Powerful testimony: overcoming porno addiction
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What's right? What's wrong?
You are literally telling people what to do on the internet, and you expect no one to come back to you with their thoughts. You go as far as calling those who disagree with you a fool. You have given a one person experience and called it gospel truth. What you recommend is ruining this country. I won't shut up, I won't back down. Not because I like arguing, but because I have a burning passion for the truth.
What you are saying is not the truth, so I cannot be silent.
You have vision that is very narrow, limited to your own sense of happiness. If you are curious as to what is the outcome of unlimited human happiness, look no further than the wealthiest man alive who had everything he wanted. King Solomon. By all accounts, the wealthiest, wisest man to live. He had some things to say about wealth.
Broaden your mind's eye. I try to give people a realistic, non "pie in the sky" view because 2 theologians fighting over who believes the more correct thing is useless to most of us.
Use a logic to discover what is truth. We live in a world of logics.
Is there good and evil?
Who determines it at its base level?
Whomever determined it, on what authority do they do so?
Ask these kinds of questions, seek their answers. No, this is not pie in the sky, because when you discover the base level of understanding of why you exist, so many problems will fall into place, that is to say, be solved. There are definitely still problems observed after this truth is known. You will have grace to deal with them, and hope so strong, so resolved, that these short term sufferings will seem as little as nothing when compared to the knowledge of God and his redemptive work across time and space. Based on logics, as far as my feeble mind can understand, Christianity is the true religion, because it does not self violate like every other religion out there.
One-person? I suppose you expect me to spend hours hunting down links that you will promptly ignore. This isn't my first day on the internet.
Look, you can just stop now. You're never going to convince me, because I've experienced too much and seen too much, watched too many of my friends and family go through much worse than I. And I understand that you'll never acknowledge that I should have any option but to throw myself into the gears of the machine and be glad to be sacrificed for someone else's beliefs, goals, or convenience.
So just let it go.
I provided you with an immediate link which you promptly ignored. It goes both ways. I'm sure you're a nice guy who does a lot of people good deeds, and that is in and of itself commendable. It is just a shame that's where it ends within you.
I'm not a Nice Guy. I'm principled, the one does not equal the other.
I don't mean nice guy like the green day song, I mean I'm sure you are trying to do the right thing, but things aren't working out for you. Many people in my life that I know have very similar stories. They call me lucky. Well, I guess my entire extended family and all of their family's are just "lucky" and we had no part to play in the way our lives have gone. I guess we're all just a lucky cog in wheel of life. Maybe you can catch my hint of sarcasm. With a few exceptions, my family has done really well in this world of good families. We aren't lucky, we have a large single minded goal. We seek to leave our offspring with a better life than what we had. We seek God's glory (though we don't all believe the exact same things), we seek his blessings for our communities. We let these desire manifest in a physical way to bless those around us. No one in my family is divorced. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings. This isn't luck, there's more to it than that. Yes, I am blessed to have such an extended family, and yes, not everyone can have that kind of family. To say they don't exist is a lie, to say they are just lucky is narrow minded. No family is that "lucky". Just a bunch of whacky dutchies, living a middle class life in the midwest. My family is not wealthy, we are not cabal to have this kind of life, we are just God-fearers. You too can have this. Maybe not exactly this, but you can start it, it's a personal choice and responsibility.
That's also sad and pathetic that you refuse to have the ability to change. I pity that about you.
Again, sounds like you're a nice guy, but that doesn't cut it.
If you came here and said that you struggled with porn addiction, but this is how you justified it to yourself, this convo would have gone a lot differently.
Keep leaning on counters.
You have no concept of the amount of change I've undergone in my life. Hell, just the last 10 years.
I don't struggle with porn. I can't tell you the last time I even watched it. It's been over a month. I've got plenty of other things to occupy my time. The yard and house won't maintain themselves, nor will the bass and trout catch themselves.
You're right that I don't know, but still, look at how you, and what you, recommended to people. Are you actually helping them? Or are you leading them down a downward spiraling path?
Fishing, yard work, house work, are all much more noble a task.