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Call it the Social Matrix subforum

"Life is a game that must be played with dead seriousness." -Leo Gura "Nothing is hard or easy. Competition for survival is the condition of life. It is our Dharma to fight the battle of life courageously and righteously." -Chin-Ning Chu

Cigarette users who have been inhaling smoke all their lives:

Bro it's just words on a screen. No, but really, take a step back and look. You're just clacking keys on a keyboard making pixels appear on a screen for other pairs of eyes to look at. Nothing more, nothing less. Looking at the big picture and seeing how much a habit of yours is aiding or obstructing your life can help you decide what to do with said habit. In any case practically you'd want to audit your time and see just how much time you're actually spending here compared to everything else. Actually keep track how many hours from start to finish you spend browsing here (or anything you think you're addicted to for that matter). There's apps that can do that for you, I myself use StayFocused premium to track how addicted I am using my phone apps and block them and it has helped me a ton.

Does anyone have a plan B- oh wait there is no plan B if an DDOS attack actually happens that's recruiting/splitting the community

Are you going to prevent them from posting on the sub-forum or are you going ban them from seeing it entirely?

@Phil King Posting while tripping

@Leo Gura

All these games mess with me Will the chase be the death of me? It's 3 AM and I'm tryin' to forget you I'm so lost, I don't know what to do Every time that I lied I just needed to be free I was dumb, it wasn't me You know, you know I was young and afraid Always looking after me But I think I finally see it all I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I used to hate your stubborn ways But now I don't want you to change All your love was all too much But now I need to feel your touch Every time that I lied I just needed to be free I was dumb, it wasn't me You know, you know I was young and afraid Always looking after me But I think I finally see it all I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side I should've treated you better Should've treated you right 'Cause the grass ain't greener on the other side

Jordan Peterson agrees.

@Virtually Thanks mang, learning something new about the forum little by little

To me Owen says the same things Leo talks about in his Social Matrix episode. It never even occured to me he was into conspiracy talk.

@Space Here's a better alternative:

Have a good birthday you talking head

Orgasm without ejaculating is not what the average person is doing, I doubt they would even know that exists. You say to stop telling people they shouldn't masturbate yet you're essentially saying a should yourself (you should masturbate only in this non-ejaculatory fashion). Besides that, if what you're saying is true, then most people aren't masturbating healthily anyways, how many people do know this orgasm-without-ejaculation technique?

That's funny, because fapping once a day is my own minimal goal for reducing my streak. If there are days where I do not fap at all that's a bonus for me. Back when my Internet addiction got really bad I'd have consecutive days where I get my release 3-4 times day, I think my hottest day was seven. And I been in communities of people who done just as much if not even more than I have. So count your blessings if you're only jerking off once a day, there's worse off things you could be judging yourself for, nor do you have to judge yourself for your hair fetish either. Everybody has their own unique tastes

Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door. The Spirituality section's two blocks down.

@Husseinisdoingfine Wow, on second thought, yeah, you should join the army. Godspeed dude ? /sarcasm

@Antor8188 I think that's mostly for gay men brah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code "The code was most widely used in the 1970s in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, by gay and bisexual men seeking casual sex, or BDSM practitioners." "The hanky code was a semiotic system of sexual advertising popular among the gay leather community of the United States [10] and cruising scene more broadly."

You wouldn't be tempted if you were around when that mod-who-must-not-be-named went on spamming that Neo-Advaitan nonsense ?

Mini Habits and Elastic Habits by Stephen Guise are also books focused on tiny habit change.

There's a weekly checkup thread in the Journaling section, you can post there. Or you can post a dedicated one in this subforum. To video chat what exactly? If you want to show something you can use an MP4 or upload a YouTube video.

No one's stopping you from creating accountability threads or friendships through PMs. Otherwise it's best to keep this community seperate from real life. From the proportion of total posts this is primarily a spirituality forum, and the dangers of cults is not to be understated.

This should help, I remember Leo made a blogpost about this: https://www.actualized.org/insights/solo-retreat-supplies-checklist