Spiritual Eyes

[_Spider-to-the-Fly]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If someone without a sense of smell is laying on the lawn on a lazy summer afternoon and sees a dog turd on the grass with her eyes, she avoids sitting on it even though she cannot also smell it. However, the poor dear might roll backwards right over on top of another, fresh one that she did not see.

Someone equipped with both senses, sight and smell, would have a better chance of knowing not to roll backwards, on top of the stinky. Her sense of smell did not overcome her sense of sight and have her sit on the first one, the one that both individuals saw.

My point is that the addition of a new sense, like the suggested spiritual eyes, should enable the person to identify more turds, not to grab seen turds and sniff them as if they were rose blossoms. A new sense should enhance one's critical abilities, not diminish them. Yet what I hear I cannot see because I do not look with my 'spiritual eyes' has a certain stench to it. Anyone else smell that?

Regards,

Spider.

[_MCB]

Yes, I can smell it now, and it stinks to high heaven. Thanks for easing my bad mood.

[_Redefined]

Very interesting thought! Absolutely true too! An "extra" sense should work to improve overall function, rather than dull all the ordinary ones. And, the "spiritual eyes" sense doesn't seem to fit with the rest of them, because we use the other ones to make logical sense of the world around us, however, "spiritual eyes". . . well not the case!

[_MCB]

Those who are vulnerable to Mormon games, but are ignorant about them, are blind. Their "spiritual eyes" have not been opened.

[_Inconceivable]

Those who are vulnerable to Mormon games, but are ignorant about them, are blind. Their "spiritual eyes" have not been opened.

And what an epiphany it is when you suddenly realize you've been polishing them your entire life.

I should have listened to my spiritual nose.

[_Spider-to-the-Fly]

Ms. Redefined and M. MCB,

The 'spiritual eyes' supposedly trump what I sense with my physical senses and what I then logically deduce in my mind from the data from the physical senses.

Oddly enough, that's the same effect too much brandy has on me. It dumbs down my physical senses and impairs my mental processes, allowing the emotional to gain greater foothold over me.

At the Kirtland Temple, JSJr encouraged those assembled to drink wine on an empty stomach, promising that the wine had been blessed not to make them intoxicated or impaired.

It seems JSJr understood much better the connection between drinking alcohol and receiving the Spirit than have his successors and the members who follow them. It is as if the Mormon Church today asks people to self induce a drunken stupor without the aid and benefit of wine.

Regards,

Spider.

[_MCB]

And what an epiphany it is when you suddenly realize you've been polishing them your entire life.

It releases a lot of anger, and I am uncomfortable with that, although I know that anger can be discharged in an adaptive way. The trick is to balance anger and self-blame in a realistic way. How could I open my spiritual eyes when every time I tried, I got a pair of shiners that swelled them closed again?

Yeah, my roommate is a religious nutcase when he is drunk. Get me outta here!!