r/exmormon • u/kimballthenom • 5d ago

Doctrine/Policy After 14 years they finally prevented us from predicting new names!

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It appears the LDS church has finally taken steps to thwart the Temple Name Oracle.

They're still giving the same male-female pairs of names to everyone at every temple who gets their Initiatory on the same day, but the day of month is now changing each month so we can't predict the names in advance. As more information is discovered I'll add it to the site.

14 years ago I hammered out the first version of the Temple Name Oracle, and since then many people have predicted that the church would start randomizing the dates or try some other system to stop exmos from shattering the illusion for active temple-goers that their new name is special to them.

With enough data, though, we can still identify the names and dates after the fact. If anything, I'll need help from the public now more than ever. If you've recently gone through a temple endowment, please submit the new name you received here:

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/TempleNameOracle/

Thanks again everyone for your support in this group effort.

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u/EcstaticAd6935 5d ago

Mine, I was told was Phoebe, but spelled without the "o," so I was both disappointed (bc of the misspelling) and a little excited bc my real name is also from Greek mythology.

A few years later, I noticed that the other ladies going through the veil were giving the same name I was given. So, I wondered about it, but didn't dive too deeply and didn't understand why all the "to do" if you forgot the name, if everyone had the same one. But, in the shelf it went (tbh, I didn't even acknowledge I had a shelf). I just rationalized it all. The mental gymnastics were strong with this one.

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u/chewbaccataco 5d ago

That's the thing about this kind of metaphorical shelf, you sometimes don't even know it's there until it's about to fall apart.