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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. RiseToGreatness

    RiseToGreatness Fapstronaut

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    that´s the spirit :emoji_muscle:

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  2. RiseToGreatness

    RiseToGreatness Fapstronaut

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    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!! :D

    Let´s welcome our new brother:

    @GN-z11

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

    @Baby Yoda @Rubzi - Bree / Eriador
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    @Revanthegrey - Anduin River / Wilderland
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    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.
     
  3. 12ove

    12ove Fapstronaut

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    Day 11 Trod on!
     
  4. Ciceron

    Ciceron Fapstronaut

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    Daily checking.

    St. Augustin of Hippo, pray for us!
     
  5. ksie

    ksie Fapstronaut

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    30 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    It is the big day! I am an elf now! So powerful soooo encouraging!
    I am feeling strong but I will keep focused to not allowed PMO to defeat me!

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    PS sorry for not checking yesterday but I spent all day with my dear friend <3 it was so cool!
     
  6. Revanthegrey

    Revanthegrey Fapstronaut

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    Congrats :emoji_crossed_swords: :emoji_bow_and_arrow::cool:
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  7. Day 357. These past few days have felt pretty difficult. I've had thoughts of looking and just giving up. I know it's just a matter of not doing the thing and I haven't, but I still feel disheartened that I should even be having these thoughts at all.
     
  8. jaberwaki

    jaberwaki Fapstronaut

    Keep the faith @Johnthesavage! You're so close to a year, and at least for me anytime I get close to a landmark date my urges rear up really strong. You should expect to be challenged right now! Take some space, do some breathing exercises, and then check in with yourself to find the root of the emotions. Speak to yourself clearly and lovingly about those emotions, and you'll find the strength inside. We're rooting for you!
     
  9. HE^MAN

    HE^MAN Distinguished Fapstronaut

    Same mate, i was having same thoughts day before yesterday.
    Day 274
     
  10. Mathman1994

    Mathman1994 Fapstronaut

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    Day 12 (or day 0), not sure how to count today. I have been very aroused today, and it was very hard to focus, but then I was sitting on the toilet and I had just been watching YouTube and I saw this attractive bikini model, so I had started looking her up. Something snapped me out of it, but at that point my genitals were really sensitive, and so when I was on the toilet, I think I may have orgasmed. Not 100% sure. Did not want to look for fear of confirmation, if I ejaculated or not. However, afterward, I felt this rush of calm. I feel like it could go either way. I may have accidentally caused myself to orgasm, but it would have been because I was feeling triggered all day and therefore much more sensitive to the slightest of sensations. If it is a reset, which a part of my mind is telling me it is, then this is the longest I have made it since my 22 day streak over a month ago. However, it feels so much like a blur these past few days due to brain fog, and now I am out of it, and I don't want my streak to end because of being overly triggered resulting in an orgasm due potentially to ejaculation. I don't know. I think I will reset in part of being on hard mode and therefore trying to go without any kind of release for now. Sad though, as I was hoping to make it to Urak-Hai on Thursday.

    Best,
    Mathman1994
     
  11. eagle rising

    eagle rising Fapstronaut

    You are not a mere life of struggle, brother. You are a being full of capability, full of energy, full of possibility. Enhance yourself in these hard times.

    Those thoughts aren't you, they made their way into your brain, but they aren't you. You can dissolve them and you will.

    Endure. Refine. Revive. And live!

    Some musical motivation:
     
  12. Baby Yoda

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    I do have to say that I love coming on here everyday to see how everybody is doing in their journeys. It lets me know that I am not alone in this fight and that this is a fight that is worth fighting. Thanks for this fellowship brothers
     
  13. @jaberwaki @ListenPaul @HE^MAN @eagle rising thanks for the support, you guys. It means a lot to me since there is no one in my life to talk to about these things. Wishing you all the best as we continue onwards and upwards.
     
  14. Rubzi

    Rubzi Fapstronaut

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    Had heavy urges and a rough night lastnight but managed to overcome them.

    Day 22 check-in (Attempt 4) - The village of Bree
     
  15. Day 8 complete!

    @jaberwaki Your last couple posts have been beautiful. Thank you for sharing these insights with us. That sort of mentality is something that's been lacking from my own attempts to conquer this beast. Maybe I can make the beast fight for me.

    Felt pretty dead most of today. Urges weren't a big problem, but general motivation and energy levels were. I didn't have the willpower to get up for a run in the morning, so instead I slept an extra two hours. At the very least, I forced myself to take a cold shower.
     
  16. rotten_tomato

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    I relapsed yesterday. I have to start all over again. F*ck it's so emberrasing :/
     
  17. GN-z11

    GN-z11 Fapstronaut

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    2 days... Think this is already my record for the past fortnight, so hooray?
     
  18. LuckyMan

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    12 days :) Checking in. Things are good. Reading Soaring Eagle again for the first time in a while. Have to use Google translate because it hasn't been fully translated to English yet. But it is a gold mine of strategy for rebooters to equip themselves with. https://www.jieseba.org/jwly/
    Have a great day, ring-bearers!
     
  19. Revanthegrey

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