The Lord of the Rings Challenge

excellent bro, that is one of the most important reboot skills that all fapstronauts must develop. excellent, you´re on the right path

 

i will definitely recomment that you keep the ipad away from sensitive situations until you feel 100% solid. the soft image that you saw shows that is still very early for you to engage with the ipad in those conditions. it´s a warning sign bro. take measures.

 

beautiful bro . keep going, you´re an inspiration for us all!!

 

that´s the spirit

 

Checking in mighty Fellowship!!

Brain fog appeared hard today, maybe due to too much sugar yesterday and screen time, broke my vows of not watching tv, and i watched a bit too much. or maybe it has nothing to do with it, i don´t know. anyway i will allow some screen entertainment, but not too much. anyway i did the wim hof technique twice today and it help me a lot to clear the mind . i owe a lot to this man!!

Let´s welcome our new brother:

@GN-z11

The following members are strong in their paths. Congratulations!!

@Baby Yoda @Rubzi - Bree / Eriador


@Revanthegrey - Anduin River / Wilderland


Have a great day brave Fellowship!! Love you all . You´re warriors, never forget that. Only someone who lived with an addiction knows the struggle, the effort and the determination that one must take to overcome this. You are warriors!!!

Checking out . Chapter 3 of "The Coiled Serpent" - Civilization


CIVILIZATION

"The progress of civilization seems to
have been unfavorable to the virtue
of chastity." — Gibbon, Decline and Fall of tks
Roman Empiri, I, fac, 504.

"The energy ... of civilization-man is directed out
wards." It is applied to materialistic and intellectual pro
gress at the cost of the spiritual. Thus "our knowledge has
increased but not our wisdom." Industrial mechanics have
astoundingly evolved, but not the modes of building
character. "While we are hastening from moment to
moment we have neither leisure nor repose . . . for the
development of character."

"The stressing of the physical sciences without a corres
ponding cultivation of the spiritual factors has lowered
man's sense of his moral power and responsibility." "The
most noxious sign of the blight in the social atmosphere is
the openly increasing laxity of morals." In fact, "moral
sense is almost completely ignored by modern society."

The race may be more intellectual than it ever was, but
it is not more spiritual. "Intellect preponderates. At the
same time . . . consciously hardly any one thinks today
of developing the soul." "The great intellectual progress
has been achieved to the detriment of soul life." Yet "it is
the character of the soul which determines man's level."

Man has learned to control many of nature's forces. But
as long as he can not control the forces within himself there
can be no question of real civilization. "Control of appetites
is the first step in human culture.""

"As regards his sexual ethics man has . . . retro
graded."" Although a milder mannerism in sexual expres
sion has been adopted by mankind, it has not become less
sensual ; rather the opposite. "Human culture . . . has not
carried things further than the putting of a finer polish on
. . . our animal impulses." "The effort of our civilization
has been to domesticate lusts", and now they are found
and fostered in almost every home. "In comparison with -
the mode of life which prevailed among mankind for
thousands of years we people of the present day are living
in a very immoral age." "Sexual morals have been cast
aside." "Sexual license would seem to be the unwritten
code of modern society." "We find ourselves ... in a
welter of urban sensualism and immorality.""

Sex tends to permeate to such an extent man's mental
and emotional as well as physical existence that "sex and
its expression have become an obsession"; and the present
generation stands practically indicted as one of sex-addicts.

Characteristically one finds in this age of boasted
culture: society saturated with sexual abuses from the
bottom to the top ; prostitution flourishing on a Gargantuan
scale; white slave traffic amongst the fastest growing
crimes; abduction and seduction as daily occurrences;
"criminal assaults upon children . . . greatly increased";
abortions more frequent than at any period, and as lightly
looked upon as is the extraction of a tooth ; sexual relation
ships among students of colleges and schools; "epidemics
of venereal diseases ... in highschools"; widespread
indulgence in perverse sex practices by old and young, even
the very young; sex plays on stage and screen attracting
largest audiences; sex novels finding the best market;
sophistical sex teachings disseminated without restriction,
their popularity resulting from the fact that they provide
excuses for personal weaknesses ; and such a prevalence of
male and female troubles that it would seem that 'civiliza
tion' inevitably spells 'syphilization'.

"Mere animalistic sex expression has no more place in
worthwhile civilization than would mud-huts serve as
modern houses."" But in our pseudo-civilization worse than
animalistic sex misuses are indulged in and condoned.

There can be no question of real civilization until a re
lentless campaign against the domination of sex is well on
its way. A lessening of the overwhelming influence of sex
is necessary before the race can claim a semblance of true
culture and of becoming spiritualized.

It is just because spirituality has been practically dis
carded that sensuality has become paramount ; for there is
a close relation, in inverse ratio, between the two: only
where the one is absent can the other rule.

Hence the great need of consciously and conscientiously
approaching a spiritualizing ideal. In themselves "ideals
. . . testify to a high level of civilization"" — particularly
when they help to bring the spiritual nature to the fore, the
animal nature to the background of human consciousness.

Therefore "human nature . . . must be modified according
to a definite ideal." And the needed ideal must in the
first place diminish the overpowering fascination of sex.
Because "it is not possible to develop . . . civilization
unless we can inhibit primitive passions", "there is as yet
no civilized society."" Above all other responsibilities "the
task of humanity is to build up a genuine civilization, a
corpus spirituale of mankind" — a civilization in which
a purified love, disentangled from all sexual accretions, will
come into its own.