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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 09:56 AM
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Take a look inside the LDS conference center


No wonder they had the cash to throw at injecting 14 words into California's constitution. The church will not release the actual cost of the LSD Conference Center, but the contractors got together and added up the values of their contracts and it came to over $800 million.

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24)
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 09:59 AM
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1. Plus, it's ugly as hell.
What's that o'ertop? A spaceship?
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:00 AM
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3. They need to get to the homeworld somehow...
800 million isn't so bad as long as the bigots go with them first.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:07 AM
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4. No
It is a white washed sepulchre.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:09 AM
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6. It's where the mind-control ray guns are located.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:21 AM
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8. Yes, a spaceship to Kolob. n/t
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 09:59 AM
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2. $800 million would have helped a lot of needy people
This kind of ostentation makes me want to :puke:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:07 AM
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5. Oh man, I just realized I typed "LSD Conference Center"
Oh well, I'll just leave it. Maybe that's the true purpose of it anyway.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:11 AM
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7. Those Latter Day Snakes sure have a lot of money. NT
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:25 AM
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10. I believe it is still customary to tithe 10% of one's income to the church.
That amounts to big bucks.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-08 08:12 AM
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30. Not only customary, they ar told they will burn if they don't.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:23 AM
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9. The Mormons have the worst taste of anyone on earth.
Just Google up some pictures of their "temples" -- it's like Liberace joined a UFO cult.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:30 AM
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11. Natural consequence of leaving only hetero white men in charge.
;-)
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RedLetterRev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:52 AM
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12. Ugh. In time that could lead to
shag carpet and funnyfur furniture. Tch-tch-tch. What's next? How many Naugas will be slaughtered for their atrocities?
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 11:17 AM
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14. Mormon temple video here:
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RedLetterRev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:15 PM
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16. Let's see:
{ } Feeding the hungry
{ } Clothing the needy
{ } Housing the homeless
{ } Tending the sick
{*} Building obscene temples to tackiness
{*} Removing rights from people they don't know and don't affect their lives

We have a wiener...
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:25 PM
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17. You have to admit that the 12 cow baptistry
scales new heights in tackiness. I guess that's where they baptize dead people.

As I posted earlier, I think we need to do something similar--proxy same-sex marriages for famous dead Mormons.

Maybe we could give Bring 'em Young 56 husbands to match his 56 wives.
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RedLetterRev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:48 PM
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21. What was UP with THAT?
Cows are to be worn, shaved smooth and dyed black AFAIC.

Oops, did I just say too much? :evilgrin:

But I do like the idea of proxying some nice same-sex marriages. Since they're offering baptism services without our permission, it would only be kind to return the favor. Or give them nice drag-names, y'know, like Tarantula DeLite, Amanda B Loved, Hypatia Rowbottom, and get realllllllllllly creative from there. We could also offer gay faith-healings. Y'know how that goes... you bop 'em on the forehead with the palm of your hand and tell them, "Get TF over it, Louise!"
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 05:37 PM
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25. They are not cows, they are male
and they represent the 12 lost tribes of Israel that LDS believe will be gathered again before Jesus comes back (in part via baptisms for the dead).

I remember when I was little thinking how cool they looked - now they rank up there with Chia Pets....
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RedLetterRev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 06:11 PM
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26. No 'ffense, luv, but there's a big joke
there to those who've lived in the gay community for more than, mm, 30 years. I'm 51, been out all my life.

I was raised in the country, live in the country; so far out in the country they have to pipe in daylight. What ain't woods around me is pasture. I know the difference between a cow and a bull :)

Cows


Cows shaved, dyed black, and worn (warning: umm, graphic)

Got it?

Thoughtcha might :evilgrin:
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 10:24 PM
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28. LOL - thanks -
I even go to leather bars (almost only go to them in fact) but somehow that one went over my head:)
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RedLetterRev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-08 06:26 AM
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29. The best laugh is a joke shared between kindred folk
and the very best is on and between "us".

I went to a convention in Chicago a long time ago. One guy in the row ahead of me leaned over to the other and said, "Think of all the cows that died for this."

The other said, "Yeah, and look at all the cows still wearin' their hides." :rofl:
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 09:15 PM
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27. Makes sense that bulls would be an icon of a free love cult. n/t
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-08 09:09 AM
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31. Looks like they couldn't decide which hotel lobby to copy
so they cloned them all. And that little tiny swimming pool has to go. The cows... erm bulls... are kinda cool, though.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:38 PM
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20. And we ALL know which team Liberace played for...
;)
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 01:27 PM
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22. "it's like Liberace joined a UFO cult."
Classic line!:thumbsup:
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 01:59 PM
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23. Thanks! n/t
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MNBrewer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 11:02 AM
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13. Looks very Albert Speerish
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 11:22 AM
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15. Appropriate. n/t
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:38 PM
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19. Or circa 1960's B grade science fiction films.
"Invasion of the Marriage Snatchers."
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 12:30 PM
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18. M Cult businesses support each other and they all tithe
so money flows back and forth between them as individuals and then to the Cult.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-08 03:35 PM
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24. They've been buying anti-gay legislation across the country
California's was just somewhat more expensive to them. MA has no doubt been a great disappointment to them, not that they'll stop trying (and now CT too). They have the money and the Stepford-drones to keep up the fight against us indefinitely.
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