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_ubermarie
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I agree.
That really is true, Blixa. I drive past what would be my future ward building every day as it is being built and see that it has no windows. (At least, none that count.) And boy, would that church have a beautiful, unblocked view of the mountains. But, will anybody in that box of a chapel be able to appreciate the beauty of Nature just a few feet away? Nope. 'Cos it wouldn't be cost effective to add gorgeous windows just for the scenery. It's better to have a mediocre building that retains heat. Maybe the lack of beauty isn't a crucial part of my exit story, but it sure is a big reason why I could never go back.
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_Roger Morrison
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_Trevor
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Re: I agree.
ubermarie wrote:That really is true, Blixa. I drive past what would be my future ward building every day as it is being built and see that it has no windows. (At least, none that count.) And boy, would that church have a beautiful, unblocked view of the mountains. But, will anybody in that box of a chapel be able to appreciate the beauty of Nature just a few feet away? Nope. 'Cos it wouldn't be cost effective to add gorgeous windows just for the scenery. It's better to have a mediocre building that retains heat. Maybe the lack of beauty isn't a crucial part of my exit story, but it sure is a big reason why I could never go back.
When I was getting my MA in Comp. Lit. at BYU, one of my professors had us read a Dialogue article that compared LDS art (as used in more recent chapels and temples) with Socialist art from the USSR and Eastern Europe. I thought the argument was quite enlightening. What happens to art when it is reduced to a medium for the propagation of the propaganda of a centralized, authoritarian regime?
I definitely consider Blixa's AoF part of the unwritten LDS canon--you know, the one that tells it how it is rather than how people wish it were.
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