"Let's Begin" diary (rantings toward liberation)

Wed 20th Dec

Day 4 / 60

Dreams are vivid.
Relationship issues, a little emotionally drained.
Temptations still apparent.

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A fresh start. Have you checked out the 2% club online fight the beast Or any other programmes?

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Hey bro, no, sorry I haven’t or joined anything lately as I realise they don’t work in my favour. But I appreciate your recommendation and the message in general.
The old group we had was fun, it worked well for me because I was a bit obsessive :sweat_smile:

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Sat 23rd Dec

Fuming, angry, ā€œf**k this bsā€ (in good spirits)

NoFap is easy.

Why is it possible to get the real thing to be honest and have a blessed day
(this is my predictive text)

Let’s break this down - with Faith in God aka confidence.

You led me here Lord; let’s begin

What is the ā€˜real thing’? ;
It is not trying, nor imagining, but ā€˜being’

To be ā€˜being’ (with no wants, or lack of) and to ā€˜see’ truth, and express it (honesty)
ready to receive His Blessings :pray:

The Truth will set you free.

NoFap is easy - it is the art of NOT doing something ie; not fapping.
If NoFap is difficult, are we not just finding reasons/excuses to why the fap?

Why am I at Day 0?
Stressed, feel weird, unsure about my relationship, unsure of which paths to take and why in my career? (Study again? Apprenticeship?)
and so, I needed to do ā€˜the thing’ to take my mind of it? Relax, reward, love myself.
No. These are just excuses.
They are not reasons to fap, while doing NoFap.

NoFap isn’t even a doing -
NoFap is a being, because it’s a Not-doing something.

If I’m doing something, I’m also being it.
But NoFap, is even easier than that - you don’t do fap and you are being NoFap.

If we add things, ā€œI must study to NoFapā€
ā€œI must learn the tools of the tradeā€
ā€œread this or thatā€ā€¦ It is NoFap+

Doing extra things is all well and good, but it isn’t NoFap.
You can be illiterate, dumb, deaf, blind or mute and while ā€˜being’ NoFap.

NoFap seems difficult because for the majority it is ā€œsexā€ to our animal brain.
And this is where I think we lie to ourselves and struggle.
We believe and tell ourselves it is not sex, but when temptations come and the heat rises we don’t know any different and jump right in, and then try as much as we can to deny it being so.

Pmo is the ā€œpoor man’s orgasmā€
or ā€œpathetically, manipulated, organismā€

We are hardwired for sex.
But the act of sex is also a choice.
Remove sex from your life, realising it is fundamentally a gambling of procreation heterosexually, and an expression of love & intimacy for everyone.

Pmo is ā€œp0rn marrying ourselvesā€
Or, ā€œp0rn manipulates (natural) orderā€

If pmo is sex, it’s ā€œp0rn makes (us) ostentatiousā€
Ostentatious for having a huge wealth and abundance of people at our disposal.

If pmo is sex, we are wealthy and abundant, but in all the worst and most unnatural ways.

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This is philosophy

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Could do that again, I’ll mention that to forerunner …

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Sun 24th/Mon 25th Dec

Warning : some of my posts may be triggering as I work through my thoughts.

It’s never my intention to guide or criticise others but solely what rings true for me.

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Mon 25th Dec - Christmas

For the sake of anyone reading, wondering ~

ā€œRemove sex (and lust) from your lifeā€
Isn’t the same as a vow of celibacy - but by removing it you have freedom from it.

Sexual intimacy in its right order, comes of its own accord.

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Tues 26th Dec

Day 3 :x:

Sex has clouded my judgement, my heart waiting to be heard.

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Wed 27th Dec

First day can seem like the hardest with no escape, but… Who am I (at the moment) to trust?
The sun rises without my command,… I just wait and it’s there.

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:pray: Thank you bro. Even though you decided to remove the post, Thank you. I think it’s the perfect question to ask myself :pray:

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I’ve completely slipped off the path, as of late :pleading_face: where do I even begin?… .; I’ve been constantly searching out pleasure to numb myself, and run away from any suffering or attentiveness - I just feel like I want to sleep for a hundred years…
Then reaching for pleasure, struggle with it, and scrape myself to begin the day - only to procrastinate and struggle with pleasure, with little productivity during the day.

I do have good moments, I do have days where I’m productive and get on with things, and am attentive.

But I have soooooo many moments where God is calling, and I’m avoiding.

It’s all well and good, to be shamed and repentant, but what about in the former moments where, time&time again, you aren’t shamed or repentant?

It’s not in the moments you find time for God, and reflection that is the problem,…

But in the moments you don’t find time for God and reflection - that’s the problem.

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I’m sorry I haven’t stayed accountable and very distant.

It gets really tough at times, and a constant battle, but I’m still wanting again, to be shaken.
There’s a certain ā€œSnap out of it bro, and get ur shit togetherā€ that needs to be afflicted upon myself.

Like ā€œwtf are you doing anyway?ā€
Feeling bad about it, or feeling good about it, doesn’t change anything.
But thinking & doing, does. You rely way too much on just your feelings.

What about the moments when you don’t ā€œSnap out of it broā€? Those are the moments where you don’t let the trickster win you over.

Yes, Hot stuff is about - that’s normal

Getting high, and out of your mind is your choice to make normal - Nobody else’s.

~ ā€œInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.ā€

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When it really matters, you don’t (for the most part) repent, and turn to God.
You give-in to the trickster.

Thought, deed and feeling - the triangle of your soul

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You choose what to ā€˜make’ normal.

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Sat 24th Jan

I gave in today, not out of struggle or anything else, but because I chose to, and given free choice - noticing it in the moment. I’ve sinned, but The Lord has given me a way out.

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keep going.
What changes are you making this time?

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False pleasure vs Real pleasure
Reductive vs productive

I’ve lost that zeal for life, and can only think it’s because of opting for idle pleasure.

… That is a good question

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