Celestial room

[_Paul Osborne]

The celestial room is a place of peace. Go to the temple often!

[click for insanely large image]

[_Inconceivable]

I can honestly say that I never felt anymore peace inside as I did outside. It was a great place for self evaluation.
After you see the movie twice your mind tends to drift on to much more important things.
I always felt that peace has more to do with who we are than the location we find ourselves in.

I was always distracted by it's great and spacious opulence to feel extremely comfortable there.
It wasn't particularly pleasant before the 90's to mimick slaughtering myself.

I suppose I'm in the minority though, I don't like golf either.

[_Polygamy Porter]

Ditto to the reply by Inconceivable.

I could never find peace as I found myself bouncing between the freaked-out-of-my-mind feeling and the about-to-laugh-my-butt-off from looking at every one in their costumes.

One thought I would have is "I sure hope heaven does not look like this sterile corporate ball room"

The ironic thing about Paul posting this picture is where he found it...

http://www.irr.org/MIT/images/celestial-room-cocha.jpg

[_CaliforniaKid]

I was always distracted by it's great and spacious opulence to feel extremely comfortable there.

Interesting choice of words.

[_Inconceivable]

I was always distracted by it's great and spacious opulence to feel extremely comfortable there.

Interesting choice of words.

My wife and I have a home that does not look like this pretentious facade for several reasons. To me it represents, among other things, what the Rameumtum must have looked like.

GBH stood behind the pulpit a few years and chastised members on the mountain for building homes that looked more like palaces. Where does one draw the line?

Or should one follow the example of the Lord and build our houses like His? Why should the children not aspire to what the parent has?

[_msnobody]

Do I understand correctly, that the rooms in the temple have varying shades of white paint with the celestial room being the most brilliant of white shades?

Now that is pretty cool what is going on with the ceiling in that pic.

[_Paul Osborne]

Ditto to the reply by Inconceivable.

I could never find peace as I found myself bouncing between the freaked-out-of-my-mind feeling and the about-to-laugh-my-butt-off from looking at every one in their costumes.

One thought I would have is "I sure hope heaven does not look like this sterile corporate ball room"

The ironic thing about Paul posting this picture is where he found it...

http://www.irr.org/MIT/images/celestial-room-cocha.jpg

PP,

I don't think you're being honest. It's conceivable to me that you may have been in a freak out mind but I don't buy the part about laughing your butt off. You're just saying that to stretch out your bitter complaints about things that are above you. I don't think heaven looks like celestial rooms on earth. These rooms are designed to provide a pleasing place of comfort and beauty for mortals who are seeking the Lord with all their hearts. Every nonmember I've ever talked to has an appreciation for the beauty of the temple. You're just weird.

As far as the URL is concerned, you can credit that to Google pictures.

Paul O

[_Paul Osborne]

My wife and I have a home that does not look like this pretentious facade for several reasons. To me it represents, among other things, what the Rameumtum must have looked like.

GBH stood behind the pulpit a few years and chastised members on the mountain for building homes that looked more like palaces. Where does one draw the line?

Or should one follow the example of the Lord and build our houses like His? Why should the children not aspire to what the parent has?

You would complain no matter what the temple was made of. If the temples were shacks you would complain about how the Mormons need to built nicer buildings patterned after the requirement given in scripture. Either way, you would attack the Church in a vain effort to put down holy things.

Paul O

[_Inconceivable]

You would complain no matter what the temple was made of. If the temples were shacks you would complain about how the Mormons need to built nicer buildings patterned after the requirement given in scripture. Either way, you would attack the Church in a vain effort to put down holy things.

Paul O

I can see how that could be a valid point, Paul.

Not all temples look like a pompass king's palace. Having grown up in a home like this, I got the same reaction from my father who assisted in providing some of the more costly apparal for some of them. I saw how riches and the fluff drove our family apart until he now has no family. So I tend to see this type of architecture and design as a distraction from the spiritual side of worship. So I just kept my eyes closed while attending these past 20+ years.

Some temples like the one in Showlow, AZ downplay all the glit. It impressed me at the time that the people rather desired a house that blended into their community rather than set itself above it. When it opened, Mesa lost a great percentage of their patrons from that community located 3 hours away.

Even if most temples didn't sport all the gold plated breastworks it would still be a place where troubling things were said and implied.

And that was always a distraction.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Looks like the lobby at the Hotel I stayed at recently. Where's the Continental Breakfast?