pews, a wooden floor, and a plain wooden cross at the back of the Church. I remember sitting there before getting married and feeling so at peace. It was so simple yet beautiful. I think God or peace can be found in any surroundings. In my case it was in a simple country chapel.

[_Polygamy Porter]

I just looked at a few again. It seems to me that they are beautiful. I can't imagine entering any one of those rooms and not being astounded at the beauty. Of course I'm a freak and go to those home and garden shows all the time. :)

The Church I married in is a very small country church. There are wooden pews, a wooden floor, and a plain wooden cross at the back of the Church. I remember sitting there before getting married and feeling so at peace. It was so simple yet beautiful. I think God or peace can be found in any surroundings. In my case it was in a simple country chapel.

Think whatcha like sister, people like Paul will tell you Satan built that church and then pretended to be the spirit of god and fooled you.

My RM brother served in the Rochester NY, mission.. yes, near the place that Joe made up Mormonism...

One day he and a group of other Mormon missionaries ventured into a large catholic church. They joked that they wanted to see "the insides of the great whore". They just walked around inside, looked about for several minutes then left.

Once outside my brother and several of the others asked the senior companions, if they "felt the spirit" while in there and thought it was odd that they would feel that inside of the "great whore of the earth".

One senior companion answered in a very serious tone, "The mission president said that Satan can mimic the spirit of god and does that in places like that to confuse Mormons." Being new and very green, my brother took it hook line and sinker and stood there in aw as he realized the spirit of satan had been in him!

by the way, he exited the Mormon church two years ago.

[_Mercury]

I can name seven or eight hotels that do not compare to the Mormon temples.

Well then, show me a picture that looks like the one I posted. After all, that's what I was driving at.

Paul O

I can't...they are sacred to me. How dare you ak me to show you what I hold to be secre...i mean sacred.

[_Inconceivable]

..Countless nonmembers who tour the temples before they are dedicated attest of the inner peace and beauty found therein.

...Think about that.

Paul O

I would prefer to call it "restful" and there is an additional reason why many would equate restfulness of the temple as "peace".

I enter many homes on a regular basis that are not what I would call restful. Tile/concrete/hardwood floors, no carpet, drywall soffits, big glass windows without fabric drapes.. particularly in great rooms and hallways. Right around dinnertime the whole family converges around the main area of the house with the TV on, maybe some background music, the cook running water over veggies in the sink, the grill crackling, bark of the dog.. it's an accoustical nightmare.

Because I'm sensitive to that sort of thing, our home has lots of carpet, a quiet dishwasher, fabric valences on the windows and various ways to absorb/limit sound - and the dog stays outside. Yes it's peaceful, but I'd call it restful.

Much of the remodeling of old and the designs of the new Mormon churches incorporate carpeting on the gym floor as well as fabric on all the walls. This limits the reflection of sound and vibrations that distract the senses. It's so quiet that you can't hear a pin drop. Keeps the body from resonating like a tuning fork - a type of inner peace.

It's a great idea. I'm glad someone figured that out. It drives me nuts at the end of a long day.