Really, was it necessary for the Church to show the world what kind of under wear I am wearing? Is nothing private or off limits to what the Church will do to gain a convert?
notamormon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That was a really good video. Thanks for posting. > > Question: Why do LDS fold their arms when praying?
It's a defensive move or "I'm closed" body language thing? "I'm not open to anybody elses opinion?" Closed mind?
Who the hell knows. It's very irritating; especially when you see grown men doing it! It looks stooped.
Cat's out of the bag. Might as well try making it sound "normal."
HA!
When I went to get my first garments at the "BEHAVE Clothing Mills" in SLC, a woman and her young child were there buying garments. The child asked "What are you getting, Mommie?"
The clerk, in a stern matronly voice, asnwered the child, "She's buying underwear. It's just underwear."
It's a wise move from the church's perspective tbh. It's all over the Internet now, literally everybody vaguely interested in mormonism will find out about them, they may as well stop trying to hide it.
IDK, for me it's kinda weird having the first ten posts in my newsfeed being from friends who want to show me an uplifting spiritual message about their underwear. Maybe letting the info out in a more subtle way would be smart, but handing it over to their zealous member missionaries to flood onto social media seems not well thought out
zarahemlatowndrunk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it's kinda weird having the first ten > posts in my newsfeed being from friends who want > to show me an uplifting spiritual message about > their underwear.
An inoculation video on Joseph Smith translating with his magic rock & hat trick. The church essay uses biblical imagery to make Joseph Smith's stone appear spiritual, God-sanctioned and normal.
I guess a 4-5 minute video on this topic with some HeartSell® Music might be in the works?
Got to inoculate the rising generation that all the crazy in Moism is normal.
But what if you didn't know Mormons wore special underwear? Because even people who know Mormons don't know what undies they have on. Suddenly you see a video link on fb and think wtf? I have a friend who lived in Utah 15 years and had no idea her coworkers wore weird underwear til I told her. Getting hit with this information out of the blue is just going to up the weird factor a LOT.
I agree with the others that this is damage control. With everything on the net these days (the temple ceremony), and everybody knowing about Gs whether mormon or not, the church is trying to spin it to look normal.
I think it's also to reduce the shock initiates feel when going through the temple for the first time. I was just as traumatized by those awful costumes, and the constant fiddling with them, as the creepy rituals.
This just goes to show what complete idiots the PR people are at LDS, Inc. Nothing screams cult quite like magic underpants. If you attract more flies with honey than vinegar, then they're putting out the nastiest vinegar they could find. Nobody, but nobody, reads that and has the response "I now have profound respect for Mormons and their magic underpants, yes, I would like to learn more."
I think they're still suffering from the delusion that their church is what it claims to be.
The points made in the video are very valid BUT it shows a desperation to be considered mainstream. It is also a huge betrayal to members of tscc, who have been taught these are sacred garments and must not be shown. Money.
Already commented! And liked every comment that was like "why does the church need to prove itself to anyone?", "dislike" and people who were uncomfortable about their sacred garments being put on display.
I hope that for everyone who feels uncomfortable about the video may experience the first cracks in their TSCC helmet that it is not a church run by or inspired by God.
The church is trying to evolve from being a cult to being a mainstream religion. They're changing their emphasis from saying that all other religions are an abomination, to using those other religions as an example of how mormonism is not strange or so different from those other religions that are acceptable to society. Any time the church itself (or through the businesses it owns), does something that would clearly have gotten an individual church member excommunicated at one time, all I see is that it is a cult, masquerading as the only true church. If I couldn't film the temple clothes and distribute those pictures to the world, why can the church do that now? Either that clothing is sacred and shouldn't be revealed, or not. There is no in-between there.
Temple garments are just another example of how the church is like the ice bucket challenge. Get everyone to do something stupid because of mass peer pressure. If you don't wear this horrid underwear you are not part of the group who do it and you are less than we are.
Heck. If the prophet wanted to poisen the whole church he could do it. It would be easy. The masses are programmed.
I think we are seeing the end of the "Peculiar People" era and a suttle morphing into the "We are crazy just like everyone else" era. The temple is such a money maker for the church and such an excellent mass brainwashing tool, they have to keep it. They will water the wierdness down some but they are going to keep the guilt trip and sky daddy promises.
How many older TBMs are going to watch that video and be really shocked to hear that their garmies are NOT magic after all?
How many TBMs are going to notice that the cartoonish green apron and the silly baker's hat look better flattened in a photo that they look when actually worn?
"Because of the personal and religious nature of the temple garment, the Church asks all media to report on the subject with respect, treating Latter-day Saint temple garments as they would religious vestments of other faiths. Ridiculing or making light of sacred clothing is highly offensive to Latter-day Saints."
In other words, please don't make fun of our magic underwear, no matter how ridiculous it is. It makes us feel silly.
They are right about other religions have silly vestments and religious clothing.
Don't they look just as stupid as the magic underwear? Does the pope wear a funny hat?
At least as a young, gullible, brainwashed cultist, the cult undies were worn under the outer clothing and I wasn't immediately identifiable as a superstitious human. I find prayer shawls and yarmulkes on god's chosen people irritating; not to mention the covering of women by Muslims. The nuns habits look dumb and only serve to make them look ugly. Not many hansom priest wearing vestments either. The liturgy robes of the Orthodox are just plain scary looking. They don't look holy or godly, just hot and creepy.