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Internet Pornography; A sin that needs to be talked about
Topic Started: 18 Aug 2009, 09:13 PM (12,552 Views)
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does that mean i win?
and your not a loser? :ermm: :D i cant answer that as nothings been established yet other than a definition of Porn.

but you did forget one of the F's
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isn't that what testosterone is for? the great F's: fighting, and making love?

Flight

what came first the Testosterone or the egg?







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Sorry Arazec. You might even say I sympathise because there is some overlap with other hormones. Fight/flight is traditionally adrenaline (or epinephrine for our trans-Atlantic/Pacific cousins).

Testosterone has a lot of effects. Foetal development is one, and furriness (in puberty) is another F. there are also Physcial changes (muscle mass, structure etc which is almost an F).
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:D :D Fuzziness,Football (value laden example)......
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Just to make a new thread inside the thread, what crosses the line from "watching/reading a lot" to "addicted"? the sudden urge and need? is porn possible to crave?
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Addiction is a topic all in itself. The most useful definition I've heard of addiction is that it is when your use of a certain substance controls your life to such an extent that it prevents you from living a normal life.

Examples: I love food and eat all the time, I am even dependent on it to live, but it becomes an addiction if I can't stop eating, or I eat so much that I become obese and get diseases like diabetes.

I could love football, and watch a lot of games on TV and go to games, but it becomes an addiction if I stay up all night to watch games and start to miss school because I'm online trying to catch the live transmission of the Paraguayan semi-finals.

I've only heard of "craving" as something pregnant women do with ice-cream and pickles. Having a sudden urge for something does not make you addicted: I just had a sudden urge for chocolate, so I went to the kitchen and got me some. That does not make me addicted.
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Hmmm.......
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The problem is that because of how our brains are constructed, it is the things that are good in small amounts that can make us addicted. And practically nothing is good in too large amounts (you can even get water-poisoning if you chug down extreme amounts in a short time), and so it is important to keep a balanced consumption even of the good things (like chocolate, working or working out).

Rule of thumb: If you suspect that you might have a problem, chances are that you do have one. (Unless you've been hearing too much propaganda: "You might be a communist!"-will have many thinking they may be one, even if they're not.) But probably just a small one, if there even is one. To prevent it from becoming a bigger problem, and maybe to eliminate the problem altogether, it is always best to talk to someone about it. Schools (in Norway) usually have school nurses or similar one can talk to, and there are phone-lines one can call to. Parents are good to talk to if they handle such stuff well.
Edited by Concolor, 14 Apr 2010, 02:06 PM.
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Nice similies, you're so smart!
(Sudden birth of stalker fangirl)
Yeah, i suppose, but my mother says she's not addicted to ciggs, but has a pack a day and goes crazy without them.....
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True, it's not always easy for someone with an addiction to see it themselves. And if someone else comments it, they will usually get the reply that "I can stop whenever I want". An interesting exercise would be if someone was to actually try that, stop doing that specific thing for a couple of weeks, or even a month. Can they really stop whenever they want? For a full month? In that case they certainly don't have an addiction. Otherwise, they should perhaps stop claiming they can stop whenever they want.

It's also a good example of how common addictions actually are. Lots of people have them: young, old, smart, dumb, strong, weak, all kinds of people. But people tend to thing of addiction as some kind of disease which only afflicts weak, dumb, "junkies"-kind of people. And so we get touchy if people tell us they think we may be having an addiction.
But in the end, even though it's common and not restricted to "weak" people, having an addiction is not good for us. That's why it has it's own name and lots of institutions trying to help us overcome these addictions. So it's usually best to try to get help to stop having addictions when they show up.
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i like these passages when it comes to talking about addictions...

Galatians 5:17 (The Message)

16-18My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

oh and also this.....
Matthew 13:11 (The Message)

11-15He replied, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn't been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it. I don't want Isaiah's forecast repeated all over again:

Your ears are open but you don't hear a thing.
Your eyes are awake but you don't see a thing.
The people are blockheads!
They stick their fingers in their ears
so they won't have to listen;
They screw their eyes shut
so they won't have to look,
so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face
and let me heal them.

also another take on this famous verse "where the spirit of the lord is,there is liberty"

16-18Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

ooowww sawrry ranting again ^o)



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18 Aug 2009, 09:39 PM
Wow... That's some serious percentages...
6-8...90%???
Holy crap that's wrong.
What is the world coming to?
Does anyone know if Cameron's bat works on other websites?
I'm with you there.

6-8?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
90%?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


god, that's just...
wrong.
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If a certain person watches it every night and thionk abouts it a lot, is that certain person an addict?
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maybe...
probably...

or it could just be hormones.
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probably.
who HASNT watched porn?
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I've heard the average male thinks about sex 100 times a day.

Don't look at me like that.

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