The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Checking in Fellowship

Lot´s of upgrades among the Companion today. Congratulations!!!

@Silverwolf - Hobbit / Hobbiton (the adventure begins now my brother. Good luck!!! )


@Chakra_Serpent - Buckleberry Ferry / Shire


@princess.01 - Lothlórien / Wilderland


@kingsmokepoof - Gates of Argonath / Anduin River


@crazyhorse11 - Dead Marshes / Emyn Muil


Have a great day my brothers and sisters!!! . Checking out

easy_peasy

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"We tend to think of porn as a tug-of-war, on one side is fear: “It’s unhealthy, filthy and enslaving.” On the
other side, the positives: “It’s my pleasure, my friend, my crutch.” It never seems to occur to us this side is
also fear; it’s not that we enjoy porn, it’s that we tend to be miserable without it. Heroin addicts deprived of
heroin go through misery, but picture the utter joy when they’re finally allowed to plunge a needle into their
vein and end that terrible craving. Try to imagine how anyone could actually believe they get pleasure from
sticking a hypodermic syringe into a vein. Non-heroin addicts don’t suffer that panic feeling and heroin doesn’t
relieve the feeling, it causes it.

Non-users don’t feel miserable if they aren’t allowed to use porn – it’s only users that suffer that feeling.
Internet porn doesn’t relieve the feeling, it causes it. The fear of the negative consequences doesn’t help users
quit, likening the feeling to walking through a minefield. If you get away with it, fine, but if you were unlucky
you stepped on a mine and faced the consequences. If you knew the risks and were prepared to take them, what
did it have to do with anyone else? Addicts in this state typically develop the following evasive tactics.

“You’ll eventually get old and lose your sexually prowess anyway. . . ”

Of course you do, but sexual prowess isn’t the point – we’re talking slavery here. Even if that’s the case, is that
a logical reason for deliberately cutting yourself short?"

“Quality of life is more important than just living.”

Precisely! Are you suggesting that the quality of life of an addict is greater than someone who isn’t addicted?
Do you really believe the quality of a users life is better than a non-users. A life spent covering their head in
the sand and being miserable doesn’t sound like a pleasant one.

“I’m single and not planning to settle down in the future, so why not?”

Even if that were true, is that a logical reason for playing with neurological impulse control mechanisms? Can
you possibly conceive of anyone being stupid enough to strip naked whenever they’re alone, regardless of how
sure they aren’t expecting anyone? That’s what porn users effectively do!
Progressive gunging-up of our reward circuits with excessive stimulation, and making them incapable of handling
normal stresses of life doesn’t help in enjoying your life with enthusiasm and vigour. Porn and masturbation
has replaced the natural sexual appetite, like a chocolate bar replacing real food. Unsurprisingly, many doctors
and psychologists are now relating various mental health problems to physiological causes. The mainstream
medical community has laboured that porn has never been scientifically proven to be the direct cause of the
issues reported by self-confessing individuals, but admitting one’s sexual inability in public is such a shame
triggering event, why would anyone do this unless they were really concerned – having found the cause and
eliminating it from their own lives?

Easy_Peasy will help you rid yourself of porn and become a happy ex-user. No porn, porn aided masturbation
or unnecessary orgasms. The only aid will be the touch, smell and scent of your partner. Like wholegrain bread
after a well developed appetite, you’ll no longer want the high-fructose corn syrup of internet porn. Evidence
so overwhelming, as to not need proof; when I bang my thumb with a hammer it hurts, it need not be proven.
The stress of internet porn has flow on effects onto other aspects of the users life, predisposing many to turn to
drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol to cope, in some instances even turning the host to consider suicide.
Users also suffer illusions that the ill-effects of porn are overstated. The reverse is the case, there’s no doubt
that internet porn is the major cause of sexual dysfunction and many other problems. How many divorces
have been caused by porn? There are no reliable ways to know, but searches of online communities suggest the
number is growing exponentially.

There’s an episode of Friends where the guys, who were receiving continuous free porn on TV, started to wonder
why the pizza delivery girl didn’t ask to check out their ’big bedroom’. When you’re addicted, you invariably
project porn fantasies on real women. Imagine what careless or even accidental porn exposure on the darker
sides of the internet might do to someone already at a tipping point in their life. Fighting against these porn
induced thoughts will be a major drain on their mental health.

Here’s another thought experiment, let’s say someone comes to you and says they don’t necessarily want an
orgasm but very much want to make love, even penetrative. They want to do it for as long and as far as you
can go without an orgasm – but if it happens then it’s fine. I assure you of a phenomenal new sexual experience
far better than any other, if you even get that offer. Try it.

Effects of the brainwashing make us tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100 storey building, is
quoted saying as he whizzes past the fiftieth floor, “So far, so good!” We think that as we’ve gotten away with
it so far, one more porn session won’t make the difference. See it another way, the ’habit’ is a continuous chain
for life with each session creating the need for the next. When you start the habit, you light a fuse. The trouble
is, you don’t know how long the fuse is. Every time you give in to a porn session you’re one step closer to the
bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT’S THE NEXT ONE?

9.1 Sinister Black Shadows

Users find it very difficult to believe that internet porn actually causes those insecure feelings when you’re out
late at night after a contentious day at home or work. Non-users don’t suffer from that feeling, it’s porn that
causes it.
Another of the great joys of quitting porn is the freedom from the sinister black shadows at the back of our
minds. All users know they’re fools to close their minds from the ill-effects of pornography. For most of our
lives it’s automatic, but the black shadows are always lurking in our subconscious minds, just below the surface.
Several of the marvellous benefits of quitting are conscious, such as the waste of time and the sheer stupidity
of making love to a two-dimensional image.

The last chapters have dealt with the considerable advantages of being a non-user, but in the interests of fairness
it’s necessary to give a balanced account. Therefore, the next page lists the advantages of being a user."