http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-deseret-metropolis-state-review-20150704-story.html#

You have got to be kidding me. All I've heard from TBMs is all that Florida land was acquired for ranching and farming for food production.

Amazing.

Whatthefuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkk

I thought they were all moving to Missouri. When did they change it to Florida?

Why isn't this in the Utah papers, or the news?



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Some skids were well greased for this!

Your tithing dollars at work...for the enrichment of the elite members of the upper crust only.

Where would Jesus engage in Real Estate Speculation?

This is what will bring them down.

Hubris.

This really pisses me off.

My mother who is in her 70s works full time, & pays thousands of dollars in tithing to this scam, thinking that going to their scam of a temple is going to save her. Meanwhile, she struggles. She could be living comfortably if not for the cult.

(Yes, she & my dad have savings & get social security. But that's for when they're really old & can't work.)

You're not the only person here with family who are senior citizens paying into this scam..My TBM father who is also in his 70's pay them thousands of dollars a year as well. Just posting about this and reading about it makes my blood start to boil!!

First a mall, then the philly project, now their own private Metropolis?

And have you noticed that temples used to be built next to a stake center and were tine, now they are huge again and more of a complex than anything. Many temples are part of a campus now.

Build, build, build!!!

Follow the MONEY!

Packer said the world's not going to end for a long time.

This "decades-long" development project is proof they believe what he said and that we're not really in the "Latter Days" so much anymore.

This isn't part of the recent land purchase, which is on the gulf coast up in the panhandle...not a great location for development...for now. This is the church ranch in central FL that they've had forever...much more valuable land. I didn't think they had any plans to develop this...though it will bring in billions of dollars. I guess they need the cash.

Decades down the road it will probably be time to develop the land up north and billions will keep flowing in for years to come. This f*cking plague is never going away.

Time for them to change their name.

They aren't a church. They don't have much use for Jesus, they obviously don't think this is the latter days, and I think they are seriously lacking when it comes to Saints.

Look for some of the Mormon elites to start moving there once it gets going. "Enjoy resort living near Orlando" their pamphlets will say. "Forget about Missouri, and come to Wayward Palms."

donbagley Wrote:
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> "Forget
> about Missouri, and come to Wayward Palms."

When you get a second anointing it is with a laying on of hands to help guide the spirit to overflowing onto your bosom. It isn't a sin to run a little factory if The Lord has called you to guide his big money making factories.

I just posted his on Facebook, sent it to Paul Rolly at the Salt Lake Tribune, and emailed it to all the Mormons I know. I added this comment:

"I thought the prophecy was for the Mormons to walk back to Missouri to wait for the second coming of Jesus. Looks like Missouri is only going to be halfway now, and everyone will have to keep walking to Florida. You guys better get in shape - you're going to have to walk farther than you thought!"

I smell a plan. It's a long term plan, but the people who are really in charge at TSCC are planning an exit from religion strategy, like when the Oneida Sect eventually devolved or evolved into being just a kitchware manufacturer.

Remember those articles a coupla months ago about the church of Scatology---I mean Scientology---buying a lot of city property in Florida? The speculation was that the Sci-borgs are losing a lot of members, but they have a lot of cash from donors which they've been getting since they got their IRS religion tax-free status. So they're using the money to invest in real estate. The Mormons might be doing the same.

LDS, Inc. is a for-profit corporation. Why anyone gives them tithing is beyond me. They give wards nothing in budgets, and don't even clean their own buildings. They provide no support for their missionaries, while raking in billions.

Only the fat cats in SLC get any money, but the bulk of it is poured into real estate investments.

They are a REIT, not a church.

What's a REIT!??? In layman's terms please? Thanks!

Real Estate Investment Trust.

Except those who invest get instantly screwed.

So in other words, TBM tithe payers and their families get screwed!!!!

+1

Sounds like what they did in Hawaii and how well their condos sold at their mall. Who would want to live under the auspices of church authority? And they are just proving themselves over and over again to be a corporation, not a church with the purpose of charity. They are making themselves look creepier and creepier, like Scientology.

I know a few people who grew up in that area of Florida.

They left. Why? Sick and tired of weather disasters, bugs, and 24/7 humidity and weather issues. The only thing thy miss is palm trees and the beach. They go visit places like that.They don't miss the misery that was Florida.

The Deseret Ranch is, or at least was, about 330,000 acres, which is approximately the size of the entire Salt Lake valley. It was purchased back in the late 1950s iirc, and was out in the middle of nowhere at the time. Orlando was at the northern end of the large citrus belt in Florida.

Then Disney started buying up land, and then announced they were going to build a theme park in Orlando, and the rest is history.

Orlando has grown out to the edge of the ranch. The land is now worth a large fortune as residential property. Henry Moyle nearly bankrupted the LDS church with his spending, including this ranch. It was originally pitched as farmland where every worthy Mormon family could be given an acreage and a cow, when the U.S. economy and government collapsed.

That didn't happen, but ironically it is turning into a cash cow city of quarter acre half million dollar homes. Looks like they are trying to milk it for all it is worth, wetlands, conservation, parkland and all that be damned.

As Joseph Smith famously wrote, if there is anything lovely, praiseworthy, or of good report, Mormons will exploit it to the hilt if there is a buck to be made.

Something like that...

If they can't make money off the meat, there is always the milk. They get the cream and if anyone complains they will apostate their asses.

This is what happens when teetotaling businessmen and lawyers who worship money run a "religion." It starts to look like their spirit of God gives them pleasure in burning their bread while they turn other businessmen and lawyer's wine into water used to grow their portfolios.

Who would Jesus rather bless?

How can the TSCC keep its tax free status. It clearly is nothing more than a for profit corporation now. There is no way that it is a religion in any sense except holding meetings once a week.



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It is truly amazing that they have come up with such a great all-encompassing scam. I wonder when the religious scam turned into a business scam with a religious cover? Hmmm --- was it always this way?

The Kirtland Bank fiasco springs to mind. I looked it up:

http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/josephsmithsbank.htm

and was struck by this sentence: "They had gathered to Kirtland at his command; the idea of purchasing housing lots in the great subdivision scheme had his full support; he had inferred that the bank would not only succeed, but would one day be the most powerful institution of its kind."

Sounds like today's Mormon leaders are just following the prophet. And somehow, they are getting away with it way better than Joseph did....

Yeah but in today's world we have the Internet, cell phones, social media, this website. But in Joe's we did not. The morg is under scrutiny 365/24/7 in today's world!!

" Central Florida metropolis of a half-million residents".

Wouldn't it be great if the cult shipped all the temple recommend holding Mormons from Utah to their new New Jerusalem in Florida??!!!! Maybe they are building their own sovereign state over the gay marriage fiasco.

I'm guessing that not many florida residents know that Deseret Ranches is the mormon church.