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someone challenging whether LDS prohpets really are prophets or not, is a sideways tactic for attaking LDS followers faith... personaly i dont actually care wether they are genuine or not, i will know by there words and actions who they are, just as (his name slips my mind) was easily able to discern between god and the evil one. we're here to find truth and and learn to understand it, who speaks truth isnt important aslong as it is the truth that they speak. im sure theres an apropiate scripture for this.. about prophets something along the lines of "by there words you shall know them" or something... i could be wrong.

That is an interesting idea. Would you say that they are functioning simultaneously (that is if there really is such a thing as "spirit"?Dr. T funtioning simultaneosly - yes. as for is there such a thing as a spirit - i cant proove that here, but i personally belive so. but, spirit could well be replaced with the idea of an individual part of your brain, functioning as your main observation area, and the rest of your brain being the processor(s) that has controll over everything else. we most certainly dont get to 100% "observe" everything our eyes see and our skin touches ect, so it would seam reasonable that there are very large parts of the mind we have very little controll over, the more we learn about our selves and our impulses / instincts the more we can gain controll. will power ect is our ability to gain controll of our own minds... that in itself is an interesting phrase lol.

First post, and jumping in the deep end here but... arent we spirits in a physical vessel of sorts, meaning there must be a way to let go or partially let go. so given the general lack of spirituality that apears to exist in the world of today, would it not be safe to assume that those people who are more ignorant of there current state, might be easily influenced by spirits who do not have a vessel of there own? the evil one is noted in scripture many times as having the ability to "tempt" us , if we arent watching then who knows how far he would be able to go with such an ability. as for mental illness, i would imagine it is a combination of external spiritual influences, and our weaknesses as we might succumb to the "natural man". The human brain as far as i see it is an intermediatory computer designed to make the physical plane easyer to manage for our spiritual selves. The more you let your brain take controll the less your spirit is in controll. Obviously there are many many "programs" in the brain and our own controll over each of them would be different for each. so yeah... hi lol