Somehow, I really don't know how, BYU always tracks me down, no matter how many times I move. At least they don't call to get money from me anymore. But I still get their BYU magazine. I got one today, and something about the cover struck me. It's a photo of the new Hinckley Center and the caption is:
WELCOME HOME TO THE HINCKLEY CENTER: SEE THE BUILDING FIT TO CARRY THE NAME
There was just something about the whole thing that immediately reminded me of the great and spacious building in the Book of Mormon. The Mormon church has not only kowtowed to "the man", it IS "the man". And they can't stop building great and spacious buildings, and then naming them after their leaders.
Here it is, under construction
The church just seems to spend money hand over foot on these buildings, and the disturbing part is that the expenditure is NOTHING to them. There's plenty, plenty more where that came from, thanks to people like my parents, who are retired and STILL paying on their mortgage.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
No, it upsets me that people who can't afford to tithe are pressured into doing so, and then the church builds extravagant buildings, and names them after people. "A building worthy of the name". Please. I thought prophets were supposed to be humble.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
Not that this ought to count, or anything, but I've actually been in the Hinckley Building (even while it was under construction), and I know the functions that it's going to serve.
It's a nice building, but it's not extravagant and it was very much needed. It will be well used. I'm sorry that its construction has so offended a person who presumably contributed nothing to it. Life is like that, though.
I actually do think that Pres. Hinckley deserves a building. However, I believe that the building should honor his true accomplishments: namely, his contributions to Church P.R. So, if this is going to be a movie studio, or a marketing office, or something like that, then I am totally on board.
hilarious. guess what was waiting for me on my workbench today when I got home? It's the vision of Zion come true, the worker drones buzzing around in a flurry as if they were trying to complete the Death Star. "Those workers understood the value of honoring President Hinckley" All is in honor of Lord Hinckley, "No one...wanted to be the one who had to say, 'I didn't get my doors hung, so we couldn't have the dedication on the prophet's birthday." Of course not! That guy would be the Admiral Mottie of LDS contractors, and the only thing Hinckley would be left to say, before ending that man's career, would be, "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Faith ensures the workers take risks, "We didn't have angels hauling materials in...but we had guys hauling it in who should have been beyond their physical limits." Work the men like the Pharaoh worked the Hebrew slaves, without regard for their own health or families who would suffer in the event of a serious accident caused by exhaustion.
And check this, "...a forgotten drill bit lay in the grass..everything appeared to be in perfect order, as if it had been so for weeks and had been tested a dozen times"
Fortunately no one stepped on that drill bit. And shall we note how everything also appeared to be in perfect order on the completion of the featured building of the movie, "The Towering Inferno". The reason QA tests things dozens of time is to ensure they really do work, not just "appear" to work for the sake of the brass.
Now this is really telling, "guests began to arrive...one construction worker brought a suit and got a haircut....none wore hard hats."
You'd think manual labor and a hard days work were a crime, and a matter of disrespect, and the trace of it an insult to the liesure class.
Hinckley commented, "What more could one ask for? 'nothing'"
Of course not, could the pharaoh ask for much more than the great pyramid, built in his honor? And the finalization of the sanctuary dedicated nepotically, by his own son?
It's almost as if BYU is trying to give credence to the Christian accusation that Mormons don't worship Jesus, heck, Joseph Smith will even need to take a back seat to this grand-stander, "Construction began on a Friday with a tool marked GBH. It ended on a Saturday with another tool bearing President Hinckley's brand."
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Maybe it's just that I hadn't been in Provo for 5 or 6 years, but wow, that's an imposing entrance to campus. The previous alumni building was a tiny, almost invisible building. Tiny and invisible this one is not. But I don't mind big and imposing.
My only issue with it is that its architecture does not match any of the other buildings on campus, so it sticks out like a sore thumb. And of course, it makes me chuckle that our alumni building is named for someone who never attended the university.
Oh, well. I agree that the article cited is more than a bit over the top. But it looks like a nice enough building.
