Carl-Richard

but I'm no Duracell Bunny

Nicotine is not your drug. It's Leo!

Then Death Metal is the genre for you. The lyrics are just vehicles for sound and are completely unintelligible

What about words that are so ambiguous and weird that you're not sure if they're made up or not?

You're using "i.e." too now? I'm such a bad influence There are some cool artistic ways of deploying lyrics though. For example, I just realized (or confirmed a long-term suspicion) that when Maynard sings the lyric "please forgive this selfish question" in Wings For Marie Pt. 1, he actually sings "selfish" in the left ear and "selfless" in the right ear. Listen at 5:04, it's really cool:

Get help. Seriously.

I just found one of them, but holy crap, the music video is revolting. It's the descending melody in the chorus that I like (like at 0:53)

@thisintegrated I never actively listen to lyrics. Never approached music that way (except for some rap songs). If I ever understand what the song is about, it's on accident

I love understanding the historical contexts of musical genres and pinning songs against them For example, I like to think of Tool as the King Crimson of the Grunge era (the Nirvana age). There is some obvious 90s Rush in there as well (there is one part in the song "Animate" from Counterparts that sounds so much like Tool, it's impossible to miss it).

I've thought about this a lot too. I don't know what I'll do when I surrender completely. I'm just doing whatever I can to get there, and it seems to involve me becoming the best version of myself in a worldly sense, which means maturing my intellectual side, interpersonal, professional etc. You'll only let go once you see no other alternative, and I'm going to exhaust those alternatives. I think there is a chance I'll probably get tangled up in my work due to petty humans things, like wanting to preserve my identity as an academic, maintain relationships with colleagues, being immersed in the latest research etc. So I might never choose to pursue awakening again, but also considering how much my mind has changed the last 2 years and how it's not all pleasant, I might start meditating again regardless. Other than that, before I get to that point, I think my main obstacle is my level of openness vs. conscientiousness. Jordan Peterson once said that conscientiousness is the main predictor of success in grad school, and that openness can even be detrimental (your ideas are way too out there). I know that I've always been a conscientious person (I got it from my mother), but it was repressed in my earlier days due to trauma and emotional problems. I just need to work a bit on that, and I've made a much tighter schedule for myself these last two semesters before I start my masters.

I'm only arguing against complete abstinence and Stage Blue style emotional repression. All the so-called benefits of nofap are achievable by just fapping moderately. You should fap just as much as you need to fap; not more, not less.

Not necessarily. The effects of emotional repression can be severe. You're conditioning yourself to act a certain way in response to a stimulus, and this creates lasting changes that may only be reversed through a lot of effort and rehabilitation. Also just generally, the act of ignoring the meaningful content behind a feeling is inherently neurotic and will bleed over to other aspects of your psychology. Your body is intelligent and knows exactly what it needs, and it tells you this through feelings. You just need to be able to distinguish between mental compulsions and organic stimuli (what you want vs. what you need). It's easy to know when you're fapping because of true horniness or because of habit, but less so if you're used to repressing all the feelings related to it.

@Raze That's a lot of videos

I just think it's a weird way to motivate yourself when most people report a dip after 2 weeks. It also fits with my personal experience.

No

Hahaha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography#History

You don't notice a dip in sexual urges after 2 weeks?

Ok. Try this: notice if you feel more or less uptight when talking to women while being on 2+ weeks of nofap vs. having masturbated the day before (granted you're regularly masturbating, not straight after ending a month-long streak). Your hand is an auto-regulation mechanism

Jerking off and porn has existed since the dawn of time. The information age is just an amplifier, which is a more general problem that needs to be addressed (e.g. through ways of increasing general resilience like physical exercise, spirituality, meaning etc.). However, completely shutting down your sexuality is not the answer. Internet porn is not the only source of hyper-salient stimuli in your life. You're fixating on sexuality for some other reason (unless you're actually living in a cave).

That is what a wet dream is. Why are you afraid of your feelings?

Just do it ?

Incel dogma.

I'm going to do a masters with emphasis on neuroscience research, then research. If that doesn't work out, probably clinical psychologist.

"Don't go to the toilet. It's such a waste. Real men retain their shit."