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SeattleUte · 10-05-2006, 04:00 PM

Erect high stone walls around it, fill it will huge, magnificent buildings (that even dwarf the temple) of awe inspiring beauty built to last the ages, cover their interiors with the finest frescos ever created by man, go all across the earth and buy up the greates paintings and sculptures of the Rennaisance to cover the unfrescoed walls and fill the open spaces, and open all edifices to the public. Then the heathens will come, in droves, and they'll feel the spirit of God.

Goatnapper'96 · 10-05-2006, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Erect high stone walls around it, fill it will huge, magnificent buildings (that even dwarf the temple) of awe inspiring beauty built to last the ages, cover their interiors with the finest frescos ever created by man, go all across the earth and buy up the greates paintings and sculptures of the Rennaisance to cover the unfrescoed walls and fill the open spaces, and open all edifices to the public. Then the heathens will come, in droves, and they'll feel the spirit of God.

for Brett Ratliff's current case of color blindness?

MikeWaters · 10-05-2006, 04:06 PM

...as long as they don't hire the same architects that designed the buildings at BYU and the chapels dotting the world.

creekster · 10-05-2006, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Erect high stone walls around it, fill it will huge, magnificent buildings (that even dwarf the temple) of awe inspiring beauty built to last the ages, cover their interiors with the finest frescos ever created by man, go all across the earth and buy up the greates paintings and sculptures of the Rennaisance to cover the unfrescoed walls and fill the open spaces, and open all edifices to the public. Then the heathens will come, in droves, and they'll feel the spirit of God.

Or just buy a plane ticket to Rome. You need to fast forward. A mall is the new Sistine Chapel, my friend.

Goatnapper'96 · 10-05-2006, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

...as long as they don't hire the same architects that designed the buildings at BYU and the chapels dotting the world.

BYU always looks like a multi stake center complex on steroids to me. The LDS Church is practical if it is anything.

Archaea · 10-05-2006, 04:20 PM

Except in its temples and downtown SLC center, it's not much in terms of art.

BYU has beautiful surroundings, a clean campus, but no coordinated design or taste. You can tell no gays were involved in its design. Perhaps BYU can borrow a few from the U to spruce up the joint.

SeattleUte · 10-05-2006, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

...as long as they don't hire the same architects that designed the buildings at BYU and the chapels dotting the world.

Remember Woody Allen's Sleeper, when he went into the future and now fats and sugars were healthy and roughage and proteins were unhealthy? Maybe someday people will be nostalgic for and love these low slung trashy circa-'70's style buildings and think Gothic and Georgian architecture passe.

il Padrino Ute · 10-05-2006, 06:09 PM

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Or just buy a plane ticket to Rome. You need to fast forward. A mall is the new Sistine Chapel, my friend.

That was my thought as well. Of course, one can't protest the Catholics for any reason at all in nor immediately outside the property of the Vatican. So the heathens will at least have that going for them in SLC.

All-American · 10-06-2006, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Except in its temples. . . it's not much in terms of art.

Um...

Jeff Lebowski · 10-06-2006, 04:34 AM

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Um...

What have you got against birthday cakes?

10-05-2006, 04:00 PM	#1
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	SeattleUte's vision for downtown SLC Erect high stone walls around it, fill it will huge, magnificent buildings (that even dwarf the temple) of awe inspiring beauty built to last the ages, cover their interiors with the finest frescos ever created by man, go all across the earth and buy up the greates paintings and sculptures of the Rennaisance to cover the unfrescoed walls and fill the open spaces, and open all edifices to the public. Then the heathens will come, in droves, and they'll feel the spirit of God. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

10-05-2006, 04:20 PM	#6
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Except in its temples and downtown SLC center, it's not much in terms of art. BYU has beautiful surroundings, a clean campus, but no coordinated design or taste. You can tell no gays were involved in its design. Perhaps BYU can borrow a few from the U to spruce up the joint. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

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MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	...as long as they don't hire the same architects that designed the buildings at BYU and the chapels dotting the world.