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I dont understand Why is sexual fantasy so addictive? Its hard for me to do nofap this year . I'm only on day 10 which is as far as I got in my first NoFap attempt. So call this round 2. I'm going for 90 days, so it's 80 days to go... My previous set-back happened because I didn't really understand the power of sexual fantasy and how it is the cornerstone of the three building block behaviours of a porn addiction (sexual fantasy, pornography and masturbation). Dr Mark Laaser says: "Fantasy by itself can be exciting enough for the addicts body to produce adrenaline, which is stimulating and elevates mood. Fantasy fuels the neurochemicals that facilitate human sexual response in such a way that the response takes place even without any physical stimuli. Fantasy can produce chemicals called chatecholamines in the pleasure centers of the brain that positively alter mood and even have a narcotic-like effect. The addict then uses these effects to escape unpleasant emotions, to change negative feelings to positive feelings, and even to reduce stress." Imagine that: just fantasying about the porn that I've seen (or anything else that captures my eye in a lustful way) gets all my old PMO neurological wiring going again. So I'm trying to commit to 'early intervention" where I make sure that the water is clean upstream. No sexual fantasy = little or no chance of PMO downstream. So it's: NoSF + NoPorn + NoFap
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Someone here replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Leo Gura Leo ,in your opinion, why does neuroscience still stuck on the assumption that consciousness Is generated by the brain and that its an emerging phenomenon from physical processes? on the other hand I'm curious to understand why chemical and physical manipulations can alter conciousness. Things such as trauma, or brain injuries can both lower ones degree of consciousness, indicating that physical process underly consciousness. However, some people who arent taken very seriously like to argue that the brain is a receiver of conciousness, so a soul or extraphysical consciousness may exist, but the brain just “houses” or “recieves” consciousness. These theories are considered jokes by the scientific community, and most who seriously study in nuerosicence or philosophy would not subscribe to such a theory. Are we really not as advanced as we think we are ? -
Someone here replied to Jannes's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Death is a belief. There is zero empirical evidence for it's existence. Too much thinking outside the box or maybe madness? I'm not sure anymore . You realize immortality when you stop identifying as a human but as the entire universe. Basically the whole of reality. The human will die . Reality is eternal. And immortal. -
Someone here replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes .it's a huge contradiction in kant's philosophy. How come this "thing in itself " be unacceable for us and yet it is said to exist ? Then how did you know that it exists if you have no direct experience of it??? Pure contradiction. -
Someone here replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The “thing in itself” is the actual existence/appearance of the object. I mean, how the object really is in reality as opposed to the phenomenon (the representation of the appearance of an object). As Kant himself says, a rose is taken/perceived as an object with the idea of a red colored flower. So, in empirical sense, a rose is a flower with red color property. But Kant says, the redness of a rose is the mere representation of the flower. We can’t know the actual appearance of a rose (thing in itself) but only the properties we perceive from our empirical senses (phenomenon). He claimed that things in itself are there, but impossible to be seen. Then, we come and we “decode” those things filtering them through the limits of our senses Let’s say there was a frog sitting in front of you. Your senses can tell you that it’s a certain size, cool, wet, green, wiggling, etc. But those are just the qualities that your senses (deceptively, according to Kant) tell you, they are not the thing itself. Kant said that the thing itself (as opposed to sensory information about it) is completely unavailable to us since there is no “direct” way to know anything about it at all. Since you can’t know anything about it, the best you can say is “My faulty senses tell me X, Y, and Z, but what do they know? All I have is this subjective and probably wrong set of sensory data about it, I have nothing of the thing in itself. But it's easy to prove kant wrong:; How does Kant know that there are people, or senses, or frogs, or anything else on his theory? He knows nothing about them according to Kant himself, so who bother listening to him further? -
We all have our existential fears .I know I have. Not sure about you but since I was a child I was terrified by the concept of hell . Imagine an evil place full of lava and burning and fire and you get to be tortured in it forever. FOREVER. Do you realize how bad that is? So I decided to disprove to myself the concept of hell .just to see where does this journey take me. keep in mind that reality is infinite. It can instantly manifest the worst hell you can ever possibly imagine. But my argument here is not to definitively prove that hell doesn't exist. But to show that even if it did..it's not gonna be as bad as you think it is. here is the logic behind this:; all suffering comes to an end, because there isn’t anyone either connected to or separate from emptiness (or everything). Like anything else, hell is imaginary it can exist as a motivator for stage blue folk, etc, but nothing lasts forever, and if there were nothing but intense suffering, there’d be no reference point to know what’s better, ,so you wouldn't know that it is suffering. and even if it’s a worst case scenario..if there is a reference point of happiness in consciousness that exists to allow max suffering to exist .. well then one could just pay attention to that positive reference point and it wouldn’t be hell anymore. In any case it wouldn’t last forever, nothing does. It would eventually be transcended .
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Someone here replied to Vibroverse's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well.why don't you give me all your money then? It's just an illusion after all -
Does he advocate idealism or panpsychism? Because I watched few hours of his podcasts and still wondering about his worldview. Although I noticed the main theme he talks about is that Reality is not what we have been told it is. It is not fundamentally made up of material stuff despite the apparent evidence of our senses and the work of scientists. Reality is simply and only consciousness clothed in many and varied guises.
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Actually you introduced me to Bernardo . By sharing a video of him with Rupert Spira. I didn't know the guy back then. But you keep talking about him all the time. And indeed he has some interesting ideas.
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You ain't one unless you read Descartes, kant,Schopenhauer, and philosophers from this ilk . Its one thing to philosophize on a forum like me (basically mentally masturbating) and it's another deal to become a professional philosopher . It's not easy . And unfortunately a philosophy degree is not worth a penny nowadays ?. Difficult to get a job with a philosophy degree.
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@Carl-Richard how to get those though? Any ideas on how to become a wealthy hotshot? You are a smart guy. Maybe buying all the numbers of the lottery lol So your selfish and petty NEEDS are more important than charity ?lol ? yeah will spend half of it on getting my needs met and I think it's a good idea to do charity. Makes you feel good about yourself . Even that turns out to be fueled by selfish motives lol jk . Do you want to become a philosopher? Because that's actually my life purpose which unfortunately can't be actualized precisely because lack of the goddam money lol
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Someone here replied to Vibroverse's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Vibroverse see, everyone and everything and I mean EVERYTHING is the product of your infinite god mind . So whatever it imagines to be real is what is literally real . But your ego doesn't have control over this . You imagine laws of physics and logic and limitations to make the dream more challenging and more interesting. Otherwise you would be bored out of your goddam mind with infinite power and infinite satisfaction forever. So you dreamed this world and have put some limitations in it to enjoy the ride . Think of it as God being bored because he is fucking eternal and can't go anywhere. It's all a cosmic joke . -
Someone here replied to Vibroverse's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
They are identical and aren't. They are just dreams.they are all made of consciousness or the same "stuff" whatever. Same substance but different appearance. Like ice and water. You can't say they are identical in terms of what they appear to be. Otherwise you can't refer to "this" and "that" and compare them together if they were identical -
I have decided. I'm never ever again gonna put a cigarette in my mouth . I made up my mind .I value my long-term health and happiness more than the fleeting pleasure of cigarettes . Day 0. I just crushed a cigarette and throwed the pack into the garbage can. Where it belongs . Will update every single day.
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Is there really harmful effects of masturbation? Idk honestly. Some doctors say it's healthy and can help preventing prostate cancer. Some say there are huge Disadvantages of Masturbation" -There is guilt coming inside us just after losing sperm -Our Nature became angry -The shine has been removed one by one. -Confidence down, can't talk with older people with eye contact. -Start feeling weak -Problems arise when you want a baby. There are so many facts available which tell you, why you have to stop it There was a time when I was so much addicted to masturbation . But I know that I have to leave it, but whenever I tried, then I do it in a shorter period.
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I remember very vivid one time I masturbated .I was 14 or 15, and staying with a friend overnight. I got up to pee early in the morning, and heard weird noises from his bedroom. I look in there are he is naked on the bed, humping a pillow or stuffed animal or something, and really enjoying himself. I watched with amazement at this, and my penis got harder and harder. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and ran to bed, took off my underwear, and humped my stuffed bunny rabbit like he did, and very soon had an orgasm, which was probably my best. I did it again and had two more orgasms. I even made a noise of pleasure loud enough at my orgasm to wake my friend, for a moment. I had to rest and let it pulsate for a while before I could quit.
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My favourite sexul position/act is blowjobs . Of course all my relationship with it via porn . it feels like heaven.... It's by far the most relaxing sex act ever. For me giving me a blowjob is about the nicest thing a woman can do for me.
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I was pretty young. I think my first thoughts were something like "Holy shit holy shit holy shit, white stuff came out of my dick. What the fuck did I do? That has to be bad for me. I'm never touching myself again!" And then the next day I did it again.
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There is no structure to this journal. Just random expression for my sexual life and exploring it .
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So i had my first orgasm pretty early in comparison to other boys. Shortly after hitting puberty. Shower head hit the right spot and I kept playing around. 30-40 minutes later my life was changed forever.?
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my first orgasm Didn't understand what was happening. Touching felt good but I felt like I was gonna pee. So I'd stop, then get to the point of "pee", stop. Repeat. I was at the cottage and at the cottage you pee on threes. So I went out in the moonlight and ended up giving a facial to the toilet ?. Gave myself an orgasm for the first time This is going to sound weird, but I was 14,and I've never really successfully touched myself before. I mean, I've tried,but never really succeeded. I was also always really embarassed and ashamed of it, every time I did. I gave it up as basically a moot point. I experimented with the whole showerhead thing first, which was admittedly a whole new experience. I'm not sure I've ever cum like that before. I've been trying and trying to replicate it with my hands, both out of a fear that I was going to desensitize myself by using the shower head, and because I wanted to learn how. I've been actively trying for weeks now , and I finally gave myself an orgasm! It's stupid and kind of weird, but I'm really proud of myself right now. I just wanted to tell someone about my success, haha. I didn't feel ashamed at all, and that feels really good. But nowadays orgasms make me feel guilty not sure why. Something is out of wack .gotta fix that shit .
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Do you plan on getting married one day and have children? For me personally .I want to get married but I have ethical reasons against having children. I'm okay with adopting a child. But I don't wanna give birth to a child . Now that's just my mind at 25 yo .maybe when I grow up I will change my mind due to life experience. What's your thoughts on marriage, having kids and abortion?
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Someone here replied to Gabith's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It depends what you mean by “free will”. If you mean to ask whether people have the cognitive capacity to make decisions: to anticipate the effects of various options and select one based on preferred outcome then yes of course we can do that. If you mean to ask whether those decisions (or any other types of thoughts) are uncaused, or self-caused or occur primarily due to our will, then no. Our thoughts occur when they will, not when we will. They are caused by other events, most of which we're not directly conscious of. -
Someone here replied to Gabith's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Gabith what makes you think you Have limited free will ? also, if you have no control ,how exactly you gonna relinquish control ? Seeing any paradoxes in your little worldview? -
Remains a probability. Not certain. I mean People have had near-death experiences. Scientists have found that these may be related to physiological changes in the brain as the brain is dying. So some say the experiences people have our like dreams. However, we are material beings. And so one could argue that these experiences are real because they are experienced by people. It’s not like we are ghosts. The sad reality is that we simply don’t know what awaits us beyond this life. We just don’t. And nobody in the world can tell us. Its a bitter pill to swallow,I know .