(February 12, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Nah. I find the opposite is true.
The more carnal pleasure you have the more of it you will want/become accustomed to having and so you feel the compulsion that has to be fulfilled. This applies to just about everything that gives provides you with any kind of hit not that you will be able to avoid this unless you're a monk or something.
Quote:Who said I was a mess?
I didn't say you were. People can become addicted and have compulsions to wordly pleasures but God the spiritual side of life is a good inoculation against the excesses some people can end up getting into. Asceticism is found in all religious traditions for this reason.
Quote: I think it was rather healthy. Suppressing it out of some vague sense of randomized guilt, now THAT would make me a mess.
Not guilt just good basic self discipline, all religions teach it.
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Sword of Christ, bearing in mind that the bible tells us to confess our sins, that bearing false witness is a sin and that pride-fulness in our own virtue is a grave sin, when did you last masturbate. How honest are you feeling...
You're forgiven for sin and you will sin so that's not an issue, Christianity isn't about trying to impress God to get into heaven. But universal teachings of ascetic practice will bring out your spiritual side a bit more, will get you a little closer to God and all that business. This results in an entirely different kind of pleasure.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
