The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Most pornography is illegal. The rest should be illegal, even for personal consumption with full consent of all parties involved, for example, in acting, directing, creation, production, distribution, et cetera, of the pornography.

 

The illicit nature of pornography is one thing that keeps me away from it.

 

Brother, Orc rank doesn't exist in the challenge now. You can change your rank to Hobbit.

 

Batman was my favorite cartoon in my childhood. What the hell is going in the internet? P**n is everywhere. Great advice brother. But brother protect your self when you are web surfing.

 

Day 172, Frequency of wet dreams are decreasing now.

 

Thank you so much for your words brother, I really apretiate them. Yes you are rigth, I have to be more aware and careful with behaviors and actions that make me relapse and to develop habits to reduce the urges.

 

1 day
Low urges yestarday, worked almost all day, I advaced a lot in my side proyects, I'm really happy for that but I have to continue today with it.
Today I didn't worked out (my rest day) but I will take a cold shower at least.
Keep stron my brothers.

 

Unfortunately, I relapsed through M. I reached 125 days hard mode, so basically I died in battle on the first day of being promoted to Elf-King. Thats my longest streak ever.
Im Disappointed because of the relapse, but looking forward to get back stronger. Next goal is to become at least Dwarf-King. The fapping lifestyle is just not worth it. The NoFap lifestyle is so much more satisfying.

 

@Redemptionisrequired thank you for your comment. Even if short, it's very much appreciated! I'm aware that it would be good if I interacted more here with people. I would like to, but ... maybe I'm just too egoistically focussed on my own recovery these days. I do read many post here, however.

@Diderik hey, old chap! I remember you from old days. Was it the Around-the-world challenge where we mostly met? I don't remember. How cool is that!, you still have "SEE THE WORLD ..." in your Signature. And you know what, today I revived the thread with a post. But I'm still at letter A. I envy you!
And to your information, my friend, "ORC" is not a rank in the LOTR challenge anymore lol. It's now Hobit. On day 15 you'll become an Elf. Good luck!


The Around the World Challenge is a unique nofap challenge with the theme of traveling the world country by country. It is unique because of the counting in 10-day-chunks. So for every 10 days without porn you get one country further. So a relapse means you have to start again with counting from 0 to 10 (to get to next country) but you don't loose your progress. Every country you've visited stays in your bag.

 

Took your advice. Back to zero again. Day 1 has however passed. Very, very busy. Tomorrow is less busy. Looking forward to that.

Andrew Huberman's podcasts are great. Informative and always backed by science, which I appreciate. Great clip, hadn't listened this one yet. Will definitely listen to this episode tomorrow.

 

Interesting. I was just about droping some lines on the difference between M resets and P relapses and how it effects our recovery when I saw your post, which made me aware how many of us guys struggle with these questions.

I don't know how you handle it, but I would recommend to continue counting the no-porn streak. At least if p is still your main target. I mean, restart this challenge / your hardmode streak but still keep that other streak so that you keep in mind: I'm still porn free.
I'm talking about the psychological factor here.
Let me put it this way: someone who drinks no coffee because it's just part of his lifestyle can still drink a cup of coffee once and still keeping his lifestyle. He then doesn't become a coffee drinker.
Maybe this example doesn't quite fit to our situation, but you get my point.
Also you can keep all your quest items (as @RiseToGreatness told us recently), which is emphasizing the same thing I was talking about imho.

I myself will also treat this as a hardmode challenge. (It was originally designed as a hardmode
challenge but it seems to me, as if the rules of the challenge are not so clear anymore).
I'm emphasizing it, because I came to the conclusion that MO is quite harmful to my recovery, NOT because sperm leaves the body, but simply because the whole ritual and the fantasizing that goes along, as well as the realease of hormones like dopamine is strongly linked to my pmo habit.

So actually I'm just going back to the basics: no MO during the reboot. Hard 90!
I would also argue that, as Alexander (Rhodes) said clearly, a reset is not a relapse and MO is considered a reset. This is an important technical difference for people who struggle with porn (addiction).

 

thanks day 5

 

@LLOYYD You mention it is surprising that I never turned to drugs or alcohol. I have quit drinking. Never been addicted to drugs. Drinking was never my main issue. The rejection pushes me to my addiction to pmo. Pmo is my drug. It's what I have used to cope with the pain.

 

I spent time with Llewellyn today. She is bae S2. I like to sit on the couch and watch stuff with her. Usually we watch the fire crackle and pop in the hearth. Or maybe go out to see the town performers. The elves are really incredible at what they do. Legolas can juggle five balls now. Although his specialty is with the bow obviously.

Sadly I don't think he'll make it as a clown. His jokes miss the mark as often as his arrows hit them. Furthermore, his severe expression usually scares the children off before he can get to the punch line

I was sitting with Llewellyn and realized it wasn't working for me just seeing her one day a week. So I'm going to brave the choppy waters of Anduin to see her when I'm done working on making pastries to sell. Baking is tiring work. It's hot, I have to get up early and if the batch doesn't come out well it's basically not sellable. So I give it my best shot everyday and it all pays off to see the Hobbit Children's faces light up as they savor the sweet cream buns.

I plan to see Llewellyn on Friday and stay over for two whole nights with her. I usually dodge such tasks as I'm a Hobbit of my Smial at heart. I love to sit in my Smial all day and only come out for relaxing excursions. It's much a bother to more than that for this one.

Ah, so I'll do my best to sleepover I know Llelly will accomodate me as she can, even if I have to sleep on the couch because it's quieter there and reminds me of the Shire. May it all go well

Tanks for all the likes on my posts yall

 

Day 0 again.

Well. This is quite frustrating. No P, only MO, but I've never felt so powerless before in my life. How do I break this cycle? How do I fight the voices in my head insisting that I keep going, the muscle tremors and weakness which make it impossible for me to escape a dangerous situation, and the body which continues moving even when I'm screaming at it to stop? Every aspect of my being is rebelling against me and there is nothing I can do to stop myself from masturbating.

But at least I'm fighting. I'm doing everything in my power to avoid this, even if that amounts to very little. Maybe the struggle is in vain, there's no hope of success, and I'll never be free from PMO. Even so, the struggle itself is how I am justified. As long as I am fighting the battle, I am winning, even if I never actually win. Resistance is futile in the long term, but resistance is what counts. Right?

I can't pray to anybody right now. I'm so pissed off at this whole thing.

 

Check in day 14

 

End of day 2

Was an easy day.

The challenge begins today. I will probably work from home.

 

Day 23 checking in

listened to a good podcast yesterday on dopamine. Can share link if people are interested, quite deep into the science but insightful.

Hard couple of days coming up, my wife is away so I’ll have time alone. In past this would have meant trouble but im determined to walk the line.

 

Day 21

I had a sexual dream before I woke up. I wasn't sure if it was a reset per say when it was happening but when I woke up I was relieved

I will watch the last episode of the The Rings of Power for this season when I get the chance.

I am somewhat in a similar situation with family I guess but another story for another time. Like I said, your situation sounds like an alcoholic turning to drink your sorrows away. Same with being a drug addict. Never been into drugs or alcohol. I never been an alcoholic and I stopped drinking all alcohol for numbers of reason. I won't even drink just for an occasion anymore. Yes, exactly PMO is like your drugs same with the rest of us. But for me, it was because of heavy urges that led me to do PMO. That was pretty much it for me. I mentioned this because someone in another challenge was going to PMO just because of failure. That is strange but it does happen because of rejection or failure in these cases. Lastly, you and Gallade_Templar are the individuals including one other that I will advise you as well once my streak in up there. Although I don't recommend blockers and such, I would have to say stop uninstalling Covenant Eyes if it was working for you! You can do this.

Yes indeed, he was one of my favorite cartoon superhero in my childhood as well. To be honest, there is also a Batman cartoon P as well since I remember when I was looking at P in the past when I was younger. Of course, you can't escape it especially Anime has plenty of that as well. But it's on ecchi when you watch Anime in general. Thank you little brother, I'm always keeping an eye out when I'm searching out in the web.

Cruising like an Elf & staying watchful.
Keep on going Fellowship!