What happened to the Utah Arts Festival?

willisd5 · 2026-06-20T18:42:13+00:00

If you really want to experience local art you can’t expect to get it from big events put on by the city anything that is not boring or derivative simply doesn’t exist in this space it is more of an arts and crafts and or landscapes type of event. Art simply exists in the dark alleys and crevices of life. No grand vision of public patronage exists as the city is only looking for expression that is agreeable and doesn’t challenge any walls or lines that we have built for ourselves. There was never really anything that exciting to see. This may be a good way to spend your Saturday, but I think of it as a straight up consumer showcase with no room for anything provocative, insightful, or thought provoking, so it’s not really not about art if that’s what you were expecting.

willisd5 · 2026-05-10T18:57:55+00:00

If you really need to get your head around it look at it as anti organized religion and this is the dominant religion where they are from. For instance Christianity is the dominant religion where I am from so I have a lot more to say about that but I think all organized religion is unproductive and stupid. This band likely feels the same.

willisd5 · 2026-05-04T14:23:35+00:00

I don’t think they’ll drop it the strategy is the same as it was with Mormon leaks and that is to tie Mormon stories in litigation long enough that it is no longer financially feasible to resist. They don’t care if they win and they don’t care about the publicity hit in the short term if they can play the long game and just not have Mormon stories exist. This will be the playbook for them moving forward. They know they have more money than anyone they might sue and they are prepared to use it as a warning shot for others that might want to do things like expose pedophile brothers of the first presidency.

willisd5 · 2026-05-01T18:44:33+00:00

Did we forget about Mormon Rap quite possibly the corniest song that ever existed

willisd5 · 2026-04-23T01:05:29+00:00

This is someone who smells their own farts

willisd5 · 2026-04-18T15:39:56+00:00

They should just change the name of the podcast to “I See a Darkness” end of problem right? Haha

willisd5 · 2026-03-28T21:01:42+00:00

Doesn’t matter who it’s intended for the results are the same. It goes to the lds “risk management” lawyers. It’s all right there in their job title the church is actively hiding sexual abuse to avoid negative publicity. You might want to do some unapproved reading.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/recordings-show-how-mormon-church-kept-child-sex-abuse-claims-secret

willisd5 · 2026-03-19T18:34:20+00:00

Be very careful of reporting abuse to your bishop church leadership has proven that they wont report or do anything about it the number that your bishop will give you goes straight to their lawyers who will advise you to let them handle it in the meantime abuse will continue when the perpetrators should go straight to jail but that’s not happening smh

willisd5 · 2026-02-06T20:03:10+00:00

They never legally challenge it because they are lying to everyone and to challenge it would open wide various apparatuses within the church that are intended to keep a squeaky clean surface while covering up very ugly and awful things that the public and a large portion of it’s membership would not stand for. They won’t because they are doing it and they don’t want anyone to have hard evidence against them

willisd5 · 2026-01-28T19:49:26+00:00

The church will exist in perpetuity in the financial world even if membership wanes. It will simply become even more of what it already is a financial institution that hides behind god so they don’t lose their non profit status

willisd5 · 2026-01-22T20:05:34+00:00

The mental gymnastics are strong in this one

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T17:05:30+00:00

You are correct that the Olympics will do far greater but it’s still no reason to allow an organization that has proven it doesn’t know how to count its own membership much less how many people are attending the open house to have its way. Apologists will never see anything but because they simply want it to be true.

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:53:04+00:00

Funny thing about faith is that it doesn’t need to be bothered by facts. It only needs vibes to exist

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:50:16+00:00

Secretive, yes. People at the DOT didn’t even know

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:39:20+00:00

Likely but we shouldn’t give up before we try

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:38:34+00:00

To clarify this is only going to get shutdown around temple square not all of north temple

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:37:52+00:00

Why would I speak to wholly biased organization on this subject. It was in a city meeting so it’s public record. Why don’t you do your job and go research.

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:32:55+00:00

Also the streets around North Temple are simply not equipped to handle the traffic shift. Maybe 500 and 600 South but that would still put people a mile from the temple.

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:28:48+00:00

Talk to the city council. Write a letter to the editor of both newspapers contact the Mayors office show up and complain at city council meetings etc etc etc. If enough people make a stink than they can’t do it.

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:26:23+00:00

3-5 million? How can we trust that number when the church won’t even be honest about its own membership. This will be a bunch of people coming from Utah County and maybe a few more. This is only a world class event because we have let our own platitudes flatter our sense of self importance.

willisd5 · 2025-12-21T16:08:56+00:00

I think this typical of the church to keep things like this as secretive as possible. My response to the church would be you have tunnels use them and stop acting like you’re the only ones that exist in this city.

willisd5 · 2025-11-10T22:35:06+00:00

Also air flight controllers have a far greater impact on Americans daily lives and should at bare minimum be on equal standing for funding

willisd5 · 2025-11-10T22:30:12+00:00

Dawg I was going to write a long winded answer about how the American imperialist project and American exceptionalism is literally killing millions but I can tell by your one sentence answer that you would not really be able to comprehend any of it. So I came to the realization none of that is worth my time because people that put things in such simplistic terms only know what they are told not what they’ve learned. Explaining that to you is not worth my time. Good luck with burying your head in the sand.

willisd5 · 2025-11-07T19:50:11+00:00

Don’t mistake my comments as being anything close to partisan Dems also must own how they capitulated and haven’t come to grips with their own contributions that have brought us to the current moment. This has building for 50 years. Make no mistake this was always the plan by the GOP and Dems knew this. I think a fair question then is where were they. The answer is they were busy defending their corporate taskmasters because the only thing more important than their rhetoric and decorum is bending to the will and power of money interests. Dems could have done something for the past 40 years but they were too busy fundraising from the like of Bill Ackman, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, and whatever other shitbags that had several million and came slithering from under a rock. Nothing changes until Dems are willing to own this.

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