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The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Discussion in 'Events & Challenges' started by RiseToGreatness, Sep 22, 2019.

Should the Thread Title be extended?

Poll closed Jun 21, 2020.
  1. No, leave like that: "The Lord of the Rings Challenge"

    18 vote(s)
    54.5%
  2. Yes. "The Lord of the Rings Challenge: The Fellowship of Nofap"

    15 vote(s)
    45.5%
  3. Yes. "The Lord of the Rings Challenge: Rising Fellowship of Eärendil"

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. Yes. "The Lord of the Rings Challenge: The Journey to Mount Doom"

    5 vote(s)
    15.2%
  5. Yes. "The Lord of the Rings Challenge: The Quest of the Ring-bearer"

    6 vote(s)
    18.2%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. Mathman1994

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    I can definitely respect that. Yeah I think sex is used to sell a lot of things, which can make it hard to cope as a recovering porn addict. When triggers are everywhere, you have to almost cut off all media at times.
     
  2. Mathman1994

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    Day 27. I was watching Family Guy last night, and after I finished, I looked ahead to see what the next few episodes were about, as if they seem interesting, I will put that should on priority for the next time I am on a streaming service. Anyway, one of them reference a woman, and as I had never heard of her, I looked her up. Turns out she was a sport illustrated swimsuit supermodel from the 80s and 90s, and I saw her in her bikini, and I started to get hard. However, though I looked for a handful of seconds, I managed to avert my gaze, close out of the browser, and as I was a little ashamed by what I saw, I also deleted my browser history. Considering that my intentions were innocent, I am not sure why I deleted it, probably out of habit.

    A more humorous story is that I have an accountability app on all of my devices, and they can be rather sensitive. Especially the one on my phone. Anyway, my mom kept getting notifications that I was searching something with “anal” in the title. That thing I was searching was “ANALytical Number Theory” (I am capitalizing the anal here to point it out, I did not do that in my actual search). I was reading up on the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis and L-Functions, and that led to me reading up on analytical number in general as those are front and center in the field. My first full day of being a month clean is Thursday, and Friday will be the longest I have gone without porn in a couple years. That includes little to no fishing, no porn, and no bikini photos. Sometimes you stumble onto bikini photos, but that is not intentional, and as long as I get off right away, it is alright and does not count. If I seek it out, then we have a little problem, but if I am able to snap out of it almost immediately, it does not count. I have not gazed upon a nude woman in 30 days, and I am very proud about that.

    Best,
    Mathman1994
     
  3. PerseveranceToday

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  4. LuckyMan

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    Checking in. All good here. Have a great day fellowship !
     
  5. Diderik

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    Ten days now. This Uruk-Hai will become a Hobbit in a handful of days!
     
  6. Zapy97

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    Day 26 but it has only begun. I will have anther 12 hour graveyard shift tonight. I will be fighting boredom far more than porn.
     
  7. archie.hill

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    Day 85,

    Really tough day today. Working through a lot of regrets.

    Important emotional work that PMO used to distract me from. Not anymore!
     
  8. mizzuddin017

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  9. RiseToGreatness

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    Entering the Anduin my brother :). Paddle ;)

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  10. RiseToGreatness

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    Saruman commands you now brother, but i´m sure it will not be for long. Keep going!!! :)

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  11. RiseToGreatness

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    :emoji_muscle:

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  12. RiseToGreatness

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    well, boredom is an old trigger for addicts. can´t you do something with all that time? try to work out a plan.
    if you fill your time, you´ll gain 2 things: improve life quality (since being ative is better than dullness) + avoid the risk of a relapse ;)
     
  13. RiseToGreatness

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    Amazing my brother. You enter the region of Ethilien, "a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams".

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  14. Breakthrough!

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    Thanks for the tip! But what do i have to write in my journal? how i am feeling? why it is important to keep fighting against it? I will try this.
     
  15. Breakthrough!

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    good idea, thank you! i will try this. But getting to the point of 15 days is hard for me..
     
  16. RiseToGreatness

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    One more day of walking brave Fellowship :)

    Now i don´t if i entered the Morgul Road, since i´m not sure if i´m on day 169 or 170 :D, and the counter doesn´t refresh right away. i think it´s better to check in tomorrow anyhow :D

    i hope you´re all going good, safe and sound :)

    Here´s Soaring Eagle with more teachings. Have a great day rebooters!!!! :)

    "Lastly, let’s talk about the evil karma from masturbating twice in a row.

    If you go visit the forums for autonomic disorders, then you will know the patient called sg552. His illness was induced by long-term sitting for long durations and masturbating twice consecutively, that’s when the feeling of nearing death appeared. Masturbating 2 times consecutively is really too damaging to the body, it has been stated in TCM long ago: desire should not be strong. In [Thousand Golden Prescriptions] it is mentioned: strong force bestows leakage, becoming a strain. Especially for consecutive masturbation sessions, this is truly a taboo. The emergence of orientation towards prostatitis and premature ejaculation easily arises following 2 in a row masturbation sessions. This is actually induced by the human weakness of greed towards desire. In the pursuit to satisfy oneself, the results are to harm the self!

    The reason to why many people masturbate twice in a row is because: the first time went too quick and was not intense enough. It is precisely this greed towards desire that enables their self-destruction. This kind of examples of self-destruction is too many. We must keep in mind the lessons from TCM on the destructiveness of a strong desire, refrain from doing stupid things, if you are unaware of this principle then you are both ignorant and fearless, the result being making yourself miserable. If you know this principle but still indulges, then you are seeking annihilation! Many people are unable to conquer their addictions and so they commit this kind of errors, like wrapped under a spell, repeating only after they have relapsed. Therefore, we must nip in the bud, properly manage our thoughts and put an end to sexual fantization, or else when the flame has sprung up, it will no longer be within your control.

    Concluding remarks:

    Summer approaches, quite a few brothers report increased hair loss, they are anxious over this. In reality, the factors that induce hair loss is many, seasonal changes being one of them. Lately I lose up to 20 strands of hair per day compared to up to 5 strands of hair previously, this is actually caused by the change of the seasons and not by masturbation. So in this matter, everybody should have a clear understanding, or else the confidence is prone to be swayed and thus turns into the act of masturbation. Among that factors that induce relapse I have talked about the “doubt factor of relapse”, if you have doubt in your heart, the chances of relapse will be great. Normally during summer, the secretion of sweat and oil is exuberant, this combined with stronger UV rays will cause damage to the hair. In this way, we may see more cases of hair loss, this is not only limited to humans, if you observe animals such as pet dogs, they also go undergo heavy hair loss during summer.

    One brother puts it very neatly, rebooting is a process of system engineering. One must carry out rebooting as professionally as able, increase one’s knowledge to the maximum, becoming an insider in rebooting. By neglecting to study one is always an outsider, remaining on the level of the rookie, to successfully reboot will then become very difficult. When everybody has gained the awareness for studying, after a while, you will notice that your awareness and determination have both increased. As long as one continues to study, complete understanding will not be far away. Complete understanding together with maintained vigilance equals completely successful reboot, fight on!"
     
  17. Julito

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