It's probably a good thing they don't allow wedding photos. Imagine having that hanging over your head in your wedding pics. How could you get married(without laughing) while kneeling under that thing? The pioneers would roll in their graves if they knew what those cost.
Phallic chandelier; first time I've seen more than one room of a Temple (usually I just see the one room where the smuggled camera was in); Looks pretty boring.
I think they intended that...thing...to look like an upside down image of a temple, or a temple spire. And they completely missed the mark. Because it's upside down and upside down imagery generally, symbolically, means the opposite of itself. ie: an upside down cross doesn't mean what a cross does, an upside down flag doesn't mean what a properly flying flag does. Upside down flags and pennants usually signal distress or danger and upside down crosses, indicate evil.
But they know their intended marks in real life, well enough, apparently. Since both the temple and the pennis rule over you all your life as a woman anyway, you might as well have their power embodied by the big crystal dildo hanging over your head... inserting itself...into your sealing ceremonies, too.
BTW: the room is nice enough, but even with my neverMo eyes, I can't help but wonder why it looks a lot like the funeral home my sister had her showing in. Do the same designers which have contracts to decorate LDS-favored funeral homes, also get called in to do the temples?
azanon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I toured this temple and didn't notice this > chandelier. They really do expect wieners to > preside over everything!!! YIKES! ============================================== Well, since I am a wiener dog, They must mean ME.
LOL I want one of these...... but it almost looks like a crystal pennis labotomy apparatus........ I like the cactus in the terrestrial room i guess it is, but heaven is beige? Where's my motivation. It's gonna take a crystal pennis chandelier to seal the deal....oh i get it.
Now i'm gonna have some crazy alien autopsy dream. Thanks crystal pennis. Happy halloween!
they are like the nouveaux riches who are people with lots of new MLM earnings or who have won the lottery, and when they try to decorate a huge house nobody tells them how ridiculous it all looks. the pennis lamps are pretty sweet, though.
WOW! there's a chandelier in Houston that looks like a giant drillbit that's totally hideous, so hideous that a pal of mine begged not to be sealed in that room cause she hates it so much.
that, that looks like porn star male anatomy that does. ROFLMAO
OMG, THERE ARE TWO OF THEM IN THE CELESTIAL ROOM...roflmao, i guess one package belongs to jesus and the other package to HF?! Looks like the decor for a frat party
I'm fairly tolerant of different cultures and ideas, but that thing hanging over the altar in the sealing room is horrible.
Apparently the whole thing is so "sacred" that no one can give any honest feedback. And who knows what the designers used for inspiration--Freud? Daily horoscope? Book of Abraham?
Anon Dunn, that is what I shall call this temple from now on. pin-az temple. Everywhere I go there is always something like this. I grew up a city that has a hotel referred to as the prick of the prairie. Standing tall an proud surrounded by beans and corn.
You know you're in a colt when you're kneeling at an alter surrounded by grandmas dinning room chairs and a big winner with testie's hanging over your head.
OMG... I was at the open house last night with wife and son... I had not seen this thread... but when we went into the celestial room and I saw the chandeliers... the 1st thought I had was "huge upside down Pennises"... then I see this thread and I new it wasn't just me! It is so obvious someone really needs to change those chandeliers...It was hilarious.
I wonder if the church will spend the thousand of dollars to change out all the fixtures. You know the members are going to catch on if they already haven't.
Totally agree with above posters. Wow. The subliminal messaging of mormon cash machine, uh... temple, is quite clear from the grounds to its inner sanctum.
Intentional or not, my first impression of reflecting pool was that of the mormon phallus surrounded by two square testies dipping its wick into the fresh clean pool of life. Revealing.
I can only echo previous chandelier comments. Yeah.
Sailing past the Costco mirrors I'll go straight to the bap-dismal room. The clever camera angle shows a cheap painting, rather than the trouble and expense of a real stream of water showing the "living waters flowing from the throne of god" appearing to flow into their font. The imagery presented made me think of all the time, energy, talent, and money being poured endlessly into LD$, inc. from earnest, sincerely hopeful followers and never filling it up. Far from the rejuvenating waters FROM god constantly replenishing the soul, the mormon church just takes, and takes, and takes, ever draining, never sustaining.
Last comment for those with eyes to see. That baptismal font. For anyone ready and willing to admit a simple, and quite obvious actual truth. Here it is. The foundation upon which every mormon's baptism begins is built upon nothing but tons of bull.
Actually, my first thought when looking at that chandelier and the altar was that scene in 'Goldfinger' where James Bond is strapped to the table, about to get cut in two with a laser.
Monson would be a pretty good Augustus Goldfinger...
I think it's part of a new endowment pilot program. At the end, the endowmentee will be placed on the alter and the chandelier will be slowly lowered and a booming voice will say, "do you really promise not to reveal all the you have seen! Yes or No!" Boner.