Your Progress Is My Progress Is Our Progress: Understanding The Underlying Causes Of Addictions

“What you keep before your eyes will affect you.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

“When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
― Vince Lombardi Jr.

Anybody play Madden? Before my cousin died due to his addiction, I would always watch him play video games growing up. I never liked that game lol. Something about how much stop and go there is in football. I was a lax and real football kid i.e. soccer. I would taunt players due to my speed. I'd wait at a far end of the field on defense for instance and watch an offensive player run the ball thinking he was in the clear before I devoured him.

 

Oh man I played this game so hard as a kid:



I didn't actually know a bandicoot was a real animal you learn something new everyday gosh golly look at that!



We'll be on C later tonight.

 

Automaton mode activated from my end. Automaton meaning I just click the thread to post I do not read replies, condolences.



“Real sports fans don’t buy sex.”

 

Let's keep our eyes on the prize.

How do you think we can encourage human dignity, and combat sexual exploitation, exploitation, and violence in our every day lives?

 

"I witnessed firsthand how the habitual pattern of viewing women on a screen for personal pleasure, without any boundaries or true human dignity and connection involved, can transfer to the same pattern with women in person."

Respect to those who know the difference between art (in terms of highlighting human dignity while respecting the masculine and feminine forms without stripping them of innate natural human dignity) and sexual exploitation that strips of someone of their dignity. 'Tis a fine a line sometimes but there surely is a definite line.



"Personal testimony from a woman who submitted her story
to be shared with others.
I am a young woman who met a man in college whom I thought I would marry; I left the relationship because of his addiction to pornography, escalating sexual relationships with other women, and sexual assault of me.

When I met this Christian guy, I believed he cared about treating me well and being faithful to me. Although I think he truly wanted to live his life that way, his habits of sexually exploiting women with pornography use took over this noble desire.

His porn addiction started in the third grade.

No adults in his life guided him in navigating the explicit content available on the internet.

In high school and college, he dated girls who didn’t mind the porn and even encouraged it. I was the first girl who expressed serious concern and wanted him to be committed to a faithful relationship with me. As he put filters on his computer, the desire for sexting conversations with other girls began to grow. These relationships escalated to explicit video calls and then to sexual encounters with these girls in person. Meanwhile, he began to want more and more sexual intimacy with me, but I wasn’t comfortable with that. He begged and pleaded with me to go further, and even though I gave a verbal “no” to specific requests, he did them anyway.

I used to believe that it was my fault I couldn’t keep him faithful – that somehow I wasn’t good enough. I even tried allowing more sexual intimacy between us to see if that would make his porn use stop. I hoped things would get better, but he was never completely committed to changing the way he treated me. He still was unfaithful, no matter what I did.

I chose to leave the relationship in order to protect myself. I witnessed firsthand how the habitual pattern of viewing women on a screen for personal pleasure, without any boundaries or true human dignity and connection involved, can transfer to the same pattern with women in person.

I deserve to be treated with dignity, honor, and respect without hesitation or interference stemming from dehumanizing habits such as pornography addiction."

 

Note to self:

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

 

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

 

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice


“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960


“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade



“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes


“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers


“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

 

Triggering video slipped apologies the system is not perfect glitches being worked out *hiccup*,

 

This system knows the difference between art and exploitation, right and wrong, good and bad, but is yet to be good all the time. Much work to be done, much improvements needed. Life is a process of growth. Stasis brings death.

 

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut


“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”
― Mahatma Gandhi


“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others - all feeling themselves to be the center of things - scratching out an existence on the surface of a medium-sized planet circling a small star among countless stars in a galaxy lost among countless galaxies. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel herself to be the center of the universe. She considers the Center to be elsewhere and other. Yet she is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because she draws her significance and meaning from her relationship, her connection, with that center, that Other.”
― M. Scott Peck, A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered

 

HEAVY HITTING SELF IMPROVEMENT VIDEOS COMING IN BRACE YOURSELVES:

 

Hit me with the self improvements baby.

 

War is so atrocious but sometimes more than necessary. Apologies.