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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 12 Mar 2015 19:12 #250403

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doingtshuva wrote:
Believe me 43 days was not an easy work at all, so by falling I feel that the work was useless.

Yes, I am familiar with that feeling too... but please, please know that your work was anything but useless... for one thing, now you know you can make it that far... and although it may not feel like it's worth it now, you now have the impetus to "figure out what went wrong" as best you can, and implement at least one tiny change in the way you do things, the way you think, etc... that you might not have been motivated to find before the fall... in other words: yes, it's b'dieved, but it's an opportunity to turn that fall into a z'chus.

Please G-d, you should have hatzlacha rabba.

Have a good, clean day.

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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 13 Mar 2015 16:46 #250469

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The sharin' is important, so whatever way you decide is fine.

Lookin' forward to hearin' more....

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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 10 Dec 2015 10:19 #270923

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doingtshuva wrote:
Should I or shouldn't I display my Current streak on the forum?


Starting again to display my Current streak.
will it help? maybe.

Does it help for you?
 *  NO, It's not all or nothing, just every bit counts!
 *  I failed yesterday, and I might fail tomorrow. But just for today I'm going to give it a try.
 *  Being curios made me lust and get into trouble.
אָמַר רבי יוחנן: אֵבֶר קָטָן יֵשׁ לוֹ לָאָדָם, מַרְעִיבוֹ = שָׂבֵעַ, מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ = רָעֵב

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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 10 Dec 2015 21:49 #271001

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doingtshuva wrote:
doingtshuva wrote:
Should I or shouldn't I display my Current streak on the forum?


Starting again to display my Current streak.
will it help? maybe.

Does it help for you?


Probably
Much Hatzlacha!

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--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 05:12 #271024

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doingtshuva wrote:
GYEmember wrote:
I agree with everything "curious George" has said on this topic.

I definitely think masturbation should have a seperate count from pornography. I mean, masturbation, although it is very serious, I don't think it is as bad as pornography. Am I wrong?

And I don't think this is boring...

Gye-member -It looks like it's not so boring anymore, thanks for your compliment

Someone trying to recover asked R' Shais Taub
I'm B"H clean for 6 month form pornography, and I'm really trying to be Heilig.
But my question is: why is pornography and masturbating considered the same?
Isn't pornography worse?
Or I must be clean from both if I want to be able to recover from my addiction?

I am trying very hard to be clean from masturbating and I'm also working on my Shmiras Einiem.
I'm not looking for a Heter to masturbate Ch"V, just sometimes it's very hard for me to hold myself back.
Thanks in advance.


R' Shais response
Wow, I don't know what to say.
You're sort of blowing my mind. Pornography is worse than masturbating? Really?
I can't even understand that hava amina.
That's like saying that looking at a McDonald's billboard is worse than staying home and cooking basar b'chalav in your own kitchen.



I have nothing to add
Do you?


I wasn't planning on commenting on anything tonight, but this quote from R' Shais Taub is really irking me. I don't think his comparisons are valid, as there is absolutely nothing wrong with staring at a McDonald's billboard, while looking at pornography is completely Assur.

Both watching and acting out are forbidden. A more accurate comparison (in my mind) would be like saying "It's better to eat hamburgers with cheddar cheese than to eat lamb chops with American cheese".

And as others on this thread have already said, trying to justify one over the other is just that: justification. They're both problems that stem from the same root, and they both need to be worked on to survive the struggle.

Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 05:22 #271025

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He didn't intend to say looking at porn is permissible. The Torah allows looking at trief, not at things that lead to Mast. His point was nevertheless the end result of acting out is worse. It's considered as if harag nefesh, which porn isn't
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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 09:22 #271030

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Don't get it wrong
you may look on McDonald's billboards if the women on it is dressed modesty , you may even go in to buy a drink (if you can take the smell)

Porn is severe, but masturbation is even more.
some people think that looking on porn is a small sin
but as we know, even if porn would be a mitzva we would look to do other mitzvot first.
 *  NO, It's not all or nothing, just every bit counts!
 *  I failed yesterday, and I might fail tomorrow. But just for today I'm going to give it a try.
 *  Being curios made me lust and get into trouble.
אָמַר רבי יוחנן: אֵבֶר קָטָן יֵשׁ לוֹ לָאָדָם, מַרְעִיבוֹ = שָׂבֵעַ, מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ = רָעֵב

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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 14:10 #271041

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Don't look at porn.
Don't masturbate.
Don't lust.
If you feel yourself starting to lust, take immediate corrective action.

Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 14:43 #271045

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Watson wrote:
Don't look at porn.
Don't masturbate.
Don't lust.
If you feel yourself starting to lust, take immediate corrective action.

Man, Doc, you really know how to suck the fun out of life.
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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 11 Dec 2015 20:37 #271063

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If you can look at porn without masturbating, you're quite a unique person.
Much Hatzlacha!

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--"ולא המדרש עיקר, אלא המעשה"
--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 12 Dec 2015 22:07 #271074

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So was I a quite a unique person?
 *  NO, It's not all or nothing, just every bit counts!
 *  I failed yesterday, and I might fail tomorrow. But just for today I'm going to give it a try.
 *  Being curios made me lust and get into trouble.
אָמַר רבי יוחנן: אֵבֶר קָטָן יֵשׁ לוֹ לָאָדָם, מַרְעִיבוֹ = שָׂבֵעַ, מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ = רָעֵב

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Last Edit: 12 Dec 2015 22:07 by doingtshuva.

Re: Should I display my Current streak? 13 Dec 2015 02:24 #271093

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serenity wrote:
If you can look at porn without masturbating, you're quite a unique person.


I have some questions on this.
Do you mean every time?
Do you mean constantly?
Or ever?
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Re: Should I display my Current streak? 13 Dec 2015 04:11 #271102

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cordnoy wrote:
serenity wrote:
If you can look at porn without masturbating, you're quite a unique person.


I have some questions on this.
Do you mean every time?
Do you mean constantly?
Or ever?


Constantly for more than a mere glance and ever. I'd think a normal person will eventually need an outlet if they keep watching porn.
Much Hatzlacha!

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Glad to be here
Don't slip it hurts
Lions & Tigers & Internet, Oh My!

--"ולא המדרש עיקר, אלא המעשה"
--"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." Mark Twain
--"If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking (or lusting), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic (or sexaholic)." AA Big Book P. 45. Parenthesis added.
--You hit rock bottom when you decide to stop digging.

Re: Should I display my Current streak? 13 Dec 2015 05:38 #271115

serenity wrote:
If you can look at porn without masturbating, you're quite a unique person.


I may be unique then, but I do find sometimes that I can hold back from masturbating because I know that it's a fleeting pleasure and after the physical enjoyment is over I will feel awful. Looking at porn on the other hand gives me a rush of Dopamine (is that what it's called) and every moment of it feels amazing.
Feel free to email me at BenTorah.BaalHabayis@gmail.com

1 day may be too long for me, but I take it OWAAT = One wave at a time, cause the lust comes and goes like a wave which rises and crashes.

Re: Should I display my Current streak? 13 Dec 2015 05:39 #271117

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serenity wrote:
cordnoy wrote:
serenity wrote:
If you can look at porn without masturbating, you're quite a unique person.


I have some questions on this.
Do you mean every time?
Do you mean constantly?
Or ever?


Constantly for more than a mere glance and ever. I'd think a normal person will eventually need an outlet if they keep watching porn.


Key word eventually.
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