Yeah, I know I went too deep into Mormon cosmology with this one. Honestly, I’m not super happy with this video. But let’s not have perfect be the enemy of a meal time video that you can watch while on the toilet. Nuances/Edits: The temple shown at 6:39 is part of a different denomination of the Latter Day Saints movement.
I thought this was a great video. The Mormon church is super interesting to me and I thought you captured the unsettling vibe super well. I’ve always wanted to know what was in the church and the narrative throughout was super well told.
@@Pr0toPoTaT0 I know it....too smooth. I watched quite a bit until I realized it was an ad. Former Mormon here of 40 years, til I found out it's all a sham. Based on lies.
Because it is😂, it is lifted from Tolkien’s Lord of the rings. If you watch the Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the ring, it is literally the first thing you see😊
@@STUDENT-ch4ch Did you notice the Washington DC Temple is the exact shape of Sauron's Crown? Between that and the ring of power thing mid video makes me wonder did Tolkien copy Mormonism or vice versa?
As an active, believing, practicing member of the church in question, I have to say that ad transition has sent me into a spiral of awakening. I now worship the great and powerful Odoo.
The whole experience of feeling nothing is close to what happened to me. When you turn 8 you get baptized and get a blessing to receive the holy ghost. I distinctly remember being excited to feel the holy ghost for the first time like all of my older mormon friends described, but I felt nothing and it scared me, so I always lied that I did feel it. I thought that when I got the priesthood at 12 I would feel it. I went to 3 different temples, including Salt Lake and Nauvoo, to do baptisms for the dead and felt nothing. For years I thought something was wrong with me, I had nightmares about going to outer darkness. I prayed every day trying to feel anything until I was 16 and stopped going to church, but I didn't truly lose my faith until I really looked into church history when I was 20. Now I just feel like I wasted my entire childhood and teenage years fearing something that wasn't there. It really deeply affected my mental health for a long time.
it's truly relieving once you realise too, I stopped going around 16 too and been much freer since, leaning about the church history really opened my eyes
I had a similar time too, it didn't help that I was taught the "Deep Doctrines" i.e. all the messed up or really weird things the church believes but does not teach nowadays to the general Mormon audience yet has not stopped holding as truth and defending as right.
@@stevenroberts3531 Have an example? I’ve never really had first hand experience with any mormons. I have a fairly surface level understanding of what mormons believe but not enough context to know what the “crazy” stuff would entail. Just curious lol
I think the ideas of the church in general are good and certainly the teachings of the Gospel are true, even if not fully understood or accepted by many. At least I would say the Lion's share is absolutely true. I do understand that there are people like in any church that would not be a good example of what the gospel teaches them to be or what their doctrine teaches them.
There are people who give the Mormons a bad name, but I feel like it's just supposed to be about loving and accepting your neighbor, like Mormons were the first people to give women the right to vote in the United States and people don't know about polygamy or understand it fully but a lot of the time women could not own property unless they were married and since many of the male saints died due to persecution including the females. There were a lot of people in need of spouses. So a lot of these people would get married to multiple women that they've never met and they will never meet. They are just so that they can have rights, it would be like if your mom married the neighbor during Nazi Germany so that they didn't take her as a Jew and she was protected.
Utah was the first state to give women the right to vote. Look it up. This was basically Mexico at the time and no one wanted to come here. That's how badly they were. Persecuted
@@Luz-rm6joyou mean like when Joseph Smith was digging up Native American burial grounds and selling relics with his dad? The time he ran away with a woman without the father’s permission and married her? When he started a bank, backed out of accountability and then scammed Ohio locals out of their life savings and never made amends? On and on it goes - read No Man Knows My History
Its fortress architecture much like how embassies are built. This is because the Mormon Church is a shell corp of the CIA and the Vaults within it contain their physical holdings of Precious Metals. CIA itself is an arm of the Vatican and nicknamed the ‘Catholic Intelligence Agency’. The Directors are all members to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, while the ‘white collar’ is Catholic and the ‘blue collar’ is Mormon. They like Mormons for their cult like behavior and ability to keep a secret. They’re also less stigmatic in foreign countries compared to the long history of Catholics/Protestant Imperialism and Evangelical profiteering, so they are used for OCONUS Operations which their Missionaries are guised as. This is why the Mormon Church is officially valued at $100B, and unofficially valued at $200B. It’s also why they have oil refineries under management in Nigeria.
Alot if it, at least in the early days, was based on Masonic temples. I don't know how much it is now but the floor plans of Kirkland, Nauvoo and SLC are extremely similar to Masonic temples
I went to the Boise temple open house out of curiosity. I'm ex-Mormon, born again in the Baptist church. I found the temple to be a lot like a nice hotel, fake printed art, chandeliers and all. You would think since they have all those billions of $$$ that they could afford real art, or have their member who are artists do the art. So anyway, it didn't give me the desire to return to the "fold."
That ad is probably the best one I've seen on UA-cam. Insane that even your ads are so well made. Just discovered your channel and I'm very glad I did. Keep up the good work!
As an ex Mormon who served a mission I'm impressed at how accurate you spoke about the plan of salvation. It brought back a lot of memories both good and mostly bad.
@@SirReginaldBumquistIII “Dad, why am I named Rose?” “Because when you were born, a rosebud fell on your head.” “Dad, why am I named Lilly?” “Because when you were born, a Lilly bud fell on your head.” “JESUS WAS A GAY VOODOO HIPPY!!!1!” “Oh, hey brick.”
(ExCatholic not Mormon)Leaving religion is hard for so many reasons. The ending made me a little teary because I remember how safe I felt thinking that, no matter what, I would be reunited with family after death and that heaven was going to be better than anything I could possibly imagine. I find a lot of peace from nature and learning more about other animals and natural processes. Thanks for listening I needed to share
@@AbbiZika ...Our Father in Heaven blesses ALL His children; always has, always will...my grandmother has been in my dreams lately, & I know she is happy - I know resurrection is real, & JESUS CHRIST, the Savior of the world, died for us & was the First Resurrection...we WILL be with our family members again...
@@Lovecatholicfaith Same. Born and raised LDS in California and moved to UT in 2016 to try and improve my LDS testimony. Instead I left their evil faith, thanks be to God.
This is WILD! Yesterday I saw a Mormon church that looked like it came from Disney Land and my father and I were trying to figure out what it was... Today you release this
Mr Hoog: the cosmology is a huge part of not just Mormon imagery (visit temple square and you will see it everywhere- not surrounding the Christus statue and carved in granite on the outside walls all around the temple), it is imprinted on the mental processes of every Mormon through their temple rituals. So going “too deep into cosmology” is nearly impossible. I moved from Holland when I was 18 to do my two year mission in England. Then ended up at BYU, worked at their MTC in Provo, worked at the church office in Slc, sang with Mormon tabernacle choir, etc etc. Nothing in your video was over-stated or wrong, compliments on your summary. What struck me, something that never occurred to me, is how the religion is all centered ultimately on FOMO. Ik moet zeggen, ben blij dat ik eruit ben gestapt, die ketenen waren zwaar.
@@stellviahohenheim As an Ex-Mormon, it’s not that they’re necessarily gullible it’s that the church is extremely controlling. They tell members not to read anti-mormon literature or any church history stuff not put out by the church, so unless members do their own research outside of the official channels like I did they’ll have no idea about the sketchy shit the church does. Anyone can fall for a cult.
Elmer has really set the standard in the space! Besides from the visuals which are always amazing, the storytelling and sound design are always so good.
I'm a lifelong member of the church and my faith has waxed and waned throughout my life. At times I've been an implacable believer, at others basically an atheist. The temple is where I always felt something even when I thought none of it was true. A sense of awe and a sacred sense of grandeur. There is something magical about being in such a space performing ritual worship, at least to me. I still participate in the church and consider myself a believer now, but many of the particulars of my faith are quite heterodox and would probably raise a few eyebrows if brought up in Sunday School. Anyway, this was a quality video. Keep up the good work.
I didn't realize how much of a cult LDS was until this video. It's like Scientology mixed with Christianity. PEOPLE please just Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. If you truly believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you WILL be saved. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 (NIV) "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 (NIV)
@@machine123e456 We.. do accept Christ as our Lord and Savior? He is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no way other than Christ to salvation. He is the lynchpin to the entire Plan of Salvation; without His great and perfect sacrifice, none of us could return to be with Heavenly Father.
@@machine123e456 You might be pleased to know that even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stands at risk of God's judgements for treating the Book of Mormon lightly. But it is easier to attack something you are ignorant of with a word that you are ignorant of the meaning of, history or its application.
The Washington Temple is pretty iconic as it's right next to the highway that leads to DC so you see it often. I even got to go inside to the sort of lobby as I had Mormon friends, though I myself am Catholic.
They do open houses for every temple being built now. It has become a common practice after renovations. I went through such an open house in Arizona when I was a little child, and took my children through the same one when it went through renovations again. I also took them through the nearby Gilbert temple when it had its open house.
I spy Alyssa Grenfell's book, I highly recommend it! I am a "nevermo", just interested in the religion and culture. This was an awesome video. I respect everyone's religious beliefs and think this video was tastefully done.
Your animation style is super badass. The 3D renderings are beautiful. The old 70s-80s style vector graphics and voice over like at 11:35 are super cool. I would love to see you do something similar for Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, and Islamic places of worship and cosmology. Your channel has so much potential! Beyond cosmology and places of worship, you could do this for technical things like the Saturn V rocket, Tokamak reactors, and really anything else humans have built. I would love to see more! You have a new subscriber.
I work in a masonry company that does stone façades for them. I’ve been on six different temple constructions now and ‘though I’m not a member, it’s kinda cool that you were part of the constructions.
The thing about Outer Darkness is that it is merely a contingency for people who have a perfect knowledge of God (which 99% of us will only ever get in the afterlife) and still want to deny his grace, God will force nobody to heaven.
@@AKAK-rh7lrdo you mean, were they steeped in a Judaeo-Christian society? Or are you implying that there exist no converts and membership is strictly hereditary?
@@Billsbob how tf is he implying that people can't convert to religion? can you actually read or do you just see buzz words and immediately start attacking people?
Indeed. A good comparison is the fate of Lucifer who became Satan and led a third of the host of heaven astray. Lucifer stood in as perfect knowledge of the Father and Christ and rejected it completely. Those who are ignorant or innocent of such have nothing to worry about such a fate.
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Current Mormon here. I’m really impressed on how you described the plan of salvation and baptisms for the dead. It’s really nice to see an outside view that’s very respectful of things that are very important to me. Our religion is way more complex than a lot of Christianity, so it can get confusing trying to explain these things to my friends. I will say though that a lot of the topics in this video are kept secret out of reverence for God and Jesus, so telling the details of them could offend Mormons. I don’t think most would hold it against you, as you’re not Mormon lol, but if anyone does get upset that would be why.
Everything in the temple that we don't specifically commit to not sharing is fair game. The procedural stuff is fine so long as it is treated with respect.
I prefer to say that with the knowledge comes a responsibility, and carelessness with that knowledge brings about condemnation. People are asked to stay out till they are ready to take the promises that come with this knowledge seriously and respect.
@@Persun_McPersonson, with some knowledge comes a certain level of responsibility. If you know, but do not do, or take such knowledge with flippancy, you could face the same condemnation that Jesus told of the goats in Matthew 25. So it is more for your protection more than anything else.
@@Charistoph Except you have no justified reason to believe that to be the case, so I'm calling your bluff and reiterating that knowledge should be free.
I have to say that I at least respect Mormonism for being creative with its theology. Lots of other denominations try so hard to be mid and pass off as approachable. Irony is that it’s much more interesting to read about religions when they try to be wild/different. But if they are wild/different, they’re not really convincing enough to turn into a scalable religion
@@hoogyoutube Just beware of the institutionalized incest that its elders have been accused of practicing according to family members who left the church.
@@hoogyoutube The funny thing about this is that the current church leadership is trying to become more mainstream and approachable, trying hard to be mid. They're trying to move away from the "Mormon" label, changing their symbol on google maps to a cross, not putting the Angel Moroni statue on new temples, and they continue to de-emphasize a lot of the doctrine mentioned in this video. They desperately want to be just another Christian denomination.
First, that Ad read caught me by surprise. But I love it. Everything stated here has been accurate to my experience from when I was Mormon. Though, another thing you can't see during the pre-dedication tours, there are additional cloth hangings that separate the rooms into smaller ritual areas. Some are part of the rituals (some you shake hands through, others you pass through symbolically), the others are just to allow multiple rituals to be performed in the same room at the same time when many people come to the temple.
17:50 - the end.... Dang dude... Got me sitting here fighting back tears. Up untill 2022 I didnt even have the slightest emontial reaction that would come anywhere near tears. But November 2022 my grandfather passed. Never had a great relationship with him, didnt really meet him until I was 10 when my mother and I moved states. We lived with him and my step-grandmother, his way of showing love and affection was different from what I had ever known or could understand. About a year or so living with them my mother and I got our own place moved out and I hardely ever talked to him. Early 2022 im 16 then (So yes, 18 now) he and my step-grandmother visited my mother and I, they were going around the country visiting all the family because he has dealt with cancer and various other health issues for quite some time and he decided no more medication and treatment. So they were visting everyone while they could for the final time with him. I made damn sure to spend the week and a half they were here talking to him as much as I could, being around him, showing him appriciation and love the most I could, making the best time I could with him. After they left here they were on their way to the next family memeber but ended up going back home due to his health. They had many more people planned to go see but we ended up being the final ones. In November he was in their home with a nurse that was staying with them to take care of them as he was pretty much stuck in bed to monitors and such. The night of the 11th my mother was at work and I get a call clearly had been crying for some time and she told me that my grandfather was pretty much in a coma and they didnt expect him to make it through the night. Being the amazing but stubborn man he was he wanted to prove everyone wrong and made it until I bealive around 4Am the next morning when he was officaly decalred then dead. Since that night anything that involves family its just different from anything ive ever felt before. The amount of regrett I have for not talking to him more, spending more time with him. How I wish I could redo it all just to have just a little bit more time with him, just a little bit better of a connection but he's just gone. He was cremated and I have some of his ashes in a nice little necklace which has Grandpa *His last name, I rather not share because yea* I wear it all the time since I got it. The only times I have ever taken it off are for X-Rays when I had to. Anytime im having a bad day I just take a few moments to sit there holding the necklace with his ashes in my hand, thinking about him, about how what ive done since would have made him proud. Later on a few months after he passed my step-grandmother told me that when they were here, some of the things I did with him was the happiest shes seen him in quite awhile and after they left he wouldnt stop talking about it. Just knowing I was able to have that impact for him though means more than I could ever imagine.
@@Davey_066-vu7eg, you will see your dear grandfather again, along with all your loved one who have passed (including pets). May God bless you and comfort you.
Ex-Mormon here. This is a great video! I’m honestly kinda sad that the Mormon Church is moving further and further away from…. let’s just call all of it “space stuff”… to be more palatable to modern tastes. This is the stuff that makes Mormonism so beautiful, unique, and delightfully whacky!
True. When I was still practicing I loved that stuff. It's what set us apart and I was proud of it. In their attempt to be more like and accepted by other Christians they are losing what makes them interesting and unique.
@@axoid exactly! The way I describe it to people who aren’t familiar with Mormonism is “Imagine if the Freemasons did a total corporate-minimalism resign to appeal to people who like Starbucks.” I want to live in a world where Mormons in the Marine Corps shout “FOR KOLOB!!!” before throwing a grenade. But as an atheist exmo, I get that I’m being selfish. :)
That’s a fascinating take to hear from an exmo, I’m used to people who leave saying we’re too esoteric and culty, not that we’re not esoteric enough. I see you and the other dommenter’s point, though. There’s other active members I know of that are getting tired of protestant culture seeping into church culture.
@@fidgetthecrazy I think there is a difference between culty practices that exmos might not like and the more unique doctrine that we still find fascinating. I personally always felt a little creeped out by the temple ceremonies from the very first time I went through. But the more deep/speculative doctrine stuff was always interesting to me.
@@fidgetthecrazy To be fair, I’m not sure I would have personally stayed in if it was more esoteric, but I also think these things can have profound human beauty. One of my favorite things in the world as a kid, but even more so as an Exmo atheist adult, was the Manti Pagent… I even flew out to Utah to go see the final performance! Yes, of course, the optics of white conservative people dressing up as villainous Native American Jews are horrible, but there’s also always incredible beauty whenever any group of humans band to get together to put on a divinity play… especially when they don’t have a lot of resources and money… because by definition, such works demands the highest level of passion, artistry, and selflessness imaginable. It brings out the best in people. Just think about how many grandmas sewed little lamenite costumes for their grandkids over the years! One of the most brilliant depictions of the beauty I see in things like the Manti Pagent, and LDS Esoteria at large, is at the climax of the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” when the Africans put on their own Divinity Play for the local Mission President (to his shock and horror! 😂) It’s played for laughs, but what makes it so damn poetic is that, for the Africans, what outsiders see as “wacky and obviously made up” is sacred, precious, and beautiful TO THEM. Not only that, their whacky new religion is the only thing that has ever worked to make their hard lives less shitty. That show is such a love letter to the Mormon Religion, and it completely changed how I thought about my own upbringing in it. So, yeah, LDS esoteria is awesome. They thought Skybeams were cool hundreds of years before the MCU put them in every movie. Hahaha.
love the video, I think that was the greatest ad I've ever seen. It was soo good I barely noticed i was watching an ad and once I did I didn't mind watching the rest. Keep it up can't wait for the next video!
Hi. Ex Mormon here. I’ve been through the temple and the mysterious tone is cracking me up because I know what exactly happens in there. Good editing and tone setting btw just humorous because of my perspective.
@@sonder1309 A lot of it was ripped-off from freemasonry, yes (although the ceremony has been changed and downplayed over the years). If you are curious about what it looks like, the youtuber NewNameNoah has direct recordings of the ordinances.
@@sonder1309 I’m not a freemason but based off what I know about them it felt like it might be a watered down version of some of their rites mixed with some Mormon doctrines.
As a member of the LDS church (mormon) I have to say, this is definetely one of the more unbiased videos I've seen on our religion. Thank you. Many like to paint our religion as a "cult" just because we do ordinances and stuff, when in reality we are a pretty regular religion. The Catholic, Hindu and Jewish churches also do "rituals", but for some reason, everyone likes to overlook what they do. (not saying they have weirder practices than we do, just to clarify)
The issue is that you claim to be Christian, but *_very_* blatantly aren't. As such, you are considered a cult by most Christians. Mormonism is essentially an American version of Islam. Simple as.
@@tracienielson7183 no like a cult of cultists. With rituals and secrecy everyone finds it strange. If you look up the definition of cult this would be a lot easier.
@@jamietomas1550 Nope. Outsiders finding our practices strange does not make us a cult. This discussion proves the lack of secrecy. It does prove that people are rude, flippant, and disrespectful to things they don't understand but feel qualified to bash anyway.
@hoogyoutube "Mormon" (Latter-day Saint) here. Loved the video. Very well-produced and cool art direction in general. Some clarifications: • We don't believe the temple signs/tokens prove you're "Mormon." (They're simply symbolic reminders of the covenants we make). • In the vast majority of temples, you don't progress from room to room during the Endowment (it's a presentation shown all in the same room). • You implied that those asexual or gay will necessarily miss out on the highest heaven. This isn't a teaching within the Church. LDS prophets have consistently taught that those who never had a chance for a temple marriage/sealing in this life *will* have the opportunity in the spiritual post-mortal realm (before final judgment). • The choice of music and the doubting, Johny Harris-esque character narrative is clearly meant to sensationalize, but I don't fault you for that. But these leads me to my next point... • The idea of becoming Gods is a bit heavy-handed. We *do* believe we can become like God (and be creators in some sense, if not only to continue reproducing) but we don't believe we ever become Saviors or that we in any way replace God the Father or his Son Jesus Christ.
They actually do believe that LDS become their own Gods, but it's a teaching reserved for those who are deeper into Mormonism and/or for those who have read about it. It's not taught very openly at first, but it is still on the books. It's definitely in the older books.
Should also point out that we dont take living persons "names" to the temple either. This work is done for those family members and populice who have passed on. One cant just go... "Oh James Earl Jones passed away... Im gonna go do temple work for him. It doesn't work like that.
@@stevencall3968 stop lying to people, it's not just for family members. They will put a bunch of names on the list then you go and get 'baptized' on their behalf. They will absolutely put down names that you have not heard of
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Hey big fan of your channel, Fern too, I would love to see a video on Cape Dutch Architecture in South Africa, I think it would make a really interesting video
7 views in 21seconds? Hoog must have migrated to the new city in Utah... Edit: great video! The sponsor spot was kinda funny. I wonder if the name Harris Johnson was inspired by another animated graphics explainer youtuber...
I appreciate the unbiased nature of the video but from my education of lds teachings and practices regardless if you believe in the religion there are several inaccuracies in this video just in the first few minutes. Good video but take it with a grain of salt.
You can make even the most common things sound spooky with the right tone and music. Most devout members do not do all of the rituals in one day. They do not start in the baptistry and work their way up. Members do 10 or 20 baptisms of names etc rather than one at a time.
I've never commented on a video but I felt I should here. Everyone has at least one thing in their lives that they hold close to their hearts and are very protective of. Many people, including myself and likely many of you reading, view family and friends that way. So, when opinions or interpretations of those things we deeply care about are shared---particularly negative or incorrect ones---we often feel the desire to defend those things, and we may realize the importance of thorough research on the things other people deeply care about so that they don't have the same experience. In addition to my family and friends, I hold my faith very close to my heart, and my faith happens to be something that many in the media and online share many opinions and interpretations of. I say all this because perhaps some of you who are reading, even if you are atheists or not members of my faith, can empathize with that feeling of protectiveness over something you care deeply about that I feel when I see someone's interpretation of my beliefs. I appreciate you taking the time to respectfully explain what we believe, @hoogyoutube. I know it is hard to adequately explain a belief system that you don't personally believe (especially with the level of depth you attempted 😄), but I think you did a good job of fairly approaching the topic without obvious bias or disdain for my faith or its followers. That said, I will say that while many basic facts about our beliefs you described were accurate (i.e. the existence of ordinances such as baptisms for the dead, the general big picture of each step of the Plan of Salvation, etc.), as I'm sure you suspected, there were several inaccuracies. My automatic desire is to defend and correct. However, I'm not going to give a minute-by-minute fact-check of everything in the video in this comment. But I do want to remind people to pause and take this video with a grain of salt, and think about how you wish people would approach you when someone gives a slightly inaccurate interpretation or opinion about something you deeply care about. Maybe you'd wish they asked you questions rather than stuck with assumptions. Maybe you'd wish they did some research of their own. This video is a good starting point for discussion, so I also want to open up the comment section to any of those who may have a desire to respectfully ask questions or develop a clearer understanding of what we believe. That's all. Sorry for the length. Thank you again, @hoogyoutube, for your desire to fairly explain my faith.
Mate. Coming from someone who normally skips straight through ads, you're a master. That one was magic and I actually went back to watch it again because I enjoyed your misdirection so much.. Well played. I've always enjoyed your videos and love what you do. Keep them coming.
At first, I was skeptical about finishing this video. As an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I am apprehensive of warching videos like these because some people take these types of videos too far out of context. I'm glad you took some sensitivity to the sacredness of the things that are done in the temple. The church does try to make public what can be made public to remove the stigma of mystery and negative ideas of the temples. Though I thought some things were a little out of context, you got a vast majority of things pretty spot on. I see this as a learning opporutnity to people who are genuinely curious and want to learn more... of course, not everything can be said due to the sacredness of such context but if you have the opportunity to go to a temple open house during the brief window that temples are open to the public, you can learn more about why the church builds these temples and what is done within. This video was more philosophical and theoretical and I like it. I and some of my friends in the church often question each other on our own ideas and this topic quite often. Haha. It's a fun debate we have.
Insane? No,probably just searching.Remember this whole group was started by a dude who found golden tablets in upstate New York. I don't believe the purpose of your life is wrapped up in any of the tax exempt mumbo jumbo organizations.
Joining the cult because you want to be your own God, you will end up in hell I promise you that. Nothing based about that, but I'm sure you're the type who hates Jesus anyway.
I was raised in this religion and I can tell you it’s pretty crazy walking into one of these buildings. They put a lot of work and money into making it look flawless. And everything is WHITE. im talking like porcelain or confectioner sugar level white. The clothes you wear, the carpet, the curtains the wallpaper even the light switches. All white. As a Mormon child, you take a lot of youth “temple trips” to do baptisms for the dead. You’re told that you’ll feel a sense of peace and “rightness” as in, “this is where I’m supposed to be. This is the right choice” you’re told you’ll feel the Holy Ghost. I didn’t feel any of those things. I mainly felt extreme anxiety and nervousness. And I was restless as all get out. When you enter a temple it’s a very quiet and reserved atmosphere. There’s almost no talking unless it’s being done by a temple worker during the instructional session (when they tell you where to go, who to go to if you get lost or separated from your group, etc) or the person giving the prayer or doing the baptisms. And even then it isn’t loud, it’s done in a very hushed tone. I couldn’t sit still or keep my eyes down during the “contemplation” part of The session. If I felt anything, it was a desire to be back outside. I was itchy and had hot flashes 😂 so after, when I was asked by my mom what the experience was like and if I “felt the spirit” I lied and told her yeah it was really cool.
I can understand. It may be hard often to "feel the spirit" when inside of the temple. As an LDS member, I can tell you that it is hard for me to feel the spirit sometimes while in the temple. What I found was I can feel it better when I think of why I am there, and also when I "let go" of the earthly thoughts inside of my head, and think of Jesus Christ. I can often feel peace when I do that.
As an Active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or "Mormon," I appreciate the accuracy and honesty with which you portrayed us. I'm only disappointed that the video followed a man who lost his faith, since that seemed to give the video a negative outlook on what you so respectfully shared otherwise.
The DC temple was open to the public in 2022 after renovations and I went to tour it. It was really cool to see after driving past the spires for so many years. The interior was definitely eerie and I was surprised how clinical it felt. Like a dentist office crossed with the backrooms. The exclusivity a scale added a whimsical willy wonka effect. All around a weird experience and Im so glad I got to see it before it was sealed to the public.
Honestly... I had never really delved deep into what Mormonism is, or what they believed... all I had ever heard was the "cooky" way it was created... but... this video makes me think it's actually quiet a beautiful way to view the world. The more you know.
It’s a really fantastic religion. I no longer am a member, but once you get past some of the oddities it really is a very well intentioned religion with great folks at the helm and a very merciful theology.
Again and again, I can watch ad like those all day, creative, aesthetic and useful. Please UA-cam, don't let ad about men shouting at me that I should shave agressively my beard twice an hour, or women telling me I should wear their favorite sanitary plug
Surprisingly accurate video in comparison to what most others have made concerning the topic and I do believe this video was made without malice so I will suggest that for a more accurate, open, and honest look in their beliefs to look up a channel called Keystone. very informative.
I think it was late 70's or early 80's we toured the Tabernacle next to DC. Yeah it was amazing to see! I've lived around 40 miles from it most of my life. You can get a pretty good look from the beltway. Beautiful building for sure!
I grew up Mormon, and trying to explain this stuff to folks is HARD. Now I can just show them this! lol I also tell folks that while Mormons don’t believe in hell via traditional Christianity, they do have THE MOST passive aggressive after-life of all theology. 😂
Yeah, I know I went too deep into Mormon cosmology with this one. Honestly, I’m not super happy with this video. But let’s not have perfect be the enemy of a meal time video that you can watch while on the toilet.
Nuances/Edits:
The temple shown at 6:39 is part of a different denomination of the Latter Day Saints movement.
@@hoogyoutube Sonofabitch, how did you know I was watching this on the toilet?
Literally on the toilet rn as I clicked on this video lol
The video was cool
I do not mind a deeper look tbh.
I thought this was a great video. The Mormon church is super interesting to me and I thought you captured the unsettling vibe super well. I’ve always wanted to know what was in the church and the narrative throughout was super well told.
Damn, that was the smoothest ad-transition I've ever seen on UA-cam
@@MA-naconitor 💀
@@MA-naconitor yeah it kinda caught me off guard lol
Big fax. If it wasn't a woman I would've been actually upset he tricked me into watching 15 seconds about rings
@@Pr0toPoTaT0 I know it....too smooth. I watched quite a bit until I realized it was an ad. Former Mormon here of 40 years, til I found out it's all a sham. Based on lies.
@@MA-naconitor i am too high for this tbh
Tell me why this ad got me thinking it was the story of creating until got to the air conditioned room.
Because it is😂, it is lifted from Tolkien’s Lord of the rings. If you watch the Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the ring, it is literally the first thing you see😊
@@STUDENT-ch4ch That was hilarious
I was thinking "Wait... so LoTR is based on Mormon beliefs? Or is it the other way around?"
@@gcewing This actually mindfucked me so much until I watched it a third time and was like okay no way did Jospeh Smith come up with boomers.
@@STUDENT-ch4ch Did you notice the Washington DC Temple is the exact shape of Sauron's Crown? Between that and the ring of power thing mid video makes me wonder did Tolkien copy Mormonism or vice versa?
“And no rings were given to Gen X, who were accustomed to being ignored.”
@@jeburr24 to who?
We refused the rings because it looked like it might turn into a 'thing' for us to deal with! Screw that!
Gen X are the Hobbits. We get things done when need arises, but often just want to be left alone.
@@recoveryguru “Fine. WE will take the ring to Mordor, while you Boomers and Millennials argue among yourselves. Not that you care. But whatever.”
@@jeburr24 as a millennial I would like to take this time to blame the boomers for everything, even stubbing my toe earlier today.
Kthanks!
Greatest UA-cam advert of all time, not once did I feel the urge to skip it or roll my eyes, I was actually impressed by it lmao
As an active, believing, practicing member of the church in question, I have to say that ad transition has sent me into a spiral of awakening. I now worship the great and powerful Odoo.
That ad transition has me rethinking everything I know
I was like, I don’t think I believe in the Lord of the Rings 😂
I still have my millennial ring
It was amazing, lol
How typical that Gen X got no rings! Yeah, that sounds about right.
Bro I watched the whole thing being sus but never pulled the trigger. Best ad integration ever. Couldn't even tell
Harris Johnson has no relation ship with the ex-Mormon, Washington DC based UA-camr Johnny Harris, right? Cheeky
Must be a coincidence
I seriously doubted that his name was Johnny Harris while watching this
Nice.
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It's obviously a "legally distinct character".
The whole experience of feeling nothing is close to what happened to me. When you turn 8 you get baptized and get a blessing to receive the holy ghost. I distinctly remember being excited to feel the holy ghost for the first time like all of my older mormon friends described, but I felt nothing and it scared me, so I always lied that I did feel it. I thought that when I got the priesthood at 12 I would feel it. I went to 3 different temples, including Salt Lake and Nauvoo, to do baptisms for the dead and felt nothing. For years I thought something was wrong with me, I had nightmares about going to outer darkness. I prayed every day trying to feel anything until I was 16 and stopped going to church, but I didn't truly lose my faith until I really looked into church history when I was 20. Now I just feel like I wasted my entire childhood and teenage years fearing something that wasn't there. It really deeply affected my mental health for a long time.
same situation for me got out a year ago and found out how fun life can be without the fear and guilt
it's truly relieving once you realise too, I stopped going around 16 too and been much freer since, leaning about the church history really opened my eyes
I had a similar time too, it didn't help that I was taught the "Deep Doctrines" i.e. all the messed up or really weird things the church believes but does not teach nowadays to the general Mormon audience yet has not stopped holding as truth and defending as right.
@@stevenroberts3531 Have an example? I’ve never really had first hand experience with any mormons. I have a fairly surface level understanding of what mormons believe but not enough context to know what the “crazy” stuff would entail. Just curious lol
@@cerdic9 so you are either catholic oe eastern orthodox now
Ngl the massive gothic temples in all white is an awesome look, absolutely beautiful and modern. Im no Mormon but i respect them for their dedication.
I think the ideas of the church in general are good and certainly the teachings of the Gospel are true, even if not fully understood or accepted by many. At least I would say the Lion's share is absolutely true. I do understand that there are people like in any church that would not be a good example of what the gospel teaches them to be or what their doctrine teaches them.
There are people who give the Mormons a bad name, but I feel like it's just supposed to be about loving and accepting your neighbor, like Mormons were the first people to give women the right to vote in the United States and people don't know about polygamy or understand it fully but a lot of the time women could not own property unless they were married and since many of the male saints died due to persecution including the females. There were a lot of people in need of spouses. So a lot of these people would get married to multiple women that they've never met and they will never meet. They are just so that they can have rights, it would be like if your mom married the neighbor during Nazi Germany so that they didn't take her as a Jew and she was protected.
Utah was the first state to give women the right to vote. Look it up. This was basically Mexico at the time and no one wanted to come here. That's how badly they were. Persecuted
@@Luz-rm6joyou mean like when Joseph Smith was digging up Native American burial grounds and selling relics with his dad? The time he ran away with a woman without the father’s permission and married her? When he started a bank, backed out of accountability and then scammed Ohio locals out of their life savings and never made amends? On and on it goes - read No Man Knows My History
I've never met a Mormon I didn't like, which is why it's easier for me to pray for their salvation in Christ Jesus because their minds are blinded.
I hate your ad plug in because it’s so good you have me thinking it’s real. Great video get your bag man
Mormon architecture is somehere between Wonderland and Warhammer 40k.
Its fortress architecture much like how embassies are built. This is because the Mormon Church is a shell corp of the CIA and the Vaults within it contain their physical holdings of Precious Metals.
CIA itself is an arm of the Vatican and nicknamed the ‘Catholic Intelligence Agency’. The Directors are all members to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, while the ‘white collar’ is Catholic and the ‘blue collar’ is Mormon.
They like Mormons for their cult like behavior and ability to keep a secret. They’re also less stigmatic in foreign countries compared to the long history of Catholics/Protestant Imperialism and Evangelical profiteering, so they are used for OCONUS Operations which their Missionaries are guised as.
This is why the Mormon Church is officially valued at $100B, and unofficially valued at $200B. It’s also why they have oil refineries under management in Nigeria.
reminds me of Oz or some weird high fantasy liminal shit
On the freeway overpass right by the one outside of D.C. someone spray painted “Surrender Dorothy”.
Alot if it, at least in the early days, was based on Masonic temples. I don't know how much it is now but the floor plans of Kirkland, Nauvoo and SLC are extremely similar to Masonic temples
I went to the Boise temple open house out of curiosity. I'm ex-Mormon, born again in the Baptist church. I found the temple to be a lot like a nice hotel, fake printed art, chandeliers and all. You would think since they have all those billions of $$$ that they could afford real art, or have their member who are artists do the art. So anyway, it didn't give me the desire to return to the "fold."
the ad confused the motherfeck out of me
We should Request to Hoog - Please make a Video on how they 👁️ Operate Drug World using Intelligence Agencies & all
@@troublebot same, I was totally confused, lol,
I thought after all these years, they changed it?
This was one of the highest quality ad breaks ever made on UA-cam lol.
That ad is probably the best one I've seen on UA-cam. Insane that even your ads are so well made. Just discovered your channel and I'm very glad I did. Keep up the good work!
As a morman my self you did an amazing job summing the temple up. Our church is so complicated and you did a good job telling people
THE AD I'M DYING 😂😂😂
Pffff THAT AD WAS SMOOTH, First I thought he was making satire, much later I realised it was an ad.
When?
@@gleefull2962 18:34
@@gleefull29628:40
That was PEAK ngl
As an ex Mormon who served a mission I'm impressed at how accurate you spoke about the plan of salvation. It brought back a lot of memories both good and mostly bad.
Biblical Jesus Christ is the only savior
This story is about him, he is “Harris Johnson”
@@Andromedon777 jesus was a homosexual voodoo man who absolutely loved mushrooms.
@@SirReginaldBumquistIII “Dad, why am I named Rose?”
“Because when you were born, a rosebud fell on your head.”
“Dad, why am I named Lilly?”
“Because when you were born, a Lilly bud fell on your head.”
“JESUS WAS A GAY VOODOO HIPPY!!!1!”
“Oh, hey brick.”
@@DavidPeel-fo9xv cute
(ExCatholic not Mormon)Leaving religion is hard for so many reasons. The ending made me a little teary because I remember how safe I felt thinking that, no matter what, I would be reunited with family after death and that heaven was going to be better than anything I could possibly imagine. I find a lot of peace from nature and learning more about other animals and natural processes. Thanks for listening I needed to share
@@AbbiZika ...Our Father in Heaven blesses ALL His children; always has, always will...my grandmother has been in my dreams lately, & I know she is happy - I know resurrection is real, & JESUS CHRIST, the Savior of the world, died for us & was the First Resurrection...we WILL be with our family members again...
@AbbiZika interesting, I was LDS and turned myself catholic.
@@SharonStoneman-n4q You may be with them, you may not. It isn't the purpose of life, regardless of what your silly cult teaches.
@@Lovecatholicfaith Same. Born and raised LDS in California and moved to UT in 2016 to try and improve my LDS testimony. Instead I left their evil faith, thanks be to God.
What are you now?
I’ve never seen Mormon cosmology approached with such deference without apologetics and succinctness without depth. Bravo
This is WILD! Yesterday I saw a Mormon church that looked like it came from Disney Land and my father and I were trying to figure out what it was... Today you release this
@@tzfsr did you try looking it up on a map service?
@@Quantum-Bullet yeah we got our answer. This video is just a cool coincidence
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Mormons are freemasons
there’s a huge mormon temple in my county that’s kinda become a meme as so many of us thought it was the “disney castle” as kids.
Mr Hoog: the cosmology is a huge part of not just Mormon imagery (visit temple square and you will see it everywhere- not surrounding the Christus statue and carved in granite on the outside walls all around the temple), it is imprinted on the mental processes of every Mormon through their temple rituals. So going “too deep into cosmology” is nearly impossible. I moved from Holland when I was 18 to do my two year mission in England. Then ended up at BYU, worked at their MTC in Provo, worked at the church office in Slc, sang with Mormon tabernacle choir, etc etc. Nothing in your video was over-stated or wrong, compliments on your summary. What struck me, something that never occurred to me, is how the religion is all centered ultimately on FOMO. Ik moet zeggen, ben blij dat ik eruit ben gestapt, die ketenen waren zwaar.
It's just an exclusive Disneyland for the gullible
@@stellviahohenheim As an Ex-Mormon, it’s not that they’re necessarily gullible it’s that the church is extremely controlling. They tell members not to read anti-mormon literature or any church history stuff not put out by the church, so unless members do their own research outside of the official channels like I did they’ll have no idea about the sketchy shit the church does. Anyone can fall for a cult.
@@stellviahohenheimwell that’s an enlightened response.
I don’t mean any hate but don’t bash on our religion. You wouldn’t do it for the Muslims or Catholics so please give us the same respect.
@@WesleySmith-kf4nl We have every right to criticize your cult just as you have every right to blindly follow it
Elmer has really set the standard in the space! Besides from the visuals which are always amazing, the storytelling and sound design are always so good.
absolutely love your work cipher!
@@ctrlsyst thanks bro ❤️
@@Cipher-HD do you do everything in your videos yourself?
@@ctrlsyst team of 2
The animation, level of detail, and storytelling in your videos is outstanding. Not to mention the topics you cover. Please keep it up!
I'm a lifelong member of the church and my faith has waxed and waned throughout my life. At times I've been an implacable believer, at others basically an atheist. The temple is where I always felt something even when I thought none of it was true. A sense of awe and a sacred sense of grandeur. There is something magical about being in such a space performing ritual worship, at least to me. I still participate in the church and consider myself a believer now, but many of the particulars of my faith are quite heterodox and would probably raise a few eyebrows if brought up in Sunday School. Anyway, this was a quality video. Keep up the good work.
I didn't realize how much of a cult LDS was until this video. It's like Scientology mixed with Christianity. PEOPLE please just Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. If you truly believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you WILL be saved.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16 (NIV)
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast."
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV)
"If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 10:9 (NIV)
@@machine123e456 the mormon church is a cult, yes. so is your brand of christianity. you too are in a cult.
@@machine123e456 We're speaking of the difference between salvation and exaltation.
@@machine123e456 We.. do accept Christ as our Lord and Savior? He is the way, the truth, and the life. There is no way other than Christ to salvation. He is the lynchpin to the entire Plan of Salvation; without His great and perfect sacrifice, none of us could return to be with Heavenly Father.
@@machine123e456 You might be pleased to know that even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stands at risk of God's judgements for treating the Book of Mormon lightly. But it is easier to attack something you are ignorant of with a word that you are ignorant of the meaning of, history or its application.
The Washington Temple is pretty iconic as it's right next to the highway that leads to DC so you see it often. I even got to go inside to the sort of lobby as I had Mormon friends, though I myself am Catholic.
@@tomaszmagierowski2166Hello fellow Catholic! ❤️✝️
Love the Catholic Church!
Why does your church leaders look like the devil? They have this weird energy to them
@@Beproductivetodayyall @DavidPeel-fo9xv ✝
You can go anywhere else if not Mormon. I went in there for three years as a kid. Baptisms for the dead. Genealogy is out of this world
They did an open house while it was being renovated a few years ago and let the public inside. Super cool to see
They do open houses for every temple being built now. It has become a common practice after renovations. I went through such an open house in Arizona when I was a little child, and took my children through the same one when it went through renovations again. I also took them through the nearby Gilbert temple when it had its open house.
I spy Alyssa Grenfell's book, I highly recommend it! I am a "nevermo", just interested in the religion and culture. This was an awesome video. I respect everyone's religious beliefs and think this video was tastefully done.
@@valerielynch4014 I saw it and got so excited!!
Your animation style is super badass. The 3D renderings are beautiful. The old 70s-80s style vector graphics and voice over like at 11:35 are super cool. I would love to see you do something similar for Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, and Islamic places of worship and cosmology. Your channel has so much potential! Beyond cosmology and places of worship, you could do this for technical things like the Saturn V rocket, Tokamak reactors, and really anything else humans have built. I would love to see more! You have a new subscriber.
bro, what kind of ad was that, It was seriously creative. Hare Krishna
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I work in a masonry company that does stone façades for them. I’ve been on six different temple constructions now and ‘though I’m not a member, it’s kinda cool that you were part of the constructions.
Cool
I think Mormons do some work in Masonry themselves
The thing about Outer Darkness is that it is merely a contingency for people who have a perfect knowledge of God (which 99% of us will only ever get in the afterlife) and still want to deny his grace, God will force nobody to heaven.
This
Did you find this religion yourself or were your parents also religious?
@@AKAK-rh7lrdo you mean, were they steeped in a Judaeo-Christian society? Or are you implying that there exist no converts and membership is strictly hereditary?
@@Billsbob how tf is he implying that people can't convert to religion? can you actually read or do you just see buzz words and immediately start attacking people?
Indeed. A good comparison is the fate of Lucifer who became Satan and led a third of the host of heaven astray. Lucifer stood in as perfect knowledge of the Father and Christ and rejected it completely. Those who are ignorant or innocent of such have nothing to worry about such a fate.
You and elephant graveyard are my favorite channels now.
Top video zoals altijd, volgens mij ben je Nederlands dus wellicht doet het je goed om te horen dat je ook het Nederlandse publiek bereikt.
Blijf zo doorgaan kerel!
Ja echt top video man!!
Current Mormon here. I’m really impressed on how you described the plan of salvation and baptisms for the dead. It’s really nice to see an outside view that’s very respectful of things that are very important to me. Our religion is way more complex than a lot of Christianity, so it can get confusing trying to explain these things to my friends.
I will say though that a lot of the topics in this video are kept secret out of reverence for God and Jesus, so telling the details of them could offend Mormons. I don’t think most would hold it against you, as you’re not Mormon lol, but if anyone does get upset that would be why.
Knowledge shouldn't be kept secret, regardless of belief, in my opinion.
Everything in the temple that we don't specifically commit to not sharing is fair game. The procedural stuff is fine so long as it is treated with respect.
I prefer to say that with the knowledge comes a responsibility, and carelessness with that knowledge brings about condemnation. People are asked to stay out till they are ready to take the promises that come with this knowledge seriously and respect.
@@Persun_McPersonson, with some knowledge comes a certain level of responsibility. If you know, but do not do, or take such knowledge with flippancy, you could face the same condemnation that Jesus told of the goats in Matthew 25.
So it is more for your protection more than anything else.
@@Charistoph
Except you have no justified reason to believe that to be the case, so I'm calling your bluff and reiterating that knowledge should be free.
Hoog sounds like he was this close to becoming a Morman
I have to say that I at least respect Mormonism for being creative with its theology. Lots of other denominations try so hard to be mid and pass off as approachable. Irony is that it’s much more interesting to read about religions when they try to be wild/different. But if they are wild/different, they’re not really convincing enough to turn into a scalable religion
@@hoogyoutube Just beware of the institutionalized incest that its elders have been accused of practicing according to family members who left the church.
@@hoogyoutube yeah it feels like a very comforting religion
@@hoogyoutube Look into catholicism, actual theology bs free and fake history free.
@@hoogyoutube The funny thing about this is that the current church leadership is trying to become more mainstream and approachable, trying hard to be mid. They're trying to move away from the "Mormon" label, changing their symbol on google maps to a cross, not putting the Angel Moroni statue on new temples, and they continue to de-emphasize a lot of the doctrine mentioned in this video. They desperately want to be just another Christian denomination.
First, that Ad read caught me by surprise. But I love it.
Everything stated here has been accurate to my experience from when I was Mormon. Though, another thing you can't see during the pre-dedication tours, there are additional cloth hangings that separate the rooms into smaller ritual areas. Some are part of the rituals (some you shake hands through, others you pass through symbolically), the others are just to allow multiple rituals to be performed in the same room at the same time when many people come to the temple.
The ad caught me off guard 😂 bahaha BRAVO!! 👏
I live in the DMV area. I've driven by this temple since forever, and as a child, I thought it was a Disney Park.
17:50 - the end.... Dang dude... Got me sitting here fighting back tears. Up untill 2022 I didnt even have the slightest emontial reaction that would come anywhere near tears. But November 2022 my grandfather passed. Never had a great relationship with him, didnt really meet him until I was 10 when my mother and I moved states. We lived with him and my step-grandmother, his way of showing love and affection was different from what I had ever known or could understand. About a year or so living with them my mother and I got our own place moved out and I hardely ever talked to him. Early 2022 im 16 then (So yes, 18 now) he and my step-grandmother visited my mother and I, they were going around the country visiting all the family because he has dealt with cancer and various other health issues for quite some time and he decided no more medication and treatment. So they were visting everyone while they could for the final time with him. I made damn sure to spend the week and a half they were here talking to him as much as I could, being around him, showing him appriciation and love the most I could, making the best time I could with him. After they left here they were on their way to the next family memeber but ended up going back home due to his health. They had many more people planned to go see but we ended up being the final ones. In November he was in their home with a nurse that was staying with them to take care of them as he was pretty much stuck in bed to monitors and such. The night of the 11th my mother was at work and I get a call clearly had been crying for some time and she told me that my grandfather was pretty much in a coma and they didnt expect him to make it through the night. Being the amazing but stubborn man he was he wanted to prove everyone wrong and made it until I bealive around 4Am the next morning when he was officaly decalred then dead. Since that night anything that involves family its just different from anything ive ever felt before. The amount of regrett I have for not talking to him more, spending more time with him. How I wish I could redo it all just to have just a little bit more time with him, just a little bit better of a connection but he's just gone. He was cremated and I have some of his ashes in a nice little necklace which has Grandpa *His last name, I rather not share because yea* I wear it all the time since I got it. The only times I have ever taken it off are for X-Rays when I had to. Anytime im having a bad day I just take a few moments to sit there holding the necklace with his ashes in my hand, thinking about him, about how what ive done since would have made him proud. Later on a few months after he passed my step-grandmother told me that when they were here, some of the things I did with him was the happiest shes seen him in quite awhile and after they left he wouldnt stop talking about it. Just knowing I was able to have that impact for him though means more than I could ever imagine.
The body dies, but the spirit lives on. You'll see your Grandpa again.
@@Davey_066-vu7eg, you will see your dear grandfather again, along with all your loved one who have passed (including pets). May God bless you and comfort you.
Next level storytelling
This is my favourite video you made, it a compelling story alongside the PS1 Graphics that made me put everything down
You genuinely fooled me with your ad segment for at least 20 seconds. Good work.
maryland resident here, i have passed by the Washington Temple COUNTLESS times. many people here refer to it as Disneyland, or ‘Oz’.
Ex-Mormon here. This is a great video! I’m honestly kinda sad that the Mormon Church is moving further and further away from…. let’s just call all of it “space stuff”… to be more palatable to modern tastes. This is the stuff that makes Mormonism so beautiful, unique, and delightfully whacky!
True. When I was still practicing I loved that stuff. It's what set us apart and I was proud of it. In their attempt to be more like and accepted by other Christians they are losing what makes them interesting and unique.
@@axoid exactly!
The way I describe it to people who aren’t familiar with Mormonism is “Imagine if the Freemasons did a total corporate-minimalism resign to appeal to people who like Starbucks.”
I want to live in a world where Mormons in the Marine Corps shout “FOR KOLOB!!!” before throwing a grenade.
But as an atheist exmo, I get that I’m being selfish. :)
That’s a fascinating take to hear from an exmo, I’m used to people who leave saying we’re too esoteric and culty, not that we’re not esoteric enough. I see you and the other dommenter’s point, though. There’s other active members I know of that are getting tired of protestant culture seeping into church culture.
@@fidgetthecrazy I think there is a difference between culty practices that exmos might not like and the more unique doctrine that we still find fascinating. I personally always felt a little creeped out by the temple ceremonies from the very first time I went through. But the more deep/speculative doctrine stuff was always interesting to me.
@@fidgetthecrazy To be fair, I’m not sure I would have personally stayed in if it was more esoteric, but I also think these things can have profound human beauty.
One of my favorite things in the world as a kid, but even more so as an Exmo atheist adult, was the Manti Pagent… I even flew out to Utah to go see the final performance!
Yes, of course, the optics of white conservative people dressing up as villainous Native American Jews are horrible, but there’s also always incredible beauty whenever any group of humans band to get together to put on a divinity play… especially when they don’t have a lot of resources and money… because by definition, such works demands the highest level of passion, artistry, and selflessness imaginable. It brings out the best in people. Just think about how many grandmas sewed little lamenite costumes for their grandkids over the years!
One of the most brilliant depictions of the beauty I see in things like the Manti Pagent, and LDS Esoteria at large, is at the climax of the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” when the Africans put on their own Divinity Play for the local Mission President (to his shock and horror! 😂)
It’s played for laughs, but what makes it so damn poetic is that, for the Africans, what outsiders see as “wacky and obviously made up” is sacred, precious, and beautiful TO THEM. Not only that, their whacky new religion is the only thing that has ever worked to make their hard lives less shitty. That show is such a love letter to the Mormon Religion, and it completely changed how I thought about my own upbringing in it.
So, yeah, LDS esoteria is awesome. They thought Skybeams were cool hundreds of years before the MCU put them in every movie. Hahaha.
love the video, I think that was the greatest ad I've ever seen. It was soo good I barely noticed i was watching an ad and once I did I didn't mind watching the rest. Keep it up can't wait for the next video!
I stumbled upon your channel last night and I gotta say you're awesome! Grat topics and top-notch production. Good stuff!
best Ad i have seen in a while
When
@@gleefull2962 it ends at the 10 min mark so before that
that ad almost got me
that Odoo ad was epic
Best ad transition ever! You def fooled me until I saw the Excel and Slack icons. hahah
Beautifully curated / prepared video.
I want a SalesForce ring in ways that aren't even classified in the DSM yet.
@@noahwofford2433 lolllllllll
I ate that sponsor up lmfao
Hi. Ex Mormon here. I’ve been through the temple and the mysterious tone is cracking me up because I know what exactly happens in there. Good editing and tone setting btw just humorous because of my perspective.
is it like freesmasonry?
@@sonder1309 A lot of it was ripped-off from freemasonry, yes (although the ceremony has been changed and downplayed over the years). If you are curious about what it looks like, the youtuber NewNameNoah has direct recordings of the ordinances.
@@sonder1309 I’m not a freemason but based off what I know about them it felt like it might be a watered down version of some of their rites mixed with some Mormon doctrines.
That add read was so seamless and impressive that I am subscribing based just on that
Now that’s how you do an ad! Well done sir 👏
As a member of the LDS church (mormon) I have to say, this is definetely one of the more unbiased videos I've seen on our religion. Thank you. Many like to paint our religion as a "cult" just because we do ordinances and stuff, when in reality we are a pretty regular religion. The Catholic, Hindu and Jewish churches also do "rituals", but for some reason, everyone likes to overlook what they do. (not saying they have weirder practices than we do, just to clarify)
We just view all cults through the same lens.
The issue is that you claim to be Christian, but *_very_* blatantly aren't. As such, you are considered a cult by most Christians. Mormonism is essentially an American version of Islam. Simple as.
@@jamietomas1550 Like a cult of anti-cultists.
@@tracienielson7183 no like a cult of cultists. With rituals and secrecy everyone finds it strange. If you look up the definition of cult this would be a lot easier.
@@jamietomas1550 Nope. Outsiders finding our practices strange does not make us a cult. This discussion proves the lack of secrecy. It does prove that people are rude, flippant, and disrespectful to things they don't understand but feel qualified to bash anyway.
6:33 much of my family is from Mexico City and everyone i know from there appreciates that the temple there is designed to mimic native architecture.
Rather apt for Mormonism (based on freemasonry) to mimic the paganism and human-sacrifice of the Aztecs...
@hoogyoutube
"Mormon" (Latter-day Saint) here.
Loved the video. Very well-produced and cool art direction in general.
Some clarifications:
• We don't believe the temple signs/tokens prove you're "Mormon." (They're simply symbolic reminders of the covenants we make).
• In the vast majority of temples, you don't progress from room to room during the Endowment (it's a presentation shown all in the same room).
• You implied that those asexual or gay will necessarily miss out on the highest heaven. This isn't a teaching within the Church. LDS prophets have consistently taught that those who never had a chance for a temple marriage/sealing in this life *will* have the opportunity in the spiritual post-mortal realm (before final judgment).
• The choice of music and the doubting, Johny Harris-esque character narrative is clearly meant to sensationalize, but I don't fault you for that. But these leads me to my next point...
• The idea of becoming Gods is a bit heavy-handed. We *do* believe we can become like God (and be creators in some sense, if not only to continue reproducing) but we don't believe we ever become Saviors or that we in any way replace God the Father or his Son Jesus Christ.
They actually do believe that LDS become their own Gods, but it's a teaching reserved for those who are deeper into Mormonism and/or for those who have read about it.
It's not taught very openly at first, but it is still on the books.
It's definitely in the older books.
Should also point out that we dont take living persons "names" to the temple either. This work is done for those family members and populice who have passed on. One cant just go... "Oh James Earl Jones passed away... Im gonna go do temple work for him. It doesn't work like that.
@@stevencall3968
stop lying to people, it's not just for family members. They will put a bunch of names on the list then you go and get 'baptized' on their behalf. They will absolutely put down names that you have not heard of
@@sharefiles-cf1if mhm
Cults are so fascinating
I love this channel. It may sound off topic but I chanced on this cool translator that does everything and more of what a translator should have, name is Immersive Translate and one thing that can really help is it’s new feature, which lets you create a custom AI expert for translating anything. Thank me later, it's gold.
Hey big fan of your channel, Fern too, I would love to see a video on Cape Dutch Architecture in South Africa, I think it would make a really interesting video
7 views in 21seconds? Hoog must have migrated to the new city in Utah...
Edit: great video! The sponsor spot was kinda funny. I wonder if the name Harris Johnson was inspired by another animated graphics explainer youtuber...
Give it time.
We all know who that Harris Johnson is
I appreciate the unbiased nature of the video but from my education of lds teachings and practices regardless if you believe in the religion there are several inaccuracies in this video just in the first few minutes. Good video but take it with a grain of salt.
This is best ad I’ve ever seen in a UA-cam video omg 😂❤️
That ad transmission gave me a good life. That was I've ever seen by far!
This was excellent 👍 concise and calm, while being super informative and entertaining
Interesting, I didn't no much about mormonism. I guess it makes sense why there are so many mormon sci-fi writers.
This didn't really even really scratch the sci-fi stuff in Mormon theology. See the book of Abraham and the POGP.
Sci-fi Mormon stuff is so funny
You can make even the most common things sound spooky with the right tone and music. Most devout members do not do all of the rituals in one day. They do not start in the baptistry and work their way up. Members do 10 or 20 baptisms of names etc rather than one at a time.
I totally love the fact that the LDS Church's idea of a Holy Temple is Cinderella's castle.🥳❤️☕
I've never commented on a video but I felt I should here.
Everyone has at least one thing in their lives that they hold close to their hearts and are very protective of. Many people, including myself and likely many of you reading, view family and friends that way. So, when opinions or interpretations of those things we deeply care about are shared---particularly negative or incorrect ones---we often feel the desire to defend those things, and we may realize the importance of thorough research on the things other people deeply care about so that they don't have the same experience. In addition to my family and friends, I hold my faith very close to my heart, and my faith happens to be something that many in the media and online share many opinions and interpretations of. I say all this because perhaps some of you who are reading, even if you are atheists or not members of my faith, can empathize with that feeling of protectiveness over something you care deeply about that I feel when I see someone's interpretation of my beliefs.
I appreciate you taking the time to respectfully explain what we believe, @hoogyoutube. I know it is hard to adequately explain a belief system that you don't personally believe (especially with the level of depth you attempted 😄), but I think you did a good job of fairly approaching the topic without obvious bias or disdain for my faith or its followers.
That said, I will say that while many basic facts about our beliefs you described were accurate (i.e. the existence of ordinances such as baptisms for the dead, the general big picture of each step of the Plan of Salvation, etc.), as I'm sure you suspected, there were several inaccuracies. My automatic desire is to defend and correct. However, I'm not going to give a minute-by-minute fact-check of everything in the video in this comment. But I do want to remind people to pause and take this video with a grain of salt, and think about how you wish people would approach you when someone gives a slightly inaccurate interpretation or opinion about something you deeply care about. Maybe you'd wish they asked you questions rather than stuck with assumptions. Maybe you'd wish they did some research of their own. This video is a good starting point for discussion, so I also want to open up the comment section to any of those who may have a desire to respectfully ask questions or develop a clearer understanding of what we believe.
That's all. Sorry for the length. Thank you again, @hoogyoutube, for your desire to fairly explain my faith.
That ad fucking slapped lmao. Amazing video, really well-written and produced. Would love you delve more into existential/philosophical topics
That was hands down the best ad transition I ever have seen. 👏👏
You should do more videos on "WHy do _____ churches/temples/mosques/etc look wierd"
Was the Harris you talked about the the UA-camr Johnny Harris which was also a Mormon
Wow, that ad-transition was the smoothest I’ve ever seen
This was fun. It's like they almost get somewhere and then the 1960's chairs, furniture, everything seemed "off" Nice job explaining it.
Your sponsorship segment got me lol.
Mate. Coming from someone who normally skips straight through ads, you're a master. That one was magic and I actually went back to watch it again because I enjoyed your misdirection so much..
Well played.
I've always enjoyed your videos and love what you do. Keep them coming.
Lol i thought the sponsor was actually the mormon belief thing i was so confused haha
Bro you pick some of the best subject matter respect…alongside making amazing content from the audio, visual, storytelling mad good 👌
At first, I was skeptical about finishing this video. As an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I am apprehensive of warching videos like these because some people take these types of videos too far out of context. I'm glad you took some sensitivity to the sacredness of the things that are done in the temple. The church does try to make public what can be made public to remove the stigma of mystery and negative ideas of the temples. Though I thought some things were a little out of context, you got a vast majority of things pretty spot on. I see this as a learning opporutnity to people who are genuinely curious and want to learn more... of course, not everything can be said due to the sacredness of such context but if you have the opportunity to go to a temple open house during the brief window that temples are open to the public, you can learn more about why the church builds these temples and what is done within. This video was more philosophical and theoretical and I like it. I and some of my friends in the church often question each other on our own ideas and this topic quite often. Haha. It's a fun debate we have.
Isn’t this voice artist the same one that works for Fern?
Yes
@@lengting that would be insane.
U can clearly hear his strong dutch accent lmao, not the same as Fern.
@@yorbenhebbelinck1169 The chanel discreptios has a link to Fern Hah
fern is a joint channel with 2 voice artists, including hoog :P
Hahahahahah not the Lord of the rings AD ❤😂
wait, the odoo ad was an ad that people were supposed to say "ok, sounds good" when they saw it
the one ring was evil - such an honest ad...
This was exceptionally good. Thankyou.
i was smoking a zubi while watching this and that ad-transition had me questioning the universe, very well played!
I honestly might be an insane person, because hearing you explain mormon beliefs is kind of converting me! They sound a little based!
Insane? No,probably just searching.Remember this whole group was started by a dude who found golden tablets in upstate New York. I don't believe the purpose of your life is wrapped up in any of the tax exempt mumbo jumbo organizations.
Joining the cult because you want to be your own God, you will end up in hell I promise you that. Nothing based about that, but I'm sure you're the type who hates Jesus anyway.
@@sonder1309 More like freebased!
I was raised in this religion and I can tell you it’s pretty crazy walking into one of these buildings. They put a lot of work and money into making it look flawless. And everything is WHITE. im talking like porcelain or confectioner sugar level white. The clothes you wear, the carpet, the curtains the wallpaper even the light switches. All white. As a Mormon child, you take a lot of youth “temple trips” to do baptisms for the dead. You’re told that you’ll feel a sense of peace and “rightness” as in, “this is where I’m supposed to be. This is the right choice” you’re told you’ll feel the Holy Ghost. I didn’t feel any of those things. I mainly felt extreme anxiety and nervousness. And I was restless as all get out.
When you enter a temple it’s a very quiet and reserved atmosphere. There’s almost no talking unless it’s being done by a temple worker during the instructional session (when they tell you where to go, who to go to if you get lost or separated from your group, etc) or the person giving the prayer or doing the baptisms. And even then it isn’t loud, it’s done in a very hushed tone. I couldn’t sit still or keep my eyes down during the “contemplation” part of
The session. If I felt anything, it was a desire to be back outside. I was itchy and had hot flashes 😂 so after, when I was asked by my mom what the experience was like and if I “felt the spirit” I lied and told her yeah it was really cool.
I can understand. It may be hard often to "feel the spirit" when inside of the temple. As an LDS member, I can tell you that it is hard for me to feel the spirit sometimes while in the temple. What I found was I can feel it better when I think of why I am there, and also when I "let go" of the earthly thoughts inside of my head, and think of Jesus Christ. I can often feel peace when I do that.
Exact same experience. I felt really uncomfortable. Like the whiteness was overcompensating and suffocating. 😂
As an Active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or "Mormon," I appreciate the accuracy and honesty with which you portrayed us. I'm only disappointed that the video followed a man who lost his faith, since that seemed to give the video a negative outlook on what you so respectfully shared otherwise.
that odoo commercial was the smoothest transition from content to commercial I have ever seen...
The DC temple was open to the public in 2022 after renovations and I went to tour it. It was really cool to see after driving past the spires for so many years. The interior was definitely eerie and I was surprised how clinical it felt. Like a dentist office crossed with the backrooms. The exclusivity a scale added a whimsical willy wonka effect. All around a weird experience and Im so glad I got to see it before it was sealed to the public.
Honestly... I had never really delved deep into what Mormonism is, or what they believed... all I had ever heard was the "cooky" way it was created... but... this video makes me think it's actually quiet a beautiful way to view the world. The more you know.
Wait a minute,you are o.k. with some dude finding golden tablets buried in upstate New York?
It’s a really fantastic religion. I no longer am a member, but once you get past some of the oddities it really is a very well intentioned religion with great folks at the helm and a very merciful theology.
Best ad in history of UA-cam
@@RhayaderGoesToTown where ?
Again and again, I can watch ad like those all day, creative, aesthetic and useful. Please UA-cam, don't let ad about men shouting at me that I should shave agressively my beard twice an hour, or women telling me I should wear their favorite sanitary plug
Surprisingly accurate video in comparison to what most others have made concerning the topic and I do believe this video was made without malice so I will suggest that for a more accurate, open, and honest look in their beliefs to look up a channel called Keystone. very informative.
I think it was late 70's or early 80's we toured the Tabernacle next to DC. Yeah it was amazing to see! I've lived around 40 miles from it most of my life. You can get a pretty good look from the beltway. Beautiful building for sure!
"Harris Johnson" of the Washington D.C. area. Verrrrrry subtle.
@@stalegum lmao. Yeah 🤣
I grew up Mormon, and trying to explain this stuff to folks is HARD. Now I can just show them this! lol
I also tell folks that while Mormons don’t believe in hell via traditional Christianity, they do have THE MOST passive aggressive after-life of all theology. 😂